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[ciro64]

What's with the early 00's shows and redheads? There was a trend or something along with gothic girls?

While I can understand some of the qualities of the show I'm still confused to know how that one cartoon about colourful horses managed to have a completely different demographic.

Well, partially it was just hype culture. Feeling that you will get accepted for liking a show about girly cute ponies and friendship was a relief from male peer pressure and expectations during that time. But it wasn't uncommon for poeple to "de-brony" after the hype had passed, especially how some became self conscious about making their entire personality revolve around that show.

The show did had two groundbreaking qualities that warranted some of its fame though:

1. It broke the stereotype of what a pony cartoon should be. It's still a show for kids, but more like kids of all genders and age instead of being limited to little girls. Sure, it still had the songs and moral of the story kind of stuff, but it also had this fleshed out setting where adventures and interesting plots could happen. It never gets too deep or cynical, but it was allowed to get cool sometimes.

2. The show was very expressive, especially on the character design department, which is mostly the reason people from the fandom stayed for. It was refreshing seeing a western cartoon not being too distant from traditional animation and not shying away from cute designs. This inspired many artists to draw the characters, sometimes in humanized forms (way before Equestria Girls came), there's even an entire booru for it.

 

[kingofdragons]

What's with the early 00's shows and redheads? There was a trend or something along with gothic girls?

While I can understand some of the qualities of the show I'm still confused to know how that one cartoon about colourful horses managed to have a completely different demographic.

Well it works well in animation, provides a great color contrast. And besides, redheads are super hot, all those cartoon redheads gave me a redhead kink growing up lol

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Just don't tell Netflix please

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Well, partially it was just hype culture. Feeling that you will get accepted for liking a show about girly cute ponies and friendship was a relief from male peer pressure and expectations during that time. But it wasn't uncommon for poeple to "de-brony" after the hype had passed, especially how some became self conscious about making their entire personality revolve around that show.

The show did had two groundbreaking qualities that warranted some of its fame though:

1. It broke the stereotype of what a pony cartoon should be. It's still a show for kids, but more like kids of all genders and age instead of being limited to little girls. Sure, it still had the songs and moral of the story kind of stuff, but it also had this fleshed out setting where adventures and interesting plots could happen. It never gets too deep or cynical, but it was allowed to get cool sometimes.

2. The show was very expressive, especially on the character design department, which is mostly the reason people from the fandom stayed for. It was refreshing seeing a western cartoon not being too distant from traditional animation and not shying away from cute designs. This inspired many artists to draw the characters, sometimes in humanized forms (way before Equestria Girls came), there's even an entire booru for it.

Those that pretended they were never into FiM are cowards, as were the media and even ''influencers'' that seemed to have a huge hate boner for the male fans. Sure some of it was taking it too far, like bully kids out of it, and the porn should not have been in the normal conventions for all the normies to see, but that is true these days for all fandoms and doesn't make the MLP one any different. Me, I was already into cartoons my whole life, and I knew about Lauren Faust from her Calart group days and had been following her career anyway.

 

[ciro64]

Those that pretended they were never into FiM are cowards, as were the media and even ''influencers'' that seemed to have a huge hate boner for the male fans. Sure some of it was taking it too far, like bully kids out of it, and the porn should not have been in the normal conventions for all the normies to see, but that is true these days for all fandoms and doesn't make the MLP one any different. Me, I was already into cartoons my whole life, and I knew about Lauren Faust from her Calart group days and had been following her career anyway.

While my engagement with it mlp died down, I never rejected it. Also humanized Rainbow Dash still is very much my waifu.

Lauren Faust is very talented, I find all stuff she worked on interesting. By the way, I was pissed when I found out Them's Fightin' Herds was sold out to a souless company.

 

[Faust03]

I liked powerpuff girls when I was little