Meaning & use
Queerbait
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To attract an audience by hinting at a same-sex romantic relationship between characters without ever confirming or depicting it.
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Fans accused the show's writers of continuing to queerbait viewers season after season.
The studio denied that the marketing was designed to queerbait its LGBTQ audience.
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A term that emerged from fan and media criticism in the 2010s, describing a marketing or storytelling tactic in television and film.
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