#gaybaiting

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #gaybaiting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
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Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
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Recent posts
Mastodon
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Recent pace
Mastodon · last 4
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Mastodon · last 4
Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-08-12 04:22 UTC
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0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-08-12 04:22 UTC

Live pulse

measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-12 04:22 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 4 public posts (spanning ~15550 hours).

Top of the latest posts

  • Relax cervecero #gaymastodon #gaybaiting

    Antonio Heras 🌈@[email protected]002024-09-05 13:08 UTCView post →
  • @Free_Press Over the top. The SCOTUS is so obviously a political organization rather than an impartial council of jurisprudence. These most recent cases are custom-built cases with mythical parties to the case. Both the plaintiff and the de

    MuckrakingMadness@[email protected]002023-07-06 02:49 UTCView post →
  • Why #Evangelicals Hate #LGBTQ #people As Evangelicals became #politicized, and got a #taste of #state #power, they also discovered #gaybaiting was an effective tool. A visible #enemy is always an efficient means of #rallyingthetroops. #Wome

    Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈@[email protected]012023-05-11 18:18 UTCView post →

What “gaybaiting” means

Wikipedia

"Queerbaiting" is a term used to describe certain creative and marketing practices that seemingly hint at, but do not depict, same-sex romance or other LGBTQ+ representation. A variety of scholars, cultural critics and fans have claimed that these practices are intended to attract ("bait") a queer or straight ally audience with the suggestion or possibility of queer relationships and/or queer characters, while not alienating homophobic members of the audience or censors by explicitly portraying

Queerbaiting” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#gaybaiting across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #gaybaiting straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/gaybaiting