The ‘Stranger Things’ Creators Address "Byler" Fans Shipping Will & Mike

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The Duffer Brothers have thoughts on Stranger Things fans shipping Will Byers and Mike Wheeler, aka Byler. Will’s crush on Mike became obvious to audiences in Season 4, and by Season 5, it seemed that Mike finally caught onto his best friend’s feelings. As the fifth and final season progressed, some audiences began to hope that Will and Mike would get together. Initially, the show’s creators stayed quiet on the rumors, but now that Stranger Things is over, they have revealed that Byler was never in the cards.

During a Jan. 1 interview with Collider, the Duffer Brothers were asked if they ever were tempted to shut down those fan theories directly. “For us, there’s always noise,” Matt Duffer told the outlet. “But when we sit down to write a season, the goal is — I mean, you have to block it out, and you have to tell the story that you are always intending t...