the duffers before the finale: all questions will be answered, there are no loose ends
the duffers after: it’s up to the audience interpretation, we wanted to keep it a mystery & not explain everything, we don’t know really we didn’t think that far ahead, it was left open-ended
and if anyone ever tries to say this is funny or they’re “just joking”, they can go to hell too. they’re talking about physically bashing a doll of a literal child which is already disturbing as fuck. and then that same REAL child had to sit there & listen to that uncomfortably