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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."
queerbaiting 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.”
Queerbaiting by Citcats July 3, 2021

Queerwashing 

Dude stop queerwashing everything
Queerwashing by traphousejojo July 26, 2020

queerbaiting 

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
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.
Queerbaiting by Ace_Vamp April 29, 2021

Queerfishing 

When a company claims it is being progressive with LGBT+ representation by having queer characters appear for a minimal amount of screentime.
"Hey, did you watch the end of Rise of Skywalker?"
"Yeah, I missed the lesbian couple they were supposedly queerfishing though".
Queerfishing by Dawn of Ash October 11, 2021