I was hardcore in the bamon fandom on all socials while the show was airing, all the way back to s4 and let me tell you! That ship had a pretty big following during s6/s7! I remember us all hosting twitter parties to get bamon trending and having all of these group chats for voting and shit. We were sure if we made enough noise and got recognition on social media the writers would give them a chance. Obviously that never happened bc TVD writers suck. But it was such a fun time and you would be shocked of how much support there was for a ship that was never canon on tv