Your body treats carbs, protein and fat equally. You gained fat because you were at too great a caloric surplus versus your TDEE, not because you ate too much of a specific marco. If you want to bulk clean (you don't gain too much fat) you should eat at roughly 10% over TDEE. It isn't carb cycling. You were eating too much.

Very true, you have to find what works for you!

The body treats carbs proteins and fats all the same? There is no scientific evidence for meal timing? I dont need to read any more to know that you are ill informed.. Did you even simply google these things before you typed them?