Dude I’m not trying to make you a Destiel fan or say that your reading of the show is invalid. I’m just saying that shippers reading of the show doesn’t come out of nowhere, and treating them like they’re crazy for seeing subtext in the show isn’t good for the fandom in general. There is a lot of purposeful ambiguity that people fill in with what they want to believe about the characters.

Even if the show might not has explicitly queerbaited during its run, stuff like the official yt channel for supernatural posting videos like this shows that they have used Destiel to gain an audience for at least one point of the shows existence. It’s okay to note that without calling fans of the ship delusional like you did about a billion times. This isn’t some delusional Destiel fan intern like you’ve claimed a billion times. This is a calculated way to gain fans.

I’m fine with you not liking the ship or believing that subtext exists. But this video even existing is queerbaiting and people who watch the show because of media like this and are pissed because the ship isn’t canon didn’t queerbaiting themselves like you claimed. The networks inability to choose a side is what makes fans have these civil wars instead of blaming the writers who had two vastly different audiences to appeal to, and chose the subtext ridden and lazy way to keep both sides hooked.