Okay everyone. Remember the MST3K Mantra. Thinking too hard about fiction will ruin your enjoyment of it.

You’re right. She is a cartoon teenager.

@cheezedoodle  
I stand by my Men in Black headcanon. Secret government agencies are a thing in Equestria, after all. No reason S.M.I.L.E. can’t have a counterpart on the other side of the mirror, taking care of Sunset’s paperwork and anyone who asks too many questions about the gas explosions at Canterlot High.

What a beautiful answer…
 

TLDR: They care more about FiM so any inconsistencies or lack of details in EqG is irrelevant.
 
That explains how that infamous blunder in Equestria Games got through.

I just assume humestria has such a utopian economic situation that it allows teenagers to be able to live on their own just with a part time job.
 
There is barely any crime and poverty in their world,they only really have to worry about the occasional magical monster attack.

It is vitally important we know how Sunset acquired a social security number or the equivalent for their world so that she can be lawfully employed and enrolled in school!
 
Does she pay taxes? WHERE ARE HER RETURNS??? Who goes to the parent/teacher meetings? HOW DOES SHE ENTER A LEGALLY BINDING APARTMENT LEASE AS A MINOR?
 
THIS IS IMPORTANT SHIT, PEOPLE! /s

@TexasUberAlles  
Probably because the tone of Looney Tunes tends to dissuade such deep thought.

lol nobody remembers that Shakespeare’s work was basically Elizabethan telenovelas, cheap trash made for ordinary people.
 
Nobody angrily demands that Friz Freleng’s restless spirit explain how a homeless and jobless Daffy Duck could afford so much reconstructive surgery.

@Animanga21  
I’m sure Chandler can afford his share of the rent, what with his job as a transponster.

What do you mean… not real?

@Animanga21  
Times change. There are quite a lot of factors actually.

We’ll never know if Sunset has a counterpart unless Sunset never ever entered the human world.

That last part is not the case. We know she’s a cartoon character, but that Sunset Shimmer who owned the apartment abandoned her own family to enter this world, so her counterpart’s family must be somewhere else in the human world.

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
Pretty much that, exactly. Makes me wonder if Twitter had been around back when Friends was on, would people be complaining to the writers that they all have ridiculously huge apartments in New York that they couldn’t possibly afford?

@Background Pony #7662  
@Background Pony #7662
 
That’s a pretty common colloquialism.

on it a cartoon

I saw a mistake on K.Hadley comment.Mistake is “it” and no “it’s”:))

@Vinyl Fluff
 
I agree. I get that there’s a point where you’re just overthinking things, but especially the way they worded this reply, to me, sounds a lot like “It’s just a cartoon, I don’t need to think things through.” Which is in turn a lot like “It’s just for kids, it doesn’t need to be good.” I get that that’s not what they’re saying, but that’s still the impression I feel is coming across.
 
And objectively speaking, Equestria Girls very much has a history of raising major implicit questions and never answering them. Asking “how does this character who fled with no money or connections to an alien world make enough money to live” or “literally everyone has a counterpart except this one character who doesn’t, why is that?” i hardly nitpicking.

Just repeat to yourself it’s just a show, I should really just relax.

Oh yeah because in an economy where people with two full time jobs can’t even afford the safety deposit for a SMALL RENTAL APARTMENT it makes total sense that a school girl with a part time job can afford to rent THAT HUGE HOUSE!!!

I mean
 
It’s okay to say that the dumb highschool AU wasn’t well thought through
 
I don’t think anyone would be surprised

I get that people get tired of questions about overthinking things, but I don’t like it when the “it’s not real, it’s a cartoon” card is played. People in fandoms obsessing over detail is normal. We want more information. People generally want things to make sense. Every single fandom is this way.
 
I’d have more sympathy if you were Michael Okuda and have had to answer the same question about the LCARS system on Star Trek twenty times every con for the past 30 years (no, it’s not a real operating system, they were just graphic elements he designed on a per-need basis.) But people asking how a magical talking pony turned girl financially survives in a completely different world, and where does she live? No, that’s an obvious one. We’ve had multiple movies with that question hanging in the background.

just think in every fucking orphan in anime

Owned.