Stranger Things is currently in its final season, with Netflix releasing three additional episodes on December 25, 2025. The three episodes have drawn considerable disappointment from fans for multiple reasons. The disappointment has now culminated in the belief that the final season was cut short, leading to calls for Netflix to release the extended cut version of the show.As part of the call for Netflix to release the extended or uncut version of the final season, a petition was launched on Change.org website, which has now garnered over two hundred eighty thousand views. The petition urges netizens to take action by signing it, trending a hashtag, and creating videos to draw the attention of Netflix and the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers. The petition reads:"We want the unseen footage of stranger things. I believe it was more to the episodes and we didn’t see them either due to Netflix or the team of stranger things cutting them. This has been a long 10 years process and this is what we get. They must have cut out a lot of scenes from volume 2 and from our loved characters."The petition continues:"I believe we as fans should stand up and take the initiative to get the footage and make the decision. We should sign this petition, trend hashtag, and make videos together to get Netflix and the duffer brothers to notice us. WE WANT ANSWERS!! It’s important because we waited so long for this season."The petition ends on the note that fans should have a say in the matter of the series' departure and points out that clues from interviews by actors and the episodes actually released do not match.The response to the petition has been overwhelming. Alongside the two hundred thousand views, netizens have also responded by attempting to trend a hashtag trending, taking to X as well as other social media to make #netflixreleasethevolume2files trend.Posts using the hastag are being used to provide updates to the Change.org petition as well as provide the background clues that have led to this call for the release of the uncut season, including a Google Docs document that details the clues and reasons that suggests that Season Five's episodes were cut short. The hastag has been trending for over a day, with netizens making posts reaching millions of views and new posts being made with the hastag every few seconds.More on the clues gathered by netizens that suggest Stranger Things Season 5 was cut shortIn the Google Docs document mentioned above, netizens have compiled clues and reasoning supporting their belief that the final season of Stranger Things was cut short.The Docs point out the discrepancy between how characters react and how a particular scene plays out in the final season of Stranger Things, with one point pointing out that the reunion between Max and Eleven was not portrayed in a way that supports the plot that they were meeting for the first time in years.caly 🍓 st spoilers @wilIeIsLINKoh my god things are making so much more sense now #netflixreleasethevolume2filesSimilarly, the document also quotes on an unnamed reliable source on the point that the Vecna arc of the show was cut short and points to the fact that the actor playing Vecna, Jamie Campbell Bower, had stated in an interview that he had to go to therapy to deal with how dark the Vecna scenes were, something which netizens allege is not shown in the season.The document also suggests that the character Will Byers' trauma was downplayed in the released version of the show, similarly pointing to an interview with Noah Schnapp, who plays the role of Will, among many other clues.