#colorgate?

[untitled-byler-blog]

cream is still a shade of yellow 👀👀

[justmy-account]

List of byler-gates

I’m just bored, but read it anyways, it’s fun

there sooo many of them, and i’m still pretty lazy so this isn’t perfect, but just let’s start

Mikhailgate

This is practically anti byler theory, but nvm

So, Dimitri has a son named Mikhail, which is russian version of name Michael, Mike

So, people were just saying that instead of Mike, Will will end up with Mikhail(who’s technically Mike bc of the name, yk)

I think everyone was just joking, oh, good ol’ times

and willloveinterestgate is the same

Lettergate/Pocketgate

These theories aren’t the same one, but it’s basically the same concept, ig

The basic thing is, that Mike wrote a letter to Will(singed Love, Mike)

In pocketgate, Mike has the letter saved in his triangle pocket, bc in st, characters many times has letters, that were important to them, in their left pocket(above the heart), for example Hopper and El(Hopper’s heart-to-heart), Jonathan(acceptance letter to college) etc.

And he would just take it out in the middle of confession or sth

+the triangle always points to Will like an arrow

Lettergate is just basically the same, ok, idk how to describe it differently 

Twelvegate

Not exactly a byler, but theory, that Will was number twelve in HNL, and that he’s El’s actual twin

And from that, there’s theory that Will has powers, but wasn’t n. 012

Okay, back to byler

This is same as rainbowgate i think

Flickergate

This theory is very lovely! after Will tells Mike that rolled seven in s1, the light behind them flickers

and since ud is frozen on nov6 83, when you signal sth from ud, it should appear at nov6 83-s1

this connects to electricgate(i dunno if sth like this exist, but just keep reading), the electricity~are friends electric~will possibly having electric powers

so mike and will could go together in s5 to ud on a mission or sth, and kiss in wheelers garage, and that would make the light flicker(i’m so good at explaining things, right😐)

will and mike going to ud together is predicted by mike and will sitting on upside down couch in last ep. of s4

Birthdaygate/Memorygate

Soo, remember how they forgot Will’s birthday? what if all wills memories, that people reminded him of in the shed are gone? his birthday, building castle byers, meeting mike… and that’s why mike says that his life started the day he found her, bc he doesn’t remember meeting Will

for me, it’s really weird, they couldn’t just forget Will’s birthday, no, this ain’t it

Kiss at lovers lake

I’m not sure if this has a different name, but it’s that their first kiss will be near lovers lake

evidence: patrick(the kid who died at lovers lake), had a nickname “berlin wall” or sth(we saw this in the school newspaper), and it was devided to four, same as hawkins

and song heroes is abt couple who lived at different sides of berlin wall, and idk, it just connects, okay?

when will painted the map of hawkins while he was possessed, mike was holding blue and yellow meter

Eightfifteengate

Context: will left the wheelers at 8:15 in s1

in s1e1, time mark 8:15 is literally the shot where will disappears in the shead

i think there’s a season 2 soundtrack called eight fifteen

tw: time fuckery: while will was recording on halloween night, the time says 8:04 while he’s recording mike saying “did you agreed with this?”, but when joyce rewatches it, it show 8:15(byler)

“ it’s 8:15, you’re late”

btw, clocks and watches from hiroshima are stuck at 8:15

aaanywaaay, there’s just too much 8:15 things, aaah(this is just a few)

what it has to do with byler?

well, 15-8=….(wait for it)….seven. a byler number. it was a seven!

also, “the first lie”, when murray says this to jancy, the time mark is… guess what, 8:15

there’s this theory with the songs “the first lie” and “the first i love you”, and it just connects 

Motelgate

theory, that after mike’s “love” confession to el, they went to a motel for sleep, and mike and will had to share a bed, and we could possibly see flashbacks of it in s5, and it would kinda explain the two day skip

Colorgate

blue and yellow meet in the west, i’m sure you know this one, and there’s sooo many evidence in this

mattduffersbasementgate

It’s too late for this to be true, but the duffers are(/were) holding every cast member that ships byler in their basement, lol

bloopergate

Bloopers from byler scenes, basically, for example “not when i was the spy, oh fuck”, basically Finn and Noah being all giggly, i guess

bloopergate implies to every blooper, but why not to mention it

curtaingate

Sth like, that when there’s some fight happening between characters, if curtains are open, it means they’re open with their feeling and opposite 

Example: milkvan make out scene-closed, but you don’t love me fight-opened

Bonus: „ but they like the curtain. people like us are just trying to look behind the curtain”(my very bad quotation of murray, yk what i mean)

Also, Suzie had blue and yellow curtains, and they were opened

And, “and i love her and i can’t lose her again”? Also curtains closed, like wtf, this fandom is crazy

piggybackgate

El knows abt Mike and Will. she saw how they act around each other, she’ve heard will saying “you’re the heart” to mike, saw that mike has Will’s painting now

New Coke Theory

basically, old coca colla is mileven, new coke is byler. it contains some of the old ingredients(mike), and new ones too(will). not everyone likes(bc its gay ship). and when you look at scenes with can of new coke, it’s many times symbolizing byler vs. milkvan

one of my favorite new coke theory examples is this: in s3, after el gets attacked by the flesh monster, she tries to crash a can(but she doesn’t have her powers, so she can’t). this is a can of new coke(byler) and she can’t crush that/destroy it. and in this scene, we get a flashback to the lab, where she crushes aka destroys regular coke(mileven)

phonegate

mike and will not calling each other, bc of joyce’s telemarketer job(he won’t stop whining abt it)

————

i miss all these little silly theories abt literally everything

i hope the byler tag will be like this once again

maybe we could start naming our new theories “gate”s again

for example: heartfeltgat, strangerwritersgate, snowkissgate or sth

anyway, byee

[captain-evil-bastard]

honestly i don't think mileven is endgame at all. like little to no chance. byler though is either gonna be open ended, hinted, or explicitly shown and i'm 100% sure of that, although i REALLY think the focus of s5 will be them mending their platonic relationship further. i think so there's less backlash they'll attempt to let general audiences see how they work as a pair EQUALLY unlike mileven, as well as showing that they work together on more levels than instantly getting into a relationship (ik they've been friends for years but the duffers have to make up for how mike was to will in a good chunk of s3-4).

overall i think the ACTUAL chances of the 'byler kiss' are pretty slim, but i'm not opposed to being proved wrong. we have to remember that this show has a shit ton of characters despite the focus on will this season and that they ALL need to have some loose ends tied up still as well (praying on that hopper and el duo and dustin angst arc loll)

i don't think many people will actually be upset by the implication of byler in the show aside from hardcore mileven shippers (nobody really had heavy backlash for will crushing on mike so...). i can tell you that most fans are ship neutral, if not against mileven because of their related breakups.

so overall? byler will be canon one way or another, but realistically it's not gonna be super-duper lovey dovey (considering mike is still theoretically deep in the closet). and honestly? that's still really satisfying for a mainstream show to have a significant, well built-up queer arc.

ALSO while i consider myself to be relatively objective and logical i could be wrong. argue with me! tag this when s5 rolls around and it's revealed that will is actually vecnas son and mike was a mass hallucination from stranger things fans!

[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

[buckieduckie2]

HOLD ON DROP EVERYTHING- I JUST FOUND THE MOST MIKE WHEELER BYLER CODED SONG EVER

I WAS LISTENING TO A PUNK MIX ON SPOTIFY AND I STUMBLED UPON THIS SONG

Stupid for You by Waterparks

At first I saw this and I immediately album cover and thought "wow thats yellow and blue, byler!" and then I started listening to it and it is genuinely the most byler mike wheeler coded song i have heard in my entire life. like holy shit.

one of the lyrics is LITERALLY

"I'm color coding my moods

You're yellow, I'm natural blue

Let's get together and be green like my insides"

AAAAHHAHHHHAAAAAAAAAA

not just THOSE lyrics but the WHOLE song is just, so, Byler Mike Wheeler coded like HOLY shit

ANNDDDD to make this better, the album Stupid for You was on was actually released 3 November 2016 THATS THREE DAYS BEFORE WILL WAS TAKEN AND THATS THE YEAR SEASON 1 WAS RELEASED- anyways yeah i thought that was,,, interesante hahaha

also im gonna ask that anyone whos gonna be like- "wE aLrEaDy kNeW tHiS eVeRyOnE kNoWs tHiS sOnG aLrEaDy iTs cOmMoN kNoWlEdGe iN bYlEr cOmMuNiTy" to kindly SHUT TF UP i dont want to hear it. I am proud that i found this song on my own and i would like to share it with my fellow byler friends.

also all byler things aside this song is KICKASS its a great song i love it its so catchyyyy

@l0v3c0r3e @weirdo09 @thebylerfiles @verashalurks @adorewillbyers @adoremikewheeler @yelenapines

[imjussthereforthefanart]

here's my art fight card btw.. I guess...

[puppyplushies]

icon edits of enstars chars i see as cgs + personal headcanons! for fun n cos i was BORED !!!!! ⭐

idol/magical ✨ idol/papa ✨idol/parent idol/flip ✨idol/guardian ✨idol/big brother idol/big brother ✨idol/big sister ✨idol/nursery carer idol/mama ✨idol/papa

[sleep02sunshiine]

I finally looked at some gates, so here are some of my favourite byler theories:

1. Letter-/Phonegate, I'm gonna say it again if I have to BUT MIKE IS THE WRITER FRIEND OF COURSE HE WOULD WRITE LETTERS TO WILL. And also Dustin kinda already confirmed Phonegate, so why is it wrong to believe in Lettergate?

2. Colorgate, because I believe in "When blue meets yellow in the west"

3. Victimgate, I just love angst. And it would just be perfect for Mike to have been one of the victims.

4. Birthdaygate, because apparently the Creel Murder also happend on the 22nd of March. And I don't believe in Netflix changing the season 2 scene.

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

colorgs,,,,,,, (this took so much energu auaghagahhaghgh whatever i still made prgoress yippee !!_)

Oooh prebby colorgs... I wish I retained more about colour theory and such but I couldn't stand digital applications rambling for hours about how Blue makes people feel Modern and Yellow makes people feel Happy.. I just like looking at colours that would be how yummy sweets should look

[thelocalzombie]

colorg

[sae-s3-trottinettes-electrique]

Seance 6

Programme affichage sur écran

Programme horloges

Programme pour l'affichage sur l'écran :

Pour utiliser l’écran LCD RGB, on utilise deux bibliothèques :

#include <Wire.h>

La bibliothèque Wire.h qui est la bibliothèque de la liaison I2C.

#include "rgb_lcd.h"

La bibliothèque rgb.lcd.h qui est la bibliothèque de l’écran RGB.

L’écran RGB à deux adresses I2C :

La première permet de régler les couleurs d’éclairage d’arrière-plan avec un code RGB.

La deuxième permet d’écrire sur l’écran.

Dans le setup :

lcd.begin(16,2);

lcd.setRGB(colorR, colorG, colorB);

Wire.begin();

On démarre les liaisons I2C, on déclare qu’il y a 2 lignes de 16 caractères et on initialise la couleur de l’écran.

Pour écrire sur l’écran, on sélectionne d’abord où l’on veut écrire, puis on peut écrire :

  lcd.setCursor(10,0);

  lcd.print(Puissance);

  lcd.setCursor(15,0);

  lcd.print("W");

//partie puissance

int Puissance;

  Puissance = CourantS * TensionS;// P = U * I

Programme Logo batterie sur écran :

#include <Wire.h>

#include "rgb_lcd.h"

rgb_lcd lcd;

int colorR =255;

 int colorG = 0;

 int colorB = 255;

byte BatteriePleine[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111

};

byte Batterie4Pleine[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111

};

byte Batterie3Pleine[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111

};

byte Batterie2Pleine[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b11111,

  0b11111,

  0b11111

};

byte Batterie1Pleine[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b11111,

  0b11111

};

byte BatterieVide[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b11111

};

void setup() {

  // put your setup code here, to run once:

  lcd.begin(16,2);

  lcd.setRGB(colorR, colorG, colorB);

  lcd.createChar(0, BatterieVide);

  lcd.createChar(1, Batterie1Pleine);

  lcd.createChar(2, Batterie2Pleine);

  lcd.createChar(3, Batterie3Pleine);

  lcd.createChar(4, Batterie4Pleine);

  lcd.createChar(5, BatteriePleine);

lcd.setCursor(0,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)0);

lcd.setCursor(2,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)1);

lcd.setCursor(4,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)2);

lcd.setCursor(6,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)3);

lcd.setCursor(8,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)4);

lcd.setCursor(10,0);

lcd.write((unsigned char)5);

}

void loop() {

  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:

}

Pour créer un système de logo de batterie, on utilise la bibliothèque "rgb_lcd.h" qui est la bibliothèque de l’écran LCD RGB qui fonctionne en liaison I2C,

Pour ce faire on déclare en variable 5 logos de batterie à plusieurs état, déclaré sur 8 octets.

byte BatterieVide[8] =

{

  0b01110,

  0b11111,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b10001,

  0b11111

};

La bibliothèque considère le logo comme un caractère personnalisé, on les associes dans le setup avec :

  lcd.createChar(0, BatterieVide);

Puis on peut l’appeler dans notre code avec la fonction :

lcd.write((unsigned char)0);

Affichage batterie pleine :

Affichage standard :

Affichage batterie faible :

[demi-god77]

BYLER GATES: A GUIDE

(Explaining all the different theories, for anyone who is also lost with how many there are)

THE BIG 4

Flickergate: This theory involves a lot of time shenanigans and is connected to the Will having powers in s5 one (possibly manipulation of time or electricity). Theory claims Will and Mike will kiss in the UD, specifically outside Mike's garage, paralleling 1x01. Will is going to tell the truth at the same time his s1 self is ("it was a seven"), causing the garage light to flicker on Nov. 6th 1983.

Birthdaygate: This theory suggests that the Duffers didn't actually forget Will's birthday is March 22nd (the day of the rink-o-mania incident). It claims that Vecna is actually manipulating the characters' memories (possibly even Will's), making them forget his birthday in the process, maybe in an attempt to make him feel excluded/lonely and making him vulnerable. (Similar to the beginning of Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, which happened to be on the inspo board for S4)

But also the Creel murders themselves happened on March 22nd.

Churchgate: More UD kiss related theories! This one claims Will is going to get Vecna'd or possessed in the Upside Down church (and that he's going to hurt/choke Mike in the process). With a crazy amount of religious symbolism, Mike would be the one breaking him out of his trance, through a kiss or a confession.

(More thorough explanation here.)

Lettergate: This gate's truthers believe that Mike did actually write to Will in the time period between s3 and s4, but never sent the letters. Said letters (signed "Love, Mike") are going to make an appearance in s5, revealing his true feelings. (Great post that has to do with this gate here)

Also related to:

OTHER GATES

Pocketgate: Very connected to Lettergate™️, this theory has to do with Mike's infamous triangle shaped pocket in S4. It suggests that the letter signed Love, Mike is hidden in said pocket throughout s4, since it very closely resembles an envelope. Triangles have also been used in ST as a queer symbol (with Robin) and Mike's pocket consistently points to Will like an arrow.

Phonegate: Kinda similar to the previous two, this gate claims Mike did actually call the Byers in Lenora. For some reason, the calls didn't go through, either because of Joyce's telemarketer job OR because of Vecna manipulating things again (cough, birthdaygate, cough).

This is backed up by one of Dustin's lines, saying that the Byers' phone line is always busy and Mike won't stop complaining about it. We know he must have been calling WILL, since the whole reason he was communicating with El using letters is that they couldn't talk on the phone.

Loverslakegate: Related to Lovers' lake (obviously). The lake is shaped like a heart, tying into its name, but it was split in two after the gates opened, now resembling a broken one (and Mike is ofc referred to as "the heart" so it could be a reference to him).

According to this theory, Mike and Will are going to kiss/become lovers near said lake/Reefer Rick's house.

Heartgate: To put it simply: Heart reflections EVERYWHERE. This one is better explained through pictures:

Also: Different heartgate but really interesting

Colorgate: I don't think I have to explain this one tbh but anyway

Blue meets yellow in the west.

Mike and Will have been HEAVILY associated with blue and yellow respectively since the beginning of the show (even wearing eachother's colours in both of their arguments). There's an insane amount of evidence that backs this one up.

It's speculated that the Russian code in s3 was foreshadowing for s4 ("The silver cat feeds when Blue meets Yellow in the west") Silver cat: Vecna who started killing when Mike (Blue) met Will (Yellow) in the west (California, literally west of Indiana)

Curtaingate: "They don't spent their lives trying to get a look at what's behind the curtain [...] They like the curtain. It provides them comfort, stability, definition" -Murray 2x05

Mike and El are pretty consistently framed in front of CLOSED (and more often than not, yellow) curtains, or ones that have closed blinds. According to this theory, closed curtains represent not being honest with one's true feeling. So, the truth about Mike's feelings is beyond the curtain and in s5 he will open it (and come out)

Motelgate: This one has to do with the dreaded two day time skip at the end of S4. Theory claims the Cali crew stayed at a motel during that time skip and the scenes were cut for time, but we'll flash back to them in s5. It's based on a photo a production assistant posted from the New Mexico filming, as well as some bts pics of the Cali Crew playing board games in a motel.

Shoegate: In S4, we see a pair of Will's shoes in his bedroom. In s5, Mike seems to be wearing that exact pair. This, in addition to the fact that they wear the same shoe size (a 10 according to their rollerskates from 4x02), lead people to theorize they will share clothes/shoes in s5. More importantly though, this theory suggests Mike is figuratively being put into Will's shoes (maybe pining?). Also, both of them wear the same shoes they wore in s2. Interestingly enough though, even though the design is the same, the colors are reversed (so their roles will be reversed too).

Possessiongate: This one runs DEEP so I'm going to link a bunch of posts

To put it VERY simply: this theory claims Vecna somehow attached himself to Mike (maybe when the vine grabbed him by the leg in the S2 tunnels- right before he started acting weird in s3 and s4) and he has been influenced/possessed for some time now.

He's not the dungeon master anymore, he's not in control. Both in s3 and s4 someone ELSE is the DM when they play D&D (Will and Eddie respectively)

More here and here

Victimgate: Very closely related to the previous one, this one suggests that MIKE was originally supposed to be Vecna's 4th victim instead of Patrick. Since Max escaped the first time, SHE ended up being the last victim but the original plan was for it to be Patrick. However, Patrick's curse doesn't fit the theme of all of the previous ones. We only see one of his visions, he gets cursed for ONE DAY, as opposed to the other 3 that are cursed for almost a week and we also know very little about him, even though we gradually knew more about the previous victims. Chrissy (no relation to main characters) -> Fred (friends w/ Nancy) -> Max (main character who we've known since s2)

More thorough explanation here

Twelvegate: This one is not really Byler related but i wanted to include it anyway

Theory claims Will was one of the lab kids (specifically 012) and him and El are actual twins. There are mentions of Will and El looking similar since s1, and a lot of twin imagery.

This theory obviously ties in with the Will having powers one and some people believe he wasn't 012, but him and El have a deeper connection/may be actually related. It could theoretically explain Henry's connection to Will, as well as things like El seemingly recognizing him in s1.(Alternatively called rainbowshipgate, because of the rainbow ship drawing Joyce mentions in s2 and the rainbow room)

Eightfifteengate: Again, not explicitly Byler but it's quite crazy.

TL;DR: The time 8:15 seems to have great significance in the show and it's mentioned all the time, if not by the characters themselves, (Eg. "It's 8:15, you're late"- El s2) then by small details in the background. There's even a whole track named after it.

Will left the Wheelers' house at 8:15 and it's the EXACT timestamp of his disappearance in 1x01. It's also the time in which most of the UD related weirdness happens and so it's very likely the UD is stuck on 8:15. (Also you know, 15-8=7)

Radiationgate: Related to the previous one! Clocks in Chernobyl are stuck on 8:15 and Hiroshima has been described figuratively as being frozen in time. Henry has burns identical to Chernobyl victims and almost all of his + his victims' symptoms can be explained through radiation exposure. As this post explains, for radiation levels between 8.3-11 Gy (SI unit for absorbed radiation), symptoms start with headaches and disorientation, move on to unconsciousness and bleeding (the exact symptoms of his victims) and finally, death happens at around 7 days (which is about how long Vecna's curse lasts AND how long Will was in the UD for)

Whiterabbitgate: The song "White Rabbit" is the first song in the show and it plays when we first get a sense of El's powers. Theory suggests it will also be the last song in the show (coming full circle) with either Will using his powers, or Willel using their powers together.

In general though, ST has a lot of similarities/parallels to Alice in Wonderland. The white rabbit constantly being late (Mike is late to something at the start of every season), great significance to clocks/ticking/time, a lot of hallucinations/visions, the overall similarities between the Upside Down and Wonderland. Henry's sister was literally named Alice Creel and there is SO much rabbit imagery throughout the show. There are also direct references to AIW with set pieces and paintings.

Soundtrackgate: This one has to do with the Stranger Things OST and the overall insane musical symbolism throughout the show. A lot of different theories talk about the show's soundtrack, but this one talks about 3 tracks in particular: Being Different, The First Lie, The First I love You

To put it briefly: "The First I love You" plays in both Robin's coming out scene and El's kiss with Mike at the end of s3 (Already a weird parallel). The three tracks not only share the same melody, but they also sync up perfectly. "Being Different" (s4 van scene) and "The First Lie" (Nancy and Jonathan's kiss in s2) especially, match up together to create an entirely new track, completing eachother. The scenes featuring those three tracks also share very similar themes at their core. (This post goes into a lot of detail!)

Playlistgate: Character playlists! At a certain point, every character's official playlist on Spotify was deleted, except for three: Mike's, Will's and Billy's. Songs were seemingly being added/deleted for no reason to the Mike and Will ones and people were struggling to make sense of it all.

Also, Mike's character playlist in particular is VERY interesting (so many byler coded songs, as well as "Smalltown Boy" a gay anthem, about a young gay boy forced to leave his home town to escape from their disapproval and homophobia.) There are three playlists on Finn's spotify that are very incriminating. "Love songs" (That has "BOYS DON'T CRY" on it, a song that Will literally has a poster of in his room), "drive" and the most recent one "STurn". These playlists feature songs like "Let her go", "Angst in my pants", "Me and Michael", "Gay thoughts" just to name a few. Basically a lot of the songs on all four playlists seem very relevant to some complicated feelings about Mike's relationship with El/Will but also with himself and his sexuality.

Scriptgate: Oh boy. Here we go.

On August 5th 2022, the byler fandom got #bylerscript trending worldwide on Twitter while waiting for the 8flix account (run by Nick Runyeard) to release some supposed s4 scripts (that people PAID for, mind you). These scripts dropped on August 8th, featuring lines like: "I hate who I am" from Will in the van scene, "His mouth dry, like a California summer" from the bedroom apology scene and also, Will seemingly recognizing Brenner at NINA, despite never meeting him in canon.

These turned out to be fake and the community was in shambles. Nick started calling people psychos, the Stranger Writers tweeted that everyone got scammed, Nick privated his account and the authenticity of some released s2-s3 scripts was questioned. This post explains the entire situation in detail.

Breathgate: This one is also script related and specifically about a Mike/Max parallel.

In the official van scene script, when Mike sees Will's painting "his breath catches." Then, when Lucas asks Max to the Friday movie date, "(her) breath catches" as well. People caught on that parallel very fast and since the latter is obviously a romantic moment, it boosted their confidence for both Byler and Lumax endgame.

Piggybackgate: This one refers to two different situations/theories.

One, the seemingly deliberate framing of Mike and Will inside the little bubble in El's piggyback drawing (and it referening to Byler). The framing is especially suspicious, because the bubble drawing was drawn two separate times (it's different from one shot to the other). In the second shot, they're framed directly inside of it.

Two, Mike in his monologue essentially piggybacking off of Will's van confession. His monologue was going off of El's feelings, but since they weren't actually El's, the speech was based on Will's feelings. It also ties in with the parallel/foreshadowing between the monologue and Suzie's house, with Will being paralleled to the "director" kid, directing a "choking" Tabitha and their dad (more thorough explanation here).

THE SILLIES

(aka the joke-theories/memes)

Miniongate: Mike and Will are secretly minions. (Because you know, minions are primarily blue and yellow)

This information will be revealed to us in s5 and they will have a magical girl-esque transformation where we see their true minion form. (Original post here)

Localvillagegate: Related to the leaked Mike and El rooftop scene.

Basically, a mlvn used AI to lip read the scene and try to figure out what Mike is saying (and then posted the video on Twitter).

According to them, Mike was telling El they were going to leave the local village (AKA Hawkins) together and travel to a beautiful faraway land with "like, three waterfalls or something" (and also that she has to "improve her motivation", whatever that means).

People thought it was hilarious and started making a ton of memes based on it.

Parrotgate: This is directly connected to localvillagegate™️ and it was created by @cloudycleric in one of his streams.

Basically, the parrots are gay and represent Will and Mike, who in s5 will kiss under the three waterfalls depicted on the image.

Backgroundguygate: People making headcanons and creating backstories for random extras. The star of this gate is Barrett, an extra from the Lenora high school, who wears a barrette, bright red pants and a shirt that says "Hell".

According to this gate, he's actually gay and in love with Will. He has a goth best friend named Claire who is a lesbian and in love with El.

Chancegate: The theme of shipping Will with random extras continues on strong

Chance is one of Jason's friends and part of the basketball team. People thought he was attractive and somewhere along the line started making headcanons for him and shipping him with Will (Bychance). Basically, they're gonna date and Mike will be jealous.

Mikhailgate: More shipping Will with randoms! (I'm beginning to see a pattern here)

Originally created by @paladin-n-cleric

Enzo in S4 mentions his son, Mikhail Antonov. Mikhail is the Russian name for Micheal.

People started making jokes that Mikhail would arrive to Hawkins from Russia in s5 and shipped him with Will (Willhail), since he's like Mike but Russian and cooler. They made fanart, edits and posted pictures of Finn as Boris in "The Goldfinch" claiming it's Mikhail.

@will80sbyers then begun to ship Mikhail with El and thus the ship "Jail" was born.

Baldmikegate: Did you know Mike is actually bald and is bullied for it? Well, now you do.

In 2022, a cult was born and the byler tag was filled with edited pictures of Bald!Mike. Terrifying honestly.

Some people made posts about how the rest of the party feels about Mike's secret baldness and some even wrote FANFICS.

Gridgate/whiteboardgate/pixelgate: The Stranger Writers posted a picture of a pixelated/blurred whiteboard that had the entirety of s5 mapped out. People were desperately trying to decode it and figure out what was written on it.

On the space for episode 7, there was a "big black hole" that people went crazy trying to make sense of, only for it to be revealed as a pen holder.

Babygirlgate: The babygirlification of Mike Wheeler. That's it. That's the gate.

I think pretty much every line Will has ever said to Mike has been posted with the word "babygirl" replacing his name (it's hilarious and I love it)

Some examples here and here

Mattduffersbasementgate: Finn and Joe made up a third Duffer brother named Pete, who has no hair for some reason and is the actual writer of Stranger Things, while Matt and Ross are just the faces of it. Pete lives in a shed/Matt's basement and that's where he writes all of the scripts.

Finn and Noah are both also being held in Matt's basement however, and they're not allowed to leave so that they don't spoil byler endgame.

I definitely missed some gates, but omg this took SO LONG

(this post is for you @felix-fathoms @bibylers)

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@stranger-chichka thank you so so much for the shoutout for those theories of mine and connecting them here!! I was just thinking about those posts again recently and wanted to revisit them. I’m so happy to see this color theory discussed again and so well and what these colors represent!!

omg guyyyyyyyyyyyssssssss

i cracked the code fr this time

so @foodiewithdahoodie mentioned this in one of their most recent posts about love and defeating vecna and they mentioned the three types of love: Platonic, Familial, and Romantic

and then i was like, omggg you know who that is? thats Will, Mike and El! :D

Mike + El = Platonic Love

El + Will = Familial Love

Will + Mike = Romantic Love

and then a couple weeks ago i thought about another thing- Mike, El, and Will represent the three Primary Colors

the three primary colors are Red, Blue, and Yellow

what is so cool and slay about the three primary colors is that it is impossible to create any other colors without the Three Primary Colors

So Mike, El, and Will are the three primary components to defeat Vecna; without these three nothings going to work and Vecna will not be defeated.

sooo Yeah! these three are the key 🥰 im sure most of everyone knew this already lol but i thought this was all super neat- and the color thing i figured out myself which is something i am very proud of 😌

[shutuperce]

uhhh so watching this episode and in the little argyle-driving interlude between the dramatic ronance @ pennhurst scene and the byler scene above, there are multiple shots of the dashboard where there’s a) a constant rainbow reflection of a box or something and b) he’s wearing a rainbow bracelet.

they didn’t need to shoot only the dashboard / steering wheel to show argyle tapping along to the music, there are many different shots they could have used. they just want to rub it in that the next scene is gonna be GAY AS HELL

(on another note. the carpet in the room shown above is blue and the walls are yellow. ummmmmmmmm)