Fagfishing

When a media has characters that were very clearly (poorly) written to be pining for each other, with the sole intent to have fans of said media go crazy for it. its very similar to queerbait.

guy: Do you remember in 2020 how people shipped dream and george?
guy 2: LMAOO yes they were totally fagfishing, especially when they randomly released merch of it

guy: 2020 was genuinely crazy