Is this mare watching Pony thread Simulator?

Reminds me of Spaghetti Sparkle.

@Blissey1  

@Blissey1  
Yea I feel like this has gone far enough as well.  
Still though…  

@redweasel  
@Cosoca  
Will you two clowns put a sock in it already

@redweasel  
It doesn’t matter, you don’t go to the site for the same reason they don’t, for obscure subjective reasons.  
“I think that website sucks” is subjective, there is no objective statement in that.  
I’m sorry if that offends you but I am not here to debate semantics with you.

@Cosoca
 
sorry, I was under the impression that “never” was different from “sometimes,” and “they’re blindly conforming to trends” was an insult, while “they just don’t like it” was the truth, that you still haven’t been willing to say.

@redweasel  
Does it really matter?  
You’re just splitting hairs.

@Cosoca
 
if you wanted to mean that, you’d do better to say “people who have been on 4chan, but just don’t like it,” not “people who have never been on 4chan but buy into the whole evil hacker on steroids meme,”

@redweasel  
Like I said, you have your subjective reasons.
 
Complexes and conspiracies are neither mutually exclusive nor inclusive

@Cosoca
 
no, type 2 are gullible tools who love being ignorant, and hate something without even trying it. that’s poisoning the well.
 
I meant the type of people who’ve been on 4chan, realized it was shit, and don’t browse there anymore.
 
no complex is standalone. it’s always a conspiracy.

@redweasel  
I actually did mention those.  
If you don’t browse 4chan but are aware of it then you fall into type 2.  
I’m sure you have your reasons but they are subjective.
 
The artificial manufacturing of a complex is not what makes it a complex, that makes it a conspiracy

@Cosoca
 
interesting that you fail to mention those of us who just don’t browse 4chan, almost as if you’re trying to make people believe we don’t exist………..
 
the big reveal of GiTS was that the standalone complex was secretly manufactured by an underground marketing campaign.

@redweasel  
I don’t think its that complicated, a lot of people go there so people say that a lot of people go there, and no one ever really leaves 4chan they just take breaks.
 
As far as I have observed there are three kinds of people in the world, people who have never heard of 4chan and stick to Facebook, people who have never been on 4chan but buy into the whole evil hacker on steroids meme, then there are the people who browse 4chan.
 
Once your used to an open forum talking on other sites can be bothersome so this is why people will ‘viral market’ sites as you say, it’s similar to how people would rather discuss a game on Reddit because the official forum mods ban people for either petty reasons or to suppress information. They aren’t doing it because of some vested interest in the site, it’s just easier, and while we cannot confirm nor deny the population that surrounds our particular fandom we can acknowledge that there is a substantial userbase on the site, more than enough people to give the impression that there is ‘viral marketing’ when really it’s probably just word of mouth promotion.
 
If you’ve ever seen Ghost in the Shell you’ll remember they referred to this phenomena as a stand alone complex.

@Cosoca
 
nah, I don’t seriously believe anything. how else do you explain it, though?

@Cosoca  

 
well I’m glad we’re in agreement

@Blissey1  
Well all of your insinuations are equally unfounded to say the least so we shouldn’t even be having this conversation. Even if a board by board breakdown of traffic data exists it may be out of date or inaccessible so this entire discussion is pointless.  
I still stand by my position however that there being some underground viral marketing campaign for 4chan is hilariously misguided and silly.

@Cosoca  
No, it’s not an argument. I wasn’t trying to argue against your assertion of population levels. I was just saying that that particular point is really a stretch as far as relevance goes.
 
and 1% is a nice assumption and all, but unless you have a way of actually dividing out visits to /mlp/ from overall site visits, it’s still just that, an assumption.

@Blissey1  
Unless you have evidence that indicates otherwise I see absolutely no reason why it is not relevant, especially given the website’s overall population of 27,700,000 unique visitors per month.  
Even at only 1% of that number you are talking about well over 250 thousand unique visitors per month on /mlp/ alone, and I sincerely doubt the percentage is only at 1%.
 
Just because something ‘happened years ago’ doesn’t mean the entire population just up and left genius. That’s not even an argument.

@Cosoca  
well now yer talking about stuff that happened years ago. You don’t seriously expect that to be relevant to discussing relative current population levels, do you?

@redweasel  
You don’t seriously believe that do you?  
This entire fandom wouldn’t even exist as it stands now if not for that website.

@Cosoca
 
yes, and the reason for that is underground marketing campaigns, such as the practice of going places and telling people that everyone goes to 4chan.

@redweasel  
No, there actually are more people there.  
Like, no one can argue the raw numbers.

This makes me wish I’d put more effort into mine than I did :P

@Background Pony #CC69
 
and the reason you find more people there is that some anon always comes along to other sites claiming there are more people there… oh wait…