The Stranger Things season 5 finale ended the hit Netflix show on a seriously emotional note, with the party gathering to play D&D one final time in a poignant mirror of the show's first scene.

Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ official Instagram bio now reads “ALL EPISODES OF STRANGER THINGS ARE NOW PLAYING,” quashing fan rumours about a secret Episode 9 following the Conformity Gate theory around the series finale.

The 'Bylers' and 'Milevens' believe a new secret ending for 'Stranger Things' is happening. They need to give up the ghost.

Either Stranger Things fans are suffering from a mass, finale trauma-induced shared psychosis around the word “conformitygate,” or Netflix and the Duffer Brothers are soon to be responsible for one of the most genius IP marketing psyops in the history of entertainment media. Either way, we’re all in it together now!

The next three episodes of "Stranger Things" Season 5 premiere on Netflix Dec. 25. Here's what time to tune in.

Sadie Sink revealed why she was accidentally "really tan" in 'Stranger Things' season 2 when her character Max Mayfield debuted on the Netflix hit show in when the actress was 14 years old.

"Stranger Things" ended with a ratings splash, with its finale catapulting Season 5 to become Netflix's 9th most English-language series ever.

So instead, upon seeing that Ted is alive and well, one only has to assume that his grief was entirely focused on Eleven, which then allows for his optimistic outlook to have peak impact. If he'd been too much of an emotional wreck during graduation day, it might have made his D&D-tethered theory sound far more desperate and nutty than idealistic.

Noah Schnapp tells PEOPLE that he felt there was "a little bit left unsaid" after Will came out as gay, so he asked the series creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, to add a scene to the 'Stranger Things' finale to "close that story properly.

The "Stranger Things" fans are not handling the end of the series well - and now some are convinced a secret ninth episode is days away from dropping. On New Year's Eve, "Stranger Things" came to an end with Vecna being bested by Team Hawkins,

It seems like only yesterday the first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5 arrived on Netflix, and yet we’ve somehow already reached the end of the road.