#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

[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]

Actually the painting WAS for a girl and El DID commission it because she is a lesbian.

That's not paladin!Mike that's the goth girl's knight-sona.

[your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag]

me when i dont know ab the gates can ppl explain

the only ones i know are flickergate, mattduffersbasementgate and like half of birthdaygate

the bylergates

[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

[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)

[henry-fox-biggest-stan]

@queenofthearchipelago asked for a summarised version, so here it is

Jonathonggate: people editing Jonathan’s face into thongs

Orangejuicegate / chocolatemilkgate / milkgate: honestly it was such a chaos I don’t know. Something surrounding orange juice vs milk and somehow it being about byler?? Idk

Flickergate: one of my favourites (I’m a firmly believer of this theory). Surrounding all the light flickers (like the way the light on Mike’s garage flickered just after Will went home on his own in ep 1 season 1). I think it also includes Will having powers related to energy or time (something something byler kiss something something going back in time while in the upside down something something Mike’s garage flickers as they kiss something something and shame was in the other side)

Backgroundguygate: Exactly what the name is. A guy from the background and lots of people have been shipping him with Will. His name is Barret. Or as some people call him, Hell Guy.

(Thats him with his best friend Claire who’s definitely a lesbian and into El).

Babygirlgate: Mike Wheeler is a babygirl

Eightfifteengate: Another actual theory. 815 is a recurring theme on the show.

Mikhailgate: What if Dmitri had a russian son who looked just like Mike (because the images we use of him are Finn on The Goldfinch) and Will ended up with him instead than with Mike?

Pocketgate / Lettergate: Mike has a pocket on his shirt than looks like a letter. This one:

And people have been theorising than he has an actual letter (directed to Will) on his pocket. (Specially a letter for Will than ends with “love, Mike”). We look delusional but given than lies is a recurring theme in season 4, and that pocket looks exactly like a letter envelope, and they pay attention to the clothes (like when they admitted to putting gay symbols in Robin’s clothing. Btw, triangles are algo gay symbols), it kinda makes sense.

Birthdaygate: Will’s birthday fell on the first episode. Like, they mentioned his birthday date on season 2, and turns out the day it was in the show during the first chapter was Will’s birthday. We don’t know if it was intended or a mistake tho, even though than something like that doesn’t seem like a mistake.

Willloveinterestgate: Basically like backgroundguygate, mikhailgate, etc etc. Random guys from the background as Will’s love interest.

Scriptgate: 2 situations. First when the 8flix shared scripts than ended up being false. Then when the duffers shared the actual scripts.

Whiterabbitgate: Alice in Wonderland parallels. Not only to byler, but to the whole show.

Gridgate / pixelgate / whiteboardgate / penholdergate: When the duffers shared the pixelated board with everything they are planning for each chapter in season 5 and everyone was freaking out. Also there was a dark spot and everyone thought they hid it specially because it was something super important but the duffer’s revealed it was just a pixelated pen holder (i believe there was something else written here and they erased it)

Memorygate: Probably the most interesting one to me. Will losing his memory. Not in season 5, but he already lost his memory. He lost it during the mindflayer. And not only him, but everyone else too. Also interlaced with birthdaygate. They lost specific memories, thats why they didn’t remember Will’s birthday, and Will didn’t remember it either, because it was a lost memory. Remember in season 2, when they were trying to make Will remember? Joyce mentioning his birthday, Mike and the swings story “it was the best thing i ever done”, Joyce recalling the rainbow ship drawing, etc. The mindflayer / Vecna took those memories. Not only does Will not remember them, but no one else does. Vecna do has a thing with memories, and as we see during the Running Up That Hill scene, good memories (and music) helped Max to scape. If Max didn’t have those memories, if they were taken from her, if she didn’t remember, she would be an easy victim. Like Will could be in season 5.

Mattduffersbasementgate: Mike is locked on Matt Duffer’s basement (why Matt specifically, i don’t know)

Piggybackgate: This one is the most sane one tbh. Mike’s monologue parallels “El’s” feelings. El’s feelings being Will’s confession on the van. So those aren’t El’s feelings, but Will’s. So Mike’s monologue parallels Will’s feelings. Mike doesn’t really have a monologue of his own, he’s just piggybacking on Will’s confession. While Will hid his confession as El’s feelings.

Breathgate: “his breath catches”

Descendantsgate: Descendants parallels

Mjgate: …

Ikeagate: I honestly have no idea

Twilightgate: Byler and twilight

Soundtrackgate: This is the gate for those who are smart. Exactly what the name says, the soundtrack (instrumental), and theories regarding it. How some songs sound similar to others and why it might be, how some songs are used several times on scenes than look alike, so we might be able to guess when they will be used next, etc

Rainbowshipgate: Will has powers. Will was related to the lab somehow (maybe went there as a kid? Idk i never fully got this theory) and has had powers all along (some say light related powers. Others say time related powers).

Gertiegate / Gloriegate: Gfs

Spirkgate: Byler parallels Spirk from Star Trek

Saltlampgate: Mike licks salt lamps

Brbgate: breaking bad parallels

Backgroundgate: i loved this one. Finding random background characters and giving them names, sexualities, etc.

Heartgate: There’s the theory than the duffers edited hearts into Finn and Noah’s eyes (i can only find good pics of Finn’s). And also, than they put hearts around them

Midnightsgate: Midnights by Taylor Swift and byler

Bylerburnbookgate: Some drama regarding some byler acc idk

Flashbackgate: There will be flashbacks on season 5 (preferably on Mike’s pov) showing how it was planned since the start and how Mike has been queer since the start.

Petergate: really confusing. There’s several peters mentioned in the show, and they’re all connected to Vecna somehow? And something something Saint Peter and Mike parallels??

Curtaingate: “People don't spend their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain. They like the curtain. It provides them stability, comfort, definition.” - Murray: season 2, episode 5

There’s lots of scenes with mike and curtains. For example in season 3, when kissing El, the curtains are shut. They don’t look behind the curtain. It provides comfort, definition. In season 4, when Mike and El were fighting (the “you can’t even write it” scene), the curtains are open. We’re seeing the truth, not what Mike wants to be the truth, what brings him (or brings them. El included) comfort.

Radiationgate: Hawkins becomes Chernobyl after the gates opened.

Stargate: I honestly don’t know

Bloopergate: Season 4 bloopers were released. That’s it.

Compilation of all the gates:

Jonathonggate

Oranjejuicegate

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

[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

[paladin-n-cleric]

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

[polyamorous-eleven]

I found another one!!!!

Skateboard's boy expression when Angela bullies El:

VS

Skateboard's boy expression when teacher takes Angela to the office:

guys, he’s the real one

[blueandyellow7]

flickergate, churchgate, chancegate, scriptgate, mikhailgate, motelgate, lettergate, gridgate/whiteboardgate, pocketgate, sharedlooksgate, eightfifteengate, whiterabbitgate, babygirlgate, breathgate, googlemapsgate, backgroundguygate, twilightgate, mattduffersbasementgate, phonegate, birthdaygate (not necessarily byler but still)

I have lost count on how many gates we have. Someone pls tell me. From the beginning of vol 2 until now, how many have we created?

[there-was-a-hole-here-itsgonenow]

Choose your fighter

[flaringgoosebumps]

I love that they Byler tag will have at least one day per week that's like...why is it so dry in here..where is everyone?!? Immediately followed by the most chaotic shit you've seen in your life

[clericallyinsane]

imagine the extras being so happy to be a small part of stranger things but not thinking anyone's gonna notice them only to see the entirity of byler tumblr screaming and spam posting about them. slay honestly.

[nodoubtbyler]

Probably incomplete, but:

flickergate

librarygate

watergate (also called saltwatergate)

mikhailgate

davidgate

signgate

eightfifteengate

birthdaygate

memorygate

pocketgate

lettergate

hosegate

motelgate

scriptgate

possessiongate

bodygate

twelvegate

radiationgate

gridgate

whiterabbitgate

backgroundguygate

phonegate

does anyone happen to have a solid list of most or all byler tumblr gates. i need it for something 👀