because of starlight glimmer, we have pizza hut

Well I kinda agree that there right Ofc that being said more problems in show than her characterization either way I will upvote because this is a good use of that reference

@AaronMk
Too bad it can’t write speeches.

Compliments aren’t as funny as complaints, but a quick search turned up a compliment generator which mostly seems to be pulling a random selection of 150 compliments.

So more low stakes than the complaint generator which seeks to generate more complex writing.

@AaronMk
Still, is there a generator for everything? Like I don’t know, award speech generator?

It’s not even really an AI, not in the sense of things like Dall-E. It’s even much older. This is a web 1.0 ass automated generator

@AaronMk
Is there an AI generator for everything nowadays?

@AaronMk
I don’t like the output. Where can I lodge a complaint?

@AaronMk
Oh. My. God. Skynet really is taking all the jobs.

@AaronMk
What kind of weird crackpot ideology are you quoting?

Although I would very much like to put Starlight Glimmer on notice for her attempts to batter at the foundations of society, there are several obstacles that make it difficult to raise a stink about her and her uninformed pranks. I will briefly adumbrate these obstacles and then refer to them occasionally throughout the body of this post. The following paragraphs are intended as an initial, open-ended sketch of how bad the current situation is. If I have characterized Starlight’s myrmidons up to now as fastuous and abhorrent, it is only because I’m not a self-pitying person. I’d like nothing more than to extend my hand in friendship to Starlight’s sidekicks and convey my hope that in the days to come we can work together to straighten out Starlight’s thinking. Unfortunately, knowing them, they’d rather seize control over where we eat, sleep, socialize, and associate with others because that’s what Starlight wants. Have you noticed that in just about everything Starlight writes, her underlying premise is that her practices can give us deeper insights into the nature of reality? I don’t know about you, but that sure rings hollow to me.

Be careful not to be charmed by Starlight’s effusions. All they do is rebrand local churches as faith-based emporia teeming with impulse-buy items. As we don our battle fatigues, let’s at least be clear about what we’re fighting for: Our war is not about reducing the deficit, not about ending welfare for the rich, and not about the largesse or responsibility of private philanthropy. All we want is for Starlight’s peons not to impugn the patriotism of Starlight’s corrivals. I am familiar with Starlight’s goals; I understand how she operates; I have long recognized her tactics; and I know just about where Starlight now stands on the ladder to total power. I can therefore say that, inarguably, it requires surprisingly little imagination to envision a future in which she is free to employ the terrorism of gossip to kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that Starlight says she’s going to instill resentment, divide society, and destroy self-reliance in a matter of days. Good old Starlight. She just loves to open her mouth and let all kinds of things come out without listening to how ungrateful they sound. Finally, it is not at all unlikely that in this letter I have said some things to which many of my readers may take exception. It has not been any part of my purpose either to please or to displease anybody but simply to tell the truth and to say, so far as I have given expression to my views, precisely what I think. And what I think is this: Starlight Glimmer uses smear words, shaming tactics, shout-downs, intimidation, and violence to prevent her adversaries from being heard.

@Wayneponeth
We’ll need to stop in this image. Feel free to DM me any further about this only if you choose to do so, but I made it very clear to you at the very beginning of all of this. You asked a question, I answered it. I was explaining the overall community hate about Starlight only, not from what I personally think of her. This is more of a Hasbro problem than a character problem in the end. I’ll stop here.

@Conversed Corruption
But again, is that really enough to say that she destroy an entire show? Is it really just an overaction? I guess maybe I should also have made it clear demonizing one character over a show is an overreaction.

Honestly I really did think people would really ignore me and be like “Oh it’s that guy again who is overly attached to a fictional character that he’ll turn over heels for her. Let’s ignore that idiot”. Of course I know that Starlight’s done and why people hate her. I’ve watched the whole show many times already. I just don’t agree. I didn’t know someone would actually jump in to explain to me all the other unfairness that has nothing to do with Starlight Glimmer. The problem is you phrase your comment in a way that makes me believe you’ve only seen the villain side of her instead of the reformed side of her, that I thought you actually do hate Starlight. You could have made it clear you’re just telling me exactly why Starlight is hated instead of listing why everyone except Starlight deserves hate, especially freaking Discord. And what else was I supposed to do? Also ignore a comment that misrepresents a character I like? Yeah, perhaps. Perhaps I really should stop interacting here if everytime I comment my thoughts or is just simply having fun, someone has to come in to tell me how wrong I am. No one needs to agree with my opinions but can I not get torn a new one for calling a character “sweet”?

Just delete my comments if I’m wrong. I don’t care.

@GenericArchangel
Yeh

@Wayneponeth
Think about your question next time before posting it because it’s a big hit or miss. O could have ignored it, but thought to myself there’s no way they didn’t see what she did and why Hasbro went this route of choice. I’m sure you’ve seen enough of the comments, images, Communist Glimmer stuff, etc to answer your own question. You right now want everyone to agree with you on it without giving the reasons behind it or you wouldn’t have responded the way you did to me. This isn’t a world of sunshine and rainbows where everyone will casually agree with someone’s point. You literally just brought up one of the biggest reasons as to why she’s hated, her character development, her acceptance and ability to learn from her mistakes and grow as a character after what she tried to do to Twilight and her friends. Should I casually accept a killer out of let’s say 10 of them that did the same thing right on the spot after he murdered several people for sport and give him love and attention to better himself? This example is the driving point of Starlight’s hate as a character. She spent an entire season in preparation to alter and destroy their lives. Of course most are gonna respond to a question like that you asked. What else would they say? Granted they’ll share other reasons, but I like to present main points over getting too meta like mentioning specific seasons, episodes, timing and all of that.

Also I never once said I hated her. I ‘m bringing up, once again, the problem with her acceptance over everyone else’s. For example, Trixie should have been the biggest one Twilight could have went to first with the rivalry they had. It would have made more sense. She still treated Trixie like a nuisance after seeing her a third time and Trixie had to actually point out Twilight’s hypocrisy. This isn’t about me hating a character, it’s about the developers silly decision to make a character that tried to equalize a village to show that all are the same and separate all six girls through different unpredictable realities into a major turning and focal point. That’s why I challenged you’re question because I don’t sit well with that. I’m sure you’ve already seen the Cozy Glow drama some years back. It’s like that here. There’s a very clear image I’m gonna keep an eye on and I’ll link it here. It had me laughing, but it brings up the examples of the points I was making.

Oh better bring this up, this isn’t an argument or heated debate I’m having with you. I would rather not do that with a cartoon over fictional characters. I’m merely responding to your question and bringingup as much as possibleas to why many don’t like her. I don’t hate her, I hate the show’s direction it took for her. She as a character is fine.

@sonicfan
I’d argue she was never a communist, and that what was going on in Our Town was more of a cult than any particular political ideology. And while she is broadly similar to both Twi and Sunset, she’s also a lot more… brash. On the few relevant occasions, she’s been much quicker to use violence to resolve a situation she feels got out of hand, and she’s never very sorry about doing so.

BUT! We’re all starting to get a little bit off topic for an image’s comments, we’ve got the Unpopular Opinion Thread in the pony forums for more in-depth discussions.

@Conversed Corruption
Wait, so if what Discord’s done is at a far distant in the future he gets forgiven but when Starlight gets better and improves also in the future her past sins don’t get let go? How is that fair? People keep going like “Oh but Starlight did terrible things and she striped identity” like which villain didn’t do horrible things? And it’s yet another “Discord is chaos incarnate so he can do whatever he wants.” Then why don’t we just imprison him anyway? Discord did similar things in his villain years, completely changing the Mane Six’s personality and stripping them of their identity, manipulating them into each other. How are his sins forgiven now when Starlight’s aren’t. And is trying to murder children really chaotic? Or is it psychopathic? How about pretending you’re hurt so you can manipulate others’ tears to gain sympathy? Is that chaotic? (I’m not talking about the finale by the way. One happened in season 8 while the other happened in the season 9 opening.) This is some weird double standard when one actually improves and she is crucified while the other keeps doing the same awful things while he is praised like hell, to that point the other said character has to bow down to him.

Let me not talk about Discord for now. You said I’m too sympathetic toward Starlight but I said people are too cruel toward her. Of course she was not “sweet” when they first met her. She was a villain for crying out loud. None of the villains was going to be kissy and loving or they wouldn’t be villains. But now when she has turned herself around and tried to treat others with kindness, no one ever gives her a chance to be “sweet”, because everyone still sees her as that cruel dictator and never moved on. She shouldn’t deserve that when she has tried so hard. It’s not fair when we can’t forget and forgive solely her past sins when we’re so easy to overlook others.

And really none of your arguments is directly toward Starlight other than what she has done during her villainous time which once again every villain has one. All the fingers seem more like pointing toward Twilight and everypony else for only being biased toward Starlight and not giving others a chance. It sounds more like you’re pissed off that other villains aren’t getting the same thing as Starlight (even though Trixie actually did), instead of Starlight’s own actions post reformation. Do you really hate Starlight for her post sins or do you hate Twilight for ignoring her past sins? Ad in either case Starlight’s improvements on herself should be a driving factor to see her in a more positive life since it means Twilight’s bias had been worth it and she no longer is that awful version of herself. We should be happy for her change instead of clinging up to her past forever, unless we do the same for the other villains because ironically we’re basically doing what Twilight was doing except the opposite way.

All I’m saying is we should stop making Starlight the scapegoat for the show’s overall problem and just admit you hate her if you hate her. I believe the matter of fact is we just don’t like the way the show was heading and it has nothing to do with Starlight, but we need someone to aim that dislike toward and it’s easier to do that to a new character that debuts past the later half of the season, instead of the characters we have nostalgic goggles over or a literal child. I never even said Discord ruined the whole show for me, just that his actions are beyond problematic. I don’t understand why people always say that about Starlight. It’s just not fair to pinpoint an entire show’s downfall to one character who actually even made less and less appearances in later seasons because of that hatred toward her. She’s already suffered enough.

(Also that additional comment about Discord killing children has the same argument. When Starlight did that it was during her villainous era while Discord did that after his reformation. One did it when she was still fucked up in the head and she is forever demonized for it. The other did it when he was supposed to know peace and friendship but people still excuse it. That doesn’t seem fair to me.)

@GenericArchangel
I used to think of her as Twilight 0.5, to be honest. I honestly had mixed feelings about her whole Communist propaganda arc.

@Wayneponeth
Also to add to that bit you brought up about Discord trying to kill kids, Starlight tried to kill a few of the innocent villagers that were giving chase to her, but Twilight saved them from the blast with a force field. What I’m trying to say is Twilight should have at least attempted to befriend the others instead of just Starlight.

@Wayneponeth
You’re not getting any of what I’m conveying. I present the big picture of it all in detail, not micro-details. I explained it all just now. Discord wasn’t the one that tried to rewrite history all because he was defeated once by them, despite his own actions. Discord is chaos incarnate so it’s no surprise that he would do what he did. Obviously Celestia did this before Starlight showed up, but Twilight never made the attempt herself now did she? The points I brought up about each major villian or even misunderstood ones doesn’t change the fact that she showed empathy towards Starlight over the others. By the way you’re bringing up something about Discord that happened in the last season with him being Grogar, something that happened much much later. You’re showing way too much sympathy for one character by calling her sweet even though she only be ame that way after she was spared. Starlight was never “sweet” when they first met her. She tried to stral their cutie marks while trying to turn them into drones of the village. Her past yes, but not her adulthood.

@Conversed Corruption
What do you mean Discord was treated like trash? He literally tried to kill a bunch of children and Starlight was the one that apologized to him. All that Celestia pushing to befriend him was in season 3 which was 2 seasons before Starlight even made an appearance, and in season 4 he literally betrayed everyone’s including Fluttershy’s trust by siding with Tirek. He should have more consequences other than just him feeling sorry for himself, and that’s only because his power gets sucked off. If anything he gets treated like a saint despite putting so many in danger and manipulating others.

Other than that it’s not really Starlight’s fault other villains aren’t treated fairly, is it? Maybe it’s because she actually has improved and been in good behavior ever since her reformation. All of the hate is just unjustified bias directed toward Starlight even though she is actually become better. It’s an injustice and she doesn’t deserve it. So once again if all the problems stem from what happened to other characters instead of from Starlight herself, how has she made the entire show fall off again?

@Moonatik
Imma give the same respect and be real with you, then: your response makes me think you didn’t understand it or have an actual argument. But I won’t think less of you for thinking less of me. I’m on autopilot. Keep up the good work.