I will never understand homophobic people who are ACTIVELY in OPENLY lgbtq+ fandoms. Like The owl house for example- but thatâs not the fandom Iâm talking about.
A pretty dead fandom (except for a few exceptions) is the Little Club fandom. Itâs a fandom about these minecraft youtubers who created characters and made overlapping storylines with each other, as well as solo stories, and was more popular about ten years ago (being most popular most in like 2015-2018) and even then, it had OPENLY queer themes and characters, and spoke about everything in a positive light. And even if characters werenât stated to them themselves being queer, the members and characters openly stated to be supportive of lgbtq+ people multiple times.
Just to name some openly queer themes that are openly in tlc. (I should clarify that there are probably moments I wonât clarify or donât know about. I only really watched stuff Little Carly, Little Kelly, Little Donny, Little Leo, Raven, and Baby Leah were in. I didnât watch every member of TLC. These moments I know of are mostly from the perspective of the members above, or from the love island series.):
1. Queen Sophie (Carly and Kellyâs mum) is CANONICALLY into girls. This is stated in a video title, and in a video aa she goes out with a girl, and Kelly states in a different video that Sophie goes out with multiple WOMEN. This isnât a debate, it is literally canon.
2. Raven (Carly and Kellyâs half-brother) is implied multiple times to like guys. The way he acts with guys, and especially Leo. Heâs flirted with Leo, and even has said things like he wanted to kiss him multiple times. (Definitely a âyou just want my sisterâ situation unfortunately đ) And Carly has even said multiple times that Raven DOES like guys. And even sometimes talks about how obvious his crush on Leo is. (âIs he actually going on a date with my boyfriend?â)
3. Carly herself is implied to be bi or pan. Sheâs most known for her relationships with Scuba Steve and Leo, but her relationship with women isnât exactly subtle either. Sheâs openly flirted with characters like Little Ally, and other girls , kissed girls, and even has a video titled âLittle Carly gets a girlfriend!â. That video ended up being a misunderstanding, and Carly doesnât actually get a girlfriend in that video, but Carly does state how she wasnât upset at all about the fact the girl was a girl, but more that she was upset she was lied to. Carly was also (from what Iâve seen) always the biggest lgbtq+ supporter in videos. Every time lgbtq+ themes were brought up in videos, she would always say something like: âitâs 2017, why is this still such a problem?â And just be openly supportive.
4. Little Kelly also has multiple implications of liking women, but way more subtle and in a way that might be accidental. She has also openly flirted with women, and even told a girl that if she was a guy she would date her.
5. Little Donny has openly done âkiss chasingâ games with guys, and is stated to have had feelings for Reuben in the love island series.
6. Donut has also done kiss chasing games with guys, and openly flirts with his guy friends as well.
7. Ropo and Scuba Steve (love island) are literally always together, and Steve outright referred to Ropo as âhunnyâ.
8. Little Ally, AGAIN HAS CANONICALLY FLIRTED WITH AND KISSED GIRLS IN SOME WAY.
The next things Iâm going to mention are more headcanons in the fandom, but have some serious backing to them as well.
1. Naomi likes girls, or at least one girl. Naomi is a bad person in the series that she appears in.. obviously written in a way where weâre not supposed to like her, but it is also obvious in the way sheâs written that she likes Carly in ways beyond what weâre told.
2. King Tom (Carly and Kellyâs dad). While weâre not outright shown if he likes guys, thereâs implications that his relationship with the detective goes beyond just a âworkâ relationship. And Kelly and Carly have also stated how they think Tom might like guys and get a boyfriend before.
3. Little Carrie âEvil littleCarlyâ (Carly and Kellyâs sister) Lithromantic and/of cupioromantic implications. Lithromantic is an identity described where someone feels romantic attraction, but they donât want it reciprocated, as the second those feelings are reciprocated the feelings vanish. Cupioromantic is described where someone doesnât feel romantic attraction, but has a desire for a romantic relationship. There is a whole video about this with Carrie, where she is preparing for a date, but as soon as the guy starts showing interest in her she suddenly just doesnât like him anymore. She also states in the video about how it wasnât fair how Kelly and Carly got to have relationships while she didnât. It is m implied that she does want some kind of romantic relationship, but just doesnât get it. (This one admittedly might be a stretch, but itâs still something believed)
Thereâs probably other implied and canon lgbtq+ themes in The Little club- but this is just a long ended way of saying that the fact there are people who hate on queer themes in edits/drawings done by the people still in the TLC fandom clearly didnât pay attention to things said or shown in the videos. You canât say the fandom âruinedâ your childhood when weâre literally just going off themes shown IN the videos.