Basically, yeah. [ that's literally it rupert, that's 50% of why everyone gets so mad. ] They'll milk it for as long as they can to get more people invested, so they get more money, and then - yoink, out goes the rug from under everyone's feet.

[ ... but that gets a dry snort from him. ]

That's the other half of why people hate queerbaiting. So many other cultures aren't big on the accpetance and tolerance thing, either, so the representation matters. But where I'm from, people haven't been big on it for a while. Especially since our country's birth rates are declining for other reasons.