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This is how I feel about G5 so far: it’s too boring to hold my attention, and even though I disliked Pony Life, G5 is just so bland and boring that the only way I can tolerate consuming any sort of G5 content is through its version of Pony Life. The main cast all come across as pale imitations of G4 characters, and the only one I can consistently care about is Pipp because even though I would normally find a terminally online e-celeb instagram whorse annoying, Pipp is objectively the cutest of the mane five (Izzy is very hit-or-miss, the rest are just plain dull). Also I enjoy the 2d animation of Tell Your Tale as opposed to the tryhard 3d Filly Funtasia-wannabe style of Make Your Mark. And TYT doesn’t take itself too seriously, as opposed to MYM’s self-importantness. For these reasons it is a far better spiritual successor to Friendship is Magic than MYM ever was. But even then, the Mane Five fall short of being able to hold the show all by themselves without there being some kind of antagonist to cockblock them. Therefore, Opaline’s scenery-chewing and Posey’s casual bigotry are absolutely necessary to maintain the viewer’s interest lest it wander like the mind of someone trying to type an image description at two in the morning when you know you have work tomorrow. And speaking of work, you can’t run a show like this when three characters are doing all of the heavy lifting to keep it interesting.
In other words, when the parody of the thing supercedes the thing itself in quality and workmanship, you know you’ve utterly failed.
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don’t make me tap the sign again
Or if you’re a Potion Nova fan. I’ve seen at least one person use her as an avatar.
Probably because Pony Life still used Mane 6 from G4 and they couldn’t change everything about them to get a fresh something fully, while G5 is fully new
I really wasn’t expecting to like TYT more than MYM, but it’s just got a super fun vibe to it, like what Pony Life was obviously going for but never quite lived up to.
I saw other people using beanmouth too and I think it fits perfectly because it’s describing the style itself :)
I only used characters I liked on this one.
I used ‘CalArts’ because it’s a commonly used and recognized term to describe a particular artstyle which could otherwise be referred to as ‘Beanmouth.’ And, as implied by the meme, I actually liked Tell Your Tale a lot better than Make Your Mark. If I hated it, I would have immediately switched my profile pic to something else the minute April Fool’s Day ended.
People just wants to find an excuse to objectify their opinion.
Mhm
The main issue with “CalArts” being used as an insult is that a lot of people don’t understand the fact that “I don’t like that art style” is not the same thing as “that art style is objectively bad and anyone who likes it is objectively wrong”.
I really need to get active on Tumblr.
Just look at Twitter and tik-tok, lol. Some pone posts gets millions of views, and I’ve seen loads with tens of thousands of likes
I’ve seen FIM posts on Tumblr that have over 31,000 likes and reblogs within the last month, there are still plenty of fans out there even if a lot of them aren’t directly engaging much anymore.
Edited because: Forgot a point.
People need some perspective here. Losing 90% of the people in only three years is absurd, and I would have noticed that if it had actually happened. If anything, G4 ending in 2019 would have caused that, and at the time I feared that a death spiral could occur if we hemorrhaged fans that rapidly. But that didn’t happen, and I haven’t noticed much significant reduction in fandom activity since then. I think our fandom is a lot more stable (no pun intended) than we give it credit for.
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it would be easier to make a list of art styles gumball did not use
Well, I’m amused - does that count?