In a video clip on Tiktok mimes the 18-year-old actor to a voice saying something like “that was never very dangerous” – while writing:
“When I finally told my friends and family that I was gay, after being in the closet for 18 years, and all they said was ‘we know'”.
The post has received 6.5 million likes and nearly 300,000 comments.
The retro supernatural drama “Stranger things” premiered in 2016 and entered its fourth season this spring. According to Netflix, the upcoming fifth season will be the last.