Why is Sterek?

In 2011, MTV's Teen Wolf introduced the characters Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale, birthing-- ostensibly unintentionally-- a gay shipping phenomenon: Sterek. Over the following 12 years, a tempestuous saga would unfold, complete with age gap discourse, semi-debateable queerbait, and complicated feelings about that jeep. In this video, I pose a few hypotheses as to how and why this awkward, unassuming relationship between a teenage comic relief character and his weird adult man acquaintance snowballed into one of the most popular ships of the 21st century.

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00:00 - Intro/What is Sterek
06:13 - The age gap (womp womp)
14:27 - Canon
23:02 - Destielgate tangent
27:00 - Sterek and The Powers That Be
37:34 - The inevitability of Sterek

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