Soft vore RIDDLED my tv shows. Power Rangers had Terror toad, Kaa in Jungle Book, Scar in Lion King, Whamon and Metal Seadramon in Digimon, the Hydra in Hercules... Seriously, someone in the 90s was WAY before the vore trend! ^^;
But to be honest, I didn't understand it as a fetish until after I turned 18, when I became a furry. I would surf art like a smooth wave! I needed to improve my own art, and I wanted to be drawn to something.
That's when I discovered http://www.macrophile.com (WHICH IS STILL ACTIVE), and through that discovery I found vore! By biggest inspirations back in the day were and, at the time, ! And when it came to characters, ;s Bittersweet became my 19 year old equivalent of me "Orca waifu"! Thanks to those 3, I became amazingly hooked to vore art, which led me to develop the vore skill I have today!

Thanks for the questions, and