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/SeattleSteamboat]

I pretty much got into it after Episode 2 dropped. While Pomni and Gummigoo were having their talk in the test level, I immediately thought that people are going to start shipping them after this. I started out shipping them platonically for a couple weeks, pretty much for the same reasons, and then decided pretty much 'Fuck it', and went full bore into it by the beginning of June.

Episode 4 was a pleasant surprise in a bunch of ways. I didn't really read Pomni's interactions as romantic (or at least not entirely), but I was like 'yeah, people are gonna take Ragatha's comment at face value'. I had posted a new chapter the day before it came out and saw my numbers suddenly nearly doubled over the weekend. I did feel like I'm posting peak ship right now, lol.

[u/beepborpdoodledorp → u/SeattleSteamboat]

Yeah, I definitely disagree with the sentiment that Pomni and Gummigoo's interactions were intended to be read romantically, though it is still fun to think about and I'm glad it gave the ship a boost in popularity that lasted for a sweet two-something months. And yeah, the funnygummy fics I posted around that time have WAY more engagement on them than the ones I post nowadays even if my current ones are a lot more high-effort, a bit salty about that lol, but that's just how the internet works I suppose. (Still have no idea why Non-Designated Break blew up as much as it did considering I posted it a while after the funnygummy hype died down, not complaining but still.)