The internet may have spent the last week spiralling over claims that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are in a so-called 'non-demi-curious semi-binary' relationship, but the viral phrase itself is neither real nor rooted in LGBTQ+ identity nor connected to the two Wicked: For Good co-stars.
It was soon uncovered that the term was amplified by a fabricated quote and a made-up term that combines elements of demisexual, nonbinary, and queer-curious language into what fact-checkers have called pure 'word salad.'
