The act of falsely pretending or promoting to be gay as a form of attention seeking.
Sasha: “Was Kelly being for real when she said she hu with that girl last week?”
Peyton: “Nah, she was just queerbaiting.”
The worst kind of sin. Loved by most tv shows writers and directors. Really just a way to have lots of fans, that they don't care about.
-I'm tired of all this queerbaiting!
+Me too! Dean and Cas deserved better gosh.
harry styles, harry styles is queerbaiting
person 1: do you like harry styles?
person 2: no, he's literally queerbaiting
Being a heterosexual female and donning flannel shirts.
Riley J Dennis: Straight girls wearing flannel is queerbaiting.
1. A marketing technique used to attract queer viewers that involves creating romantic or sexual tension between two same-sex characters but never making it canon or evolving on it
2. when straight men or women pretend to be gay and flirt with people of the same sex as a joke
1. "There is a lot of queerbaiting in shows like Sherlock and Voltron."
2. "I got queerbaited by someone and it really hurt my feelings."
Lena and kara from supergirl are in love but the writers refuse to make it canon while making them gayer every season so it's queerbaiting