#do I have to explain that queerbaiting is homophobic because it hurts queer ppl or

[will80sbyers]

Of course it would be homophobic if it didn't happen

it's 2024/5 and they spent years torturing Will emotionally while also making all the straight couples make up and get together, MULTIPLE straight couples since season 1

Robin & Vickie for how much I love them have a side role and Vickie was underdeveloped in S4 and they are waiting for S5 to develop her role so it's very beautiful and important too but it doesn't have the same impact Byler could have and not making byler happen too is just being cowards

stranger things is not realistic but byler would be realistic because they are childhood friends going through the weirdest stuff anyone ever lived through so being queer is not the strangest thing for them in their universe the time of acceptance gets speed up very easily + it did happen in the real world too that queer people fell in love in the 80s even during their teen years, believe it or not

But also consider this: It's fiction!

there is queer coding into the show- written and added to the background and they queerbaited because they used the possibility of their relationship to generate hype between volume 1 and 2 and now they won't say a simple "byler won't happen" directly from the writers to squash the speculation that they know about and avoid heartbreak for millions of QUEER fans

But in any case byler will happen so don't worry about it