Disclosure: I started writing this blog post on Saturday, January 3, 2026, and so much has happened since then. The Stranger Things ending has become such a telling online social experiment. (I have to clarify that it's "online" because none of the conversations I've had with people in real life about this ending contained the amount of vitriol and disappointment that I've been seeing in online discourse). I really believe that we as a society are becoming way too uncomforta