I understand the thinking behind conformitygate, which is exactly why I think it is so stupid. It isn't anything to do with "letting people have hope"- if it isn't real, it isn't real, no matter of hope will change that.
You can hope all you want that it isn't the real end, but actually believing it is an entirely different matter. Conformitygate (and Byler) made up all of its evidence, based on absolutely nothing and no proof from anything. You can say that Byler has to be real because or a road sign, or blue and yellow, but bylers made that up? That wasn't based on anything, you can't create "evidence" and then say that there is evidence to back up your theories. It was never going to happen. It is not real.
Yes I know you'd be happier if they were gay, I've been a shipper for many ships for years, and many have not become canon. But instead of demanding that the creators change their plans because I latched on to a made up theory, I accept thats what their vision was, then I go make my own fanon or read fics. Thats what fandom is. And that is the problem here- not the wanting it to happen, the demanding it happen and the outcry when it didn't.
(Also please don't make assumptions, I've never "seen the proof but was scared to hope", I've never shipped byler (nor have I shipped mileven before that starts), I knew it would never happen but I have seen the fans latching onto tiny nothing points to back up their theory so I knew that the outcry would be huge when it didn't happen. I was never "scared to hope", in fact I was actively looking forward to it not happening so the self righteous morons who accuse everyone of homophobia for not shipping one particular gay ship would be proven wrong)
I personally think that, while Will deserved better than having to come out like that, and a epilogue boyfriend without any characterisation, he should not and never was going to end up with Mike, a character who has never been confirmed as anything other than interested in women. As for Mike, I think people put far too much faith in Finn's acting ability and gave him credit for supposedly hinting with microexpressions, when actually I think he mentally checked out a while back and gave a complete nothing performance.
People have put far too much emphasis on those two (three if the milevens are involved) characters and those actors, at the expense of other characters and the great performances from the rest of the cast (did Caleb or Gaten need cgi tears? No but mr no expression is the one everyone was praising before the season came out)
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