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The '''My Little Pony''' franchise consists of a series of toys and cartoons created and owned by [[Hasbro]] (yes, [[Wizards of the Coast|that Hasbro]]). As anyone with even a passing familiarity with the subject will know, the target demographic is [[loli|small girls]], and Hasbro generally regards the animated component as an advertisement for the line of toys (just like with [[Transformers]]). The franchise has been around since the eighties and retained popularity with the little girls for whom it is made, but the most recent revision begun in 2010 has seen an explosion of popularity on the internet, amassing a cult following of adult (or semi-adult) men
(and a few women)
as a result of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' cartoon.
These
fans, present on the net in disturbingly large numbers, call themselves '''bronies''', and while every enthusiastic fanbase on the Internet tends to sow [[rage|drama]] everywhere they go, the bronies have
done so on
a
never seen before scale
.
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The '''My Little Pony''' franchise consists of a series of toys and cartoons created and owned by [[Hasbro]] (yes, [[Wizards of the Coast|that Hasbro]]). As anyone with even a passing familiarity with the subject will know, the target demographic is [[loli|small girls]], and Hasbro generally regards the animated component as an advertisement for the line of toys (just like with [[Transformers]]). The franchise has been around since the eighties and retained popularity with the little girls for whom it is made, but the most recent revision begun in 2010 has seen an explosion of popularity on the internet, amassing a cult following of adult (or semi-adult) men as a result of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' cartoon.
There's also a healthy female audience, but they're largely not spoken of, since it's not viewed as weird when girls enjoy lovable, marshmallow horses.
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Pony
fans, present on the net in disturbingly large numbers, call themselves '''bronies'''
, ponyfags, and a variety of other monikers
, and while every enthusiastic fanbase on the Internet tends to sow [[rage|drama]] everywhere they go, the bronies have
had their notoriety given
a
leg up by moderator temper tantrums and mass banning across 4chan
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Everything pre-G4 is generally regarded as pretty terrible without much in the way of argument between anyone (except perhaps five-year-old girls, and they bite if you insult their ponies). To produce G4, however, Hasbro brought in Lauren Faust, known for her previous work on shows like the ''Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', and also known for having a major bone to pick with stereotypical girl's entertainment. She saw the posting as a golden opportunity to make a girl's show that wasn't completely terrible and set to work with gusto, assembling her team and churning out a show - subtitled "Friendship is Magic" - that went to air on Hasbro's own TV channel, The Hub, aiming to teach young girls lessons about friendship and being a decent person without perpetuating horrible stereotypes about fashion and other such "girly" pursuits, which I'm sure we can all agree is pretty cool. Except for [[That Guy]], but he's a [[Matt Ward|faggot]].
Everything pre-G4 is generally regarded as pretty terrible without much in the way of argument between anyone (except perhaps five-year-old girls, and they bite if you insult their ponies). To produce G4, however, Hasbro brought in Lauren Faust, known for her previous work on shows like the ''Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', and also known for having a major bone to pick with stereotypical girl's entertainment. She saw the posting as a golden opportunity to make a girl's show that wasn't completely terrible and set to work with gusto, assembling her team and churning out a show - subtitled "Friendship is Magic" - that went to air on Hasbro's own TV channel, The Hub, aiming to teach young girls lessons about friendship and being a decent person without perpetuating horrible stereotypes about fashion and other such "girly" pursuits, which I'm sure we can all agree is pretty cool. Except for [[That Guy]], but he's a [[Matt Ward|faggot]].
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The problems began when [[:/co/]] discovered the show. Up until a few episodes in, MLP:FiM had gone unnoticed and ignored by most people outside its target demographic. When someone linked a blog lamenting the "death of creator-driven animation" (targeting the new show specifically) on /co/, however, the denizens investigated. To their surprise, some of them - despite being so far outside the target demographic they couldn't hit it with a [[Deathstrike Missile Launcher]], let alone an [[Vindicare|Exitus rifle]] - actually ''liked'' it - and immediately began to share and spread it, like a four-legged Syphilis. This began an explosion of pony popularity on 4chan, as /co/ soon became consumed by the subject and it rapidly spread to almost every other board. A traditional civil war erupted between fans and
everyone else
, who regarded the flood of pony posts as invading waves of [[cancer]].
Eventually
the ponies became so prolific and the situation so bad that they were [[Exterminatus|near-globally banned from 4chan]]
.
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The problems began when [[:/co/]] discovered the show. Up until a few episodes in, MLP:FiM had gone unnoticed and ignored by most people outside its target demographic. When someone linked a blog lamenting the "death of creator-driven animation" (targeting the new show specifically) on /co/, however, the denizens investigated. To their surprise, some of them - despite being so far outside the target demographic they couldn't hit it with a [[Deathstrike Missile Launcher]], let alone an [[Vindicare|Exitus rifle]] - actually ''liked'' it - and immediately began to share and spread it, like a four-legged Syphilis. This began an explosion of pony popularity on 4chan, as /co/ soon became consumed by the subject and it rapidly spread to almost every other board. A traditional civil war erupted between fans and
raging, anti-pony lunatics
, who regarded the flood of pony posts as invading waves of [[cancer]].
After the mods began issuing board-wide decrees telling everyone how angry it would make them if ponies were posted on their boards,
the ponies became so prolific and the situation so bad that they were [[Exterminatus|near-globally banned from 4chan]].
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Considering how Touhou had spread like this previously on /tg/ and /v/, but never warranted such a ban, that was one ''hell'' of an accomplishment. Probably because Touhou is actually kinda human, had some [[Dakka|actual awesomeness in it]], and at least not as disgustingly furry (which even 4chan, of all people, considers the most vile form of [[heresy]]) as ponies
.
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In the meantime, however, as with all things popular
on
4chan, the fandom had escaped into the wild and began their great crusade of the wider internet. [http:
//
www.equestriadaily.com Brony-targeted] [http:
//
ponibooru.413chan.net/ websites] began to appear
,
garnering huge audiences; the terrifyingly creative and almost-religious fanbase started producing musical remixes
,
fanart, pornography
, and
horrible, horrible fanfiction faster than
a
[[Peasant Railgun]] in full swing, getting their obsession
all
over
the
internet and attracting global attention and media coverage both positive and negative. The "bronies" have suffered a large backlash as a result
of
getting their ponies all over the place, however, and anti-fans are likewise commonplace pretty much anywhere you go and find MLP mentioned
.
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Considering how Touhou had spread like this previously
on /
tg
/
and
/
v
/,
but never warranted such a ban
,
that was one ''hell'' of an accomplishment
, and
also perhaps
a
hell of mismanagement by 4chan staff
all
around. Maybe because Touhou is actually kinda human and not considered furry by types that fall into rage convulsions at
the
sight
of
talking animals
.
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God ''damn'' it
.
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In the meantime, as with all things popular, the fandom had escaped into the wild and began their great induction to the wider internet. [http://www.equestriadaily.com Brony-targeted] [http://ponibooru.413chan.net/ websites] began to appear, garnering huge audiences; the terrifyingly creative and almost-religious fanbase started producing musical remixes, fanart, pornography, and horrible, horrible fanfiction faster than a [[Peasant Railgun]] in full swing, getting their obsession all over the internet and attracting global attention and media coverage both positive and negative
.
==What the Hell?==
==What the Hell?==
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Fa/tg/uys have a historical record of wishing to be the little girl, but the days when /tg/ stood for /totally gay/ and/or /[[Touhou|touhou games]]/ have long since passed and are merely a happy memory now, so our beloved board responded to the Pony plague in much the same way that /tg/ responds to everything it doesn't know how to feel about: [[RAGE|violent anger]].
Fa/tg/uys have a historical record of wishing to be the little girl, but the days when /tg/ stood for /totally gay/ and/or /[[Touhou|touhou games]]/ have long since passed and are merely a happy memory now, so our beloved board responded to the Pony plague in much the same way that /tg/ responds to everything it doesn't know how to feel about: [[RAGE|violent anger]].
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For serious, it's just another iteration of the same thing. We saw it before with [[Touhou]], we'll see it again some other time and wish that Ponies were the least of our problems. Regardless, /tg/'s mods
learned
from their past mistakes, and fired up the [[Commissar|Commissariat]] - discussion of ''My Little Pony'' on /tg/ is now [[Extra Heresy]] and will be responded to with bans.
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For serious, it's just another iteration of the same thing. We saw it before with [[Touhou]], we'll see it again some other time and wish that Ponies were the least of our problems. Regardless, /tg/'s mods
never learn
from their past mistakes, and fired up the [[Commissar|Commissariat]] - discussion of ''My Little Pony'' on /tg/ is now [[Extra Heresy]] and will be responded to with bans.
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Curiously, even after the global banning of pony discussion, the most prolific of Pony posters generally evacuated to safer havens than 4chan and, though the
Ponies are still common-as-hell on /b/, /f/, and /co/, they're infrequently brought up on the other boards anymore, /tg/ included. The addition of the /mlp/ board
also
gave
the
ponyfags
of 4chan
a general board to post their content
so they wouldn't have
to anywhere else.
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Ponies are still common-as-hell on /b/, /f/, and /co/,
but
they're infrequently brought up on the other boards anymore, /tg/ included. The addition of the /mlp/ board gave ponyfags a general board to post their content
. The mods make it too much trouble
to
fight for it
anywhere else.
The general reaction to any mention of ponies on /tg/ varies between simple exuberance, to indifference and apathy, to [[Khorne]]-pausing [[RAGE]] depending on how well you roll, though the second scenario is more prevalent overall. Even with the bans in place, fans on /tg/ have proven their time-honored ability to [[/tg/ gets shit done|get shit done]] and produced a veritable arsenal of Pony-flavoured [[RPG]]s, including titles like [[Don't Rest Your Hooves]], [[Ponyfinder]], [[Poor Unfortunate Foals]] and other things that can be found on the internet and had their genesis in /tg/. It just goes to show that even when something's completely ridiculous, /tg/ won't be prevented from dicking around with it and trying to make some win in the process, or at least prying some laughs and mockery out of it. If you go looking around the seven Internets, you can even find fanfiction about the main cast playing [[D&D]], which is like product-placement inception when you remember ''it's all owned by [[Hasbro]] now''. [[Just as planned]]. While 40K has fallen to the filthy plague of pastel-coloured horse loving man-children, regular Warhammer has not, owing to the fact that WHFB has largely into obscurity outside the Tabletop scene due to being overshadowed by it's futuristic, grimdark counterpart.
The general reaction to any mention of ponies on /tg/ varies between simple exuberance, to indifference and apathy, to [[Khorne]]-pausing [[RAGE]] depending on how well you roll, though the second scenario is more prevalent overall. Even with the bans in place, fans on /tg/ have proven their time-honored ability to [[/tg/ gets shit done|get shit done]] and produced a veritable arsenal of Pony-flavoured [[RPG]]s, including titles like [[Don't Rest Your Hooves]], [[Ponyfinder]], [[Poor Unfortunate Foals]] and other things that can be found on the internet and had their genesis in /tg/. It just goes to show that even when something's completely ridiculous, /tg/ won't be prevented from dicking around with it and trying to make some win in the process, or at least prying some laughs and mockery out of it. If you go looking around the seven Internets, you can even find fanfiction about the main cast playing [[D&D]], which is like product-placement inception when you remember ''it's all owned by [[Hasbro]] now''. [[Just as planned]]. While 40K has fallen to the filthy plague of pastel-coloured horse loving man-children, regular Warhammer has not, owing to the fact that WHFB has largely into obscurity outside the Tabletop scene due to being overshadowed by it's futuristic, grimdark counterpart.