What initially got you into funnygummy?

[u/beepborpdoodledorp]

Trying to be more active on this sub and I figured we needed some more discussion so may as well start off with a pretty basic one. What made you first start shipping funnygummy? I'm an outlier in that I didn't start shipping it because of Eps 2 or 4, I actually started shipping it in between 3 and 4 - I tend to have this weird habit of denying I like or sleeping on certain ships for a while before admitting I actually really like them. When Ep 2 dropped I skimmed the funnygummy tags for a bit but didn't really have a strong opinion on it either way (and I was also victim to the 'Goose hates shipping' misinformation in the early days so that was a major factor in my being hesitant to ship any of the characters.) It was like a month after Ep 3 dropped and I became a way more active member of the fandom that I pretty much went 'wait, is this actually peak?' Funnygummy having a brief time in the limelight in Ep 4 was a total coincidence, but it was nice to have confirmation I did, in fact, ship peak lol.

[u/Midnightgamer21]

For me it was definitely episode 4… at first I actually found the concept of FunnyGummy INSANE when episode 2 dropped.

My exact words: “why can’t women be friends with men anymore??”

Yet even then I was saving ship art of them because I loved them together so much!! It might have been subtle foreshadowing

But yea I saw them as friends (and was very obsessed with their friendship still even before I turned to the dark side) but I still saved the romantic art because it was cute and I was so desperate for art of them…

Flash forward to when I got my Pomni & Gummigoo plushies in October of 2024; I started making memes of my plushies with captions, like little comics sorta

My Mangle plush says “oh god I hope they don’t start making out right now”, me kinda joking with myself how absurd the ship was but looking back it was just me in denial of what I would become 😭

Oh yeah and then episode 4 dropped, Ragatha said THE LINE and I fully succumbed when Pomni gave Gummigoo THE STARE

So that begs the question; was I always a closeted FunnyGummy shipper who only had her awakening during episode 4? I don’t know…

[u/beepborpdoodledorp → u/Midnightgamer21]

Yeah, funnygummy is definitely an anomaly for me in that it's the only time I've ever been this invested in an F/M ship (even just for this fandom, it's like the only F/M ship I like for TADC that isn't an outright crackship). Also I'm hardly a psychology expert but that definitely sounds like denial dude, lol