TexasUberAlles
@Olpert
4chan was the place where the first few ‘‘bronies’’ appeared
Yes, and that’s the thing; “bronies”– in the word’s original meaning of “bros who like Ponies”, not the more inclusive use of it (I know how much 4chan hates inclusiveness) as “any fan of FIM”– are not and never have been the entirety of The Fandom, and 4chan wasn’t even the only place that generated ponybros, it was just the largest cohesive-ish gathering of them in the early stages. It didn’t invent the concept of prepackaged self-adhesive sterile bandages, it just attached the name “Band-Aid” to it solidly enough to make it common usage.
The main reason thisClovis 4chan First bullshit pisses me off so much is how narrow-minded and myopic it is; it’s trying to limit a huge and open and diverse (ooh, sorry, that’s a curse word to channers) community of fans to just a few special fancy dudebros, and that is fundamentally not what this fandom is about. Faust’s vision for the show was of one that could break down boundaries and barriers by being accessible to anyone of any age or gender and just being good, and she succeeded brilliantly at that; I have sold literally thousands of FIM art stuffs, and while my largest customer base is about evenly split between 20-something guys and teenage girls, I get everyone from tiny tiny littles up to 70-something grandparents oohing and aahing at the cartoon horses at every convention. Trying to focus exclusively on one segment of the fandom as if that were the only one that matters does a disservice to everything the show stands for, and everything that made it so broad-spectrum popular in the first place.
purposely only briefly touched upon in the fourth season
Bingo. I actually think McCarthy went a little overboard with it, but it was clear that Twilight’s princessyness was deliberately downplayed throughout S4 as a way to counter the widespread perception that it would become The Princess Twilight McAlicornpants And Her Boring Dumb Friends Show. I was pleasantly surprised to see it lampshaded so hard in the S4 Finale that she was despondent over not being more princessy. She really did come across a lot more relatable than I was expecting her to.
Reflections bashing
Man, people sure do get a bug up their saddle any time the comics wreck their headcanon, huh? There’s no point to getting jimmyrustled over anything in the comics– they’re supplemental material. If they’re great and you like them, hooray!, great and likeable comic! If you find an arc irritating or unfunny, so bucking what? They can be ignored as easily as “repeat to yourself, ‘it’s just the comic, I should really just relax’.”, because they are a separate continuity from the show. Most of the comics’ biggest detractors already consider them little more than glorified fan art, so what’s the point of trippin’ balls over them then? Set your content filter to “don’t buy the comics” and move on.
4chan was the place where the first few ‘‘bronies’’ appeared
Yes, and that’s the thing; “bronies”– in the word’s original meaning of “bros who like Ponies”, not the more inclusive use of it (I know how much 4chan hates inclusiveness) as “any fan of FIM”– are not and never have been the entirety of The Fandom, and 4chan wasn’t even the only place that generated ponybros, it was just the largest cohesive-ish gathering of them in the early stages. It didn’t invent the concept of prepackaged self-adhesive sterile bandages, it just attached the name “Band-Aid” to it solidly enough to make it common usage.
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purposely only briefly touched upon in the fourth season
Bingo. I actually think McCarthy went a little overboard with it, but it was clear that Twilight’s princessyness was deliberately downplayed throughout S4 as a way to counter the widespread perception that it would become The Princess Twilight McAlicornpants And Her Boring Dumb Friends Show. I was pleasantly surprised to see it lampshaded so hard in the S4 Finale that she was despondent over not being more princessy. She really did come across a lot more relatable than I was expecting her to.
Reflections bashing
Man, people sure do get a bug up their saddle any time the comics wreck their headcanon, huh? There’s no point to getting jimmyrustled over anything in the comics– they’re supplemental material. If they’re great and you like them, hooray!, great and likeable comic! If you find an arc irritating or unfunny, so bucking what? They can be ignored as easily as “repeat to yourself, ‘it’s just the comic, I should really just relax’.”, because they are a separate continuity from the show. Most of the comics’ biggest detractors already consider them little more than glorified fan art, so what’s the point of trippin’ balls over them then? Set your content filter to “don’t buy the comics” and move on.