excuse me have you ever explaned why you hate losercake
buckle up because this is gonna be a long response.
cake is one of, if not my favorite bfdi character, and he has been for a very long time. i saw a lot of myself in him and eventually started looking deeper into the details of his personality, his actions and his general character, and i realized, loser did not leave a positive impact on him in any way whatsoever.
let me explain.
at the start of bfb, everyone loves loser. cake included, obviously. cake ends up 'lucky' enough to be in a team with him, a team where everything everyone did always revolved around loser. loser was the 'driving force' behind his team, just to receive all the praise and love from his adoring fans. this, however, is as far as he would go in terms of forming bonds with his team.
at least, that was the case with everyone except for cake.
we know from an episode in bfb B that he wanted to keep that praise from his fans, and to have them never question his judgement or plans.
to keep his fans' trust and devotion towards him, he'd need to constantly present as likeable and friendly, and an easy way to do that is by forming a slightly deeper yet still extremely superficial relationship with one of his adoring fans, in this case, cake. that's when the nudging started. the nudging loser always did to cake whenever it was cake at stake. and of course cake was at first ecstatic to be noticed by his idol ! however, i believe cake was uncomfortable in regards to the joke being made.
you see, when leafy rejoins and gifts needle the 3d cake, you can see cake distraught at the sight of needle eating it, making it safe to assume cake heavily dislikes the visual or idea of cake being eaten, even if it's not sentient like he is. look at this screenshot from the sceen where he sees needle eat the cake
that is not the face of someone who's comfortable with jokes about his object being eaten
but he could never reveal that he was uncomfortable with a form of affection THE loser was giving him. not only would he look bad in front of his idol, but his team was so loser-centric that the slightest criticism would make them violent [for example, in bfb 1 when pin points out they should do the challenge instead of gushing about loser she THROWN INTO THE AIR BY FIREY]. so of course, he played along
and so, this continued on for the next few cake at stakes in bfb A. four or x would mention the safe contestants would get cake, loser nudged cake, cake blushed and gasped. and cake started to lean into the "loser's favorite" bit [take, for example, bfb 6 where he leans into loser after hearing bell bash into the basket they were hiding in], because he was trying to make sure even he believed that the shallow affection loser gave him held some sort of significance, and that pushing his own comfort away for the sake of looking good in front of loser [who was not only his idol, but an important figure amidst all the contestants] and his team was the right call.
but then came bfb 7, and loser was both hated and eliminated. so many people started revolting against him, surely cake can finally let that sealed-up frustration out right ? and so he shouts, "he's gone for a reason". what is he met with?
hostility.
cake, in an attempt to show his true feelings about loser, was immediately pushed down and reproached for it. so he continued to hold it in and when met with hostility, one is hostile in return, and so he starts expressing his frustration in some other ways. take bfb 13 for example, he starts arguing very loudly with eggy about who's "more spiritually connected to loser", which is a very abrupt and confusing shift from his usual polite, gentle self.
WHICH. THAT ARGUMENT BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER POINT. since he was "loser's designated favorite", someone claiming they were closer to loser probably felt so Wrong to him. HE was the one who kept getting nudged. HE was the one loser always addressed. HE was loser's favorite, even if he didn't particularly want that role. he kept up the act of "loser's favorite" long after his elimination, because what else was he supposed to do. that's all he was.
so, during the time between loser's elimination and the beginning of tpot, cake was more aggressive and rude, because it was his only method of releasing the frustration he was feeling. it was mainly towards loser and the general situation, but one could argue part of that frustration could've been towards himself.
anyways, we skip forwards to tpot. cake, despite his anger, still cares about his friendships, which is why in tpot 1, he's disheartened at the sight of having to choose between clock or eggy, two of his friends, and then being completely deserted by eggy.
however, he eventually joins just not, and you can see throughout his time in tpot prior to his elimination, he is visibly much happier than when he was part of the losers. i invite you to look up the "bfb but only when cake is on screen" and "tpot but only when cake is on screen" videos, and you WILL notice the increase in positive cake reactions and dialogues in tpot.
for my final argument, i present his elimination speech. i present to you the full transcript of his final words as a contestant in tpot 8:
he SPECIFICALLY mentions how he was so happy to not be playing for loser, but for himself. he was finally having fun, with a team that he loved and was loved by. if he truly enjoyed loser's presence and attention, if he truly enjoyed being his "favorite", he wouldn't have mentioned this at all.
so yeah. cake doesn't like loser, loser doesn't care about cake. if you dont agree with any of this and STILL think losercake is a good ship then please just block me. don't try to convince me to like losercake because i am not budging from my stance. as i stated before, i see a lot of myself in cake, and maybe this is all self-indulgent and projection and whatever, but it's how i see his character. and it makes me really sad that people call him bland or only see him as "loser's favorite" because he's so much more than that. i could go more in depth about his general character, but i was merely asked to explain why i dislike losercake. so here you go ! this is my reasoning. do with this what you will.
tldr; cake did not like being loser's 'favorite' and merely played along with loser's attention to not look bad in front of his idol and his fellow contestants. he was one of the contestants that talked bad about loser after his elimination in bfb 7, and pointed out how he was happy to play away from him in tpot 8. the fight cake had with eggy in bfb 13 about who was "more spiritually connected to loser" was his way of releasing his frustration, as he was reproached for speaking ill of loser back in bfb 7. he is not bland or one-dimensional, you just probably didnt pay enough attention to detail.
