This thread is really silly on many levels. Basically a person who didn't knew any better posted a misinfo, that everybody who knew just as bad started to hype.
Once again I fell down the martial arts rabbit hole and am plumbing the murky depths of the internet's various martial arts and fighting crafts echo chambers.
If you're not actively involved and only get up to speed every few years or so, you can see the tide of public opinion flapping worse than my dong while I'm skipping naked down a hallway.