#Voltron definitely made a stamp on the fandom community and culture as a whole

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Voltron was the biggest influence in the shift from 'FANdom' to 'canon king'. I remember pre-Voltron age, it was WEIRD to even think about sending stuff to creators. Those were for hardcore weirdos, now? It seems like a creator is getting death threats every other day.

They used the voice actors as extra marketing in order to boost fan engagement- and it qas unheard of! Everybody was so exicted that their favorite actors loved the same media as them! It also led to a more pressed shift over canon being 'what the creators say' versus 'what actually explicitly happens in canon'.

Canon harassment and the anti movement both got popularized by Voltron, which, in turned led to the pathowozation of terms like 'pedophile' being used en mass if you shipped the tall one and the short one. It was one of the pillars in the modern internet culture that we have.

Hetalia and Homestuck targeted stupid kids, MCU is DEFINITELY up their with its crime against moviekind, and Supernatural is pretty colloquially bad, but none of them really branched out quite like Voltron's garbage ass fandom did the moment that dumpster fire crashed.

Those are the people sending death threats to creators and Manefestos to make their ship canon. Those are the people who take the voice actors words like gold and harass you if you didn't see the aftershow interview. Those are the people who are doxxing and bullying people for liking '~problematic ships~'. Those are the people who started popularizing "minor coded." Those are the people that would call you a pedophile for shipping two adult characters with a height difference or say it was incest when they were 'like brothers' (even if they weren't related).

That was the show that routinely watered down their characters to 'funny quips' and halfassed the writing so badly it was all over the place. They used wild, out of nowhere plot twists as an attempt to 'hook' readers. They used their voice actors as puppets to garner engagement. They built a foundation on queerbaiting and popularized 'market to the gays' (but don't actually give them what they want).

Those fans are the ones 'cancelling' every kids show with queer rep for being ~secretly problematic~. Those are the fans who then went out and said shit like 'Naruto is queerbaiting' because they kissed (twice). Those were the people demonizing anyone who didn't ship the most popular ships (the death if crackships my beloathed). Those are the people in your fandoms yelling about canon or watering down characters to fit them into gay ships. Those are the people that influenced it all.

(Not all Voltron fans were like that, but) I watched Voltron fans fight with themselves and then I watched them go into different fandoms.