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[[File:Canon fodder Banner.jpg|thumb|300px|The Banner used for the Canon Fodder after it merged with the Halo Community Update in July 2016.]]
[[File:Canon fodder Banner.jpg|thumb|300px|The Banner used for the Canon Fodder after it merged with the Halo Community Update in July 2016.]]


'''Canon Fodder''' is a weekly blog section of the [[Halo Community Update]] written by franchise writer [[Jeff Easterling|Jeff "GrimBrother One" Easterling]] and posted on [[Halo Waypoint]], centering on the fiction of the [[Halo universe|''Halo'' universe]]. It started as a section of Waypoint's weekly [[Halo Bulletin]] writeups and was made into its own separate blog in January [[2015]],<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-just-getting-started '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Just Getting Started'']</ref> however, on July 15, [[2016]], it was absorbed into the Halo Community Update as the Canon Fodder section.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/comic-con-preview '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Comic-Con Preview'']</ref> Typically posted between Thursday and Saturday, Canon Fodder entries offer various forms of ''Halo'' lore-focused information, news about upcoming media, interviews with the developers of the franchise, as well as community Q&A sessions on fiction-related matters. Every blog post is typically accompanied by additions or updates into Waypoint's "Universe" encyclopedia.
'''Canon Fodder''' is a weekly blog section of the [[Halo Community Update]] written by franchise writer [[Jeff Easterling|Jeff "GrimBrother One" Easterling]] and posted on [[Halo Waypoint]], centering on the fiction of the [[Halo universe|''Halo'' universe]]. It started as a section of Waypoint's weekly [[Halo Bulletin]] write-ups and was made into its own separate blog in January [[2015]].<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-just-getting-started '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Just Getting Started'']</ref> From July 15, [[2016]], to December 2, 2016, it was absorbed into the Halo Community Update as the Canon Fodder section,<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/comic-con-preview '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Comic-Con Preview'']</ref>, but by December 7, 2016, had become a separate blog again.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/bounty-hunters '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Bounty Hunters'']</ref> Typically posted between Thursday and Saturday, Canon Fodder entries offer various forms of ''Halo'' lore-focused information, news about upcoming media, interviews with the developers of the franchise, as well as community Q&A sessions on fiction-related matters. Every blog post is typically accompanied by additions or updates into Waypoint's "Universe" encyclopedia. Articles older than issue 56 were lost when [[Halo Waypoint]] was updated in [[2021 (real world)|2021]].
 
On December 23, 2021 with the release of Issue 122, Jeff Easterling left the role of Canon Fodder publisher to [[Alex Wakeford|Alex "Haruspis" Wakeford]].


==Background==
==Background==
The words "canon fodder" first originated on [[halo.bungie.org]], when Grim named a title of a post going over a podcast he was in on September 25, 2011.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=34527 ''HBO News'' '''Podtacular Canon Fodder''']</ref> It was not until March 21, 2013 that the words became used to name a series of discussion threads on specific media in the Halo universe made by the then-forum monitor Grimbrother One on the ''Halo Waypoint forums''.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/canon-fodder---week-1-petra/0b979283-3c90-4324-9c62-ea3a4b1142a8/posts?page=1 '''Halo Waypoint forums''': ''Canon Fodder - Week 1: Petra'']</ref>
The phrase "canon fodder" first originated on [[halo.bungie.org]] on September 25, [[2011]], when Grim used it in the title of a post going over a podcast he was in.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=34527 ''HBO News'' '''Podtacular Canon Fodder''']</ref> It was not until March 21, [[2013]] that the then-forum monitor Grimbrother One used the phrase to name a series of discussion threads on the Halo Waypoint forums that focused on specific media in the ''Halo'' universe.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/canon-fodder---week-1-petra/0b979283-3c90-4324-9c62-ea3a4b1142a8/posts?page=1 '''Halo Waypoint forums''': ''Canon Fodder - Week 1: Petra'']</ref>  


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==See also==
==See also==
*[[Canon Fodder/Archive|Links to Canon Fodder blogs]]
*[[Archive:Halo Waypoint/2014 to 2021/News/Canon Fodder|Links to Canon Fodder blogs]]


==External links==
==External links==