*gasp* the moustache man

EDDIE "pretty boy" DIAZ

[ID: eight gifs of Eddie Diaz in 8.07. He is sitting on the edge of the firetruck with Hen while Buck stands nearby, all three of them looking at Hen's phone at a video of Bobby fighting with Brad on TMZ's website.

GIF 1: Eddie looking up at Bobby off-screen knowingly.

GIF 2: Eddie grinning at Bobby behind Hen's phone while she shows Bobby the video on TMZ's website.

GIF 3: Eddie leaning forward to ask Bobby a question.

GIF 4: Eddie peering over at Hen as she talks, smile widening.

GIF 5: Eddie scrunching up his face while he, Hen and Buck put on an exaggerated, awful British accent to mock Bobby's insult to Brad from the video.

GIF 6: Eddie laughing with his nose scrunched up as he tilts his head knowingly at where Hen is holding the video up as proof while Bobby tries to protest.

GIF 7: Eddie holding his hand out as he talks to Bobby, offers a word of advice.

GIF 8: Eddie standing up, looking at Brad offscreen behind Bobby with a stunned expression. He pulls his phone out and sneakily starts recording behind Bobby's back.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.