remember when karen purposefully initiated a conversation about will's disappearance with mike and told him "i want you to feel like you can talk to me" and mike's stunned silence after she said that and the thudding sound coming from his closet because he locked el in there?
remember when ted helped mike tie his tie for will's "funeral" and mike said "dad, it hurts" and ted responded by saying "it's supposed to be a little tight", ignoring mike's complaints?
remember when el kissed mike in front of an open closet door and told him that she loved him and he didn't kiss back or melt into the kiss or anything, just stood there looking perplexed?
remember the one way sign pointing directly at the closet in mike's room in season four?
remember when mike misinterpreted what will was upset about during their rink-o-mania fight and thought that will was insinuating that they weren't platonic, but when will responded to him saying "we're friends, we're friends!" with "well, we used to be best friends!" mike fell silent and "in the closet (at rink-o-mania" started playing?
remember when mike wore a whole camouflage outfit during will's coming out scene and the byler tower scene even though nobody else did because their surrounding didn't warrant for it?
remember when steve was drugged and called mike by nancy's name, 'nancy' being a gay slur (i'm aware that this scene was improvised by joe keery), and then in s4 angela called him a 'twig', which is also a gay slur...? yeahhh
remember when ted said "our son with a girl?"...?
remember when mike knew the term 'come out' even though stranger things is set in the 80s?
remember the buff dragon poster?
remember when mike was the one who took the brunt of the homophobic bullying directed at will while will was still missing in season one?
remember the gazillion times mike's eyes visibly lingered at will's lips and that one time he looked straight at his ass and bit his fucking lip ??? the triple take in the desert ??????mm?
remember the multiple scenes in which mike was seen with those "donate blood" posters in the background? the ones connected to aids???
remember when the one clothing item mike wore for a majority of season four, the same season in which robin wore clothes which had triangles on them to symbolise her queerness (and this is literally confirmed by the costume designers, by the way), was a jacket with a huge ass triangle pocket on the front which pointed at will in pretty much all of their scenes together??
remember "el? sorry, not interested" ??? Mn????
remember "joyce's telemarketer job. their phone line is always busy, mike won't stop whining about it", meanwhile in mike and el's last scene together in season three in which their infamous one-sided kiss took place they literally specified that they would be communicating via letters because talking on the phone was too risky??
remember when mike looked horrified at the sight of lingerie in the mall in season three?? remember "o not that"? ?? remember that???
may the duffer brothers genuinely burn in hell
