I saw a tiktok comment under a stranger things/byler post and someone brought up true queerbaiting (aka, Johnlock, Merthur, Destiel) and someone replied 'destiel queerbaited so hard they created the omegverse" and I just had to share that
(is it nitpicking if I say omegaverse came from j/2 and not any of the in universe ships? - sorry had a brief stint in that fandom and the discourse is very detailed)
I agree, I dont think st really compares to how queerbaiting used to be but I wasn't around for how they marketed j*hnl*ck and m*rth*r (trying not to step on any toes and show up in the tags lmfao) so I actually can't speak to how queerbaity they were














