They got lucky in more ways than one

the general audience and milevens eating up #conformitygate when it was originally about byler and how mike just ended up as a repressed homosexual 😭 why are they ignoring the crucial aspect of the secret episode theory that is mike being vecna'd because he's gay and TRYING TO CONFORM?!?!

every time a ga writes it "Conformity Gate" instead of "conformitygate" a byler loses their wings

they don’t know conformitygate hinges on mike being a closeted homosexual… like that’s a fundamental part of the theory you can’t separate them

if mike is really their self insert then lmaooo he went from two bad bitches pining for him to crying alone in his crusty basement

mike wheeler is genuinely such a tragic character to me. imagine you got raised in a picture perfect conservative family in the 80’s, and the last thing you ever wanted was to end up like your dad—doomed to conform and bend over backwards to society’s standards and you meet someone your age, and they come from a polar opposite family than you but somehow they just get you. and over the years you built this special friendship with them, and it’s not like the rest of your friendships, he’s special to you in a way you don’t understand and can’t even explain but something in you tells you it’s wrong even though you don’t get it, but that’s okay because you guys will always be friends, right? except he goes missing and your entire life flips around, and there’s a girl who likes you and you’re a boy and you like her too so this must be romance, the right kind of romance. except it doesn’t work and you can’t say i love you because something is stuck in your throat and you just can’t say it and you don’t know how to deal with your own trapped emotions so you push them aside because you’re supposed to be a man, and the next thing you know your girlfriend is dead and you couldn’t even tell her the words she so desperately wanted to hear before her death and that guilt follows you anywhere and you have to believe she’s alive because if not you’re the reason why she couldn’t get any closure before her death but you still know that if you could relive that moment the words still wouldn’t come out and it’s graduation day and your friends want to go to a party but you want to feel the comfort of not having to change because a party means leaving your childhood behind and moving on and you still can’t do that so you play in your basement but now the campaign is over and everyone is leaving and you’re left alone again and the words are still stuck in your throat and your best friend binder is right next to yours like some cruel mockery of the life you could have had if you weren’t so scared all the time and now you’re stuck to live a life you never wanted, conforming to society because that’s the only thing you know how to do well and you change your hair and you look at the mirror and your dad is staring at you and your passion for writing is just now a form of escapism from the locked box you are forever trapped in.