Do you think they are queer-baiting?
No, they donāt need to people are doing all the job for them.
Iām not an expert into what is queerbaiting, i know what it is and from what i can see, to me, itās when people deliberatly and firmly act and make themselves appear queer (when they are not) to a queer audience but with a good degree of ambiguity that make homophobes and non queer people still believe that it doesnāt mean anything queer so they can take the interest from queer while still having the ones that donāt like it.
So are dan and phil queer ? i think theyĀ are. Do they deliberalty act and make themselves appear queer ? No, i donāt think so. But they definitly use the belief of their audience that they are together to their advantage. Is it queerbaiting ? i donāt know but i think itās not.Ā
They are very aware that people ship them and purposely do not address it in a explicit manner while making small jokes/reference to it. Is it queerbaiting ?
I think it is definitly on how you see them. They are not bad people and i donāt think they would try hard to look ambiguously queer just to have a queer audience, in fact, they donāt even need to do that, lgbt people are already in a good majority in their audience and they already see what they want to see without dan and phil purposly doing it. But they do need to not denyĀ āphanā now because if they do they will lose a lot of fans.