Been out for a long time, bailed when the whole ponychan and ponyville thing took off, looks like they both tanked and you guys are it. Are there cons anymore? I've heard of mare fair. Also looks like pone is doing quite well in China. All that being said, where is the fandom nowadays? Is there going to be a new MLP FIM or is what we had it?
>>42842204>Are there cons anymoreDefinitely yes, but it depends on the country.Russia has so many cons that the fans now struggle to attend them and the cons struggle to get enough money.The Chinese fandom is said to be on a rise sonce 2024, and they also have cons (FULL of bootlegs).I recentl
>>42842204>returnfag thread #10292720183720>conshitGo back
>>42842255Fucking mobile posting>I have recently checked the Russian MLP site (Tabun) and there is a thread about too many cons.
>>42842204The fandom is making the new FiM (tamers)
>>42842284Which thread is this?
>>42842679https://tabun.everypony.ru/blog/irl-connection/221848.html>It's time to acknowledge the problem with pony events>I'd like to raise a very difficult topic for discussion. We all understand that our beloved fandom has been dying for a long time, not even at its peak, but the number of various pony events, from major cones to small festivals and fairs created by very young teams, is only increasing every year. When there was at least a 1.5-2 month gap between events, it was great that everyone could find an event they liked at any time of year. But here we are, with more events than there are months in the year, and this has become a serious problem. I won't go into detail about why here, but I'd like to get straight to the point.>Obviously, the more events there are and the more closely they are scheduled, the lower their attendance will be and the greater the fandom's overall fatigue with events. Not to mention that creators can't keep up with creating merchandise for sale, plush makers and crafters are forced to work like a factory 24/7, cosplayers can't prepare for new performances, and the media is constantly occupied by multiple events that are siphoning off audiences.
>>42842715>be me>visit 0 (zero) cons>meetup with anons in public spaces>enjoy quasi-/soc/
>>42842715Hmm. Are the events geographically close to each other though? If they aren't, then even reducing the number of these events probably won't help too much if people aren't willing to travel too far.
>>42843599they are exclusively MSK
>>42843599>Are the events geographically close to each other though?No. Many cons are obviously in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but there are also cons in the Siberia and IIRC the Urals.
Will there ever be a chance seeing Bronycon in Jersey City? Or it will remain in Baltimore?
>>42842204>Is what we had it?It has been 5 years since the show 9 year long run. Let it go man. This is what we have left.
>>42842715It's a real stretch to say that the fandom is dying, and I'm not sure why it's being treated as a fact. There was a discussion on this board not long ago where people agreed that the fandom is probably bigger than it ever has been, but the Internet is just bigger than it was in 2013-2014, so it only looks like the fandom is smaller these days.
>>42843709>>42844175Is there a list of these somewhere?
>>42842204in china, duhh.
>>42844476>There was a discussion on this board not long ago where people agreed that the fandom is probably bigger than it ever has been, but the Internet is just bigger than it was in 2013-2014, so it only looks like the fandom is smaller these days.Is it? Even 4chan board activity shows how there's seldom activity in this board are compared to 2012-2015. For even more concrete example, Back in the days pony videos can get around 10 million views on average while today they are lucky if they got around 100k.
>>428458554chan as a whole has been dying, not just /mlp/. Does that mean the Internet has been dying? No, of course not. The Internet has never been more popular than ever in its history. The thing is that 4chan, like the rest of the old Internet, is a remnant of the past, and the vast majority of activity on the Internet is on social media websites like Twitter or TikTok. If you look on these social media websites, MLP posts get a fuck ton of attention from people who grew up watching the show.>Back in the days pony videos can get around 10 million views on average while today they are lucky if they got around 100k.That's not true, actually. They get around 10 million views because over a decade has passed since it was released. You'd be surprised by how little views some of the most classic pony videos have gotten. The problem is that modern YouTube is now so dominated by formulaic videos and so pony videos are simply never recommended to normal users.
>>42846267>4chan as a whole has been dying, not just /mlp/What do you mean? We have schizos, that's more than enough 4chan! You can argue and bitter with them all day and nothing will change, just like home.
>>42846280I'm talking about the relative proportion of /mlp/ and 4chan compared to the rest of the Internet. In the 2000s and early 2010s, 4chan's influence on the Internet was enormous. These days, not so much.
>>428462884chan used to have the fame of being the cradle of online culture, now it's looking a lot more like the graveyard, memes come here to die.Thanks for ruining the website, moot.
>>428462884chan has also shrunk significantly in terms of users in the last few years. You used to be able to see it easily on 4stats but their posts over time graph function seems to have been broken for a while. Lots of alt-chans seem to have shrunk too, it's a really bleak scene out there for imageboards nowadays
>>42846300That's just how it is. moot has nothing to do with it. The Internet has just become too big for its own good. Something like 4chan, where everyone is anonymous, is not sustainable in an age where everything in monetized.
>>42846307I disagree, if moot wasn't piss mad 4chan didn't make him rich like Facebook made Zuckerberg rich 4chan would've been in a much better place right now.
>>42846303>You used to be able to see it easily on 4stats but their posts over time graph function seems to have been broken for a whiledev.4stats.ioyou can bitch about 4statsdev on /bant/hap/ if you want charts back on main page
>>42846307the problem with 4chan is that neither hiro nor his goons are interested in improving the sitelike seriously, hiro's decade of 4chan had almost no backend changesthe forum would be better in hands of some sperg that's fine with rewriting yotsuba in golang or rust or something
>>42846288>4chan's influence on the Internet was enormousI mean shit that zoomers love like the backroom originate here. Even the political hemisphere still get their views here with blackrock and indian hate originate on 4chan and stuff like holocaust denial started getting traction in normie sphere. 4chan still has enormous sway, it just less noticeable now but it still exist as this website is the last bastion of original thought.
>>42846609I'm not saying that 4chan doesn't still influence things on the Internet. I'm saying that in comparison to the 2000s/early 2010s, this influence is much smaller. Nowadays gen alpha memes like 6-7 are all over the Internet, and those travel much quicker and further than slow-moving memes that originate from 4chan.
>>42844175>cons in the Siberia and IIRC the Urals.Lmao! Haven't heard of Siberian cons in years. We are not allowed to have fun at all here.>>42844927
>>42846831"Mocквa" is Moscow, "CПб" is St. Petersburg
>>42846831Do you have the file for this?
>>42847864https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kb7Yf9IvrlTCpXGYGL9k_724wlL1yFLqlproGKkCOcs/
>>42847872Thanks. It looks different on my end though. Am I supposed to change something?
>>42846628Zoomer memes spread faster but they died out faster too, stuff like tung tung sahur, 6-7 and other brainrot expires pretty fast while 4chan memes like gigachad, chud, chad, 'jak, or the classic like trollface and pedobear, hold their ground better even in modern age. You can still use troll face in modern era and it will still work. Try portraying yourself as the troll face instead of the Chad, it actually hits harder.
>>42846267A better way to measure the views is to compare them against trending videos of their time. IIRC some pony videos made it to the weekly most watched videos on youtube back in the day when youtube had those lists and they only needed to get ~200k views to do that.
>>42844476Multiple cons a year is not a dead fandom.
>>42849390That's literally what I'm saying.
>>42847971All you need to do is download it
>>42842204I don't know about, nor give a shit about cons due to living in rural Australia making it unrealistic for me to attend one.But as for someone whos been a part of this fandom since 2012 (with a 5 year gap in between myself) the fandom is fine if not larger than the early days.There's more music and animation being made and getting more view's than back then across multiple platforms that didn't even exist back when this all got started.MLP gave people a world to work with now people have made it there own.There's a fallout Equestria game now dude!
>>42849710Population wise, the fandom is definitely larger than the early days. The question is now how do we spark that creativity from the early days in 2025?
>>42849715Make something.The AUs being made brought me back, so i made a Pinkamena.>Pic related
>>42849715Unironically don't care what others think. Make whatever you want. There was more spark back then because people weren't afraid to be cringe.
>>42849760People are less afraid to be cringe now than they were then. But back then, everything was new, there were still episodes being released.
>>42849776I don't think that's true. A handful of autists aren't representative of the broader fandom.
>>42849776There was more of other people reacting to the fandom back in the early days, we just blend into the chaos now honestly.Occasionally we get fresh eyes on the fandom and they're perplexed, creepcast did an episode on cupcakes which made me laugh.Now i just treat my cringe as if it's normal and people usually don't question it.
>>42849799You say the broader fandom in current day keeps their interest in poni more hidden than people did back then? I had thought that the kind of people still here are the more dedicated of fans, which I would then think makes them less interested in being seen as cringe. And, there's an order of magnitude less pony hate now than there was then.
>>42849809>less interested in being seen as cringeI fucked up the wording, I mean that they don't care as much
>>42849809Varying degrees of growing up >Teen i wanted people to know>20s i was trying to be more adult about it>30s and a home owner now, don't care if you know
>mfw>last con was 2019>biggest con in my country with other countries collaborating>can't attend
>>42849776That's not true, people today especially zoomers are afraid to express themselves other than the corpo approved trend like dressing gay or dress like corpo drone despite being unemployed.
>>42842715South america con when?
>>42846288It still is but has shifted to publicity. Whatever we discussed has become normie.
>>42850089could've sworn there were a few back in the day
>>42842204Follow me to the gay bath house and I'll show you.
>>42845664It's better over there at least.
