I didn't say they were jokes. The time MC tells the super friendly guy that he's fine with his sexuality felt a bit hostile. The time MC walks in on the porn shoot, his comments still felt a little judgy despite him saying he wasn't judging. It's possible these things weren't as hostile as I read them, but considering how much of a dick MC is to everyone about everything, it's not hard to read them that way.
As for your hundreds of thousands of people playing the game, the vast majority of them are probably straight guys, so chances are unless it was blatant homophobia the majority of them wouldn't notice it, and even then how many would care to mention it?