#backgroundguygate

[demi-god77]

yes omg. I joined like right after szn 4 dropped and it's all so confusing. why is everything a gate 😭 l

Frr omg😭😭 forever struggling to keep up

Like, I just saw a tag for CEREALGATE? What in the world

Let me see how many I remember actually, I'll tag them

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

Compilation of all the gates:

Jonathonggate

Orangejuicegate

Chocolatemilkgate

Milkgate

Flickergate

Backgroundguygate

Babygirlgate (the best one)

Eightfifteengate

Mikhailgate

Pocketgate / Lettergate

Birthdaygate

Willloveinterestgate

Scriptgate

Whiterabbitgate

Gridgate / pixelgate / whiteboardgate / penholdergate

Memorygate

Mattduffersbasementgate

Piggybackgate

Breathgate

Descendantsgate

Mjgate

Ikeagate?

Twilightgate

Soundtrackgate

Rainbowshipgate

Gertiegate??? / Gloriegate???

Spirkgate

Saltlampgate?

Brbgate

Backgroundgate (I actually loved this one)

Heartgate (this one is really small tho)

Midnightsgate (also really small)

I’m waiting for a sevengate tbh

In the replies:

Bylerburnbookgate?

Flashbackgate

Petergate?

Curtaingate

Radiationgate

Stargate

Bloopergate

[merthurbringsmelife]

my Byler Tumblr as Vines video is here!!

many blogs expressed interest in watching it so I will try to tag you all down below so you don’t miss it. the bylers mean so much to me I love you all and this community gives me something fun to do so thank you all and pls enjoy my video. my yt channel is very new but i do have a few other byler videos if you wanna watch them. i will definitely post more in the future

@maddysjones @acetheartist @starlightprinceblog @my-hyperfixations @magalaga-buckley @byler-is-endgame7 @heheidks @mwheelerz @duquesah @mikedisasterqueerwheeler @chaserofstarsandtheabyss @secretsadnessworld @stillabeliever @strawberry-slushy @champion-rowlet @slut4converse @ineffable-hubbiewubbies @bearsclubsstuff @tommys-16yearoldcostume @buck-yyyy @ninazeniksloveinterest @local-deadpoet

also if you open it in youtube that means you can like the video so I would appreciate it if you could give it a like as it only has two right now.

[verashalurks]

a year ago today on byler tumblr: backgroundguygate, we named the guy Barret

and making fun of milkvan proof which was the whole mileven’s love saved the day cuz el hit angela with a wheel and wheel = wheeler,

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

"I used to think she sounded good because I had this massive crush"

"She sounds so good, doesn't she?"

Steve's date Brenda has a crush on Tammy Thompson

[rossdufferstrangerthings]

Who gets sent to Superhell in season 5?

98% of the cast.

The 2% is a spoiler.

[rotisseries]

just saw someone on tiktok shipping gareth and will, which is impressive honestly, they're doing crackshipping better than we ever could

[feelin-frazzled]

season 4 solos ur fav and here's why

el's outfits?? robin's outfits?? nancy's outfits?? max's outfits?? hello??

ronance, jargyle, byler, elumax, etc. (I'm not going to list every scene/line that I love but you get the point)

"if you touch her again, I will kill you again"

joyce + murray my fav duo <3

dr. owens makes a comback!!! (and he's an ally too 💯)

suzie's house

IT DOESN'T HURT ME, YEAH YEAH EEE OHH, DO YOU WANNA FEEL HOW IT FEELS?

argyle

"take a little swim! ...a little... night swim??"

gay icon vecna/henry/001

lucas' hair <3

"friends. best friends."

in the closet (at rink o mania)

bOoBiEs

*tenderly grabs max's hands* "I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer"

sick clock noises frfr ong no cap

nancy has a tom cruise poster

"but you make her(me) feel like she's(I'm) not a mistake at all"

this season literally spawned birthdaygate, backgroundguygate, mikhailgate, etc etc etc

[weewoow-2060307]

Why are there so many Byler gates?!?!

Gridgate

Flickergate

Backgroundguygate

Babygirlgate

Lettergate

And more!

There is fr a new one each week

[will80sbyers]

Is Fernando the beret guy from backgroundguygate, and if not, who is he??😭😭

oh god wasn't he called beret or Barret??? my memory is terrible

[byler-4-life]

Byler Gates Ask Game

Send me one of the below Gates or theories in an ask, and I'll tell you a percentage of how confident I am in them along with some explanation of why. Feel free to reblog and use for yourself!

Birthdaygate

Breathgate

Byler Color Theory

Byler Number Theory

Eightfifteengate

Flickergate

Gridgate/Pixelgate

GoogleMapsgate

LostLettergate

Memorygate

Mikhailgate

Pocketgate

Scriptgate

Vanishing of Will Byers (something weird with the timeline happening in the shed the night Will vanished)

WhiteRabbitgate

I know there are more gates than this, but I tried to limit it to ones that have theorizing behind them, and not ones we just opened for fun like backgroundguygate or ronaldogate.

[gabigirl]

Byler Tag Chaos

July 23: Heart eyes in the van scene

July 26: Talk about the “Romeo” and Romeo & Juliet milkvan parallels / Announcement that we’re getting the s4ep8 8flix script

July 27: Confirmation from the Duffers that lighting is intentional

July 29: Theories/jokes that Noah is vibrantwaters

July 30: Noah panel, “Mike LIKES El”

August 2: The writers starting ST5!

August 4: “A fair amount of subtext, yes.” -Nick, 8flix

August 5: Chaos without getting the script

August 6: Script snippet, “I hate who I am”

August 9: The script is fake

August 10: Poll on Twitter for which scene we want / Slim Jim is a Byler

August 11: Sock anon / Rumor that the Duffers confirmed blue & yellow...only for it to be fake / Van scene won the poll / More Slim Jim tweets

August 13: We hit 100k!

August 15: We got the van scene script

August 16: Fake Duffer account / The Google Doodle looked like baby Byler

August 17: Bald Mike Wheeler cult

August 18: People trapped in the Duffers’ basement / Stephanie Mike Cult

August 19: Scriptgate 2.0 & Nick hacked

August 20: Scriptgate involving 2 cast members / Frog Mike cult

August 21: Escape from the Duffers’ basement

August 22: Russian code fully cracked on Twitter

August 24: Trend with the Cristiano Ronaldo gif / Barista anon

August 25: Grid stage in the writers’ room

August 26: Mikhailgate / Final scene script released

August 27: Mikely Cyrus cult

August 28: Finn panel

August 30: Mike Bush cult / Twilight Gate

August 31: Breaking Bad gate

September 1: Spirkgate

September 2: Lumax drawing scene script released, “his/her breath catches” / Steve & Robin in the car scene script released

September 5: Sweater Byler vs. Apocalypse Byler anon

September 6: Background guy gate

September 7: Byler disease / Cucaracha Cult / Mike’s monologue back in the poll…and losing

September 9: Jonathan & Will’s talk script released

September 10: Birthdaygate resurgence / White Rabbit Gate

September 11: Descendants Gate

September 13: Stranger Writers stopping script releases after this next one / byler cake anon asking about pop tarts!

September 16: Episode 4 Byler talk script released

September 17: Mike cat memes

September 20: Flickergate / Pixalized Grid aka Gridgate

September 21: The Byers’ house being sold irl

September 23: “Byler is canon.” -Ted Wheeler / the black spot on the board is a pen holder

September 24: Stranger Things Tudum Event

September 26: Most of the character Spotify playlists deleted

September 27: Mike plagiarized Eddie’s episode 1 monologue for his monologue to El

October 4: Salt Lamp Gate

October 9: Mike Wheeler babygirlification

October 12: “Crazy shit that almost happened #…”

October 27: Mikey mouse

October 31: Bald Duffer gate

November 6: Stranger Things day / pictures of the (hopefully) endgame couples on Twitter / painting merch /Vecna VR / “The Crawl”

December 9: More Scriptgate

December 10: Noah talking about Finn on live

December 22: Santa slander

January 5: Noah came out

January 13 (Fri the 13): AO3 down

[merthurbringsmelife]

Gates in Byler Tumblr (these are the ones I know about, if there are any others then comment and I shall add them in)

Scriptgate (the byler script mayhem that all blew up on 10th Aug)

Mikhailgate (i love you mikhail. went crazy on 27th Aug those were good times)

Mjgate (17 September something horrifying happened and we do not speak of it)

Backgroundguygate (began on 7th September making background characters famous)

Googlemapsgate (google maps supporting byler)

Wormgate (2 September was worms on a string, what more?)

Birthdaygate (6 September Byler tumblr got pissed that everyone forgot Wills birthday)

White rabbit gate (began 3 September I’m not even sure what this one meAns but someone mentioned it)

Descendants gate (11 September was ST as descendants)

Pocketgate (around 29 Aug Mike’s pocket became the topic of analysis)

Twilightgate (UmMmm its Byler but Twilight, began 27th Aug)

Ikeagate (2nd September was something about Mike taking Will to Ikea on a date?)

Brbgate (1st September was Breaking Bad…that bald guy. It was weird)

Flickergate (I named that one!! When Byler kiss in upside down its what caused the lights to flicker in season 1, plus “it was a 7” and other theories around the light flicker. Began 12 Sep)

Piggybackgate: (the gay af piggyback theories about how Will and Mike were standing in front of Eleven’s piggyback drawing, and scenarios of what might happen in season 5.)

Breathgate: (3rd September mikes breath catches)

Gridgate (when ST writers released pixelised plot of season 5)

Memorygate (6th September, the theory/discussion that people have been losing their memories like Will’s birthday and that time has been changed)

Will loveinterest gate (27 August, when everyone was confused and so we had multiple different people who could be potential boyfriends for Will, many of them were played by Finn Wolfhard)

Mattduffersbasement gate (something to do with being locked in Matts basement, it was a very specific joke)

Spirkgate (Spirk from Star Trek became some type of meme)

[verashalurks]

So ever since I’ve joined Tumblr during the rise of Mikhailgate, I’ve been keeping track of true history of the tumblr tag in my notes. So this is what I’ve got so far:

2022:

8/5: scriptgate

8/26: mikhailgate

8/31: twilightgate 

9/2: lucas and max pass notes script lumax/breathgate 

9/3: lettergate

9/4: mike’s playlist

9/5: noah’s upenn safety concern/birthdaygate/videogate 

9/6: backgroundguygate/making fun of Milevens’ “proof”

9/7: poll day 

9/8: Queen Elizabeth death

9/9: jon & will talk script 

9/10: birthdaygate/whiterabbitgate 

9/11: descendantsgate

9/14: poll day

9/15: sad day. poll drama, script polls have turned bylers/elmax’s against each other :(

9/16: byler and elmax script dropped/librarygate/mjgate

9/18: #adorebylercore💕/hosegate/flickergate 

9/19: flickergate

9/20: THE FALL OF BYLER TUMBLR?!/only 694 recent posts/gridgate/whiteboardgate/pixelgate

9/23: gridgate/ THEYRE TEASING US W/ THE BLACK DOT/ Ted wheeler’s actor says byler canon

9/24: Tudum/byler bloopers/finn saying when blue meets yellow in the west

9/27: playlistgate/byler uquiz 

9/29: eightfifteengate

9/30: laundrygate/ terryivesgate/ eightfifteengate

10/5: harrypottergate/crazy shit that almost happened tweet

10/8: babygirlgate 

10/11: byler gift anon 

10/12: miwigate

10/13: Kool aid mike/Caleb’s birthday

(Somewhere around here: posessiongate)

10/18: mike-with-a-sword-gate

10/21: Midnights album & byler

10/23: phonegate

10/26: jonathonggate

10/27: nanathong/ 5 year anniversary of season 2

10/29: milk vs orange juice feud/milkgate/oranjejuicegate

10/30: Taylor swift liking a byler tiktok

10/30: halloween/ jimincookiegate/breaking bad halloween ask

11/3: Sexuality headcanon anon

11/6: Stranger things day

11/7: “midleven day”/ willel day/ st puzzle game

11/8: puzzle game

11/9: puzzle game

11/10: puzzle game/ Finn lousy kisser allegations

11/12: Will Byers day/ Will’s painting merch & poster

11/19: st costume designer said the clothes worn by the main boys at the snow ball clue to their future careers

11/22: Netflix article abt s5 pulling ideas from s2

11/28: sharedlooksgate

11/29: oceanfruit quit/ sexualization and purity discourse

12/1: byler #1 on tumblr ships

12/7: noah winning the people’s choice awards for best male tv star/ “popular fan theory”

12/9: jopper script/ scriptgate revival

12/10: Noah’s live

12/11: speaking out abt the sexualization of noah/ noah person choice awards reaction gif meme

12/12: gaybirdgate

12/22: antisantagate

12/23: stranger things anime

2023:

1/5: noah comes out as gay

1/6: fake s5 leak

5/12: signgate

5/18: which character would you kill for byler endgame

8/4: lesbyler/ lesbyler discourse

2024:

summer: churchgate

Tell me if I missed anything!

[paladin-n-cleric]

okay wait i was fr an extra can i please be part of backgroundguygate 💀💀