#queerbating

[ibreathhere]

So let me get this straight, in April 2024 this happened,

yuri !!! on ice: ice adolescence, movie got cancelled buy ungrateful Mappa studio, who would be dead if not for the gays and girlies money. 

Shinichi aka Conan and the magic thief Kaito are cousins, so they can't kiss or hold hands despite years and years of hints and sniffing each other and looking in the eyes.

Supernatural insider revealed they queer coded Dean and Castiel relationship from the begging to attract the gays and girlies, but it got too real so they even had to cool them down, and we still got queer bating somehow.

People are evil.

[nandorelentlessdelacruz]

Queer characters and queer show are different concepts. You can have queer characters for pink money, for example, or use their queerness only for the laughs, to make a character "eccentric" or even to make a point.

I grew up watching tv shows like Queer as Folk and The L Word and believe me when I say: WWDITS it's not a queer show, is not centered on the queer experience, don't care for queer policy, the most vaguely activist thing was a pride parade made for a straight character get more votes.

WWDITS is fun and I love it, but when I read this kind of argument against queerbating allegations I wonder why the bar is so low now?

[nylanotthere-2]

Me when I was watching that fucking Teen Wolf movie and Thiam was not canon:

[lifelover4life]

me, watching in horror, as another obviously queer character gets into a heterosexual relationship because the writers are scared of making them gay: No. No, no, don't kiss hi- awh. No! No. No!

[sun-ni-day]

"They're queerbating!" and it's just two same sex characters sharing a deep spiritual connection and emotional and physical intimacy, becoming an integral part of each other's life.

Girl, platonic love exists.

Stop devaluing it.

P.S. I'm not talking about shipping - your headcanons are yours, go off, no one is stopping you. Just don't accuse creators of doing something they didn't do.

[forkaround]

I just started My Journey to You because of a gifset of two women fighting very gay-ly. In the show there is banter between the Male Lead and his Bodyguard where ML says 'Are you going to be my bride?'. Now, they might not have intentionally queerbaited (if we can even call it that) but even if they had it would not be the same way that USdramas queerbait. In a Cdrama I know I'm not getting the gay no matter how many hints they leave. Same with Kdramas. So they can go as hard as they want but I know, going in, it's never going to be there. On the other hand USdramas are malicious with this. With USdramas I have hope. And every time they don't get together it feels like a slap in the face. Especially since the straight romance they write isn't good anyway. I started Till the End of the Moon for the same reason - A gifset of girls. But the straight romance both these girls get, the depth of character in both masculine and feminine traits that both these women get makes me satisfied with the show. On the other hand, Women are treated so horribly on USdramas - flattened and boring that the most important and interesting thing about them becomes their potential queerness. Same with Little Women. It's queercoded but I won't be disappointed if InJoo and Do-il got together because all the female characters are so well crafted and well explored that it feel like a feast.

I've admired USdramas for a long time. They were the better alternative to Indian Dramas. But they don't got shit on Cdramas and Kdramas. Now of course it doesn't apply to every show out there. But I'm picky no matter what country it is. And so far Cdramas and Kdramas have better writing overall.

[whathehe11]

Merlin and Arthur (Merthur) is the gay version of Scully and Mulder (MSR) from the X-files. I’ve said what I’ve said.

[threeimagineryboys]

I think queerbaiting is unlawful.

Netflix is targeting LGBTQ+ viewers with byler thumbnails, and during s4 promotion they were hinting about byler all over social media and in interviews.

So if Byler doesn’t happen in season 5 (it will happen, it just has to)  I think we should sue Netflix just like those Ana de Armas fans sued Universal for using her in the ´Yesterday´trailers but cut her out from the film. 

If Byler doesen’t happen I WANT MY MONEY BACK. 

Honestly, I think Netflix should also be sued for cancelling good shows with queer representation. I think a little lawsuit would perk Netflix up a bit don’t you think?

[mytranssnakes]

Queerbating: " A strategy by which writers and networks attempt to gain the attention of queer viewers via hints, jokes, gestures, and symbolism suggesting a queer relationship between two characters, and then emphatically denying and laughing off the possibility. Denial and mockery reinstate a heteronormative narrative that poses no danger of offending mainstream vieuwers at the expense of queer eyes. "

- Judith Fathallah

[arthur-is-tired]

Honestly Jesus is pretty problematic for queerbating when his fanbase is so openly homophobic... Smh... He has a huge platform and won't even speak on it...

[whomst-the-hell]

also just want to add: because queer-baiting is a marketing scheme used in media about fictional characters, real human people cannot queer-bait! not even famous ones!! this includes:

actors who play queer characters despite being cis/straight

celebrities who got really popular for displaying “””queer traits”””

artists that include queer themes in their work but do not officially come out

gnc celebrities

literally any real actual person who does not self-identify (or does not want to come out!!) as queer

i’d be really curious to know what percent of queerbaiting is 

a) an intentional marketing scheme to stir interest in the project and attract certain fanbases (lgbtq people and young women) vs. 

b) members of the creative team genuinely wanting to write queer characters but the corporate side of things force them to tone it down but they still leave little hints vs. 

c) they legitimately did not know how gay something would come across

[exquisite-peculiarity]

Apparently there's drama for the Swifties rn, but this applies accross the board- You realize a human person having friendships isn't queerbating you, and taking it personally when they don't have your sexuality is, in fact, a you problem?

[confession-session]

i was just vibing at a cafe and my brain really went “Ayo haha what if authors wrote a relationship where the people were flirting with each other shamelessly and it was never clear whether they meant it or not just to confuse and frustrate the audience”

…3 second pause…

“-wait, that’s what queerbaiting is.”

[mysinkingsun]

He's soooo self-loathing

[lukeqatwalker]

queerbaiting leads to yearning

yearning leads to fanfiction

fanfiction leads to ... suffering

queerbaiting is good because the yearning is always better than the having