Do you think they are queer-baiting?
No, they don’t need to people are doing all the job for them.
I’m not an expert into what is queerbaiting, i know what it is and from what i can see, to me, it’s when people deliberatly and firmly act and make themselves appear queer (when they are not) to a queer audience but with a good degree of ambiguity that make homophobes and non queer people still believe that it doesn’t mean anything queer so they can take the interest from queer while still having the ones that don’t like it.
So are dan and phil queer ? i think they are. Do they deliberalty act and make themselves appear queer ? No, i don’t think so. But they definitly use the belief of their audience that they are together to their advantage. Is it queerbaiting ? i don’t know but i think it’s not.
They are very aware that people ship them and purposely do not address it in a explicit manner while making small jokes/reference to it. Is it queerbaiting ?
I think it is definitly on how you see them. They are not bad people and i don’t think they would try hard to look ambiguously queer just to have a queer audience, in fact, they don’t even need to do that, lgbt people are already in a good majority in their audience and they already see what they want to see without dan and phil purposly doing it. But they do need to not deny “phan” now because if they do they will lose a lot of fans.