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(I didn't, largely since I've never watched a single episode, but the psychic damage and whiplash of Wholesome Pony Show having said this line was too fuckn much for me)

EDIT: More replies than upbears now. It’s probably an official struggle session now (although most of it is that one person). One must imagine SisyFEWs happy.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The hatred of My Little Pony's was the precursor to modern online fandom discourse. People's online response to this show (good, bad, or indifferent) warped how the internet talks about fandom in a major way and online culture as whole in a lesser extent.

Look in this thread. The old tiresome "X is for babies" symptomatic brainworms wriggling is on display. yea

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's so inevitable that even bringing up that particular show is going to churn out a similar vibe to what happened in the early 2000s if someone so much as brought up furries. frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Has any other fandom reached the peak that MLP:FiM did? Maybe Rick and Morty, right before the Szechuan Sauce incident embarrassed everyone who liked that show so much that they stopped wanting to be associated with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At the risk of setting them off again, I argue that Gambo, at its height, was like that, and unlike FiM or even R&M it had painfully mainstream saturation. It was basically impossible to exist in public anywhere with a line or a waiting room, where a TV or a magazine could be found, without "WHICH MURDERFUCKER IS ON THE IRON THRONE THIS WEEK?" so-true headlined everywhere, for years. I had to involuntarily learn a lot about that show during that time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gambo! Can't believe I didn't think about that.

Come to think of it, that one also crashed spectacularly like the R&M one did, although it was from a failure of the show itself rather than the fans embarrassing themselves in thousands of McDonalds all across America. MLP:FiM for all its fandom's excesses just sort of faded out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The banker-born sexpest failson creeps that ran that show had everything going for it and still drove it into the ground with sheer fucking hubris with a side order of resentment toward Emilia Clarke because she started pushing back and didn't want to just be their (CW: SV)

spoileractually-weeping-because-of-contractual-coercion SV plaything on camera anymore so they character assassinated the character then had her murderfucked as petty retaliation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Maybe it's rooted in weird gender coding stuff? I do find it odd the selective salty-ness of the net being weirded out by one children's animated television show but not another. I'm not even on the "let people enjoy things" tip, but it's just weird the show about unicorns, rainbows, and friendship gets mad hate but if it were a show about kiddos fist fighting against the forces of evil and you get a pass.

It's always just "You are grown, you are watching a show for girls." It's never any valid leftist critique one could probably make in a integrious way like the original poster talking about centrism for example.

Personally I don't rock with MLP. However, I dig lots of the new generations cartoons like "Adventure Time" and "Rise of the TMNT" which are "for boys" but no one bugs out about that. Which is kinda telling to me.

As if we all didn't go see Barbie by the way. A movie about a product "for babies".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's rooted in weird gender coding stuff?

A lot of it is, "girly" media are constantly ridiculed and villified to an extent that hypermasculine Vin Diesel shlock never is. but ima be honest here, what put me off in regards to MLP where the fedora guys fantasizing about horse ass all day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As if we all didn't go see Barbie by the way.

I think a recent version of "X IS FOR BABIES" brainworms came from people that didn't just not see Barbie (it's fine, no one has to watch it) but made "didn't see Barbie" into some badge of maturity (or in some cases, performative masculinity) in contrast to Oppenheimer (it's fine, you are allowed to watch it, or not) as, once again, MATURITY(tm) discourse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen both of these films by way of people's reactions to them

I've actually seen neither

This is how I see most films these days