As Bethyl shippers know, Daryl and his traveling companion Beth (Emily Kinney, who also took her own Pop Culture Personality Test back in February) were suddenly split up in episode 13 when Beth was abducted by unseen assailants.
2014, Megan Lieu, "Reaction to the Walking Dead Season 4", The Vanguard (Bentley University), 3 April 2014, page 9:
Also in the flashbacks, the "Bethyl" fans (those who want Beth and Daryl to be together) became disappointed when the realization[sic] that Beth, played by Emily Kinney, would only be in the flashbacks and not in the present.
2014, Laurel Kraus, "Captivation with Imagination", The Flash (Fraser High School, Fraser, Missouri), May 2014, page 13:
For example, the ship name for the characters Beth and Daryl from The Walking Dead is Bethyl.
The same multimodality is applied to discussions and fan interactions. In a post dated April 28, 2016, a TD member reblogged a post addressing Beth's age, a contentious topic in Walking Dead fandom because of the popularity of the Bethyl ship and Beth's early establishment as a teenager (note 4).