"The ghostfacer effect" was like spn speak for what gays implicitly understood in past media: The queer content could not be shown, and would only be aired in code. You have to watch for it in the corner of your eye, always just offscreen, never looking at it directly. It's happening, but they aren't going to show it, not on screen.
It's a mixtape you didn't see Dean give, an understanding of CBGB you never saw Cas aquire, a cardigan you never saw Cas & Dean joke about, a gay bar where you never saw anyone kiss, a fivesome that happened between scenes, pictures in hats you never saw multiple characters take, tables you didn't see characters drink themselves under, taunts from vampires that don't make any sense, euphemisms that fell out of use long before the audience was born, mood lighting intentionally placed that gets waved away as coincidence, mirrors with straight couples that are very on the nose, memories being rewritten, confessions left just a teensie bit ambiguous, group reunions where the camera is framed on only two people, euphemisms applied to both straight couples and a set of same sex "friends", knowledge the characters strictly acquired off screen, declarations to groups where only two characters are emotional...
Until Nov 5, 2020
When for one day they turned the camera directly into the sun.
They filmed it and the world shut down. They aired it and it stopped turning. Just for a second. The filter slipped, before it was fit back on.
