Fagoneer ruined digimon for me forever. Is he gonna ruin MLP, too?

Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Greetings from East-Europe.

its a mixture of a lot of things coming together at once such as the writing staff (Lauren Faust) its more unique art style, its deviation from its own norm (previous pony series and other 'girls' shows)
as for the age category it hit i believe we can attribute that directly to Faust and the writing staff since the show feels a lot more like the cartoons we grew up with in the mid 90s then modern cartoons
to top it off cartoons aren't really the big thing on TV for the last decade so having at least one good cartoon to watch is nice (and imho there's not much else to watch atm)

BenvolioHarpas said:
Fagoneer ruined digimon for me forever. Is he gonna ruin MLP, too?

You CAN'T ruin MLP. It's already too shitty.

darkenedshadow said:
You CAN'T ruin MLP. It's already too shitty.

That doesn't make sense, also, please use the blacklist.

I like how he needs to point out that he listens to death metal.

baaaad guy, really baaaaaaaad guy...

Agrees with coffee man, dog, thing....

The whole situation was, is, so laughably pathetic it's almost unreal. BAW IM MAD OVER A PICTURE THAT'LL ONLY LAST A WEEK I DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITHOUT FA CATERING TO MY EVERY WANT NEED AND DESIRE

Wolfy-nail finally did something related to ponies? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! :D

love that he's lisening to death metal!!!

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
The whole situation was, is, so laughably pathetic it's almost unreal. BAW IM MAD OVER A PICTURE THAT'LL ONLY LAST A WEEK I DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITHOUT FA CATERING TO MY EVERY WANT NEED AND DESIRE

Dude have you read the ragey journals some people have posted because of it?
People are blowing this WAY out of proportion.

I'm reminded of the wisdom of 808X:

It's ok to not like things,
It's ok, but don't be a dick about it
It's ok to not like things,
But don't be a dick about the things you don't like.

If people don't like MLP, fine. Nothing says they have to. There's nothing wrong with being disinterested or mildly annoyed with something that's popular. But the anger, resentment and rejection towards the show by some is pathetic. MLP FiM is so innocuous that it's almost a perfect litmus test for immaturity, entitlement and mal-adjustment. If someone hates, not just dislikes but HAETS the show with passionate rage, there's something wrong with them. It's like watching someone kick a dog or lay into a waiter. Not a good person.

ippiki_ookami said:
Dude have you read the ragey journals some people have posted because of it?
People are blowing this WAY out of proportion.

Yeah, one guy was spasming about how FA is now a 'ponies only' site and how he was going to start a petition to 'ban Dragoneer from Furaffinity so we can take it back'.

ExplosiveBlaziken said:
Yeah, one guy was spasming about how FA is now a 'ponies only' site and how he was going to start a petition to 'ban Dragoneer from Furaffinity so we can take it back'.

omg links! I must trol him!

Did this really happen? If so, how did I miss it!

Since this seems to have devolved into bitching about bitching about ponies and the question got only a vague sort of half answer—

Do you remember the old My Little Pony from the 80s? Forget everything you remember. Those cartoons were garbage; this really is a horse of a different color.

@XSweeney Friendship is Magic was blessed with a feminist producer and director who made it her mission to challenge people's expectations of what a show "for girls" is really all about, and I think she has succeeded. The characters are colorful and cute, but they're also well-written—especially for a cartoon, and doubly so for a children's cartoon. Each of the main characters fits a certain archetype (the nerd, the tomboy, &c.), but they manage to avoid one-dimensional characterisation. Lauren Faust has fought tooth and nail with Hasbro to keep the show from becoming just an extended advert for the toys like the old series.

There are numerous references to pop culture and classic animation (including homages to Benny Hill < http://youtu.be/m8iWgoOxaYU > Pepe le Pew < http://youtu.be/L142_juksw8 > and Stephen Sondheim < http://youtu.be/fSbXGsysAAk >). The show is meant to be entertaining not just to kids, but to parents and really anyone else who might care to watch it. There are jokes and references that kids might not get. The writers are definitely aware of the "brony" demographic and have made nods to them.

I think, to get a feel for what Faust has been fighting for, I'd recommend reading her rebuttal of "My Little Homophobic, Racist, Smart-Shaming Pony" < http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/12/24/my-little-non-homophobic-non-racist-non-smart-shaming-pony-a-rebuttal/ >.

Haha, I've written an essay on e621. Don't worry, I'll be sharing it somewhere it'll get read, too. C:

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Greetings from East-Europe.

+1

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Greetings from East-Europe.

It is really difficult to explain, and I don't know how well it would translate into another language. There is really nothing else like it. They created a world that the characters live in that is simplistic yet immersive.

The humor functions on several different levels. You get the cartoony physical comedy like Twilight getting an anvil dropped on her or Applejack falling on her face repeatedly from a platform, but more often the jokes come out of nowhere and are completely unexpected. Sometimes you aren't even sure they were there, but you find yourself laughing at them anyway. On rare occasions, you even get references to the fans themselves like the nod to the gore fic "Cupcakes" in Party of One or the Chocolate Rain in the latest episode.

And yet it never actually departs from being the cartoon for little girls that it is. At all times, it remains sugary sweet and girly as hell. Where shows like Spongebob or The Powerpuff Girls makes it's jokes for the parents more obvious, Ponies plays them like whispers through the proverbial fourth wall--an in-joke between the writers and the audience.

Seriously, the writing is way better than a kids' show deserves.

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Greetings from East-Europe.

Because it's AWESOME!!! And, brohoof from East-Europe :)

Its intended for little kids. And you adult males watch it. Kinda sad.

I don't like MLP and I laughed really hard when I saw this. Best FA banner for a while. :)

Denial is magic...

Wolfy nail is a conceited douche. I mean... really, hosting a contest where only female artists are allowed to draw only female characters having sex with his fursona?

Mostel said:
Wolfy nail is a conceited douche. I mean... really, hosting a contest where only female artists are allowed to draw only female characters having sex with his fursona?

He's gotta increase the size of his tiny e-peen and his tinier real life penis somehow.

Mostel said:
Wolfy nail is a conceited douche. I mean... really, hosting a contest where only female artists are allowed to draw only female characters having sex with his fursona?

He's an embarrassment to the furry fandom you know.

GOD HELP US ALL...............ponyess are taking the place where furry art is supposed to be.

a e621 pny banner is also needed

I don't give a rat ass for the Little Ponys....Agreed with Wolfnail...God help us all against this new cute Evil

this whole thing is funny because over at the bronies, there are about as much as guys afraid to death that furries could invade as there are people here pooping their pants about pony-attacks.

and really guys, before you hate it, have the balls to try it. this FIM stuff has as much to do with the old mlp as CERN with a teapot. no really, if you'd have told me a yea ago that i would like ponies, i probably would'ce had slapped you. but it's pretty awesome. (new season also has Q in it. the real one)

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days?

The world is cold, depressive and full of hatred, so people are loosing themselves into meaningless bullshit like this.

Greeting from Germany.

Liquid_Chameleon said:
I'm reminded of the wisdom of 808X:

It's ok to not like things,
It's ok, but don't be a dick about it
It's ok to not like things,
But don't be a dick about the things you don't like.

If people don't like MLP, fine. Nothing says they have to. There's nothing wrong with being disinterested or mildly annoyed with something that's popular. But the anger, resentment and rejection towards the show by some is pathetic. MLP FiM is so innocuous that it's almost a perfect litmus test for immaturity, entitlement and mal-adjustment. If someone hates, not just dislikes but HAETS the show with passionate rage, there's something wrong with them. It's like watching someone kick a dog or lay into a waiter. Not a good person.

Oh don't give me that crap, just tell me this, what happen if I do be a dick about, huh?! Oh yaa, oh be trolled and oh get bad comments, so scared.

What ever, oh be a dick if I want to. Yes I am mad bro.

I don't know who was growing up with MLP because i grew up With Dragonball and Dragonballz, scoobydoo n such. If there was an MLP in the 80's cool i didn't know that but really I don't hate the show but personally it drives me nuts when people are throwing ponies onto a Pink Floyd album or drawing them as soldiers. I'm not trying to sound like an ass but i find it disrespectfull, and yes i realize there are floyd/mlp fans but common. Oh and if anyone could tell me how to get the blacklst to work i'd appreciate it because mine dosn't seem to work.

dude, is THAT your problem? appearently things aren't clear yet so i'll spell it out for you:
THIS IS NOT THE CRAP FROM BACK IN THE 80s/90s WHATEVER.
this is 2010/11. G4. the GOOD shit. i hate the old pony crap. everyone does. it has as much to do with THIS series as a rock wih a nuclear powerplant.

not the same!

Sorry to say I know nothing about it either and I'm from America. so i withhold opinions till i get around to seeing it for myself before i form any sort of opinion on it.

Everyone said:
BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Guys, if you can't be mature enough to argue about MLP, then you can't argue at all.A

You're all turning into mindless, idiotic little children. "I HATE MLP! I LOVE MLP! BROHOOF! PONYFAGS!"

Seriously. What are you? A pony? An idiot?

Grow the fuck up and ignore shit like this. We can't judge what people like, but we can judge content. But we can't judge content with mixing what people like.

Regardless, you can ignore or bash my TL;DR comment. :|

Does no one else see the humor inherent in this little comic strip? I like MLP. Not to the point of calling myself a brony, but I like the show. And this made me chuckle. For god's sake, all of you bronies flipping out about this sound JUST LIKE the furries flipping out over that CSI episode. Big deal. Why is it worth raising your blood pressure. Chill. Move along. Find something you enjoy to fap to.

Liquid_Chameleon said:

It's ok to not like things,
It's ok, but don't be a dick about it
It's ok to not like things,
But don't be a dick about the things you don't like.

damnit! I read that in fluttershy's voice...

Ponies gonna pwn.

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Let me see if I can explain this short and sweet...

The writing and design (at least for the first season) was done by Lauren Faust, who also wrote/designed the Power Puff Girls, Fosters Home for Immaginary Friends, and Dexter's Laboratory. All of the shows she's done are known for having great animation and writing. A lot of care and detail was put into even the smallest things, to the point where the background sounds include faint birds chirping, and individual frames are looked at and edited to keep the animation as fluid. The voice acting is pretty good, too.

The characters have, well, more character. They have very distinct personalities, strengths and flaws, and can be pretty funny (though as Bizzle said, what's considered funny is usually subjective). The plots are usually interesting, and most episodes do a pretty good job of having an actual message without cheaply slapping one at the end. Some even have the characters challenge their own morals (see episode "The Ticket Master")

Characters that only appear once sometimes are as developed as the main cast. For instance, they put a significant amount of history into the main enemy for the season 2 pilot, Discord, who is not only essentially Q from StarTrek TGN, but is voiced by the same guy, John de Lancie.

And, of course, there's the fandom. Of course, there are people who are simply trolling or "embracing the irony", but they're not the majority. EquestriaDaily.com, a pony-themed news blog, has hit 104,789,000 pageviews as of this writing. There are a number of high quality stories, from cross-overs, to dark what-if stories, to the enevitable shipping. A number of musicians have made some pretty high quality song (The Wooden Toaster, Mic the Microphone, The Living Tombstone, Jackle App), and a number of parodies have been made (for example, http://e621.net/post/show/156384).

So yea. Sorry if I rambled on for too long, hope I got all the important bits, yadda yadda yadda, and Have a nice day.

XSweeney said:
Will somebody ever tell me, why does My Little Pony became so popular these days? Am I missed something? Or just getting old...

Greetings from East-Europe.

Surprisingly enough the show is NOT that bad. I mean, it could be worse. I saw the show once when I saw the first ships on it on here. I don't remember how, but after watching the first episode or two I started to like it. Maybe more so the rule 34s than the show. But if anyone hasn't heard the writers of the show have now geared the show as far internetly as possible without the worry of having people complain. One of the better examples of this is I believe the 14th episode of season 2, where she includes the fan name Derpy that had before started a bunch of interest in bronies. As far as the term brony goes, to some extent if anything about the show makes you happy, you are a brony, or in my case a pegusister. Do I promote being a brony? No. Do I demote it? No. Do I insult bronies or haters? NO. But, do I like the show? Yes. Whelp, that's it from the peanut gallery. You stay classy San Diego.

Serra said:
Surprisingly enough the show is NOT that bad.

i didn't watch it wheni was a kid and i will not watch it now... i do fell the same as the comic above on alot of the "bad" pony drawings..

snowie said:
i didn't watch it wheni was a kid and i will not watch it now... i do fell the same as the comic above on alot of the "bad" pony drawings..

And that's fine with me. You still have the rest of this site right?

Roman117 said:
Oh don't give me that crap, just tell me this, what happen if I do be a dick about, huh?! Oh yaa, oh be trolled and oh get bad comments, so scared.

What ever, oh be a dick if I want to. Yes I am mad bro.

Careful your showing your maturity and your age.

Your just getting old

oh