There’s this Mary Sue article about how Barb is a shitty slut-shaming friend and it’s one of the biggest reaches possible. Barb was in, what, one or two episodes? And literally all she did was not want to go to a party with jerks. And for that the writer is glad she’s dead?
I still don’t watch Stranger Things, but I’ve learned so much about it from my dash that I might as well – when this article/the general Barb Discourse was going around, I remember thinking “y’know, ‘if you have sex YOU won’t die but your innocent best female friend might’ isn’t really that much of an improvement.”