🦋 vennya | infp | adult | she/they

who am i kidding i've been losing it since fucking march

CAN SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS MATH CALCULATE WHAT THE ODDS ARE OF THIS BEING A COINCIDENCE?

*mickey mouse voice* OH BOY.

like why do i get the weird 4thwall-breaking, mind-bendy vibe that hunter was DIRECTED to sit there can someobyd save me

or maybe he was being cheeky like EHUEHUEEYUE ima sit right here and hope the fans notice bc they so smart

✨ about me

All theories and analyses I make are based on my own personal interpretation, opinion and intuition. I do them for fun. Even if you find any of them curious, please draw your own conclusions! I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything.

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byler

The pairing that got me into the ST fandom, I learned so much through it and definitely felt like bylers helped me up my media literacy and writing skills ❤️ fingers crossed it pays off!

current era > [ #birthdaygate are u real ]

chance you BETTER not fail me brother istg why am i even trustign your suspicio9us ass istg

This baby got me out of artist block fr this is my favorite thing right now ❤️ i have no idea what's going on entirely but SOMETHING'S GOING ON

#birthdaygate🎈 ✦✦ paddington 2's birthday plotline 🎂 ✦✦ rink-o-mania date reinforced 🎁 ✦✦ the nothing 🧿 ✦✦ mike's pov 🗣 ✦✦ imaginary friend 👭 bychance investigation 🕵 ✦✦ on the bychance vs byler civil war 🔫 ✦✦ will/birthdaygate + 001 + chance frequency 💊 { coincidence? } ✦✦ will/birthdaygate + 001 + chance wordplay 🎉 { coincidence? } ✦✦ bychance debate forum 🤼️ ✦✦ debunking bychance round 1 💔 ✦✦ debunking bychance round 2 💔 ✦✦ breakfast table leak 🍽️ ✦✦ billy loomis + stu macher homage ...? 🔪 ✦✦ will + chance as meta concepts? 🤞 ✦✦ bychance puzzle pieces from vol I collection 🧩 ✦✦ in defense of the vol i jocks ( ugh ... ) 👊 ✦✦ bychance puzzle pieces vol II promo 🧩 ✦✦ is that Chance's brother? 👶 ✦✦ serendipity + free will and chance 🍀 ✦✦ last BYCHANCE post 💚 ✦✦ "fortune favors the bold" 🧙‍♂️ meta dives ✦✦ on stranger thing's derivative nature 📝 ✦✦ the duffer's favorite oc? 🌱 ✦✦ dnd & bdsm 🎲 ✦✦ hunter romanillos interview ✅ marketing ✦✦ carebear merch 🐻 ✦✦ the fear street: prom connection 🩸 ✦✦ the wednesday connection 🖤 memes ✦✦ bychance chose me ✦✦ why is he real, bro ✦✦ feeling like a mad scientist ✦✦ day 1 of trying to unsee bychance ✦✦ day 66 of trying to unsee bychance ✦✦ will's 3 boyfriends ✦✦ who is chance? ✦✦ first bychance article ✦✦ what does the ga know ...? ✦✦ 001 was always planned

GUYS!!?? THIS SONG

THE FUCKING TITLE??? AND THE VIBES??? THIS SONG IS SO BYLER CODED THE FUCKING TITLE TOO AND THE SOUND AND THIS SONG WAS NOT IN THE ENTIRE SEASON.

IT FEELS DAMN MAGICAL AND EPIC BUT SOFT AND TENDER LIKE WHAT THE FUCK???? And oh my god I could say so much about this but I'm getting ALL EMOTIONAL because what?????? WHAT???????? AND THE TITLE

SURF THAT TASTY PIE

IT FEELS SO LIKE ... GOING WITH THE FLOW AND WAVES AT YOUR OWN PACE I NEED TO BREATHE????

previous: MAIN DATABASE

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activating: investigator mode ⋆.˚🔎⋆

BYCHANCE is the romantic pairing between Will ❤️ & Chance 🍀 Status as of S4: ✨strangers✨

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*Timeline done from my POV, I might've missed some things and be wrong about others, please keep that in mind as you delve in!

MAY 19TH, 2024 "STRANGER THINGS SCOOP: WILL BYERS WILL HAVE A LOVE INTEREST IN STRANGER THINGS 5"

AFTER MAY 19TH, BEFORE JULY 3RD, 2024 BYCHANCE DISCOVERED/CREATED AS A "JOKE" BY TWITTER USERS NICO AND SENA, WHO WERE PART OF THE LEAKERS GROUP CHAT WHERE THE LEAK ORIGINATED & IT BECAME THE CRACKSHIP WE KNOW TODAY Nico and Sena didn't believe Will would have a new love interest, but in the spirit of fun, they entertained the idea and began to brainstorm about who the potential love interest could be because further iterations of the leak included that the love interest was 'someone we had seen in the show' <- source unconfirmed/deemed unreliable by the users involved & there is still a lot of confusion surrounding this.

They chose Chance out of a list of candidates based on the following criteria: 🎯 He was the most attractive out of the jocks 🎯 He resembled Mike the most 🎯 Will x Chance would fit the tired trope of 'gay kid x closeted jock/bully', which, as far as I'm aware, originated from the TV show Glee. JOCK = David Karovsky, portrayed by Max Adler GAY KID = Kurt Hummel, portrayed by Chris Colfer.

This was Bychance's blueprint.

As outdated as this trope is, other Netflix productions have adapted it in recent years. with certain subversions: Adam x Eric ( from Sex Education ) Ben x Charlie ( from Heartstopper ) Enid x Lucas ( from Wednesday, another Big Netflix Hit ) Lori x Tyler ( from Fear Street: Prom Queen ) Steve x Nancy ( from Stranger Things itself ) You could even argue S4 Lucas x Max fits this trope as well!

& likely others I am missing. Not all of them are queer, but they all follow the same formula:

JOCK x MC ( typically nerd and/or queer ) = NOT ENDGAME

JULY 3RD, 2024 LOVE INTEREST LEAK CONFIRMED, BUT CHANCE DEBUNKED AS THE LOVE INTEREST

source At this point, you could consider Bychance to be 'debunked', however ...

JULY 11TH, 2024 BYCHANCE HINTS DISCOVERED IN THE SHOW - discovered by @cypherheartnokey upon a rewatch of the show and noticing the "weird dialogue thing" the show does. ( absolute mad genius queen )

MARCH 18TH 2025 BYCHANCE FITS THE SHOW'S STRUCTURE / CYCLICAL NATURE - discovered by @ven0moir & others.

APRIL 10TH, 2025 "THE WORLD IS FULL OF OBVIOUS THINGS, WHICH NOBODY BY ANY CHANCE EVER OBSERVES" <- Bychance thesis statement - discovered by @ven0moir & my personal #1 hint.

MAY 11TH - 15TH, 2025 THEORY STRESS-TEST - anons with excellent points, counter-arguments & new clues that have helped refine the theory and have been compiled in the Bychance Files (currently undergoing an update)

APRIL 14th, 2025 THE 'CHANCE + 22 ( +1 )' PATTERN - discovered by @ven0moir after following the apparition of #22 as a breadcrumb for #birthdaygate 🎈 & my personal second hint.

JUNE 8TH, 2025 LEAK ORIGIN According to Minou, a leaker that was also in that leaks community / group chat the love interest leak originated from, the leak itself was first brought up by @ThwipT_

source

I must add that Minou is now considered extremely unreliable.

AUGUST 3RD, 2025 THWIPT_ CONFIRMED

However, I got some confirmation from Sena in DMs that ThwipT_ *was* part of the conversation surrounding the leak. I will not be posting our DMs for privacy reasons, but she confirmed the following:

🎯 ThwipT said that Will's love interest "was NOT Mike" ( this indicates to me that he knew something about it, but did not go into detail ) 🎯 ThwipT did not say who the love interest was and has made no further comment on it.

Assuming ThwipT does know more than they're letting on, the main question to answer here would be:

is ThwipT_ unreliable like Minou said, or are they reliable? Imo, the answer to that is YES based on the following:

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see the date? MARCH 12TH, 2023. This supposed "unreliable leaker" had insider info on the VOL SPLIT as EARLY as the START of 2023 AND HE. WAS. RIGHT.

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WORKING HYPOTHESIS AS OF SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2025:

Regardless of who was the first person to bring it up, the "Will has a love interest" leak was intentionally released by production to get the ball rolling and the fandom talking about it. They were HOPING Bychance would emerge in the fandom, but there was no GUARANTEE . To what extent or to what end? Uncertain yet.

Here are my reasons for believing this:

#1. Stranger Thing's derivative nature.

The Duffers bank on the familiarity we have with the tropes they use so we as the audience make subconscious connections. re: Nico and Sena were decently strategic when selecting Chance as Will's "fake love interest"--it wasn't something they "made up" entirely at random, like the fandom believes.

#2. This happens in the industry, and it IS, realistically, within the vast realm of possibilities.

source #3. The show itself might've hinted at a 'CHANCE LEAK' through the "weird dialogue thing" that got cypher down the bychance rabbit hole in the first place.

#4. The weird "fairytale/dream logic" the clues follow, which also gives me "marketing" vibes + is potentially connected to #birthdaygate🎈.

But, as I always like to remind, draw your own conclusions.

this report is subject to evolve, change, and become something else entirely as time goes by and new information is brought to our attention!