Anything goes! (Some rules apply, see below)This thread is for anyone to drop in and post whatever's on your mind right now,Just about anything goes, so feel free to share your thoughts on an episode (or a tiny detail in one) or a character; share, review and discuss pieces of fan content you've just saw, declare who best pony is, describe what you dreamt last night, and ask whatever you've been wondering about. Try to keep it pony related.All sorts of ideas, thoughts and questions are welcome, from the brief to the in-depth, especially ones that don't really fit elsewhere at the moment but also don't warrant their own thread either.Talk to each other! You'll find that sometimes asking further questions and bouncing ideas off one another can let a small thought blossom into something greater.However, please respect the following: Refrain from posting about drama (IRL and online ones), political shit, baiting and starting/participating in shitflinging/ angry shouting matches. Also try and keep it low on moral and legal arguments, they never go anywhere.Previous >>42739105
>>42783502I love my wife and daughter very much!
>>42783508Hello, Sunburst.
I want to hug a pony more than I want to fug a pony
>>42783502I want to split starlight glimmer in half. with my dick or with a sword I have yet to figure out
>>42783525same
>>42783147Swag
>>42783525Sometimes, the feeling that companionship provides is infinitely better than that of a sexual one. There's a reason why call friendship magic.
I think about making a project based on pony and also another genre of shows I like.The thing is, I don't know if I should lean into the pony aesthetic fully, and how much I would even stand to gain from it. I've shown sketches to friends blissfully unaware of FiM and they loved them, but then again, the style was nowhere near FiM's.
Despite the recent surge in these antsy moody doom posters, i've really enjoyed browsing the board lately. It feels nice to be here, still talking about the same show, still thinking about ponies. I find it really comforting that we're still around after all this time.
>>42785459Yeah, I don't think anyone would've expected this to still be going when /mlp/ was first made. Yet here we are!
>>42785459>>42785474Secretly, the power of /mlp/ merely grows in its slumber. Imagine what would happen if GR15 were rescinded (as it should be); this would once again become a pony website in hours. 4chan and the internet in general are rightful pony clay
>>42783502I want Derpy to deliver a package requiring signature, but her pen doesn't work, so I invite her in to use mine. She she accidentally rapes me due to her clumsiness.
>>42784085I've forgotten what being held feels like. That kinda hurts to admit.
I may be too new to know our OG mods but /mlp/ mod being a dyke sounds bizarre to me also bibanon page about staff doesn't even mention twimod, lol>>42785714>4chan and the internet in general are rightful pony claybasket weaving forum is our promised land that we must take from gentilefags
Seasons 5-7 are the most "normie friendly" seasons in my opinion. Like if were trying to convince someone who's never seen MLP that it's not a stupid kids show I would recommend an episode from that era
>>42785833I am not the least bit surprised to learn this. Half of /mlp/ is some flavor of based, the other half are just twitter normies in denial.
>>42785866Five is generally considered the peak by the overall fanbase outside of here, which makes sense with that in mind.
I am madly in love with my wife, Pinkie, but I feel as if I'm not doing enough for her. We hang out, eat well together, watch funny movies, share our hobbies with each other, but I can't help but feel as if I can do more and I'm not.
>>42786095I don't know what reddit thinks but S5 isn't as good as Faust seasons but still better than all other seasons
>>42786210I'm watching it for the first time right now, it'll be interesting to see what I think by the end. Season four was such a fucking slog, I hope five doesn't end up feeling like that.
>>42785768Like, she slips and trips pulling off your pants, underwear, unzipping your dick, trips again, falls on your penis, trips again trying to get up off of your penis 35 times in a row and thats how you end up with derpyling children or are you imagining something else because i am struggling to picture this
>>42786863>unzips your dick
>>42784674You're being very vague, Anon. Nobody outside of this site cares about it, and those who know about it would rather not enter it.We won't tell. Spill the beans about your project, I promise nobody will care, and the few who will will be helpful to your cause
>>42786578Strange, I've heard several people saying the fourth one was their favorite one.
>>42787744Season four was just such extreme whiplash from everything that came before to me. It was trying so hard to prove that it's hip and current which probably did do very well in 2014, but I didn't watch it in 2014, I watched it in 2025.
>>42787744S4 feels like a huge quality drop from S1-S2 drop's not as big as one in S8, but you can clearly see it in two-parters and general quality of episodes in the season
>>42787744FiM feels like 3 different shows as it goes on. This is mainly because of writer shake ups. Depending on what version of FiM you like, season 4 is either good and serviceable or an absolute slog by a team of mercenary writers.
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>>42787995post the version with Sounds of Silence
>>42785866Can confirm as a normie anime watcher, s5-7 are the best. s1-2 are too janky and niche. s3-4 what the fuck were they thinking. s8-9 jumps the shark.
>>42788002>nichethat's a weird way to describe S1-2, can you elaborate?
>>427880021 and 2 are the best. 3 is fine for the most part. 4 is better than 5. 6 is underrated. 7 is overrated. 8 and 9 are insulting.
>>42788002>"niche"how? they're the seasons that made mlp popular in the first place. they are by definition not niche. if anything the middle seasons are niche since they killed off the fandom.
>>42788008s1-2 are like japanese moe highschool girl anime. That type of anime is not popular in the west.
>>42788002>anime watcheropinion discarded
>>42788017>s1-2 are like japanese moe highschool girl anime>That type of anime is not popular in the west
>>42788017Yes it is? Dyekwya?
Reading other anon's opinions on season quality is a welcome reminder that I ought to take nothing I read on this board seriously.
>>42787995#SaveMLP hands wrote that image
>>42788024If you want a mediocre middle season hugbox go to Reddit.
>>42783502what would companies that make airships be called in Equestria?
>>42788024I do find it funny that people try and bunch seasons together into eras. The show changed its feel every single season or even during a single season, there's basically zero consistency in tone or quality. The first half of S3 has some of my favorite episodes in the whole show, the second half makes me want to die.
>>42788037Dealairships.
>>42788016Notice how the only reviewers were "brony" reviewers, the show isn't taken seriously outside of our fandom. FiM is niche as hell. It only exploded due to extraordinarily specific circumstances in the market and social trends. Middle seasons appeals to a wider audience which was dumb because most of the wider audience wouldn't have made it that far anyway and it alienated a lot of early fans. That strategy only works in video game series because not many care about needing to play the earlier games and they're mostly self contained.
>>42788024>>42788026that image comes from mlpforums
>>42787995>words words words wordsWhy?
>>42788060Plenty of nonfans reviewed the show. If you mean people reviewing every episode then no shit only fans of a show are going to do that. Every nonfan I exposed to the show likes the early seasons better. Later seasonfags being weebs checks out, they want laser fights and character arcs instead of slice of life and character interactions.
>>42788076>slice of life and character interactionsLater seasons were mainly composed of those too, just with character arcs and laser fights on top as icing on the cake.
>>42788091What they had was watered down and a lot of rehashes. I'm explaining why weebs think the later seasons are better when everyone else disagrees with them.
>>42788076It's funny because I'm a filthy japanophile but I also prefer the early seasons because I'm a slice of life guy.
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>>42788101My wife.
>>42788094>What they had was watered down and a lot of rehashesI disagree, if anything it became more complex. Most weebs like the later seasons because they're more relatable and harder hitting compared to trivial matters such as sleepovers. Meta episodes like Stranger than Fanfiction and Slice of Life are also generally more enjoyable to them.
>>42788114>Meta episodes like Stranger than Fanfiction and Slice of Lifeplease don't place SoLkino next to writers' barely disguised middle finger
>>42788114>trivial matters such as sleepoversAnon's original criticism that the show started focusing on plots/scenarios primarily instead of characters really shines through in this one. The weeb-leaning faction sees it as a 'sleepover episode', a scenario-first story, while the character enjoyers see it as an episode about making compromises for the sake of friendship. It's a wholly different value system.
>>42788114They wanted to be more complex and always failed. The constant attempts at relatability and irony killed a lot of the shows charm and magic. Those should have been restricted to the spin off, they didn't work in the main show. Glimmer's repeated nagging self depreciation of her past isn't relatable, it's annoying. The episodes you named are notoriously hated even among later seasonfags for being whiny jabs at the fandom for expecting quality.
>>42788121On the flip side weebs see later episodes as character driven while you only see it as scenarios. It's all perspective.
>>42788114Look Before You Sleep is about character interaction. That's what fans of the show actually like. It's also why early side ponies are still more popular to this day because they have personalities that bounce off each other better, they have actual purposes and uses besides showing up once or twice and fucking off forever. This is a western cartoon and fandom, not an anime. It's all about character interactions and dynamics.
>Anime fans have horrible tasteThat tracks. I used to think I liked anime but in reality I only truly liked a handful of shows. I tried watching one a friend recommended to me recently and it was a miserable experience.
>>42788135They can't be character driven when the characters are out of character and never change from the episodes. The early seasons are better with this too, the ponies actually remember shit from previous episodes.
>>42788152Unless it's a Spike episode. Then again, that's true for all seasons.
>>42788151honestly I think generalizing it as weeb taste is missing the point, in this conversation anime fan is just shorthand for "person who likes generic tropey writing" which are plentiful among all media enjoyers and honestly a valid taste, even if opposed to the original values of the show we like
>>42788167Liking shit will never be a valid taste. If you're making something for everyone, then you're really making it for nobody.
>>42788167Nah I'll just keep generalizing people who disagree with me so I can dismiss them for having shit taste
>>42788151>I used to think I liked anime but in reality I only truly liked a handful of shows.What are those shows anon?
>>42788152>fluttershy bravely invades the everfree to topple a goddess-like being that possibly murdered the queen and is a scaredy cat everywhere else over nothingEarly seasons isn't even that good with that though. AJ worked on the farm all her life and somehow thought she could do more work than was physically possible for her just because the writers thought it would be funny. Pinkie the party pony couldn't remember her own birthday or realize a party was being planned for her. The cope explanations for those require greater stretches than from later episodes. Early writing is arguably more sloppy.
>>42788173Tropey is not the same as shit - in its good aspect, tropey means archetypal and timeless, e.g. disney golden era. In its bad aspect it means derivative and creatively bankrupt slop. Later seasons lean more towards the bad side than the good absolutely, but that doesn't mean everything that relies on tropes is bad. It's just that a creatively bankrupt writer has to rely on tropes or they won't be able to make anything at all.
>>42788190I liked Full Metal Alchemist and Gurren Lagann. Something more relatively recent I enjoyed was the adaptation of Parasyte.I was really into Naruto but now I think Naruto is fucking gay lmao
>>42788195Fluttershy was scared, and one of Pinkie's main traits is irrationality. Please watch the show you're trying to critique, esl sama. >>42788197The later seasons aren't timeless. The creaturequestria, Starlight and Discord "redemptions", and subversive villain entrapment shit they pulled has already aged like milk and it hasn't even been a decade yet for half of those. They are literally a product of their time. The early seasons still hold up and always will. Let's not forget that the first 2 seasons used very cliche tropes and episode ideas and carried them with character interactions. The early seasons used tropes properly, the later seasons tried too hard to be subversive.
>>42786863I don't care so long as I'm raped by Derpy
>>42788215>The later seasons aren't timelessyes that's what I said, thank you for reading my post
>>42788223I'm agreeing with you and providing examples for idiots, retard.
>>42788215>Fluttershy being scared or brave comes down to a coinflip>Pinkie is just so randumb XDSuch good timeless writing.
>>42788195You can face something bravely and remain scared out of your mind. It is possible to take on more work than you're used to at any point in your life. A person not concerned with herself can in fact forget details of her life. These are all rooted in reality.>>42788240>being scared comes down to a coinflipCongrats, you've discovered fight-or-flight.
>>42788213Good taste. I liked both of those, but still need to see Gurren Lagann sometime. I really loved Little Witch Academia. It's pretty similar to FiM in the sense that it blends magical slice of life with over the top power of hope and friendship moments. I also liked Shadow's House and ID: Invaded. It's hard to limit myself to only talking about a few.Naruto where the biggest nepo baby in ninja history lectures you on hard work. Believe it!
>>42788248>cope explanations that are less rooted in reality than issues in the later seasonsand that's my point.
>>42788240It doesn't though. And Pinkie being irrational is part of her character from the first episode and gives her fun interactions with other characters. This is what I'm talking about, weebs are actually retarded. Go back.
>>42788273>pinkie having the solution to the problem and not telling anyone is fun>pinkie being a total dick to gilda and cranky is funyou like low effort slop and you don't even know it.
>>42788240Let's go through season one episodes for Fluttershy.>s1e1: scared of talking to twilight until she reacts to to spike, establishing that caring about animals is the thing that can break her out of her shell>s1e2: she's scared of a monster and wants nothing to do with it until she realizes it's an animal that's in pain, thus confirming the previous pattern>s1e5: runs away crying after gilda roars in her face, she still doesn't know how to stand up to dangers>s1e6: terrified of a monster until her friends need her to stand up for them, learns to be brave in the face of danger>s1e17: wants to avoid the everfree forest but goes in to protect the cmc, stands up for them despite her fear>s1e19: is uncomfortable around scary monsters but at no point do the others have to reassure her, she can handle herself>bonus (the return of harmony): at no point does she shut down due to fear despite being in an extremely dangerous situation, she's sometimes scared but has faith in herself and her friends to the point that discord has to give up on breaking her the fun wayThis is a complete character arc! There's no regression, everything happens in a linear order. Then they found out the show wasn't actually ending and they had to keep working with her character and thus they found new ways to do the 'fluttershy becomes brave' arc.
>>42788290>low effort slopBut enough about everything after season 2
>>42788290Yes. Both were being assholes, assholes getting their comeuppance is fun. I'm sure you loved when Starlight mind raped ponies repeatedly, japtard.
>>42788293>she still doesn't know how to stand up to dangersShe literally invades the Everfree Forest with a smile on her face against a villain that could kill her in a blink.
>>42788261They are more realistic than late seasons, though. A character that runs and hides 100% of the time, A character that already knows all of her limits by the age of 2, and a robot that never forgets something important, all only appeal to the unironically autistic mind that values unwavering consistency.
>>42788306If the sole argument you can point out is that the pilot doesn't emphasize her character enough, that's true of every single character because it was written as a standalone pilot. In an ideal world it should've been redone once they got the deal for a full series but it didn't.
It takes me twice as long to watch an episode because I keep stopping to grab screencaps.
>>42788784I've been going back after watching to grab webms.
>>42788142>This is a western cartoon and fandom, not an anime. It's all about character interactions and dynamics.>90+% of the characters have no interesting interactions or dynamics.
I like ponies.
>>42788303>Both were being assholes, assholes getting their comeuppance is fun>Wanting someone who is continually pestering you against your will to leave you alone makes you an asshole who deserves 'comeuppance'Ponkfasg will really go through any mental gymnastics to pretend like Pinkie isn't objectively being a pushy asshole with Cranky, wont they?
The idea that I've seen before that Rarity wasn't ruined in the later seasons like the other characters were is a psy-op cope from rarifags. During the last anni most reactions to her episodes were either indifference or ambivalence, and she has plenty of outright bad episodes too. Rarifags are in denial about the quality of her episodes and have gaslit the rest of the board into thinking they're alright.
>>42789248I like ponies too!
>>42789312Non compete clause and the rarity gets cucked episodes exist. The writers left nothing unblemished. It was like they were on a mission from hell to ruin something good.
>>42788787Twi is a cat
>>42789493That's fucking right.
>>42789491Non compete clause isn't a Rarity episode. It's AJ and RD. You're thinking of The End In Friend.
>>42789513>>42789491Why do Pinkie and Rainbow have such shitty episodes? It seems like every conversation on the worst episode of whatever season, their episodes are always top contenders. What is it about these two specifically that makes so many of their episodes shitty?
>>42789536Rainbow and Pinkie are used as antagonists of sorts in other ponies' episodes early on, as the show goes on they have less reasons to be convincingly. They are the supporting members. On their own they aren't as likable as the other mane 6 members.
>>42783502Jannies? How are ya?
>>42788151>I used to think I liked cartoons but I only like a handful of showsAnime is a pretty big category of entertainment. You can still say you like anime, but maybe you wouldn't consider yourself a weeb? Unless by "anime fan" you interchangeably mean weeb.
>>42789272They will not even admit that the lesson is>dont be pushy and sometimes friends like to be left aloneBut she solves the issue by not leaving him alone. Yeah she says that was the "last" time she was going to help Cranky, but that still clashes with the "leave others alone" lesson. If the lesson was "some like to be left alone and you should think what's best to help your friends instead of helping for the sake of helping" then I wouldnt shake two shits at it.
I liked Code Geass because I thought Suzaku would kiss Lelouch. They didn't. They wouldn't in MLP (Season 1/2) either, but they'd be better friends and learn a little something something. This is why I prefer ponies.
>>42789540It's a case of over exaggerating their flaws. They could make RD a 8/10 jerk for being selfish, but they will write her to be an 11/10 jerk. Kind of like some AJ episodes. I like AJ, but instead of making her too stubborn, they'll write her too stupid. Honestly, the writers have had issues with making characters just act plain dumb because they can't figure a way to put them in a situation to start the plot other than "make the pony dumb".
>>42789573There's basically two options for writing an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.>explore the characters and their flaws/incompatibilities in increasingly nuanced ways that build on previous explorations of these characters>have the characters light a house on fire in act one and then put it out in act twoGiven the former is arguably impossible by the later seasons where episodes are being written by contractors who haven't watched the show, the latter seems like a pretty good option.
>>42789573In the case of AJ, I honestly don't find her to be all that stupid in her episodes with the exception of Applejack's Day Off. Personally I find that the writers simply tended to bend over backwards more for the other characters to not make them stupid. Like in Bats, all of AJ's points on why the bats are bad are pretty reasonable and never really proven wrong, while Fluttershy's are demonstrably poorly thought out and have tons of holes in them, but the writers just decide AJ's wrong and Fluttershy is right and AJ is just stupid. Hell, even in Applejack's Day Off, other characters have similar episodes where they have seemingly stupid reasons for doing something that are actually ingeneous(Family Appreciation Day, Swarm of the Century) but it's just when AJ has a peculiar way of doing something that all of a sudden there really is no reason for it and she is just being stupid.She really isn't any dumber than the others, and frankly they act stupid way more often than she does, it's just she's the only one the writers didn't bend over backwards to have her always be correct and secretly genius like they do with characters like Pinkie. She just has less plot armor to insulate her from the consequences of her actions than the others do, so she comes across as dumber because of it.
>>42789581Go I wish there was more autistic care in writers rooms.
>>42789536Pinkie's voice acting getting worse certainly doesn't help. If that was toned back down, some of her later eps would be slightly more bearable
>>42789930It's so funny to go back to season one and see just how different it is on that front. Fluttershy in her freakout during The Best Night Ever is basically doing what becomes the default Pinkie Pie screech.
>>42788303I love when Twilight, CMCs, Starlight, etcetera, get into trouble in ways unique to the world of Equestria. Gags and slapstick that utilize the cartoon setting are very fun.
>>42789536I'd say its because they're the easiest characters to fuck up if you aren't a very good writer. Rainbow needs to be self-absorbed and egotistical while not being TOO much of an asshole while Pinkie Pie needs to be zany and lolrandum but not annoying. Hard to thread that needle
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>>42789573the Idiot Ball, sadly, caontinues to be one of the easiest ways for a lazy writer to come up with episodes.>>42790900one of the best examples is the nuance that in Griffon The Brush-Off makes both both agree that pranking Fluttershy wouldn't be right since she's too sensitive
Bumping now that the sliding seems to have slowed down.
>>42791174I generally like Filli Vanilli, but yeah that Pinkie compared with S1E5...
>>42791761it's genuinely insane that filli vanilli is only 2 episodes after pinkie pride and they have the same writer. it's like after a certain point, every writer agreed that unless you're writing a pinkie pie episode, there's no reason to try to make her likable or endearing in any way. you can just make her loud, annoying, and stupid and she's still in character. i like filli vanilli too, but why on earth did they feel the need to butcher pinkie so thoroughly in that one
>>42791866There's no way to say how far apart in time those scripts were written by AKR (and in what order), but yes, I don't understand what she was thinking writing Pinkie like that.
>>42791866Were I to guess, they probably finished the core plot and realized it'd be too short for an episode but also didn't have enough room to add in another plot beat, so someone came up with Pinkie being a soft antagonist as a way of adding tension without having to justify adding in a new character that would make sense for the role of 'unknowingly sending Fluttershy into a panic'.
>open youtube>see thisI hate modern youtube so much it's unreal
>>42791761>>42791866On Filli Vanilli, I thought what Pinkie did was funny. In a comedy standpoint, it's that kind of thing where someone says "good thing I have a good friend who would never lie to me" right before the friend tries to admit to lying. Completely oblivious. However I do agree on a character standpoint, Pinkie should have realized that she was making Fluttershy uncomfortable. It's kind of like Nightmare Night and Luna. Poor Pinkie gets the short end. Jittery characters rides a line between funny and annoying so I get that it is tough for some writers.
>>42792037>>42791866>>42791761Tbh though, it kinda seems like clueless, insensitive Pinkie is the more in character characterization for her. Everyone always points to Griffon the Brush Off, but it's really one of the only times. Even in other season 1 episodes she's often completely clueless, Over a Barrel being the easiest example I can think of. It seems more like you're just latched onto a single instance of behavior and insist that everything else is ooc even when it is a 10 to 1 ratio against 'good' Pinkie.I think the real problem is that she just had very little development. The writers seemed to coddle her a lot and resultingly most of her episodes don't really push her to change all that much. Her flaws were mostly treated as gags rather than something for her to grow out of.
>>42792080>Even in other season 1 episodes she's often completely cluelessYeah, she also goes out of her way to extend the conflict in Green Isn't Your Color, she doesn't notice her friends being worn out in Party of One, she's definitely played as being oblivious more often than not. I like the situations where she's shown to be empathetic in a weird way though, like in Feeling Pinkie Keen where she notices Twilight following her and doesn't say anything because she doesn't wanna ruin Twilight's fun. That's also sort of oblivious of her but it's nice to see the positive side of her attitude.
>>42792091>she also goes out of her way to extend the conflict in Green Isn't Your ColorThis one is a little unfair I think. She was giving Twilight good advice - you shouldn't break your friends trust, even if the secret concerns another friend. If Twilight was trying to get Rarity and Fluttershy and Rarity to talk to each other, then it would be dragging things on when Pinkie stops her. But she wasn't. She was going to spill the beans on something she promised not to tell.In the end, you get a lesson on being trustworthy, as well as speaking to your friends about your feelings concerning them. Not keeping things under wraps with another friend and burden them with the issues too.It's a shame Rainbow Dash wasn't there to here this one. Could've avoided the whole secrets and pies debacle
>>42792147>She was giving Twilight good advice - you shouldn't break your friends trust, even if the secret concerns another friend.I do agree that Twilight was taking the wrong approach to it but when the secret is 'you both agree on this thing you think you disagree on and it seems like it might ruin your friendship', simply accepting that it's not your place to do anything feels wrong to me. I get that it was a necessary writing conceit because Twilight had to be a part of the episode but it's always been an awkward element for me.
>>42792168There could've been a line from Twilight where she (more explicitly - it's covered in the latter part of the letter) acknowledges the schemes were the wrong approach, and that getting the two of them to personally sort it out was best. But the point remains that Twilight should've never needed to keep a secret in the first place if Rarity and Fluttershy told each other themselves.Of course, they were scared of hurting the other one. But in the end, you've got to trust you can talk it out with your friend. Yada yada yada, lesson learnt.
>>42792002Brandon will not be cowed into submission so easily. He's a survivor
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>>42792002There have been a lot of Brandon deep-dive videos. It feels like he's becoming this fandoms Chris-Chan equivalent
>>42792783I don't want a Chris Chan equivalent.
>>42792080For me, I usually go by the first impression. In FIM 1&2, is how I get an idea of how Pinkie and the rest of the Mane 6 are as characters. Then every instance after that builds upon that, and then there could be contradictions or in-character moments. I suppose since they are suppose to represent the Elements, I expect them to be more good than bad.
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>>42786101I don't recall making that post.
Ponies inhabit Kepler-1649c.
I introduced my bf to mlp a few weeks ago, we watched S1 and S2, but as soon as we got to crystal empire started he told me "the characters feel different/acting kinda OOC".We spoke about this for a while and decided to stop watching right then and there before they ruin them characters further.It's sad mlp never got a third season but oh well.
>>42793774fake and gay
I am quite fond of CheesePie
I find most of the man6 to be rather subpar as friends. Only Twilight and Applejack strike me as actually being decent individuals to be friends with. The rest of them tend to be rather self centered or put in the least amount of effort possible. Most of these friendships would completely fall apart if it weren't for the plot forcing them together and glossing over the worst of their flaws and pretending they don't exist.
I hate everything so much it's unreal.
>>42783502Is this board dead? It feels like there is at most 20 regulars separated into different generals and threads. This board just feels so empty and dead (when of course schizos aren't shitting up the board) most "newfags" I see pop up usually vanish soon after like that new glimmerfag (not the fart one) who I saw usually made new threads and such but now I barely even see them now. It just feels so lonely.
>>42794740Yeah we're in bad shape, I'd say it's a bit more than that but probably 50 people who are using the site on a consistent basis, then another couple hundred who check in a few times a week.
>>42794740I stopped giving a shit a while ago. I'm just here out of habit and maybe to bait a few faggots occasionally.
>>42794740Anons don't have much to discuss about the show anymore. You can see it just by the state of the board, but it was particularly apparent during the hack. The bunkers were full of meta discussions about 4chan itself but almost nothing about pones.This state of affairs results in posters who are:- Extremely lethargic and allergic to even minimal effort. Few give (you)s to greens or other contributions. Images and drawings perform slightly better because they require less effort to engage with, but even then most won't bother commenting. You'll have anons lamenting that a general is dead and nobody's there to create the OP when the OP has nothing special and making the thread would take 30seconds.- Turning into shitposters and baiters out of sheer boredom and bitterness. Fast threads nowadays are almost always ragebait because anons are bored, lazy, and these require zero effort. It would be healthier for them to just leave, but I imagine they're faggots with nothing else going on in their lives.It's a vicious cycle: the few who actually try get discouraged by the lack of engagement and either fuck off or slowly become low-effort shitposters themselves. Every wave of effortposters leaving makes the board shittier, which drives more away, which makes everything even more shit.Add to this the legitimate schizos (though they're less numerous than some believe) and the fact that 4chan as a whole is dying; becoming even shittier than it's been for years (some say since 2016, others cite earlier).The hack was a breaking point. Many realized they could live without this website and never came back. Those who stayed did so only out of habit, because the rest of the internet is somehow even worse, or because they're the schizos and shitposters themselves. The people with something better to do found it and left, leaving behind an increasingly concentrated mixture of the addicted, the bitter, and the broken.
>>42794740Ignore my previous replies, anon... you deserve to know the truth. It's actually just you and me. It's been this way since 2020.
>>42794740>>42794854Honestly, there actually is still content to be discussed, it's just that no one really knows about it. Some of the G4 comics only got like a single thread talking about them when they first released, with basically zero further discussions being had about them since. There's also stuff like the chapter books which it seems like most people don't even know exist. I found exactly one thread in Desu that talked about the Applejack chapter book, and then I made a thread about it a few months ago. That's it. And my thread was quite a few anons first exposure to that book.There ARE things which can be discussed, especially if there's newfags around, but people need to just be willing to actually interact with something that's not just the show instead of dismissing it offhand because "oh that's just the comics/books/game/late season Hasdrone/early season Fasutard", you get the idea. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to talk about the handful of comics I've read only for everyone to immediately dismiss it because they aren't canon. There's discussion there that could be had if everyone would stop handwaving something away everytime it came up in favor of the usual "s1-3 only" flavor you usually see.Plus, I think threads like the Fimfiction general work pretty great since they're about reading and reviewing stories. Discussion would probably be easier if threads being made were about actually interacting with MLP media instead of just banal talking over a OP that's about a vague idea or concept rather than a specific thing.
