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TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

@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 this Clovis 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.

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CobaltMoon

@TexasUberAlles  
I never really understood what exactly made them so funny(they come off as stupid and obnoxious),but considering the reason why I left the MLP subreddit was because I was getting sick of the annoying RP in pretty much every single post’s comments.

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Olpert

It’s pretty clear that 4chan was the place where the first few “bronies” appeared(hell, even the term was coined there), and while it might be true that even without 4chan a fandom of this size could have evolved, it’s pure speculation, and it won’t change the fact that 4chan did in fact play a big part in this fandom’s creation.
 
But how about we actually talk about the show, eh?
 
I feel like Twilight’s role as princess was purposely only briefly touched upon in the fourth season, and showing her clear discomfort when adressed as such as well as the figurehead-like functions she fulfilled perfectly set up the finale. I also don’t believe her character suffered much, I still find her enjoyable and relatable.
 
What I do believe could be visited upon more is that she was led/forced the whole way by Celestia. Oh, wait, wasn’t there a comic series that touched upon that? The one that everyone seems to hate for destroying every character in it? (Please don’t start with Reflections bashing again, reading the same things over and over while not being listened to talking about the good parts gets tiring)

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TexasUberAlles
Duck - If report count was a score, he'd have the biggest score
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab

@Itsthinking  
No one ever claimed anything other than that the fandom as it is based around the show was made by 4chan.
 
Yes, dear child, I understand that is the ridiculous claim you are making, and I am telling you that is complete and utter bullshit. You did not in fact invent sex, drugs, and rock&roll; 4chan just thinks the whole world is a colon because that’s the only thing they ever see with their heads up their collective ass. It’s terribly shocking, I know, but there are in fact other people in the world who aren’t college-age dudebros who hang out on 4chan, and– hold on to your hooves!– started watching the show because it’s an awesome show and gravitated to other fans of it because that’s what fans do. You’re assuming that because your own view never changes that it must be the only view that exists, and that is patently ridiculous. My own entry into the fandom had exactly zero point nothing percent to do with 4chan; none of the people I know who are into the show have ever had anything to do 4chan aside from occasionally mocking it for drooling on itself. 4chan is not necessary to the process of becoming a fan of this show or interacting with other fans, and it never has been.
 
None of this is new. Fans always just assume that however they got into something is how everyone got into it because that’s all they ever see; the special snowflakes of the world have a tireless ability to pretend that the whole world revolves around them, and holy crap channers are some special precious snowflakes. You are seriously so far gone up your own that you’re calling previous Gen fans children? You’re a bunch of damn larvae, assuming that just because an experience is new to you it’s new to the universe. You keep doing all this talking about what other people’s motivations are and aren’t like you’re some kind of authority on the subject, but you’ve clearly never even asked any of them, or bothered to actually pay attention to anything they say or do outside of whatever little thing 4chan is telling itself at the moment in a desperate attempt to feel important. Do you know anyone who’s a fan of Doctor Who? Shut up, yes you do, you’re on the internet. Ask them which of the Doctors is their favorite, and when they’re done hyperventilating about [whichever], ask them which Doctor was the first one they saw. It’s always the same one. Fans have been doing this sort of thing forever; 4chan is not unique, it is not special, and it did not invent the friggin’ fandom.

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The_Mungoman
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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Coco Pommel is not as interesting a character as people make her up to be.  
Sure, she’s cute and nice and everything, but I don’t she deserves as much attention as she’s getting.

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