User blog comment:Smartbook/Characters's fanbases/@comment-12762816-20140822012648/@comment-24152851-20140824053547

Well when we all got into TDI, I'd say most of us were still quite young. I don't know about you, but regardless of what I feel about Owen now, he's still credited with getting me into Total Drama in the first place.

I never said the one's I listed were "the" fan favs, just the more popular ones of TDI. I don't think fanart is a very good means of judging a fanbase. Leshawna isn't ideal for fanart, very difficult to draw, and not much about her needs to be changed. But, as King Flurry51 mentioned, Mal is a very scenographic character which is why all those fan artists on DA worship him.

Heather, was a base breaker in TDI. Half loved her, half not so much. But regardless she had a lot more attention than Cody ever did.