I haven't followed MLP since 2022. What did I miss? What has happened since then?
>>43413837I raped every anon on /mlp/ and you're next
G5 died, G6 is coming, everyone here wants to die.
>>43413837rainbow dash was kil
>>43413837Lauren Faust died of COVID-19 back in 2023 and Hasbro is creating a new generation of MLP as a tribute for her.
>>43413842So Hasbro is gonna try to salvage what little remains of mlp after they went stupid mode with G5 using nostalgia bait?
>>43413837Anon did a backflip off of town hall and impaled himself on a wrought iron fence post. This is canon and now there is no more Anonymous in Equestria. (You) died.
>>43413862G5 is literally the opposite of nostalgia bait, or at least is the woke version of it
>>43413860You expect me to scrub the archive for thousands of threads since 2023 and read every one?
>>43413871Sorry, I meant using G6 as nostalgia bait
>>43413875oh yeah
>>43413837/mlp/ sorta got a con of its own through Mare FairNeighcon, another /mlp/ adjacent con, popped up this yearEveryone still hangs out in Cytube2026 is the Year of the Pony internally at Hasbro and they're pushing a ton of merch in the US and especially China to build up the brandAlso pony is fucking massive in China at the moment, they have a ton of merch and their own trading cardsG6 got shown off at Comic Con a bit ago. They had Lauren Faust there which was cool. Sentiments on G6 so far are fairly negative, but it kind of just looks cute and potentially underwhelming but mostly harmless.Also Lauren has been showing up at a ton of pony cons recently./mlp/'s old schizo dreams of AI being used to go to Equestria or "make her real" are finally bearing fruit now that AI has become so powerful. We have an entire AI visual novel that lets you go to Equestria and explore and befriend ponies, and it even recently got full voice synthesis due to a fantastic new pony voice cloning tool. It runs locally on your own hardware and has some of the best quality I've seen.Also the 15th anni was celebrated in Cytube and was absolutely fantastic and one of the best ones we've ever had imo. Highly recommend checking the archived page recording at mare.pages.dev if you wanna see the magic or any other Cytube events that have happened.Welcome back and I hope you enjoy your time with pony. Things are picking back up again, and there's a bit of a pony renaissance going on at the moment, so it's a fantastic time to swing back around.
>>43413874>you want me to... LURK MOAR??? are you crazy?????
>>43413886How much of this is true? This is suspiciously positive news.
>>43413905Meh, not exactly wrong but a more positive than it actually is. People like to over-hype a lot of shit just so they can cope with the downward trajectory that the franchise has been taking for over a decade. Based on the couple years I've been around here, it felt nice for me collaborating at the antithology, helping out at the 4cc and seeing G% got cancelled so abruptly felt like a validation of everything me and many others have been complaining about when it comes to the way Hasbro has been handling the franchise.I cannot speak much in terms of AI-slop because I prefer to stay away from any of that shit, but I never trust anyone telling me a new model is definitely the one that will replace all artists once and for all.
>>43413905Haha. I happen to be a very positive guy, so I just have a really happy outlook on how things are. It's true to me, and I didn't day anything factually wrong exactly but ya you might see the AI slop as uninteresting or the con shit as meh. Pony renaissance can be subjective depending on your vibe of things, but the fact pony videos are getting so many views on YouTube suddenly and that I've been seeing ponies surfacing more and more online just has me feeling something cool in the air. I love this board and I love poni, so take that as you will.
>>43413886don't forget about the 2 versions of anonfilly from /mppp/ with the latest one being open for sale. also to add the /mlpmg/ silver coin run
>>43413837Not much, sadly.
>>43413838/thread
>>43413837the end of the world happened
>>43413838Can confirm. My ass is still sore.
>>43416977I'm coming back for round 2
>>43417433Anon Noooooooooooooo
>>43417563Now get ready for round 3
>>43418211Jesus anon how is your dick not sore?
>>43413837G6 came out, there's already over 24 hours of contenthttps://www.tamersarchive.com/watch-the-videos
>>43413886I've never heard of the AI visual novel, where can we find this?
