#but they also haven't put a pr blackout on noah yet

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What I'd keep in mind about the older teens actors having more promo so far is that they're more liked online. The younger leads have more scrutiny on them for whether they like Noah, since they were pretty close before, and Cara while she might be more of a lead this season, also made her likes on X private last month (not long before Elon made it that way for everyone) so they have to know she's being called out for her takes on Israel and JKR. But it is odd we haven't seen Winona or Priah yet

i see where you're coming from it'd make sense if they were just leaning into posting actors they would have to worry less about pr wise. it just doesn't really seem like that is really playing into what they post, at least not in a substantial way

the fact that someone like Winona isn't in ANY promo up until now is weird as hell, especially because Joyce is one of the shows most liked and most iconic characters. (as well as Jo/pper being the most liked ship in mainstream circles) if they wanted to post likable actors to get the hype up she'd probably be the one to go to first

it's also pretty noteworthy that they posted pics of Noah no problem before, even more than once. when even Hopper only showed up once up until now. it's very possible they're holding back pr wise behind the scenes but they're also very much still including him in their official updates

so certain people showing up more than others really does seem to be pretty random as of now and not tied to public perception of the actors that play the characters (people with bad pr like Noah being in posts while generally liked people like Winona not showing up being the easiest comparison)

(and i think it's also worth considering that the production updates we see are generally geared towards fans of the show. people who keep up with the active production of a show that's most likely more than a year from releasing already have to be pretty invested in the property. it'd be a fair assumption on the Duffer's part that the people who are actively following which actors they post are already aware that people like Noah will be in s5. and "holding back" from posting certain actors to what is essentially the core audience would probably not actually do very much since everyone checking ross's instagram already knows who's in the show)

but also, again, i'm not really reading much into who's in the promo posts in the first place right now so i'm not making any guesses about s5 based on this, t'was just an observation. the "teens" being in so many of the updates could be due to any reason really: had fun on set and took more pictures, nothing happened in the scenes that would be a big visual spoiler, or could also just be a real coincidence that we've seen more of the teen group. we're dealing with a small data pool here after all lmao. like, i can say Maya shows up more than twice as much as Noah but in reality we're dealing with 5:2 yk