Robin's coming-out scene in s3 and Will's convo with Jonathan in s4 did not became a big joke despite dealing with the same topic because the show handled it respectfully. Will as a character, and honestly his actor too, were done tremendously dirty by the scene they wrote.
no matter what you say byler squared will always be canonically in love in #myworld and their impeccable chemistry will continue to flourish and thrive because that’s how their dynamics were intended to be written and perceived send tweet
idk if i can find it rn but the duffers literally confirmed in their masterclass that they intentionally paralleled joyce and hopper to mike and will so to act like there’s no intentional baiting on their part is just false. they admitted it.
can i be honest yall… this is something wayyyy more complicated than just queerbaiting. and i don’t mean this from a conspiracy theorist conformitygate pov. like. i think some of what we might call queerbaiting was like, legitimately everybody including netflix bylering out 😭