queerbaiting

1. A marketing technique used to attract queer viewers that involves creating romantic or sexual tension between two same-sex characters but never making it canon or evolving on it
2. when straight men or women pretend to be gay and flirt with people of the same sex as a joke

1. "There is a lot of queerbaiting in shows like Sherlock and Voltron."
2. "I got queerbaited by someone and it really hurt my feelings."

by pissbaby123 May 4, 2020

Queerbaiting

The act of falsely pretending or promoting to be gay as a form of attention seeking.

Sasha: “Was Kelly being for real when she said she hu with that girl last week?”
Peyton: “Nah, she was just queerbaiting.”

by Citcats July 3, 2021

queerbaiting

supercorp

Lena and kara from supergirl are in love but the writers refuse to make it canon while making them gayer every season so it's queerbaiting

by jemmy195804 July 14, 2019

Queerbaiting

The worst kind of sin. Loved by most tv shows writers and directors. Really just a way to have lots of fans, that they don't care about.

-I'm tired of all this queerbaiting!

+Me too! Dean and Cas deserved better gosh.

by Ace_Vamp April 29, 2021

queerbaiting

form of homophobia where a straight guy or girl pretends to be gay for profit

Person 1: I thought she was a lesbian.
Person 2: No, she's just a straight girl queerbaiting to make the LGBT community look bad.

by suck_my_d33 June 28, 2021

queerbaiting

When someone claims to be a part of the LGBTQIA+ community or creates rumors about being part of it when they're actually not.

"was Billie Eilish queerbaiting?" "yeah..."

by eleventeenn February 21, 2022

Queerbaiting

harry styles, harry styles is queerbaiting

person 1: do you like harry styles?
person 2: no, he's literally queerbaiting

by girl, anda a terapia June 11, 2022