reasons you should not watch voltron or support the showrunners:

(feel free to add on, dumb comments will be blocked)

- mistreating the characters of color by a variety of means physically

- queerbaiting: mlm relationship (adam/shiro) only for one of the men to be killed for no reason other than shock value, and the relationship never being explicit in the first place

- queerbaiting: mlm relationship (keith/lance) by tagging videos with klance and using them in thumbnails to get views

- using female characters as plot devices (romelle, krolia) just to throw them away

- portraying the “crazy homicidal lesbian” trope, killing both characters off anyway (ezor, zethrid)

- forcing a black coded female character (allura) to throw away her entire connection to her decimated home and royal lineage for a hetero relationship

- having above mentioned character fall in love with someone who committed mass genocide (lotor) and thus breaking her heart

- using a larger character who’s also a character of color primarily for food jokes for the majority of the show (hunk)

- redeeming one of the villains who coincidentally has a hetero love interest while the lesbians were killed off (acxa)

- torturing and killing a disabled, asian, gay character (shiro) and only reviving him for toy sales despite saying that “they can’t just go back and change the story line” when asked about other issues

- having a character of color be mocked and laughed at for being in love only for him to be crushed that she’s in love with someone else (lance, allura)

- reducing above character to a rebound in a hetero relationship with someone who had no interest in him for six seasons; a huge disservice to both of them

- giving the majority of the show’s character arcs to the two white characters and essentially ignoring the others unless it’s to hurt them (pidge, keith)

- dedicating an entire episode that was seemingly supposed to be fun and lighthearted at first to mocking and calling a character of color dumb (lance)

- saying that despite all of what the paladins have been through they aren’t even friends, which goes against the entire concept of the show

- throwing away developed potential relationships and friendships for hetero relationships that came out of no where and had no positive buildup

- giving happy endings only to the hetero relationships (hunk/shay, colleen/sam, keith/acxa, lance/allura, matt/unknown alien girlfriend)

- supporting predatory and pedophilic ships out of fear of losing fans

- ignoring all criticism generally regarding the lgbt “rep” but always having time for praise

- treating lgbt rep as a spoiler despite it having no relevance to the plot line and never being explicit in the show

- having so many different plot lines going at once that everything is rushed and most development is through time skips, leaving literally nothing to enjoy

tl;dr: unless a character is straight and white the writers do not care about their development or happiness, nor do they care about the viewers of the show as long as it makes them money.

that being said, most of us (the stans) are sticking around for fanon only, because we’ve gotten attached to these characters and what they could’ve been. do not attack people who choose to watch season 8 (preferably not on netflix) because it’s the final season and that should be understandable.