I hate to be the one to stick my nose where it doesn't belong, but if your name's Marissa, I just walked by your friends, and I need to tell you that the weekend you're away is not the only time that they could do their birthday party. Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher. And I'm Daniel Schrader, and you're listening to I see why am I. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.

If you're thinking that doesn't sound like Rachel, you're correct.

We have our lovely producer, Daniel, back with us today as Rachel is on vacation.

RIP Rachel, so happy to be here.

Hey!

I'm excited to be back on the show.

Well, first up today, we simply have to talk about Billy Elish accused of queer baiting on Instagram.

Oh, brother.

So queer baiting, if you don't know what it is, is when a straight person, straight celebrity basically engages in, like, queer theater to

garner fans, garner attention. So it's like, it's like thirst trapping except gayer.

Billy Eilish, teenage musical icon, who I'm pretty sure controls the weather, posted a photo

of herself with a bunch of other women over the weekend, and the caption was just,

I love girls.

Wow.

What a non-ambiguous statement of her clear-cut romantic adoration of the same sex.

I just, while Nick Jonas walks this earth, that is not queer baiting.

Don't even get me started on Nick Jonas. I can't. I can't. I won't get you started on

Nick Jonas, but in case you're not familiar with his work, do you want to describe his

screen queen's character? Oh, yes. His scream queen's character was a gay bro who was in love

with his frat brother, but then it turns out like much later in the season, twist, he's not actually

gay and he was pretending to be gay. And it was a whole thing and just

really frustrating and disappointing, but like unsurprisingly very Ryan Murphy. So

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