D*uffers: What is this??? you're like counting the days now like we didn't give you a good enough finale already?

Conformitygate truthers: When. is. episode. nine. On day 33? On day 68? On day-?

D*ffers: I DON'T KNOW!

Episode 7, just before the opening credits:

Episode 8, also just before the opening credits:

He LITERALLY "came out wrong". 

Remember how Robin said she wanted to double her audience? Walk with me here. 

CONTEXT

ORDER OF EVENTS: Part 1 (Mike the storyteller), Part 3 (12 Episodes), Part 4 (MWTFDYD), Part 9 (Wheeler attack -> Mike's kidnapping), Part 11 (Mr Whatsit = Will) SCENE ANALYSIS: Part 2 (Will/Robin), Part 5 (Rainbows), Part 6 (The roof talk), Part 7 ("Where's Dustin right now?"), Part 8 (El is missing), Part 10 (Byler's missed date), Part 12 (Byler saw Rovickie kiss), Part 13 (Will's painting)

My conformitygate theory is that Mike is stuck in his own version of Camazotz (the Rightside Up). After Season 4, the gang prepared for a big battle with Vecna. Mike was kidnapped during that battle, on the anniversary of Will's disappearance: November 6th 1986. Every important plot point from Ep 1-8 was an edited version of Mike’s memories from that timeframe. Vecna just changed the order, characters or context to suit his own narrative and keep Mike trapped in the Rightside Up, believing he'd won. Episodes 1-8 were an illusion, but they were real, too. We will flash back to what really happened in Episode 9. The resulting plot will be a reverse of the current episode descriptions; a reordered, recontextualised version of the same story – where Mike's escape from the Rightside Up is crucial.

Now, let’s talk about Robin and Will.

ROCKIN' ROBIN AND HER AUDIENCE

During preparation for the November 6th battle, Robin and Will had the talk from Shock Jock, where they both inspired each other to come out. Will wanted to start small, and Robin wanted to go BIG AS HELL. 

Remember how she said she wanted to double her audience? Well, she quadrupled it – there were 12 people there! Nice one, Robin!

Now, the first time I heard Will’s speech, it sounded a little odd to me. Not necessarily bad, but like it was written for a different character. He kept rambling on and on about stuff that really didn't matter. Will does not do that. He is KNOWN for being "always quiet", so quiet that only Mike notices when he's more quiet than usual.

But you know who is FAMOUS for rambling? So much so that her current job is to talk, talk, talk? ROCKIN' ROBIN!

Right before the big November 6th battle, she got everyone together. Sure, it was slightly inconvenient timing… but it makes sense for Robin, who is impulsive and doesn’t do social cues.

Oh yeah, and it’s the end of the world – cut her some slack! :P

That one, random snack scene from Shock Jock happens right before this one, which is why she rambles about Pop Rocks or whatever. Then, instead of saying “I don’t like girls”, she says “I like girls”. Instead of “he was just my Tammy”, Robin explains her Tammy story – exactly how she explained it to Will in The Turnbow Trap. Robin gets her audience, Will gets his moment with Rockin’ Robin (haha), and her words are still what inspire him to unlock his powers before Mike's disappearance.

COPY + PASTE: VECNA'S INFLUENCE

Vecna took Robin’s scene, slapped Will onto it, and assumed Mike wouldn’t notice.

That’s why he was wearing orange, rambled on for so long, didn’t say “gay”, mentioned "Tammy", mentioned “Melvald’s milkshakes”, and was in such clear distress. Vecna had to edit way too much to make Robin's scene work for Will. He got sloppy, and the scene got weird. He left too much of his influence on it.

let me ask you simply, do you know what the word “comform” means? Are you sure? Here’s the dictionary definition:

Comformity gate was built off of the idea that Micheal Wheeler is stuck in a mindscape of his own or Henry’s and is living out a false reality whilst CONFORMING to HETERONORMATIVE society.

I completely understand that the theory has gone mainstream. I am glad that it has gained so much traction. What infuriates me is that everyone in the GA is straight washing this theory that has its roots in the queer community. That is unacceptable and incredibly disrespectful. That’s like if Will came out to that entire room full of people and then they spat on him. Honestly, if you didn’t know that it was originally (and still technically is) a byler fan theory, that’s totally okay. Ignorance is something that exists and you can’t necessarily blame anyone for being ignorant, per say. HOWEVER, the people who do know where this theory originated from and choose to contort it anyway need to either shut the fuck up or grow the fuck up. Gay people exist, a lot of us are goddamn smart, and we deserve as much recognition and respect as any other group of people.

Transcription of the ST S4 Inspiration Whiteboard to make it more readable. I tried to keep everything in a similar vicinity to where it is on the whiteboard, but towards the center I just started squishing things in where they fit. Also, I might have made some mistakes with the color-coding.

Red Text = crossed out on the board ??? = I couldn't read the text Title(?) = I could read some of the text and made an educated guess of what the title could be, but I could be wrong 2 = the title was on the board twice

Ocean's 11+12 are written together on the board, Ocean's 8 is written separately

LOTR Trilogy is on the board, but LOTR Two Towers is also written on the board separately.

Have fun with this conformitygate theorists!

EDITS: thank you @warren-j for identifying one of the ??? as "The Cider House Rules" and "Star Wars: Jedi/Empire" the transcription has been updated to fix a few of the titles I got wrong!

below is the titles I couldn't make out. I'm 90% sure that the top left is "Final Destination" (which I did put on the transcription), I think middle right could be "Skyfall", and middle left the top line looks like it could be "F+F Tokyo Drift" (aka: "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift") but I can't read the second line.