@Enmity1498  
At no point did he suggest that autism inherently correlates to stupidity or lack of intelligence, you brought those words in yourself. If you look at Maud analytically, she has many symptoms common in people on the autism spectrum. That doesn’t mean she’s dumb, or any less capable of being intelligent, it just means she’s likely autistic, or at least shares many personality traits with someone who would be.

@Chopsticks  
Being Aspergean myself (or at least having gotten that diagnosis multiple times), I am highly offended by your comment. Autistic, really? Maud has been shown to be quite intelligent, largely in the science of geology, so I find your implication that she is somehow stupid to be just idiotic my friend. Not only that, but despite the fact that you argue that she sounds ‘bored’ all the time, she has somehow become the second most popular Pie character in the fandom (after Pinkie Pie). So please, watch your statements or I will report you to the moderators for hate speach!

@lase-x  
Yes, that’s part of the smooth and cool Beatnik vibe.
 
 
@Enmity1498  
Yeah it did originate decades earlier, but the 90’s for some reason became fascinated with it. At least, all the pop culture references I know of come from the 90’s, lol.
 
As for Maud, she’s more representative of autism in the Asperger’s spectrum (all the Pie sisters are autistic just in different areas). She’s not artistically inclined enough and too monotone even for Beatnik, and doesn’t have a smoothness to her. She sounds bored all the time, has an unusual depth of interest in a single [odd] subject, straightforward, doesn’t express or pick up on emotions like others but still feels them, and such expression is usually very subtle (growing up with or having them as close friends helps with knowing the distinction, i.e. see Pinkie Pie).

@Chopsticks  
Talking about their tone and the lack of emotion on their face

Nonetheless, based on that, I would argue that, if that singer was meant to be a Beatnik, then Maud Pie from G4 is arguably a Beatnik as well, since she has many of the same mannerisms as that singer (especially in regards to her poetry). I hope I am not the only one that noticed the poet’s similarities to Maud (especially when the dull colors and apathetic attitudes of the unicorns are intentionally supposed to mirror the attitudes of the Pie family, with Pinkie and Izzy both being the odd ones out).

@Chopsticks  
Funny that you mention the ’90s, since that subculture was originated by people in the ‘beat generation’, aka people who were born between 1928 and 1945. In other words, the subculture became popular in the 1950s, rather than the 1990s (though the ’90s was a time when the hip hop subculture was starting to become popular, so that is notable).

@lase-x  
That’s Beatnik, not depressive.
 

 
 
It’s an artistic, stylistic form of expression; most of the 90’s felt like it was an I’m-so-cool-nothing-phases-me type of smooth. Calm, dark java, simplistic, level-headed, even monotone, the idea in the subculture is a means to slow down and appreciate subtle little things as they’re easier to absorb in this manner. That’s why their associated with loose but simple/black clothing, finger snaps, and bongos.

@Chopsticks  
She does sound kinda depresso

The pony with the raspberry beret now plays the drums. I like to see her play more instruments.

@lase-x  
Maud Pie 2.0

First piece of fanart I think I’ve seen of her.
 
 
As for name, I wish people would quit going with the goth and gloom… she’s not goth… she’s BEATNIK.

So what are we naming this girl

Her name is Gloria Gloom and don’t forget it

I would go with Glum Drum

If she doesn’t have an official name, I propose Smokey Prose.