The actor drew criticism in November after video surfaced of him seated inside a restaurant alongside friends holding stickers that read “Zionism is Sexy” and “Hamas is ISIS.”
Because he is a child, a douche, and has money and attention. The only reason we even know who he was is because he was the worst actor in popular TV show with a good first season.
I wish they would have made the thing an anthology. Each season with new kids and a different town with a different high concept conspiracy thing. They are actually making their world smaller by drilling down and explaining the upside down. It's called stranger things plural, not that one strange thing.