Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie
What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.
On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
Noob to here or noob to MLP stuff? Either way sure, this could be fun. Not too familiar with current gen myself.
>>37940Why would a noob know what /mlpol/ is? It left more of a paint scratch than a mark.
>>37942I mean /mlpol/ is known to people in the community, though obviously not as much as other forums.
>t left more of a paint scratch than a mark. It's faded with time. I remember Ponyshit could get you a ban a while ago, which is no longer the case now.
The series is breddy gud for a childrens show, at least I got that impression when watching a couple of episodes with my niece once. Can't say much about the fandom except that equestria at war is a damn fine hoi4 mod
Just so you know there's plenty of uploaded soviet MLP fanart to the booru, but there's even more in the various pony-pic boorus like derpi booru. Do with that what you will.
I don't remember this pony is she from some reboot or what?
>On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms?forbidden fruit and neoteny. no one expected MLP to go horse anime
>>37967her name is starlight glimmer. she's introduced in an episode centered around a town lacking any division of labour since glimglam took everyone's cutie marks away because her childhood friend moved away when he got his. it's a cautionary tale about cults, but the fandom took it to mean gommunism == everyone equal
the show does a piss poor attempt at a redemption arc for her, compared to say sunset shimmer
>>37967also no, she's from G4
G5 is useful for trolling G4 fans, especially when you point out the G4 designs are
flat >I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.
Oh yes, how dare men and boys enjoy something that's meant for girls? I blame the idiotic moral purtanisim that is rampant in American social media.
Not that surprising that liberals simply are using the same mindset as reactionary christo-fascists.
>>37939better than any other fandom i've been in
>>37974lol based
>>37971yeah, like that jenny nicholson video where she makes it clear she viewed the men in the fandom as an unwanted nuisance the whole time. and then tried to smear all of them as being homophobes because some 4channers use the word "faggot"
I'm going to repost an analysis here that I posted on /mlp/ two years ago because I remember I promised some anon that I would do so. hopefully they see it
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The political economy of Equestria
In this short essay I will examine the political economy of Equestria. Since the show is over it is now possible to carry out a more accurate analysis than previous attempts. I wrote most of this before G5 was even announced.
First of all I will address the analysis carried out by Oscar Moralde in [1]. Moralde posits that Equestrian society would become stratified, with the unicorns at the top due to their mastery of magic, a powerful force of nature in this universe. The only thing supposedly keeping unicorn supremacy in check is the "illusion" or "myth" of friendship. We now know that this view is false: it is in all three major subspecies' material interests that friendship is maintained, lest the Windigos return. If the unicorns were to defect then widespread discontent would be the result. Equestrian society would regress to pre-unification conditions, a worse state of affairs for all. We also know that friendship is literally the strongest magic there is. The many threats to Equestrian society being defeated by the magic of friendship is ample proof of this. So contrary to Moralde's assertion that friendship is false consciousness, friendship is in fact critical to the functioning of pony society. The importance of friendship cannot be overstated. Building "friendship capital" is an immensely important task within the Equestrian economy, given its relation to Equestrian defense.
Moralde is correct in noting that many episodes are centered around economic tasks. Indeed, generalized commodity production is fully developed in Equestria. There is a market where a great variety of commodities are sold, both luxury goods and essentials such as food, but most importantly that most universal of commodities: labour power. More on this later.
All creatures, not just ponies, buy things with bits, the Equestrian currency. Bits are presumably made of gold. Whereas we know that gems are not particularly valuable, gold production must be somewhat labour-intensive to be useful as metallic currency. Refining or synthesizing gold using magic should therefore be impossible or very difficult, or else the unicorns would do just that. The value of gold would drop to near zero as a result, rendering gold useless as currency. This might, again, threaten Equestria. If unicorns could easily make gold then they would not have to work, which would lead to economic stratification and discontent. It is also possible that the crown simply forbids the creation of gold, or regulates its production.
The absence of paper money suggests a poorly developed finance sector.
[1]
https://www.overthinkingit.com/2011/02/24/my-little-pony-political-economy/>>382222/3
On the topic of food and other essentials, one thing prevents poverty-stricken ponies from outright starvation. Ponies are herbivores. They are unlikely to starve so long as there is enough grass or leaves to eat. An ascetic pony could live a "grazing lifestyle", a life of primitive communism. Secondly, the ponies' coats mean they can withstand somewhat cold climates. Equestrian winters are not shown to be particularly harsh, and if grazing was widespread then the pegasi would be compelled to provide much milder winters so as to not be unfriendly. Therefore housing is a nice-to-have rather than a base necessity. YouTuber "Kimberly" shares this view, stating that "work is not required" and that there's "no homelessness, no poverty and no ponies dying due to not having health insurance" [2].
The biggest contradiction in Equestrian society appears to be the crown. The crown's control over the sun places the agrarian earth ponies in clear dependence on it, and with their food supply the rest of ponydom as well. But we also know that the unicorns are able to control the sun themselves. In other words Equestria does not actually require the crown to function. This raises the question how the crown perpetuates itself. It cannot rule by terror, for that would bring the wrath of the Windigos. The crown must therefore act benevolent. Another possibility is that the crown rules by gerontocracy, since alicorns have much longer lifespans. This allows alicorns to play the waiting game, ensuring their dominance over Equestrian political economy. But there is another possibility: perhaps alicorns, and therefore the crown, provides a "guiding hoof" due to this longevity? This is pure speculation on my part. The retirement of princesses Celestia and Luna also puts the necessity of the crown into question. The not-uncomplicated benevolence of the crown is something also noted by Kimberly, but here I disagree with their likening the crown to the USSR under Stalin and Yugoslavia under Tito. Both Stalin and Tito answered to the CPSU and the SKJ respectively, whereas the Equestrian crown answers to nopony.
We know that private property exists in Equestria since Rarity has a landlord to whom she has to pay rent. We also know wage labour exists since Rarity, element of "generosity", has employees which she generously exploits. Rarity seeks to expand her fledgling fashion empire, to put more employees under her hoof, to accumulate more and more capital, placing her firmly in the bourgeois camp. There is some evidence of class struggle as well, as one episode features a recently crowned Twilight Sparkle breaking a strike. Primitive accumulation has likely happened historically, as evidenced by ponies like Filthy Rich.
[2]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI-5I8bvXFo >>382233/3
Private property, markets and wage labour are the hallmarks of capitalism, so it seems safe to conclude that Equestria operates under a form of capitalism not as developed as ours but capitalist nonetheless. The Windigo/friendship situation might prevent capitalism from developing fully, for the resulting proletarianization of ponykind would threaten Equestria itself. This threat might not actually be something that Equestria's bourgeoisie takes seriously. Compare this to our own bourgeoisie's disregard for climate situation here on Earth, an equally cataclysmic threat. It is possible that the crown sees this threat, and actively seeks to avoid it, but with a more hooves-off approach.
The above shows us that Equestria shares some traits with the political economy of our world, but overall it is very different. The necessity of maintaining friendship places a limit on exploitation within the Equestrian economy. On the other hoof plenty of ponies are still subject to exploitation on account of the existence of wage labour. Whether this latent class tension may ever blossom into a full crisis is difficult to say. Should the crown somehow be toppled this may likely be the result, and from our own history we know that the bourgeoisie holds no particular fondness for royalty and largely considers it an irrelevant relic of the past.
I probably spent way too much time on this, and I wish I could find more nerds on the internet who had make this kind of analysis that I could cite. Oh well. Yes I saw the Hallelujah Brony video but it's full of burger libness like thinking socialism == social democracy. Honestly I could write an equally long set of posts just on this video.
>>38225thank you. I also found the one I wrote about the Hallelujah Brony video
A Marxist analysis of Starlight Glimmer's town and a critique of Hallelujah Brony's analysis thereof
by marxfag
The two-part "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" season five starter "The Cutie Map" centers around a small town lead by a unicorn pony named Starlight Glimmer. In this town every pony shares the same cutie mark, an equals sign. The equals sign represents Starlight Glimmer's philosophy, a kind of equality based on sameness, of nopony excelling in any particular skill. This is very different from the rest of Equestrian society where a pony's cutie mark represents their special talent, their place in the division of labour.
The town is very remote, with the nearest train stop also being the end of its line. It consists of just thirteen buildings, each one unlikely to house more than perhaps two families, say eight ponies. Starlight Glimmer lives on her own. This puts the population of the town at under 100. 99 if I counted the cutie mark vault correctly. This is not enough ponies to maintain a distinct mode of production all on their own.
The town does not seem to make use of money. This suggests a kind of primitive communism, the kind we see within families or groups of friends. The town's remoteness and lack of visible agriculture contrasts with other more developed parts of rural Equestria such as Appleoosa.
Communism as a mode of production, the hypothetical end state of the socialist project, is characterized by the maxim "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need". Abundance. Ponies being free to realize their full potential. We see this to some extent in the rest of Equestria, though hampered by wage labour, private property and the vestigial crown. This is in stark contrast with Glimglam's town, where each pony is stripped of their unique abilities. There is no division of labour, neither technical nor social. The resulting mediocre productivity is very plain to see. Shoddy cloaks. Bland cupcakes. Drab curtains.
This leaves the question what the town is exactly. The obvious answer is a destructive cult. The town is just the unhealthy way in which Starlight tries to cope with her insecurities. This works for the show, since we want to teach children to develop and think for themselves and not just conform to peer pressure, and to not take their problems out on others, but to ask for help instead.
Not much more can be said about the episode or the town. It is too small to maintain its own mode of production. It is too small to function as a state, an instrument of class rule. The townsponies are subjects of the Equestrian crown, as evidenced by the crown sending in its friendship police, the mane six.
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Hallelujah Brony's video
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEaZR3wyraAEarly on HB makes the argument that the town is an example of egalitarianism. That all ponies are of equal value and worthy of respect. And we can ascribe some of this to Starlight's philosophy for sure. But at its core Starlight's philosophy is one of the abolishment of the division of labour, the pressing of all ponies into the same mould. This is not the goal of communists, since it contradicts with "from each according to ability". Note that I use "communist" and "socialist" interchangably. For socialists/communists the end goal is always communism.
After this, HB gets into definitions, which is where we encounter the main problem. HB posits that there are three systems, three modes of production: capitalism, socialism and communism. Capitalism in Germany and the US, socialism in Norway, Sweden and China and communism in the USSR and Cuba. Capitalism is accurate, so let's look at "socialism".
What HB tries to say here is that socialism is when there is a mixed economy, where the state has more oversight over the economy, when the government does stuff while the economy itself remains capitalist. But this is not what socialists mean by these terms. Socialism is a distinct mode of production, "to each according to their contribution", what Marx called "lower-phase" communism. See Marx' Critique of the Gotha Programme (
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/). It is a tit-for-tat type of communism. Over time, possibly several generations, the need for such tit-for-tat should wither away, and a "higher-phase" communist mode of production would thus prevail: "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs". We call that state of affairs communism. A stateless, classless, moneyless society of abundance where everypony is free to develop themselves fully. Whether this is actually possible to achieve is unknown, possibly unknowable.
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With the above said, are the countries HB label as socialist, socialist? No, they are not. This is not to say "not real communism!" but rather a statement of fact. The country that is arguably closest is China, but even the Communist Party of China doesn't say its economy is communist, or even socialist. The current slogan in China is "socialism by 2050". Similarly the USSR didn't called itself communist, even though it was run by communists. The USSR did call itself socialist, or sometimes "transitioning to socialism", depending on what era we're talking about. For example Josef Stalin proclaimed at the end of the second five year plan that the union had finally achieved socialism. But in the 1950's Stalin admitted that this wasn't really the case. See part III of Political Economy (
https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/). Khrushchev talked about "communism by 1980", which obviously didn't happen as the USSR instead went the route of liberalization, shock therapy and dissolution. This is why it is very important to be specific with what terms like "socialism" or "communism" mean.
So this is the main problem with HB's thesis, and it is stated explicitly by him at 2:37. On top of this is the notion that Glimglam's little commune is a mode of production unto itself. But it is still under the hoof of the crown. At 2:50 HB again claims that socialism is "partly capitalistic", which it is not.
HB does provide some useful questions we can ask. What is their social structure? Who owns the means of production? What is their political system? How is the market structured? These are all useful questions, except for the last one which does not apply to socialism or communism since they, by definition, have no market.
When answering "what is their social structure?", HB claims that classes have been abolished. But not only are the townsponies subjects of the crown, they are also ruled over by Starlight Glimmer through.. let's say "powerful suggestion".
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Who owns the means of production? We know that Equestria has private property. We see very little evidence of means of production, especially of what Marx calls fixed capital. Where does the bakery get its flour from? There is no mill. There are no fields. Where does the barber buy his combs and scissors? Does he make them himself? Where does he get the metal? HB is probably right that the townsponies own their houses in some way. If Starlight owned all of it then she could choose to evict everypony purely out of spite. But dwellings are personal property, not private property, so this doesn't tell us much about who controls the MoPs.
HB suggests that Glimglam decides what is to be produced, and this is why the choice of clothes, baked goods and so on is so limited. But this is more easily explained by the mediocre productivity caused by the townsponies' lack of special talents, the abolishment of the division of labour by fiat. When doctors are forced to be bakers, or barbers to be cobblers, the result is shoddy work. Pauperism is not socialism, still less communism.
Around 7:33 HB suggests that the town could be a fascist state. But one hundred ponies does not a state make. HB is correct to note that Glimmy doesn't have a military. This again is due to the small size of the town. Fascism arises in capitalism whenever class tensions come to a boil. It is a tool used by the bourgeoisie. It is open class warfare. And as I have already discussed, Equestrian society has barely entered capitalism. It has not had time to decay into fascism, nor is it likely to. The collective psychic gestalt of Equestria literally grows stronger the more friends it makes.
HB ends by claiming that he has made an "educational video". But since specifics are important when talking about political economy, I disagree. It's half-assed because HB hasn't done the necessary reading.
>>38272>Sorry, sci-hub has not included this article yetgot pdf?
>picslol
>>38413Used to post shit like that all time in MLPG back in 2010. These things, they do not change.
>>38550I think he misses the forbidden fruit angle. boys are not supposed to like MLP. hence the G4 fandom was transgressive. but by this it no longer is transgressive imo
>>38553Idk most people still think adults looking ponies is weird
>>38555sure but the novelty has sort of worn off
>>38432it was always hella cringe and i'm saying this as someone who got into this shit since the early days on /co/, the cringiest shit was people making a huge deal out of being a brony or whatever. this shit had massive powerpuff girls energy and thus appealed to millenial males who grew up with CN, if this had been the exact same show except centered around original characters instead of being an offshoot of a franchise that is extremely girl-coded, nobody would have batted an eye at the fanbase.
>>38559MLPG sure was a shithole.
But sometimes I miss that shithole, just a little bit.
Fond memories of gawking at background ponies for any standouts. Sad that got ruined too.
>>38559>nobody would have batted an eye at the fanbase.I mean the brony fandom definitely went a lot further than most cartoon fans, you don't see dozens of Adventure Time conventions and tens of thousands of fan fics/comics/etc
>>38561>and tens of thousands of fan fics/comics/etcNot sure about that, especially with adenture time I've seen plenty of fanfics and comics, but I agree on the convention thing, only other fandom I've seen do a dedicated convention for just itself is Star Trek. Usually conventions are about a genre or medium, like furry, steampunk, renaisance, comic, anime, film, ect.. from what I understand.
>>38562I mean sure there's plenty of fan works for most things but there's dedicated pony fanfic site, pony boorus (multiple), pony imageboards (formerly), etc.
>>38564it looks like it's mostly used for pony porn lol
https://ponepaste.org/archive >>38553>>38555I think it's probably MORE weird now. At the beginning it was kind of absurd for a dude to be into that shit, which made it funny. So people would get into it just for the meme of it. But now, rumors of 4chan cum jars have circulated, and the hatedom has developed, so you just get written off as a sex pest if you admit interest in the show/fandom. A similar process is happening with transhumanists, imo
>>38589if you're not like "how the media portrays radical leftists" you've failed as a leftist
pony should pony pony
>>39073>RD has a hornwhat a blunder
>>39156No, no, you don't.
>>37939 (OP)
>hegemonic Western gender normsAnon, most people follow those very gender norms out of social pressure, not out of a genuine desire. They obviously don't give a single flying fuck about them if they are in private, and the more isolated and introverted you are, the less fuck you give. That obviously correlates with autism. Also colorful characters like in Sonic, autists seem to like that too… And some fans are into porn, yes.
>>39197Do you think people temporarily dissociate from the real world and become completely rational & self-aware when they write books or something? These women are being hypocritical towards the femininity rat race for the same reason a man who's critiquing the masculinity rat race wouldn't just write shit like "I don't care so that makes me a beta male, I guess. So what?". They both instead try to weasel around it and find a way to still be "masculine" or "feminine".
All of that doesn't disprove that anon's point. It'd still be embarrassing & damaging to their social prestige to write that, so you haven't proven that they really & actually want to be seen as masculine/feminine purely out of their own volition.
>>39197so what i gather from this is autists are the only people capable of not being socially reactionary
>>39258>>39260>you haven't proven that they really & actually want to be seen as masculine/feminine purely out of their own volition.Yeah I realized half-way through writing it I was kinda schizo-rambling. It really depends on what you mean by "volition"; which ends up as a free will debate. If I pull my hand away from a hot stove did I "want" to not get burned because skin damage could cause cancer or simply had an involuntary reaction to pain that coincided with a longer lifespan? Do I "want" to be masculine to get laid or is it just instinct to perform arbitrarily masculine social behaviors around females? It's both; the average normie doesn't really think about it beyond how to improve their appearance to others. If they get compliments they continue the behavior, if they get insults they disengage.
I guess you could say the illusion of free will is the ultimate cope. Any past behavior can be construed in any framework that makes your ego feel better. Normies do what makes them feel good, and fitting in is what does it. Autists don't follow gender norms cuz they're smarter, they just don't get the dopamine high from social conformity and rage-cope when the things they want (sex, companionship) are predicated on following that conformity.
>>39353Well it's not really 'ironic' because of course it's autists making this just like it's white people making 'big black cock' porn
>>39363I thought it was a reasonable analogy but ok man
>>39412surrender the Avena sativa
While the most famous Generation on the internet memes is Generation 4 MLP: Friendship is Magic, honestly the original G1 is better.
>>39460Saberspark is a retard tbh. He has a few good takes but… Anyway Gen 1 was pretty dark at times and Tirac from the G1 movie was a fucking genocidal devil centaur.
Gen 4 is almost entirely teacups and frilliness, because its treated as something for young audiences and was meant to teach young children positive messages while also being funny and cute. It was a different niche compared to the original series.
G5 IDK.
>>39461>Gen 4 is almost entirely teacups and frillinessHave you actually watched it though?
>>39462Some of it? I'm not saying it doesn't have plot driven episodes that can appear dark, but compared to the 80s and 90s, its very light and cheery.
>>39516>glittersplosionMicroplastics have been introduced to equestria
>>39612What are ya some kind of pervert?
>>39616I'm a man who loves mares as God intended them.
>>39612four hooves good
two hooves bad
let's not even talk about >no hooves saw this thread by accident and now i'm converted these ponies are cute as fuck
>>40531When are you actually watching the show(s)
THOUGH >>40526thought the first one was going to turn into the glass of chocolate milk meme
>>40533The fandom is better than the actual show TBQH
>>40540watching the first 2 seasons and then watching abridged series (mentally advanced series, friendship is witchcraft, ultra fast pony) is kino
>>40533i've watched season 1 so far. this is pretty cool. if something bad happens im shooting my tv with the shotgun
>>40559synopsis:
>chapter 6pony harry's dream is visited by three dominant alicorn mares. definitely no subtext here
>chapter 7pony harry and the washing machine of mystery. also pony joyce is a nerd
>chapter 8pony harry and the dominant police chief mare. definitely no subtext. will the diversity hire pass the drug test?
>>40715All fanfics are bad. Or so I was told.
>>40720sturgeon's law applies
>90% of everything is crap >>40722I still saw good examples of fan art, fan games and fan edits way, way more often while fanfics have the same posh pretentious horny writing style. Not to mention that if the author fucks up with a game or an artwork it sticks out like a soar thumb while with fanfics you have to go several pages in before realizing that you're reading cringe. Also, typing linguistically correct sentences (as opposed to worldbuilding and consistent writing) is easier to do than drawing accurately or editing without choppy transitions and botched music or programming without bugs and glitches so fanfics are all incredibly overcrowded with low-effort walls of text that are a torture to go through.
>>40723There's plenty of good fanfics.
>>40724Then why do fanfics have such an unflattering reputation?
>>40727>Elitism.Really? Hm, maybe I am underestimating fanfiction. I'm just scared to dive into it unless there are ways to find good fanfics. Does fanfiction.net have any rating system? Is it of any help?
>>40723>Not to mention that if the author fucks up with a game or an artwork it sticks out like a soar thumb while with fanfics you have to go several pages in before realizing that you're reading cringe.I mean I haven't played that many MLP fan games, but in general I've played plenty of games that fell off after being good starting off. Written media is harder to write off early tho.
>>40729fanfiction.net is a terrible website unfortunately but if you sort by number of favourites then you will roughly speaking get the better fics at the top. fimfiction is a lot better IMO because it has a upvote and downvote system, if you sort by rating it's decent
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?order=topthough most of the fics that are most highly rated are one chapter for some reason so if you search specifically for longer fics that helps
https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=words%3A%3E50000&order=toppersonally my most memorable fic is
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/18087/the-best-night-ever read it years ago and enjoyed it. I also read a Helluva Boss fic with the same premise a month ago and enjoyed that, not sure if they were inspired by the MLP fic or if it's just a popular fanfic trope
https://archiveofourown.org/works/34956403/chapters/87055096 >>40731If fanfiction.net is terrible then what is the best general fanfic site then? What about fan comics?
>>40733AO3 (archiveofourown.org) is probably one of the better ones. lots of filter options, little to no obnoxious javascript crap. you can even vote on fics without logging in
>>40734Groundhog Day is so famous that I'm not even surprised.
>>40735>little to no obnoxious javascript crapIs this heaven?
Watch and learn, Leftypol.
>>40734well yes I knew about the movie of course but I feel that since this is one of the most famous MLP fics it might be based on that instead of the movie
Communism is turning every human to have ever existed, including those who had already died, into ponies.
>>40765literally the premise of TNO hoi4 mod april fools day, that resurrected/transform old russian communists into ponies to unify russia
>>40766great minds think alike. finally have a reason to try out that mod, cheers
>>40770have you played EAW?
>>40771yeah it's pretty fun, some interesting communist paths too especially considering harmonists in this setting aren't nearly as bad as the supposed democracies of our world
though i wish zebrica had a few more pony nations, and stalliongrad is in need of a rework
>>40852It's like with the Smash Bros scandals: the pedos seem to consistently target fandoms of media targetted at a younger audience.
>>40857this isn't about what the "moral majority" thinks. it's about pedos and their enablers creating spaces for pedophiles, thus normalizing pedophilia
>>40861Foals (in the MLP sense) aren't real. Even if you think this kind of content should be banned what is the benefit of such a list besides a witchhunt?
>>40852>All of the users listed in this document are either involved in some way with the consumption, creation, promotion, and/or distribution of material that sexualizes children, or have shown in some capacity to not be safe to have in a server with minors.
>Some of the information in this report has been reported to service providers and to law enforcement, as some of the actions and activity discovered are in violation of service agreements or US law. At least one arrest is known to have been made. I don't get it, is this link you have made by a single person? From all the data and names this guy colected, only one person was arrested for pedo stuff. There should be more regulations so that "foal" stuff is not considered "normal", nor desirable, but correct me if i interpreted the data in the wrong way, just one guy was an actual pedophile. MLP is kinda dead anyway, no children watches it anymore, is just a funny cartoon show of magical horses and friendship with memes, also great mods like EAW and TNO.
Discord should not allow kids and young people in there, is not safe at all >>40875> DO NOT FUCK THIS< It's OK to fuck this!uygha you can't fuck either they are not real what are you even on about
>>40876Right. You can fuck anything in fantasy, that's the whole point
>>40878Thank you, that's very helpful for my Stellaris mod projects.
>>42709have ya played EAW?
>>42444>gold-hoarding dragons>greedy griffons>communist revolutionariesno
>>42709As a side note I uploaded pic 2 and translated it on the booru.
>>42715Skynavia is great, but what about communist tobuck and hipogriffa?
>>42723They're cool too but Skynavia seems like the most actually democratic and it's also a fun challenge since they always lose when they're AI.
>>38223Rarity appears to operate with an apprenticeship system, and as far as I know the first and only example of labor being sold as a commodity is seen in the episode where Applejack runs away and the rest of the ponies need to work in a cherry factory.
>>42992>apprenticeshipisn't that worse though? at least as a wagie you get paid. or do you mean apprenticing to take over her business? surely not all ponies in her employ have such an arrangement?
>>43049Most apprentices get paid
>>43050right, I'm confusing it with indentured servants. like Benjamin Franklin who was indentured to his brother and learned to print books as part of it
well we don't have much to go on I think - it's conceivable that the ponies working in Rarity's shops are co-owners
>>43050What country? A lot of apprenticeships I know of in the USA are unpaid.
>>43069in the UK i'm pretty sure apprenticeships are paid (but less than minimum wage sometimes)
>>43104it's pretty bad yeah
>>43179Agent Kochinski pls go
>>43181>How original. don't care
Agent Kochinski pls go
>>43173I like it. It feels like a theater play where they don't make a big deal about the 4th wall.
The pacing is way too fast tho, they need more quiet moments so kids can actually process what they're looking at before being hit with more information. Even my 24 year old brain can barely keep up.
>>43197Soundtrack is great, especially the stuff with Adrianne Cowan singing.
I haven't watched it yet but my not yet challenged assumption is well thought out music = well thought out story too.
>>43198 (me)
Also this two part banger.
I thought Adrianne was in this one, as I figured All Hail Savior from Arknights sounded like part 2, but I guess not.
>>43197Its not generic anime trash, but trash nevertheless, I wouldnt recommend it. Handful of cool fight scenes and decent OST, but Jesus Christ, the writing is atrocious.
A short answer to all posts I'm replying to: See the RWBY thread
>>>/anime/8783 Honestly I just suggest watching the trailers on youtube Red, White, Black and Yellow.
>>43197It's definitely not generic anime trash, but it does have an obvious anime influence.
It's something that started off as an early 2010s machinima, so there's jank and other issues reminiscent of many 90s/early-2000s cartoons with 3D elements. A big appeal was the fight choreography of the first 3 Volumes, which is what Monty was well known for. Regardless, it's still fun, the soundtrack is fucking great, the original 3 volumes have a pretty good story with a unique world and design and its generally fun. The plot gets stupider over time as does some of the writing (even as the animation improves), but to be short, you either like it or you don't. I did because I watched it come out on youtube and I just enjoyed it for what it was and even when it took a down-turn after Monty died, I still enjoyed parts of it. It's certainly not any worse than MLP.
On a different note, regardless of the actual show, A LOT of RWBY fics, especially crossovers tend to be really fun and good.
>>43198>>43200 As a fan from the start, I'll say outright it's a mixed bag. It's not a work of high art.
>>43186>The pacing is way too fast thoTYT has the same problem. it's not like you can't make something well-paced within 5-6 minutes either - look at Bluey
>>43228>enjoys horse cock>does not enjoy the horse showhow does this happen?
>>43219this show is online though, they have to compete with cocomelon and shit
>>43369blooi clips are popular doe
>>40531update. watched some of the show. enjoyed it a lot but didn't like the twilicorn or cadance stuff so i dropped properly watching it after s3. but still a lot of fun episodes after it. really loved the kirin one. i'm so sad i missed the autism train on this by 10 years
>>43593kinda seems like AI
>>43594not so sure about AI. I think it's an elaborate ruse
>>43595The voice sounds kinda AI to me, obviously at least some human intervention would be needed for the visuals, honestly I got bored and stopped watching after like 30 seconds though.
I don't think they can ever get the original magic (if you will) back
>>43596>I don't think they can ever get the original magic (if you will) backprobably not no
>>43595skipped arouind and twilight's face is really inconsistent, especially around the snout (sometimes it's a literal human nose) so like 80% of this is AI
Somebody already said it I guess but Equestria is an absolutist hegemonic Kingdom, this is like K-On, nothing too bad happens but you can see character progression. I guess. Idk I've never watched it but it looks similar
I want to cum inside Anon
>>44221I wish to emigrate to Equestria
The only part I feel bad about/oppose is turning Earth and all its other life and creatures into computing substrate. Well ok I oppose some of the rest too but still much better than current reality
>>43347>>43348can someone repost these pictures?
>>45738we've had gay horses and now autistic gay horses. what's next?
>>45856Damn, wish we had cool shit like this here.
>>46051liberal settler colonist brain doing the "both sides" coin not much more to it unfortunately
>>46051coexistence with each nig*a
>>46051Well that is season 3 I believe, Faust left the show at that point.
So I wanna ask if anypony has been through this, I wanna preface with context
I’ve only been around earth ponies ever since I was born, my town was a 20k population town near Maretime Bay with 99.99% earth pony population, I have only seen unicorns two or three times a year, I had one unicorn friend but I never wanted to try and force a friendship ofc
But now I moved to Bridlewood that’s mostly unicorns, like 80% or so I’ve heard. But now my heart races when I’m trotting on the sidewalk and a unicorn is walking my way and like, Im not racist intentionally or anything, I watch and read a lot about unicorn struggles especially in Zephyr Heights and I know there isn’t a reason for me to freak out, but I literally haven’t been around enough unicorns to normalize it in my head I think.
How do I stop myself from acting like a liberal and offer a 5 bit hoof app in reparations (I’m kidding ofc what I mean is how do I stop being overly nice) or thinking “shit am I galloping racist” when a unicorn is near me and shit, I just wanna be normal.
Do I need to wait and just chill out for a while while I get used to it, or do I have some studying or soul searching to do?
This also extends to pegasi too, for some reason I catch myself thinking “it’d be cool to have a pegasus friend” and shit. I feel like a horrible pony.
>>46051we need Frantz Fanon pony.
>>46079less shitposting on the ponynet, more writing friendship reports, Starlight
>>46178Oh, shit. I didn’t realize I used the same image as the OP lol still hope to maybe see some activity here though!
>>46195>>46204 Ah, yes!! A fellow Tamers fan!!!
The latest movie was absolute cinema!
>>46247>I’m getting a raging hard-onMe too, Flawless. Me too!
One of my favorite, maybe somewhat morose, pastimes is doing fandom archaeology. I missed the original golden age of pony but visiting old sites and forums gives me a taste of what I missed out on. One in particular that's always stuck with me is this one. Something about it is so earnest and optimistic I can't imagine this type of site existing on today's dead web:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141001001853/http://bronyaerospace.net/about-us/I love revisiting the team's bios. It's just a bunch of dudes rocking. They're offbeat but they aren't hurting anybody. I'll never get over how social media pretty much bullied this kind of harmless nerdy and/or awkward Guy™ out of existence on the premise that hotter, cooler, and more socially attractive posters would fill the void and instead the internet just got taken over by the most cynical and self-absorbed natsoys, techbros, girlbosses and boomers. Unsanctioned "loser" fandoms and subcultures like bronies did more for giving people creative fulfillment and social acceptance than any corporate-sponsored influencer astroturf campaign or red vs. blue culture war brainrot since. We didn't know how good we had it back then, and we'll never get it back again.
>>46303>rainbowdash.net is still up>still running the same ancient version of statusnetamazing. I also remember it got banned by the Mastodon HOA for some reason
building communism is too hard fuck it just turn everyone into ponies
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