User blog comment:The Puppeteer King/Why Do People Ship?/@comment-26072045-20150716002644

I don't think it's a "plot" by Disney or anything. Alex said their goal is to create a show that they would personally watch. That means funny things like Pacifica hugging Dipper and then asking if she can pay him to forget about it or Mabel having one of her countless summer romances be with a guy she finds to be so charming who in reality is pretty ridiculous (in a good way).