The Craziest Moments In Brony History

[@Izzzyzzz]

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[@liilysilly]

i luvv ur style,, where's ur top from ? ^__^

[@Mel_H_]

Hi hi Where did you get your top/dress from? It looks so gorgeous!! X

[@ackity]

izzy you look so good! i want to acquire your flesh and closet

[@kclink1579]

Please don't ever be sponsored by Raid worthless Shadow.

[@mossmoss6996]

I think your face is pretty

[@LunaMoon303]

MLP as a concept becomes way more funny when you realize that the story's entire catalyst was Celestia telling Twilight to go touch grass

[@sta._rina]

BHASBHBBS

[@solluxcaptor6823]

Damn when you put it like that Trollestia would 100% be canon.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"Dear Princess Celestia, thank you for telling me to touch the grass."_ *~ Twilight Sparkle*

[@lavenderhexx]

@@solluxcaptor6823 omg Sollux is that u

[@babyboi3910]

That's...Extremely ironic, considering the massive (and many times true) stereotype about bronies

[@ouijacorn]

"I wanted to be an alicorn, but I was just a human child" is such an absurd sentence but is also strangely beautiful.

[@janetestherina7169]

me

[@RedSpade37]

I agree. Nothing more human than wanting to transcend the human experience.

[@Blaze-bj5pz]

It’s so real honestly

[@Googledeservestodie]

It's like the good side of the coin for Filthyfrank's "You know when I was a kid I wanted to be Thomas the Tank Engine! But that shit never happened! I just wanted a piece of Percy's ass!"

[@thesleepydot]

well said.

[@teddyswrldd]

The dark skyes VA saying “think you’ve had it rough? Try growing up without a father.” will never not absolutely kill me 😭

[@coolkiddo3110]

"hey you kindof look like my dad maybe i'll beat you up just for fun" sendsssss me every time

[@rebekab1579]

it gives big "you think your life is hard? I wear size 13 nikes. MEN'S size 13 nikes. beat that" energy

[@skyesfallenxx]

51:02

[@DeathlessOrchid]

@@coolkiddo3110 Oh wait she says BEAT you up? I always thought she said CUT you up, which, honestly, was kinda funnier to me bc of just how "ow the edge" it is

[@kimbee23]

You were the chosen one , dad! You never came back with cigarettes!

[@dogearflopper7011]

"I wanted to be an alicorn, but I was just a human child." From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I crave only the animate, amorphous infinity of magic.

[@becauseimafan]

This made me laugh! And your phrasing is intense, I like it. As a kid, when adults asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, eventually I learned they just wanted me to answer some kind of boring job/career 🙄 The boring answer I'd give instead of my _real_ answer would relate to it, for my own fun. Like: Horse veterinarian (pegasus!), dog trainer (a cute doggo!), archeologist (all the ancient Greece things!), and of course anything I could relate to _dinosaurs!_ 😁🦖🦕

[@Liminalsubliminal404]

Bestie same 🥰

[@PokemonNurse2482]

I felt this comment on a personal level.

[@doeohdeer]

raw line

[@SquamataReptile]

I want to be a robot in that way too.

[@Technilogica2019]

i think the breaking bad cameo is probably my favorite, just for his cutie mark alone. the idea that a pony, as a child, _canonically_ realized his special talent was cooking meth. it brings me such joy knowing meth canonically exists within the realm of friendship is magic and, by extension, make your mark.

[@jaydeejay4166]

They are actually blue sugar crystals but that is effectively pony meth anyway.

[@aformofmatter8913]

He goes through his entire life without a cutie mark. He works at a major startup -- no cutie mark. He spends decades teaching high school chemistry, never finding his calling in life. Then one day, he comes home, & his wife says "wait, you have a cutie mark now? what's it supposed to be, like, a bunch of blue rocks or something?" "uhhhh, I can explain--"

[@VantaDraws]

It begs the question though; what would Jesse’s cutie mark be?

[@dancelikean1diot]

@@aformofmatter8913 WAFDFHSFGHFSADSGGHDGA I CANT

[@ChicaneryBear]

@@VantaDraws testosterone shot.

[@nickpoenisch4563]

"I was jealous because I wanted a horn and wings, but I was just a human child" what a bold thing to admit out loud, there are marines who are not so brave

[@ma.2089]

There were marines who were/are MLP:FiM fans so they’re probably as brave I think lol

[@exploshaun]

When I was neck deep into the fandom, I once dreamed that me and my classmates were ponies (the teachers were still humans for some reason). It felt real and really weird to have hooves, and also oddly satisfying. Quite the impact for me to remember any details of a dream after so many years.

[@alejandrootero8894]

balls of steel

[@Mario87456]

That just shows just how pathetic of a person she really is.

[@mahitos_biggest_fan]

i had a self insert oc with an alicorn fursuit lmao

[@talonsandtails501]

The “think you had it rough? Try growing up without a father” still kills me

[@scottpeltier3977]

Fatherless behavior. As someone fatherless, I feel it personally

[@PaupersSerenade]

That VA is trying their best not to laugh and I love it

[@Iotuseater]

The fact that I knew what you were talking about instantly 😭

[@GooseWithAPassport]

You think you had it rough? I was a 10 year old in the brony fandom, i am traumatised.

[@chrome_disco]

speaking as someone who's watched a little bit of MDE (while not endorsing it!), you can totally hear sam hyde's style in that video, especially the misogyny and the music choice

[@karmageddon9047]

tbh with hindsight, princess twilight does not surprise me Celestia - Sun Luna - Moon Twilight - Between but GOD THAT MOMENT WAS HUGE

[@karmageddon9047]

To add onto this! Wasnt there a comment from Lauren about twilight being a princess but NOT mentioning her being an alicorn? So she was likely inteded to become royal, but perhaps a new system wouldve been in place, rather than thr alicorn monarchy

[@dollarstorevodka]

How did I never realize this omg

[@beehive983]

i always thought it was celestia: sun luna: moon twilight: dusk and cadance (or however you spell her name) : dawn

[@UnlinealHand]

The deadpan “No” after introducing the Rainbow Dash Jar had me laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe.

[@sexygirlmax2019]

SAME

[@maryparker5486]

@marco there are some things on the internet that you can't unread. This is one of them. Best to just pretend you never even heard the name.

[@nooooooo5203]

@marco i’ll be the one to say it seeming as others r reluctant. pretty sure some brony put rainbow dash in a jar and did come tributes in it repeatedly. Like over a long period of time with the intent of filling it. then it became a meme/trend. Dunno the full story but that’s the main gist

[@fslayer1290]

I knew the jar would be here somewhere. 😟

[@marissawolff8491]

I still don't remember the jar thing and yet I was super active in the pony fandom at the time.

[@michelletran8242]

It's funny. I was actually way more upset about twilight's library being destroyed than about her becoming an alicorn haha

[@thesealky6445]

Same

[@purplepartytigerd1598]

Teenage me was ready to throw down

[@aierie-dragonslayer]

Same.

[@kab00m_]

It would have been cool if they reconstructed it

[@somegoodolbants]

SAME I loved alicorn twilight as a preteen, but my god was I peeved about that library

[@TaiLungSimp]

“Think you had it hard? Try growing up without a father?” Will always send me into orbit

[@atanaZion]

Tough**

[@vsal3782]

I just can’t help but laugh when I hear that!

[@Star-vu8xo]

It's funnier when you also grew up without a father

[@vsal3782]

@@Star-vu8xo dang it you just made me spit out my drink from reading that

[@lemonsmug]

@@vsal3782 As someone who grew up without a father, it's true! However, I have not yet ripped someone apart because they looked like my dad. *Yet.*

[@torismith8753]

I remember seeing a story about a little girl who loved twilight because of her late mother and when she saw twilight gain wings she said that she's even more like her mom now. This one fact completely changed my opinion on princess twilight

[@noranizaazmi6523]

I don’t know whether to feel touched by this story or crying. Well…you know what they say, Por que no los dos?

[@uglykid407]

*INTENSE SOBBING*

[@Liminalsubliminal404]

Aw, twilight also reminds us of our own mom!

[@0dsix]

Where

[@torismith8753]

@0d61 it was originally posted on Tumbler I think, but i found it reposted on FB

[@kiddliwink24]

I'm not a brony, I never have been a brony, but somehow I have the urge to consume any and all things relating to the topic. Thank you Izzy for satiating me this week

[@TuberoseKisser]

It's fascinating that a show meant for kids was consumed by adults and traumatized kids.

[@blackphillip8486]

Surprise! You're a brony. 🤣 Jk, I feel you! It's fascinating, like watching in on a different culture or species, lol.

[@Mortablunt]

Join the herd.

[@jsas2047]

I have news for you

[@TheThingBehindYouCanSeeYou]

Same lol

[@pyroscar5816]

One of my favorites is the guy who asked Lauren Faust, IN PERSON, what she thought of “weird lewd depictions of Celestia” in a crowd full of children and security had to manually escort him out.

[@monbub]

it was honestly hilarious but i feel bad for her

[@Bluebonez]

SAME IT LIVES RENT FREE IN MY HEAD

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

Where is this clip I've never seen it before

[@Bluebonez]

@@kittykittybangbang9367 kzbin.info/www/bejne/apS6c3pnfLChbqM

[@jakewhitfield6775]

Reminds me of the guy who told Gene Wilder about his blueberry fetish and got called a jackass.

[@gaetanignis841]

As someone who has adhd and has a lazy eye, I actually felt so seen by derpy, I loved her and was just as upset when she was censored

[@_Crush__]

I say based but no, you're just not a loser

[@clairechambers5761]

yeah its sad:( i undertstand how the name c ould be offensive so why tf didnt thery just change the name and leazve it there

[@EddieGaster]

I have autism and I've never had a problem with Derpy. #Justice4Derpy

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

its the name and the fact that a kid might watch mlp, see someone with a lazy eye, and then call them derpy

[@finny3-wx6pr]

twins!! i have adhd and a lazy eye too :)

[@puppetpawss]

To add on to the whole "Making Twilight immortal is pretty dark considering she'll have to watch all her friends die eventually" point, there's this really heartbreaking comic in which it shows a older Discord presumably years after the deaths of the mane 6 (minus Twilight) wherein he weeps after getting a message left for him by Fluttershy, and one of the panels is Fluttershy's spirit hugging him as he cries. That destroyed me

[@lorettabes4553]

Oh yeah and the animation 'remembrance'

[@babycakelings]

I remember before twilight princess stuff was revealed a similar comic with an older Spike saying goodbye to her. So to me I was so revealed actually that she gets to stay with him as he grows older. And hopefully by the time he passes away she can get someone to replace her and retire herself.

[@SonicTheHedgehog-yc6yv]

I burst out laughing everytime izzy mentions that her child self was an alicorn twilight hater because she was jealous, be it on video or on twitter, thats the funniest shit ever to me lmao

[@calliope1868]

As opposed to the spiky castle- it would be cool if instead, the golden oak library grew, and became a nurturing helpful force in the heart of ponyville, rather than the weird castle in the distance

[@yeethittter1285]

That is such a better idea 😍😍 The tree growing into a giant beautiful treehouse castle with Twilight's new powerful magic. Still with the same coziness and personality as the old one, but still a big marketable castle just like Hasbro wanted lmaoo

[@jadedfire4351]

they could've also added cool fantastical purple crystal aspects without going all in like that too yk like,, idk the castle just does not look good lmao

[@yeethittter1285]

@@jadedfire4351 Maybe if crystals grew up the tree in places like mushrooms do. Or ivy

[@justanautisticnerd8969]

I would have also loved if they have renovated the castle of the two sisters and made that twilights castle. She seems so happy there, I think it would have been nice if they did that.

[@probablypresley]

i agree!!! the castle lookes unwelcoming but it also just looks soo out of place imo.

[@LuvHaebom]

I think it was more ableist to remove Derpy’s disabilities than not. Derpy was one of the only canonically disabled ponies at that time, even if it was accidental. Wiping away any disability, even if it wasn’t intended in the first place, is just disgusting to me.

[@s3lf1shsyan1d3]

yeah, at the most they should have just changed her name. her crossed eyes were NOT the problem

[@olivershmoliver0575]

As a person with autism, I really didn't like the fact that they censored Derpy. I never had a problem with her. If they simply censored her name, then that would be fine by me. But fixing her lazy eye and dubbing over her voice? That's where I cross the line.

[@Liminalsubliminal404]

Irl disabilities are more often that not, unintentional! it’s poetic that her disability was too. Sorry if that’s a dumb way of putting it,,

[@waifu_png_pl6854]

the problem was with how she was portrayed and treated. the complaints were sent by parents, not people who know who this "character" even was, so this was dropped with 0 context for both parents and kids alike. so you randomly get a disabled coded character who does nothing but mess everything up and that rainbow gets somewhat mad at? thats the part that was controversial. to have only 1 explicitely disabled character in the series and making them into that is mean

[@babycakelings]

@PandguinGod Unintentional as in you don't mean to get them XD. Nobody chooses to have a disablity. You don't just wake up one day and decide you want to have ADHD or to no longer see or for your legs to just suddenly not work. Your either born with the disability or something happens to cause it. If we could just suddenly not be disabled, we would. It's called a disability for a reason, because it disables us in some way. As someone with Autism, the majority of us would if we could just suddenly become normal. The thing is that's impossible and all attempts to make us normal typically just end up with people torturing autistic children, or killing us. So after years of being mistreated all in the name of a "cure" autistic adults have decided it's no longer ok. We know there's no cure, so why beat ourselves up about it. So instead we're accepting of our issues and become proud of our differences so that our mental health isn't ruined. The issues we do have, we'd rather work around then be harmed in the attempt at a cure. But even though I'm happy to be autistic now and proud of who I am, it's still not something I'd choose intentionally. That's why it's rather funny that a character people often say may be disabled had it happen unintentionally, like real life disabled people have happen.

[@zoee3296]

As an autistic 14 year old with a lazy eye and speech impediment when Derpy hooves got censored, seeing adults calling things that I had “offensive” was crushing - I know it seems dumb to get upset about now, but I was a bullied, poor, undiagnosed (at the time) autistic, self conscious, clumsy and emotionally unstable teenager who relied heavily on escapism, which I could only ever get from watching mlp and spongebob clips on KZbin and watching grown ass adults say things like “they made her into a r***rd” and “they’ve ruined that character for my kids, nobody talks like that except r***rds” (those are the comments I remember) over things I related to personally just killed my self esteem

[@SupernovaV23]

I'm sorry the whole argument over Derpy impacted you like that. Please keep in mind there were definitely some clueless and unkind adults in the fandom.

[@Siegmernes]

As a fellow autistic person, I get that sooooo hard. But I am happy that we are getting more positive representation nowadays. Also, congrats on your diagnosis!

[@MeCooper]

Derpy was cross-eyed, A lazy eye is an entirely different thing,... I'd kind of expect somebody with amblyopia would know the difference.

[@montanarose4622]

@@MeCooperThey have eyes that don’t look straight ahead, just like the character. It’s literally that simple. Stop trying to dictate other peoples’ experiences.

[@MeCooper]

@@montanarose4622 Amblyopia and strabismus are two very different conditions... It's best to just stfu when you don't know what you're talking about.

[@NoahInfinity]

“MLP breaks the Geneva Convention” is a wild phrase that I am honestly not surprised about at face value considering what I’ve heard about the fandom

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

Has the same energy as "Blink-182 violates the Geneva Convention" (and for the same reason nonetheless)

[@BarcingMatter]

Same thing happened with stardew valley

[@baxkill]

I haven't reached that part, but if I take a wild guess, It's the Red Cross thing?

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

@@baxkill yes

[@Chivi-chivik]

@@BarcingMatter And with EarthBound

[@LeeAllanSpades]

"The Rainbow Dash Jar." "Oh my Celestia! Is she actually-" "No." *Collective sigh of relief*

[@LeeAllanSpades]

Also.... One thing the brony fandom constantly forgot is that they were not the main demographic. Hasbro made a new MLP show with the express interest in toy sales. Their market was girls between 4-8. Disney Princess demographic. Like Spiderman for boys of the same age. After all, Hasbro is a toy company first and foremost. What are traditionally girl's toys? Babies. Princesses. Weddings. Fashion Dolls. They are key components in the market for any successful toy line for the demographic. So OF COURSE they added Cadence and Flurry Heart. And princess Twilight? A power fantasy for young girls. You say the awkward, bookish girl can become a beautiful princess? Oh, the girls will EAT THAT UP as empowerment. After all, the Disney Princess franchise is almost literally that in its entirety. In conclusion, Hasbro made all the right moves right when they needed to in order to push their products, and we are LUCKY there was enough passion to continue the writing, music, and overall quality of the show as well after Faust left.

[@catmoon5936]

What was in the jar im scared to google it ( edit: thank you everyone and while im very horrified and disgusted, im happy i didnt google it)

[@cools-mc-fools]

@@catmoon5936 cum

[@LeeAllanSpades]

@@catmoon5936 Bodily fluids

[@ramppappia]

@@catmoon5936 *male* bodily fluids, if you known what I mean. a lot of it. yeah.

[@MettaFTW]

imagine self shipping with Pinkie Pie, going through the effort to make a self insert ponysona, creating a whole intricate background for them, commissioning cute couple's artwork and writing fics about cute domestic life and romance and all that, maybe even creating children for them. and then watching *Weird Al* get to live that life.

[@spicegrill]

Literally me

[@Mario87456]

It’s disappointing that Weird Al would sell out by voicing a character on that show, then again practically anybody (particularly males) who sells out by voicing a character on that show loses respect from me since it’s such a girly and stupid show.

[@thatonegaybitch1811]

@@Mario87456 ok mario, go eat some shrooms and cry about it

[@curley-clown]

@@Mario87456 🤓

[@Mario87456]

Oh both of you just shut up. The fact this show is STILL pretty much unavoidable even long after it’s ended is one reason why I hate it so much.

[@ForgeMyOwnCompass]

Izzzyzzz childhood obsession with flying being so deep-rooted that she was jealous of Twilight for having wings is insane

[@maddieb.4282]

I don’t think it’s insane, I was also jealous of Harry Potter for having magic and getting to go to hogwarts 😂 obviously I wasn’t an insane unbalanced child

[@fourthmatchflame]

ishmael???

[@BrandonVout]

I'm surprised Lauren Faust left so early in the series. I always assumed she was around for at least 3 or 4 seasons.

[@sporkzzz]

Is it stupid of me to think she never left

[@BrandonVout]

@@sporkzzz Nah, I only found out she was leaving by coincidence. It's probably easy to miss if you're not following the show.

[@BrandonVout]

Also, Twilight became an Alicorn in season 3?! Literally the only two things I knew about the show happened so early in its run. And, it lasted 9 seasons; I would've guessed 6. I feel old.

[@sporkzzz]

@@BrandonVout same! when I was watching the show I was like 5 so obviously I didn't know what seasons were I just saw mlp on the TV guide and wanted to watch it lol

[@kaytlinkociemba]

@@BrandonVoutRIGHTTT i thought she becameone towards the end-

[@brooke51607]

Being like six or seven in this fandom and being chronically online was so traumatizing… this video recapped it perfectly

[@thisisapictureofmydog.isnt9208]

Same here we need like “target demographic that was in the brony fandom is now traumatized” support group

[@JustWannaPissYouOff]

I was one of the lucky few who weren't too big in the actual fandom part. I only cared about the show, not the fans. The few fan animations I _did_ consume were fairly vanilla, and if I am remembering correctly, one was mentioned here. It was the double sonic rainboom one. The other would be Smile.Hd. Definitely not as vanilla, but I didn't understand what was actually going on, so it didn't leave much of a mark on me. I suppose being a retired obsessive fnaf kid has some perks, seeing as that was the only fandom I genuinely cared about. Edit: OH! I remember the slenderman flutershy video as well. And.., other violent stuff. So, disregard whatever I said up there. I forgot about my early tween years and violent gore phases. I found some messed up shit.

[@brooke51607]

@@thisisapictureofmydog.isnt9208FR

[@brooke51607]

@@__ZeeCipher192__omg😭 I remember my friend making me watch it in elementry school. She thought it was funny but I thought it was actually traumatizing

[@brooke51607]

@@JustWannaPissYouOffomg.. I’m glad you didn’t see the bad stuff that was put on here especially at the start of when the show came out. The first things I remember seeing was Cupcakes which I remember vividly. Honestly it was downhill from there. And omg being a fnaf kid at the same time you eventually get desensitized to it

[@FierceStar56]

I once had to set my tumblr mutual straight that "I'm not a brony, I was a 7-11 year old girl when I was in the fandom which really just means I was the target audience."

[@MooMoo_Ho]

For the Nurse Red Heart thing, it's actually wrong because the Geneva Convention only says you're not allowed to have the Red Cross on a military tank and use it to attack the enemy. A tank with a cross is supposed to tell the other side that the tank will not fire on them and only help the injured. What most likely happened, and what you probably meant, was that the company that owns the symbol of the Red Cross, Johnson & Johnson, will not allow it to be used for profit by organizations that aren't in the medical field, which is why Hasbro most likely changed it to avoid a lawsuit with Johnson & Johnson. I hope this was helpful 😅

[@kailomonkey]

That's what I thought. I see this come up in videogame issues all the time. I wish a precedent would be established to put a stop to the lawsuits because a red plus sign to show that something is a hospital or someone is a nurse has nothing to do with The Red Cross.

[@kososka]

Honestly as a disabled guy, it's kinda sad what happened to Derpy. I understand that she had some slightly "offensive" traits, but it's even sadder that disabled traits are automatically seen as offensive and not just, you know, traits. Edit because people keep fighting in the comments: • I was a kid when I watched MLP. That is why I was so happy to see an MLP character. • I'm not saying they definitely shouldn't hsve changed it. I understand why they did, I just personally liked her.

[@thatrandomdogperson323]

Derpy was my fav as a kid and I remember seeing her with derpy eyes when I watched it as a kid

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

Her traits weren't even really offensive. By that logic, every goofy, klutzy character in fiction is offensive.

[@ashleytyraisaacs]

The derpy thing was interesting because normally, the name would be fine. Pushing it but okay. But My Little Pony was for toddlers and you have to be incredibly politically correct. You wouldn't see blues clues or the Wiggles calling someone "derpy." And you can't risk an abled child calling another child with crossed eyes "derpy" or accident give a name to something without responsibly making every child comfortably. I don't agree with changing her eyes. Cross eyed kids need a pony too. But the rename was understandable.

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

@@ashleytyraisaacs well, i suppose that's a fair point. I still don't believe having a cross eyed character called derpy is pushing any boundaries because it's really up to the viewer how they interpret it. derpy does not have to be offensive. however, i am aware of how careful kids shows need to be with how children could repeat what they say. so i guess it's really just unfortunate given the demographic rather than the character itself.

[@spicyuh]

I can understand the name change, but fixing the eyes was completely unnecessary.

[@wretchedcats4909]

Being in the mlp fandom as a member of the shows target audience was like being on the frontlines in ww1.

[@KittenApocalypseReal]

I was gonna say I have no idea how I avoided it but then realized I'm just INCREDIBLY good at not letting things affect me lmao

[@ari_ismynameee]

Good thing that my windows pc broke when I was like 7 so that way I couldn’t get into any of these forums… Also my mom was pretty strict on what we did online so we were only allowed to watch CookieSwirlC and Toy Genie…

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Yeah, I can't imagine getting attacked by grown-ass adults over your favorite character could be healthy.

[@putdogdirectlyonbed]

honestly, as much as I liked the fanbase I'll never forgive these grown ass adults making it a horrible space for the actual target audience 😭 it was a nightmare trying to navigate mlp fan content as a kid

[@gracezl]

ikr literally when i was 6 i was watching cupcakes and pony. mov

[@jello4835]

As a complete outsider to this fandom, the heading "Lou Reed's final tweet" hit me like a ton of bricks

[@erikbihari3625]

I never buy the toys,didn't interact with fandom only(most I still use it is youtube),never go to conventions(don't my home:🇭🇺, even have them)ect. Just loved the show. Now I know how loss of innocense feels like!

[@hexedcupid]

@@erikbihari3625 right like i was NOT apart of the online fandom i j liked the show 😭 i remember finding out abt the rainbow dash jar for the first time 💀

[@Ani-rq7wv]

I mean I feel super awkward about Derpy. I myself am disabled, and I always loved the character. But I think it’s also super important to realize she was handled poorly with her first “official” appearance.

[@abbycantrell1369]

Exactly! Her first appearence was her making mistakes and getting scolded several times. They made her come off as being incompetent and that can be incredibly harmful, especially since she was the first canonically disabled character in the series. It would've been so much better if she had helped with preparations and made a more minor mistake than almost seriously injuring a member of the main cast. That way, she could've been introduced as a helpful and endearingly clumsy character that people probably would've responded much more positively to.

[@dollarstorevodka]

It sucks because you never see strabismus depicted in media unless it's an offensive stereotype like Derpy. It could've been used as an opportunity to be positive representation, for once. I think completely getting rid of her was the wrong move too, because like I said you never see representation of certain impairments.

[@Garden0flowr]

Naming her Derpy was a bad move, since it has nothing to do with her cutie mark or skill, but they couldve just brought her back as Bubbles or Muffins Maybe she couldve shown up later doing pegasus work successfully, with her improvement coming from higher confidence and practice with help of her own friends She can be disabled and still exist

[@ithinkflutterawesome6511]

@@Garden0flowr?? She does though?? This exact thing happens???

[@maddieb.4282]

@@ithinkflutterawesome6511baby not everyone has seen the show all the way through, and if the video doesn’t explain it they wouldn’t know. They just have a reasonable opinion based on the wrong facts, so explain it nicely

[@SkittzelzStudios]

“You think you’ve had it rough? Try growing up without a father.” Bro I literally choked on my drink, my fatherless ass couldn’t ever say that 😭

[@kailomonkey]

Yea comes off as a weird line to me. My father sucked. Glad I grew up without him :p

[@restingsadface]

I still blame being in the brony fandom at like 11 for why I am the way I am today - that shit was traumatizing

[@pixelatedcorpse]

we had the same exact childhood apparently bc i was in the same situation

[@justinecourtneysgavel89]

SAME

[@DENVERRIOGRANDEMAN21]

Gee never traumatized in the Fandom but there mess up crap

[@princess_intell]

I'm glad there's an entire sub-generation of preteen girls who saw that shit too young. Pinkomena Diane Pie, Rainbow Factory, Cupcakes, AskDiscordedWhooves, AskPrincess**lestia (if you know you know), the list goes on.

[@scribblecloud]

tbh i dont mind most of the edgy stuff, its funny and nostalgic looking back and it made me a bit less sensitive towards horror themed things, the shitty part was amino and skype and discord when adults were brought together with minors with absolutely no supervision or minors were just straight up erping in amino chatrooms with no intervention

[@undyne1]

Learning about Laura Faust's opinions on the new direction of the show after she left makes me wonder how it would be like to have a version of MLP where she had full creative control.

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

it'd probably be a instant classic like fosters home for imaginary friends or powerpuff girls considering she worked on both

[@humansvd3269]

@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Lauren Faust should have kept control. I don't like the direction the show went. The ending should never have happened the way it did.

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

@@humansvd3269 I really didn't mind lauren faust leaving the show, I still enjoyed the show as long as I got to see my favorite ponies in the way lauren intended.

[@humansvd3269]

@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Certain things didn't need to happen.

[@Mario87456]

She is a god damn sellout if you ask me.

[@kumaxhime]

I was a teenager when the show started and I thought it was pretty cute when I watched it with the kid I was babysitting. Never imagined at the time that (mostly) grown men would turn it into a f*cked up cultural phenomenon 💀

[@GrimSpookz]

The hearts on your cheeks GENUINELY look like they're glowing it's adorable

[@nicobirdd]

The guy who did Double Rainboom is, in fact, a professor of 2D animation at SCAD now. I'm a senior in SCAD's 3D animation program currently directing a capstone film (fancy wording for "senior film") and they've employed a LOT more restrictions and rules since Double Rainboom came out. You definitely cannot have any pre-existing characters, film must be 3 minutes long or under, all assets, sound, and music must be original, etc. They've also banned outside animation help this year, which was a controversial decision among students lol. Some of you have probably seen/heard about Legend of Pipi, which was a (very wonderful) SCAD film from last year. That film had literal industry professionals working on it alongside students (I believe some Helluva Boss animators did some animation for it?). That film came out great, but a lot of other films depending on outside help struggled when said outside help flaked on deadlines and sometimes completely dropped out of the project altogether. Now everything is 100% student run (with guidance by professors of course) and student made! Hope this answers some questions! :))

[@star-nomad]

recent scad graduate here! while pipi came out really good, it kind of left others in the dust who didn't have access to anyone in the industry. we had a team of about twenty people, only three of us being full-time animators. we struggled to get a film out that the school wouldn't even give the time of day anyway because they couldn't believe we could do it. it was really disheartening to the team because it felt like our hard work was being drastically overshadowed by people who had an unfair edge in the first place. while i don't think ALL outside help should be banned, i'm kind of glad they'll hopefully be more mindful of stuff like that in the future. in any case, best of luck with the short film!

[@nicobirdd]

@@star-nomad Big agree! I loved Pipi, but their extensive outside help seemed kind of unfair to a lot of other films. This year also has a sort of "golden child" film, but to a much lesser extent. Still, favoritism from faculty is never good and makes other films feel less important, which should not be the case at all. I'm sorry you had to deal with all of that pressure :((

[@star-nomad]

@@nicobirdd while it does suck that it happened to us, we certainly still got a lot out of the experience and still have some great portfolio pieces! i'm sure all of the current senior films are going to be incredible when they come out, can't wait until they're complete

[@LordLicoriceDerp]

@star-nomad Is there a good place to see/keep an eye on SCAD works as they're made?

[@nicobirdd]

@@LordLicoriceDerp Most films have instagram accounts you can follow! They post art and you can check out stuff about their team, but unfortunately you likely won't be able to see many WIP shots of the actual films until they're completed and made public, as that would disqualify them from entering most film festivals

[@failpip4235]

When you're dealing with the brony fandom, there's never a dull moment

[@ryu246]

LMAOO

[@Cpt_JackSparrow]

Big facts

[@ChannelMDiscovery]

That ride was something else.

[@AluminumFusion22]

Tara Strong's edgy tweets may have been because she was super popular at the time. Not only was she the main protagonist in MLP back then, but she also did voice acting for Lollipop Chainsaw and Batman: Arkham City. It doesn't help that she has a large demographic of male fans who find her physically attractive.

[@naturalbornbabe]

lol! she knows she a baddie lmao i love her

[@TalkingVidya]

I think one missing is the whole Fighting is Magic debacle. It was a fighting game with the MLP characters, but it got so big and popular that it was going to be featured on EVO, so Hasbro did its thing and sent them a C&D. After that, Lauren Faust approached the developers and offered to do a whole reading for the main 6 characters and give them some lore to work on, and after 7 years, the game finally got a multi-plat release with two completely original characters and 3 more coming. I'm just happy for the devs because it's a really good game.

[@alexandramcginnis8872]

The new characters are definitely better than using a different IP and I WAY prefer it this way. But what I wonder is, why didn’t Hasbro just like BUY the game, so they can sell it and make money? Instead of a C&D?!

[@Bloomkyaaa]

@@alexandramcginnis8872 Probably because it's a fighting game. Little girls are their focus for their merchandise and it doesn't fit.

[@kitkatiecat]

Doesn't the game go by Them's Fightin Herds now?

[@nym2717]

@@Bloomkyaaa Hasbro obviously has no idea how little girls play then

[@jakedanielsen4512]

3 more coming!?

[@inteligentidiot7233]

53:41 "No" is the best possible response to this moment in the fandom.

[@ceciliafarias4642]

Fr

[@vertibelle]

I was actually the editor on the middle couple of years of Equestria Girls. Another ship Kat and I talked about and would sneak into the background was Derpy and Bulk Biceps. We honestly got away with a lot more than we thought we would because so much focus was on production of the movie at the time. It was a really fun crew to work with and legit the best time I've had in my time working in animation

[@purplepartytigerd1598]

That's awesome lmao

[@analytixna6610]

That's good to hear, I remember those background gags too. I loved the show

[@creepy620]

as an actual editor confirm me this; was this show directed to kids? if so, why adults watch it and get so obsessed with it?. (anyone is free to do as they please and watch what they want, but 'brony' communities always creep me out)

[@purplepartytigerd1598]

@@creepy620 Well yeah, Hasbro themselves stated the show was directed towards kids. They didn't expect a large part of the fanbase to be middle-aged dudes.

[@vertibelle]

@@creepy620 Yeah it was always intended to be for kids, and even once adults started watching it they didn't adjusting the rating at all. It just got a lot more fanservice-y and the pivoted the toy line to appeal to boys as well

[@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468]

Hoppip made the Lyra plushie made it with leftover fabric from my commission. At least I think that's what happened because I spent weeks searching for mint coloured fleece fabric and ended up ordering it in the US and have it shipped to his place in the UK. The shipping cost from the US to UK was horrendous so I don't think he bought another batch. Suffice to say there was enough fabric left to add additional features to the plushie. Being a /b/ronie at the time I thought it was hilarious when I saw his creation. I take pride in my little contribution into internet culture, albeit it was an indirect one.

[@kailomonkey]

That's amazing. Was it made as a joke then? Or was he serious. Or is it truely no-one else's business to say for sure :p

[@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468]

@@kailomonkey From what I remember interacting with hoppip on ponychan he is quite the mischievous character. So he mostly made it for the lulz. However it was also a financial decision. My original comission was around 120£. At the time custom plushies were blowing up on ebay and I distinctly remember Hoppip expressing his surprise that even poorly made plushies were raking in hundreds of dollars. So he cleary saw an opportunity to rake in some dough with the leftover fabric from my comission...

[@nocturnumshkin]

I never knew that Tara made those tweets. Thankfully she didn't voice those out cause if she did the ammount of chaos would be un imaginable

[@cyberpunk-2O77]

It would've been extremely profitable, and may have caused a shift in to the dark side

[@Duskaria]

Tara Strong tweets in 2012: "Eat my pony asshole" Tara Strong tweets after 2016: "Orange man bad"

[@Ijustusethistocommentstuff]

I mean, the fact that Tara Strong made those tweets in general is weird. I mean, does Matt Mercer make AOT or Jojo thirst trap posts? Voicing them would only add fuel to the burning fire of "Does Tara Strong want to fuck one of her own characters?" that could be implied from this.

[@rosymaze]

Watch her at cons and events! You could take plenty of those bits sadly

[@nocturnumshkin]

@@rosymaze oh no

[@Squ1dVicious]

Pinkie pie deserved to be the alicorn of friendship and I could literally write a dissertation about it

[@jordandwiggins1026]

Legit Pinkie was always by far the best at actually making and maintaining friendships. She even made friends with Twilight’s childhood classmates off screen while Twilight forgot they existed entirely, which I find hilarious

[@Creampuf1977]

I would love to read that

[@kespblaze8560]

If you do write that please share because that would be amazing

[@Yipyipyay]

Yeah, twilight should have been the princess of magic imo lol I like the idea they ALL should have been given princess roles

[@raychumon]

YOU. you are the awakened one.

[@beckwells25]

Finding out the fandom originated on 4chan... that makes a LOT of sense. I was roughly the target age range when it came out, so I didn't actually interact with the more insane stuff in its prime, mostly because I wasn't allowed free range on the computer. Learning ✨our heritage✨ after the fact is always so entertaining to me.

[@Metal_Tao]

OMG, you really did get spared some of the worst. I stayed away from 4Chan stuff but man, it was everywhere. I am a lot happier with the new creators in the fandom now like Crooked Beetles and Vylet Pony, very cool folk.

[@jjj4n4]

"I wanted to be an alicorn, but I was just a human child" can describe basically my whole childhood

[@realestrealityrealnessreal]

real

[@jinniedoesstuff367]

Izzy makes, in my opinion, some of (if not) THE best video essays on internet culture - they’re always so enjoyable, thought-out and interesting! the amount of effort put into every video as well is awesome!

[@tarotsushima3332]

Best of all, even with stuff that are typically seen as cringy, there's such a goodnatured approach to how the topics are discussed too instead of a very 'Get a load of this nonsense' or extremely self deprecative and ashamed vibe. Real breath of fresh air

[@JC20XX]

Her and Jenny Nicholson are goats

[@AL-lh2ht]

She is definitely somewhere around B or A tier. S tier video essayiest youtubers are people like Hbomberguy, EmpLemon, Nexpo, Internet Historian, Fredrik Knudsen, Lindsay Ellis (retired), etc. There are plenty of other super good ones and probabely a few more pillars of the essayist genre like the above. (like vinesauce mabye)

[@jsas2047]

For me it's Izzy and Jenny Nicholson! Though Jenny makes more deep dives into fandoms and media in general, not specifically internet culture, and only puts out like 2 videos a year (though the last one was almost 4 hours long so it makes sense lmao). But I love them both and I think they definitely make the best video essays.

[@bandidocavalier]

@@jsas2047 yesss jenny & izzy my world. Sarah Z as well! I just dont wanna watch a white cis man berrate a bunch of people having fun for half an hour and most video essays on internet culture are that LOL. Sarah can get a little evil sometimes but i just love people being good natured about these things and actually looking to teach rather than making a cringe compilation with added context

[@kiwiequis4144]

I remember being so heartbroken at the derpy incident because as a disabled person, it well and truly felt like disability erasure and a bit ableist in the guise of people didn’t like the existence of a seemingly allistic character so they complained to a point they got rid of all traits of disability to appease to the normies. For a lot of people it was a LOT more than being mad at hasbro for touching a beloved fandom character, I remember a HUGE discussion about disability erasure and anti disability measures across all forms of media/entertainment being sparked for months and months afterwards

[@COSun25]

Hasbro playing it too darn safe when it came to Derpy's changes from her voice to the switching of the eyes in certain pieces of merch to how she was in the season 1 premiere.

[@iluvkorn4205]

True, it's hard to find actual representation for amblyopia that isn't extremely offensive, so hearing about her design being "corrected" is hurtful

[@exploshaun]

It didn't helped that the voice actor didn't realize that they were voicing a girl, and ended up with a voice too low pitch. Then they left her without voice acting for future appearances until episode 100 where she got a more feminine voice.

[@NumeroLetter]

Thank you for this! I'm autistic myself, and I feel the same way!! I relate heavily to Derpy, and her being removed felt like a huge blow to my child self's fragile self-esteem!!

[@graaaaaaaaaaaaaaace]

Yeah same!! There's a huge difference between like that one South Park character that's only there as a disability joke and then Derpy. Like Derpy was BELOVED by the fandom. Why not let the one visibly disabled pony that everybody loved stay disabled! I don't think taking it down a notch with maybe having her not be destroying things constantly would've been a bad idea, but the complete redesign was too far in my opinion.

[@kathleenr.5591]

As someone who has never seen this show seeing one of the main characters being canonically married to Weird Al is the best thing I’ve ever heard about this show

[@Flinch9000]

“Weird Al Yankovic canonically exists in the JoJo (and MLP) universe!”

[@PettyCrustacean]

My biggest memory of the fandom was the "google round up" thing. It had an more MLP name of course but basicly: There was so much NSFW fanart that for a while if you googles MLP art with safe search on you still got some NSFW stuff, so you where encouraged to report those finds to make it safer for kids to google their fav ponies.

[@abbyelectric]

I remember that time I looked up Rainbow Dash for reference and that was the first time I ever saw porn

[@DogDogGodFog]

As a kid I liked Cadance's design more than any other pony's and that still holds true to this day - so I find it funny that there apparently was backlash to introducing her.

[@menthollizard]

same!! the royal wedding was my favorite episode as a little kid, and it had a pretty good plot line in six year old me's opinion haha.

[@rashes2286]

I like Cadance, her being the princess of love reminds me of Aphrodite so her being an alicorn makes more sense to me than a unicorn or Pegasus imo

[@Victim_of_magic]

same, she was my favorite back in the day and i still love her

[@DogDogGodFog]

@@Victim_of_magic ❤️

[@Kirsten4260]

@@menthollizard Same here I still go back to watch it from time to time 😭😭

[@jq2555]

The creator of Double Rainboom was one of my professors. The school did ban the use of licensed properties for this exact reason, and if I'm remembering his version correctly, it was mostly the pressure that caused him to back off. He's a really genuine dude and was one of the few professors at SCAD that actually cared and taught people valuable skills.

[@ionastewart8814]

Glad to know he's doing well these days!

[@smileyp4535]

That's impressive

[@BB-eq7hb]

when i read that he worked at SCAD i like physically recoiled

[@jq2555]

@@BB-eq7hb we all thought he was cringe cause he wears a fedora and a vest but when I tell you he is THE nicest most genuine person, I mean it! He LOVES this project, he shares it with all his classes- he has a passion for what he does, both his animations AND teaching. When most of the professors at SCAD are just there to collect a paycheck and have their asses kissed by the students and the school itself only invests and nurtures the major that make them the most money (Fashion, Acting, Equestrian Studies), it was a miracle that someone so genuine was there.

[@Wishnstarz]

Do you know if he still works at SCAD as of now? I'm attending my first year there and I would LOVE to meet him!

[@SmileGirl010]

Once you find out Tara Strong did the voice for Princess Clara in Drawn Together, her unhinged tweets make a lot more sense. She’s crazy lol

[@0b13F4st3]

She was also the voice for Toot in "Drawn Together" as well. 😉Just something I thought I'd point out.

[@punbug4721]

She's the voice for a lot of things, actually. It's incredibly impressive how much she gets around. Seriously, look her up on IMDB.

[@lemonsmug]

and chica's magic rainbow in fnaf world

[@silverbells346]

@@lemonsmug actually the rainbow was voiced by Debbie Derryberry, voice of Jimmy Neutron. Just wanted to let you know

[@saturna_saturna]

Fun Fact: In the Latin-American Spanish dub of MLP and Drawn Together, Rarity and Clara share the same VA (Elsa Covián)

[@justlovely9322]

19:30 “I know a lot of people just listen to my videos instead of watching them…” Me: *slowly looks up from my crochet project in fear*

[@baysidedaze]

I was a brony as a teen girl, and it was probably one of the most toxic spaces I could've been in at that time. No one should put themselves into groups with so many chronically online men, especially as a teen girl. They found so many ways to squash my joy for my a pretty innocent show. That said, I'm grateful for some of the creators I found through the Fandom and the ways this show shaped my creativity. That part was fun.

[@justanotherhtffan]

Yeah, i briefly thought about getting into the show/fandom in very early high school, but almost every brony I met was a raging incel so I just got completely turned off.

[@thisisapictureofmydog.isnt9208]

Complete facts. This fandom and the pokemon fandom really contributed to my internal misogyny as a kid

[@UncleSamsoniteLover69]

Bro me too 😭 I used to unironically call myself a “pegasister” and argue with grown men on deviantart over cartoon ponies at the ripe age of 9 💀 I’m still in the mlp fandom to this day, but I rarely interact with it anymore since those days. Bronies ruined it.

[@SukunaYaoi]

This happened to me on twitter in the early Fandom days, luckily nowadays sick bronies get called out, the Fandom is definitely a bit safer than it was back then

[@SukunaYaoi]

@@justanotherhtffan honestly those type of bronies disappeared, I haven't seen a neckbeard brony in a long time. It's definitely safer now lmao. The early Fandom days was definitely something

[@WerewolfCat890]

it's so funny looking back on my brony phase bc i was deeply invested in the fandom and would make jokes alongside the rest of the fans about how "we shouldn't love this show as much as we do but somehow we do!" meanwhile i was the literal target demographic of the show (a 10 year old girl)

[@siqxyre8473]

LMFAOOOO SAME

[@KittenApocalypseReal]

ITS HONESTLY HILARIOUS THO CAUSE A LOT OF THE REAL DEMOGRAPHIC REALLY WAS THERE IN THE FANDOM RIGHT NEXT TO THE "DEGENERATE ADULTS"

[@inacatt]

No because I was about 8-9 when the show came out and remember people calling me a p*dophile/zooph*le online because I called myself a brony. 💀

[@KittenApocalypseReal]

@@inacatt BRUH 💀 Thank God I was an introvert and didn't talk to anyone lmao, I'm so sorry dude

[@Bambabababambam]

@@inacatt Literally same, I was just a little girl lmao

[@skwidgril8171]

Derpy made me feel so much better about literally being cross eyed with shitty vision, if the internet could love a character so unconditionally then maybe I deserved to be loved too :D thanks mlp

[@silliestlesbian]

u 100% do deserve to be loved

[@Just_A_Guy_Here.]

I'm your 300th liker here & bye.

[@sydnickiB]

This made me realize that I literally haven’t seen any season of MLP past the third bc I had no idea that her library BLEW UP?

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

The 2010s era feels like a different dimension where every grown men and women wears a Pinkie Pie T-shirt becomes a meme on the Internet at this point.

[@bellaren1145]

i swear i see you in comments all the time 😭 i love your clockwork orange pfp

[@shivasthong4924]

I kinda miss that era. Was a bit less toxic.

[@atanaZion]

@@shivasthong4924 Highly doubt it

[@myon9431]

It was less toxic back then, more fun. Internet sucks now.

[@ChannelMDiscovery]

Bronies still be getting blamed for shit 30 years later. XD

[@theforgottenscribe]

Lmao Flash is the ONLY male character I've seen be hated on the same level as a female love interest in a piece of media, on the basis of being a love interest. I love him for that specifically.

[@dc7981]

Which is hilarious cause then Timber spruce got created who’s basically flash 2.0

[@sundownerstudios8563]

You mean Brad?

[@homestuck_official]

Diversity win! This widely hated love interest is a man!

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

Flash lived rent free in the “muh pony waifu” fan’s heads.

[@rosemary3029]

Am i the only one who didn't have an with flash ofc i was a child when i saw equestria girls and i didn't know fandoms exist at the time

[@rosiewithatouchofwhimsy6622]

SCAD student here! The Double Rainboom short film was not the only cause for the banning of IP in senior thesis films, but was one of the main reasons. You can still include references in your short films, but only to a certain degree as outlined by the Animation department. Let me know if you have any more questions!

[@professionalocchiolist4104]

Is scad really as soul crushing as I've heard?

[@n0s4a2]

@professionalocchiolist4104 @rosiewithatouchofwhimsy6622 Not a SCAD student and I know the question was not directed towards me (a Ringling College alumni-) I hope it wasn't as soul crushing as our school was :( Still recovering after graduating in '21 but currently working in my field and reminding myself what life outside of a computer lab looks like. Our animation departments had a lot of rules against IPs being used at all, and I wonder if this also had something to do with it? 🤔 But hey- we did just have a staff member sue a student so 🫠 Hope all us art kids are making it through and remembering things outside of school are so much more worthwhile

[@Cowgutz]

I just got accepted into SCAD, Is it worth it?

[@fenmo9533]

@@professionalocchiolist4104 also not a scad student, i'm currently attending sheridan for animation now in my second yr i think any and all art degree programs r just a tad soul crushing to an extent lmao especially if you're going into animation specifically;; workload is intense and deadlines r stressful af but honestly i dont think i would trade it for anything else considering its the most fun ive been able to have in a formal teaching environment- plus the people you are able to meet will be connections you can keep for a lifetime!

[@katsdraws]

SCAD is for people who got rejected by the real art colleges.

[@cyberfaunix6920]

i will always find it funny how adults were mad about alicorn twilight when the show was marketed for 7yr olds

[@friendbright5375]

About the red cross pony: The Red Cross takes violations of the Geneva Convention VERY seriously and they have told several game developers, animators, even musicians (such as Blink182 I think was the band name, who had an album cover with a nurse wearing a red cross) that they cannot use the Red Cross symbol. Hasbro was 100% contacted by Red Cross about that

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

srsly i remember stardew valley and skullgirls getting hit by red cross stuff lmao

[@marissawolff8491]

Before I heard my first Red Cross lawsuit story on KZbin (that being the Red Cross v. Blink-182 one), I actually didn't know that the Red Cross logo was copyrighted because I've seen it on so many nurse caps, doctor coats and first-aid kits in the cartoons I've watched as a little girl ( prime examples being The Fairly Oddparents and Ed, Edd n Eddy). I always thought, because of that reason, that it was just a generic-looking symbol standing for medical care and that anyone was free to use it on their characters who work in the medical field in their books, comics, album covers or animated TV shows with no kind of legal issues at all.

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

@@marissawolff8491 i think in media you can have a symbol that looks very similar to the red cross symbol (same shape but a different colour, same colour but an altered shape) but if its directly copying the red cross theyll see it as misusage

[@marissawolff8491]

@@iwakeupandboomimarat What I saw in the animated shows I watched as a kid was crosses on medical outfits and first-aid kits that were redder than Rudolph's shiny schnoz.

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

@@marissawolff8491 rlly??? thats weird i feel like red cross has become infamous for stamping down on its icon being used now

[@raycearcher5794]

What's weird about the Alicorn thing is that it suggests Ponies have a biological cycle similar to bees, where most of them will grow old and die as juveniles and only a few will receive the necessary conditioning to actually reach adulthood. Like, Twilight KEEPS GROWING, the other ponies are clearly just little baby horses. I guess what I'm saying is you probably become an Alicorn when another Alicorn vomits royal jelly into your mandibles.

[@NM-wd7kx]

I know nothing about MLP, but that sounds almost more axolotl like

[@raycearcher5794]

@@NM-wd7kx I mean whatever it is, definitely NOT horses

[@ZimVader-0017]

That last sentence is one hell of a mental image, thank you

[@MarcellusJasonClay]

Bees: only a minority of bee larvae can become queens and must be fed royal jelly as a larva to actually become one Axolotl: will lose gills and develop lungs if water slowly gets shallower or lowers in quality Ants: worker (no wings) and royal ants (have wings) are biologically different since birth and nothing can change that. King ants die after mating. Young queens lose their wings after mating and dig down to make a nest and can only give birth to workers only. Old Queen ants give birth to either workers or royals but not both depending on season. Termites: basically like ants but queens become gigantic egg laying machine to the point they cant move and all her needs have to be done by her workers.

[@Sara.Miller.]

Thank you for that.... interesting concept

[@Ehh97]

I remember the Derpy controversy! I witnessed it in real time! And yeah I was one of those people that hated the changes. As someone who has a noticeable lazy eye, it was nice to see people love a character that had "weird" eyes. I would have been fine with the voice change, but the fact that they "fixed" her eyes made me feel a bit erased. Other people found her offensive, but I always liked her as a kid! (Also how dare you make me look up Rainbow Dash Jar. Now BOTH of my eyes are fucked up.)

[@grimreapergal]

I giggled at this 😂

[@mffngrffls]

Yes!! My lazy eye isn’t that noticeable but it’s still nice to see characters with them be loved!!

[@SuperKirbylover]

i talked to other friends about their opinions on the derpy debacle, including ones who also have noticable lazy eyes, and they all told me they loved (or at least liked) her!! as an autistic person her character also strikes close to me, and seeing her get censored back then massively hurt and made me and my pals feel erased. i'm so glad i'm not the only one who feels this way

[@veryfranticdame8707]

mnn

[@ThePrincessofMagic]

Being the princess of friendship while being an immortal god that will outlive every friendship they ever make is really messed up..

[@ilexlio]

It's morbidly amusing how universal knowledge the jar is, don't have to be in this fandom to know. Cursed knowledge, those who know seek to forget and those who do not know will regret their curiosity

[@sydneyduval7859]

Literally tho, I knew exactly what she meant even though I'm not a fan. No clue where I even would have seen it 😭

[@GummyDinosaursify]

I had forgotten about it until now. I need brain bleach

[@dibel3669]

what jar

[@yeethittter1285]

@@dibel3669 👁👁💦

[@GachaHoneyMoon]

worst thing, i recently got to know about it, i heard abt it as a kid but i only googled it once and idk why, up came a video that said it was a jar someone shat in on rainbow lol, years later thought popped into my head, i googled it.. god, why did i google the pictures..

[@АнастасияЮрина-и7ю]

The friendship castle actually looks like a main villain's place, just imagine the walls or the creepy spikes being black - boom, perfect castle for any evil character

[@OstianOwl]

One of the crazier moments I personally remember is when the fanmade fighting game, Fighting is Magic, started making the rounds and it looked fun even to people not in the fandom before Hasbro hit the project with a C&D, but then Lauren Faust reached out to the team to make new, original characters for them and the game eventually became Them's Fightin' Herds. It was great that an actually cool looking fighter didn't go to waste and Faust lending a hand to it was an amazing middle finger to Hasbro.

[@NakedEndoskeleton]

its kinda nuts what happened to derpy, she didnt dissapear or stop getting mentioned, she was COMPLETELY CHANGED into a different character. 4chan shouldnt have had a character they could make edgy jokes about, but it was honestly more ableist to just remove those traits from them and """make them normal"""

[@CharaDreemurr-9999]

If you don't want 4chan to have a character to make edgy jokes about, you... basically can't have any characters at all, honestly. Character is female? [rampant sexism] Character is male? ["jokes" about sexism] Character is anything else? [500 paragraphs of "attack helicopter" and slurs] There's no way to avoid it, unfortunately.

[@dvykerr]

Honestly these are becoming such high quality that I don't even care what the topic is anymore, as long as Izzy's narrating it.

[@znekkk]

living for the amount of mlp content on this channel

[@the_honored_one_06]

SAME BRO

[@znekkk]

@Don't Read Profile Photo okay i wont

[@Jenna_Talia]

@@znekkk it's a bot

[@justindenney-hall5875]

@@znekkk "SUS!" (Mutahar Anas)

[@motomamiii]

@Goofy ahh another bot

[@Gazooki69]

Took a min to realise those hearts were all makeup and not a filter. Holy shit that's impressive. Dunno how you do it Izzy but you always manage to kill it with your style and aesthetic.

[@egg_bun_]

Wow! I didn't even know.

[@SharkBerry]

They have such a cool glowing effect, right?! Izzzyzzz’s make-up looks are always god tier fr

[@ellaperry4486]

43:15 scad student here! I can't confirm what you mentioned but I have to tell you I was jumpscared to hear scad mentioned in this video. absolutely wild. great video :))

[@mildlycornfield]

Huh, I'm surprised to hear that Faust left after season one. Somehow I had it in my head that she hung around until season four at least.

[@COSun25]

I think that she was COMPLETELY gone by the time Season 3 was introduced and released.

[@harlequindeer2142]

Same. Slice of life was the episode that made me go ‘yup that’s enough MLP for me’ it just didn’t feel like a Faust decision at all

[@Akanisen049]

She left by the end of season 2. I know for a fact she was around as a writer for season 2 because I specifically remember her explaining in an interview how she pitched the character Discord to hasbro.

[@megapussi]

@@Akanisen049 i know for a fact she was a writer for season 2 because its mentioned in the video you commented on

[@Akanisen049]

@@megapussi Okay? I never said it wasn't stated in this video? I was just responding to the person above.

[@YoungClarke]

I worked with a guy that was a huge brony way back in college. The guy was super nice, but incredibly awkward and shy. Think the culture has kinda fascinated me because of him, just this super odd fandom I had a brush with but never quite understood. Also the fact Jenny Nicholson started her online career doing a parody of the series is so perfect.

[@TheToonyloon]

TBH there's a _lot_ of online content creators who either got their start as brony content creators, or first got big as brony content creators (with The Living Tombstone probably being the most famous one).

[@urboi6307]

@@TheToonyloon I thought they got famous after the fnaf song?

[@TheToonyloon]

@@urboi6307 Their fnaf stuff are indeed their most well known songs, but they were a very active member of the brony community back in the day. For example, they made the Discord song.

[@SkiddlyBink]

@@TheToonyloon the Discord song still slaps!

[@chiconpeach]

I vividly remember me and my friends role-playing as the mane 6 in the playground and reenacting entire episodes like we redid the entire discord story and the canterlot wedding arc 😭

[@becauseimafan]

I don't know if it was a typo here or on purpose but I love that this says "mane 6" and not "main 6" - and that I've seen it in so many places 😁🐎🌈

[@ThrowawayAccountPremium]

@@becauseimafanthey are intentionally called mane 6 cus they’re horses 🐴

[@Sing_A_Rebel_Song]

Where you in my childhood friend group? 😭

[@HaapainenRouske]

Awww that's so sweet ❤

[@sandwichmonster7067]

Not even a brony , yet the censoring of Derpy still fills me with rage to this day 🙃 Also it's pretty telling how so many legitimately disabled people enjoyed her, yet non-disabled morality warriors will decide what is offensive to them, speak on their behalf and ruin everything for everyone.

[@babycakelings]

I think your missing why people were upset at Derpy. Which I actually was too until very recently. They weren't upset that her having a disability was bad, the concern was by parents of disabled children that her first introduction included her messing everything up and being told off. Which yeah, honestly as a disabled person who was upset when they fixed her as a child, I actually agree that that was not an ok way to instantly portray her. However the solution to that being to just remove her disabled traits entirely also wasn't a good solution either. It was really as simple as writing her into one more episode where she's instead something positive, and yet they somehow decided not to do that.

[@hadrianhexe9603]

@@babycakelings That and it was also the fact that a very large faction of people advocating for her to remain the same were 4channers, people who were treating her as a joke and only cared about her being 'funny' and sticking it to the 'woke people'

[@maddieb.4282]

You want your kids approaching a cross eyed person IRL, calling them “derpy” and giggling? It may be because they like a particular pony but it’s still not a nice thing to say in the wider world and could easily be misinterpreted

[@maddieb.4282]

@@hadrianhexe9603true, the anti-SJW crowd really pushed for this one and created a lot of fake pathos around it

[@hadrianhexe9603]

@@maddieb.4282 Thank you. Like people love talking about 'well i personally don't care, so why should others care.' You can reclaim shit and you can not care, but that doesn't change the fact that other people don't share the same sentiment and they are still just as valid and just because someone may not be in the same boat as you, that doesn't take away thier capablity to realize that 'yo, this word has been historically used to hurt people, maybe lets not use it in media directed at children who might end up using it.'

[@Xenawarriorprince]

Back when I was a teacher and summer camp supervisor, I started to notice that a lot of young girls loved everything that the bronies and adult fans absolutely hated when it came to the new writing/direction in the show, especially the high school movies. I remember some of the pre-teen kids at camp, especially the girls, would tell me how those movies released right around the time they were starting to feel too old for my little pony but didn't want to grow up just yet and how much they related with the high school drama/slice of life themes and how those films actually helped them make their transition from middle school/high school a lot easier. While it was clearly a marketing tactic to sell more merchandise for the show, I'm glad those girls got to have something from their childhoods continue to resonate with them as they grew older. Plus the songs were catchy as hell, I still have one or two stuck in my head from just that one year of working at that camp because they always requested Equestria Girls for movie night🤣

[@thesealky6445]

That's cool because when I was a kid I hated the idea of human highschool versions of the cast. It's cool that it resonated with them and the worse the movies did was be a little generic and have samey character designs.

[@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395]

It’s funny because I started watching the show when I was in fourth grade, just after the release of the third season, I believe. I was a massive fan- die hard. I had merch, toys, books, movies, pillow cases, you name it. But I hated the direction to show room after Lauren Faust stepped down completely (season four onwards). I enjoyed the first two high school movies, especially the second with it’s rock music, but none after that. At that point I was in my second half of middle school, so you could argue that I was just getting too old for the series, however, many in my life believed I was too old for it to start. I just think the writing went in a different direction that certainly didn’t agree with me, but I’m glad some other young girls appreciated the changes made.

[@xhappyponyxwasmyoldname1395]

the direction the show took**

[@grace-4072]

I LOVEEEEDDD EQUESTRIA GIRLS FOR THE SAME REASON!!!

[@espeon871]

I loved the mlpeg stuff i still do

[@daisparkx]

the "putting ponies in space, putting ponies in antartica, putting ponies in... other things" got me rolling so bad 💀 the rainbow dash jar got me traumatized for the rest of my life.

[@graysonkp]

Not to mention Izzzy wore a pair of Rainbow Dash jar earrings in one video. Forgot which unfortunately.

[@koernerkomedy]

I think my favorite wild MLP moment is celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain tweeting that he was going to put on another episode of MLP, pop a Valium, and fly to Finland, followed by a tweet 10 minutes later reading "Fascinated by Applejack's struggles with sexual identity."

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

RIP Anthony Bourdain.

[@davidmurray3542]

Does acknowledging the MLP fandom correlate with celebrity deaths?

[@RedSpade37]

@@davidmurray3542 An interesting hypothesis. I'm not familiar with the fandom, having only encountered the creepypastas and their associated games, but I'm sure someone could shed some light on that possiblity.

[@richardnixon9642]

I had a buddy in the army that was a bronie, not gonna lie for a while I didn’t like him, was super uncomfortable around him but once I got to know him he was an actual down to earth great guy that would give you the shirt off his back. Just goes to show not all bronies are bad. Just a lot of bad apples but a lot of good exists. Miss you Jeff. Hope Alaska treated you well.

[@isabelleist1234]

the "sad derpy crying over being forced to change her name" video is so funny to me. imagine caring so much

[@erika-paigehutch3930]

as someone who's only seen equestria girls and not interacting with this fandom at all other than dumb shit my sis and i have made up from equestria girls that video had me laughing to hard, most of this video is just bizare lmao

[@zerir.3726]

seeing all the crusty ass sad ‘I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT WENT WRONG …. LIKE AND SHARE #SAVEDERPY’ was so fucking funny i’m sorry

[@monbub]

nah bc when i was little i didn't even notice that they changed her design lmao

[@angelferrer3636]

iirc the creator of that video is autistic and even mentioned in a comment posted here (can't find it anymore unfortunately) that they were actually crying in the video, so i think they might have had a reason to care so deeply about derpy, lol

[@angelferrer3636]

also read the comments disabled people have posted on this video and you might see why people cared so much about the name and design change haha

[@hannahw7023]

Izzy's brand of dissecting weird internet culture is unexpectedly appreciated, and somehow she's my favorite KZbinr

[@estherstreet4582]

I like how with most of the topics of these videos it's either something izzy was into in the past, or similar to something they were into. It adds a lot of like,,, understanding to the discussion.

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

Way better than internet historian (imo)

[@LordLicoriceDerp]

"Weirdness tourism" is my favorite genre of media. Very specifically the kind with the urbex motto: "leave only footsteps, take only pictures". That is, it's about exploring a niche without judging (too harshly), or going out of its way to harass the inhabitants. It's why I like Izzy's approach to her videos.

[@ffiordhn]

For those curious: Izzzyzzz might not have covered the Rainbow Dash Jar, but if you're curious, Whang! not only covered this infamous incident but also interviewed the responsible for that atrocity. Good luck!

[@starscream4812]

😳

[@MarcellusJasonClay]

Tales from the internet

[@ragnose1]

I do not want this cursed knowledge thank you for letting me know it exists so my nightmares can be made manifest.

[@MarcellusJasonClay]

@@ragnose1 rainbow dash jar isnt even the worst thing the bronies did but i will let you decide what you gonna do about it.

[@captaincaspian42]

Jar.

[@GhostGayle]

Magical mystery cure aired on my 12th birthday, I considered myself a brony and I was one of the people who was not excited for alicorn twilight, but the second she revealed her wings my heart exploded. I was ecstatic and I didn’t care what anyone said. I remember that day like it was yesterday ☺️

[@alicethemad1613]

Genuinely the fact that one of the only hard rules on 4 Chan is that you can’t post about ponies on other boards always makes me lose it

[@a2izo]

Yeah it's jarring, you can be called several creative slurs and no one bat's an eye, post a pony and you'll be IP banned.

[@femboydoja3760]

Gore and Smut " okay whatever " But at ponies they draw the line lol

[@billlupin8345]

So my original take on Derpy was that her strange voice was because she was also deaf, which explains why she has so much trouble with directions; she has to read lips, and has to do it with a visual impairment.

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

i love that! thats cute!

[@erikbihari3625]

@@yukiandkanamekuran. Debatable, but at least somewhat of a graceful fan retcon.

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

@@erikbihari3625 mmm. Idk, i like headcannons. Like mute link :3

[@erikbihari3625]

@@yukiandkanamekuran. Ok.?

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

@@erikbihari3625 you replied to me.

[@izzysauls7737]

My favorite moment in brony history is The Living Tombstone's rise in popularity and how playing his older mlp songs will bring any past-brony to their knees

[@aoifeg-s4247]

I had to explain to my friends this year that the song “discord” is actually about a mlp character and they were shocked lol

[@randomthoughts0829]

im 22 years old and when discord comes on spotify when im driving it STAYS on

[@orwellianwiress]

their entire catalog is great but the mlp songs have this very specific energy that hits so hard

[@Horgler]

I always thought his stuff was massively overrated. The electronic splat sounds he uses in all his songs just irritates the hell out of me.

[@EvdogMusic]

@@aoifeg-s4247 Tombstone ended up getting so popular that so many people thought his remix of 'Discord' was the original track

[@kikibunni]

the simple “no” to talking about the rainbow dash jar killed me

[@izzyspell2629]

The Canterlot Wedding might've been a marketing stunt but hey I was like 9 and Cadance was instantly my favourite princess, I had the big singing toy of her in her wedding dress as well as the wedding themed canterlot castle so I mean it definitely worked

[@pinkiepielunagirls4541]

i had both of those toys as well!!! the wedding castle was the best pony castle imo

[@Zaprozhan]

I consider the Canterlot Wedding episodes to be stand-outs in the whole show, so no big surprise!

[@juliannad6091]

Same here lol

[@nursebee-vomit5058]

As a teen I was jealous that Twilight had such a great sister-in-law. I like Cadence's personality, even if it's a bit flat.

[@s3lf1shsyan1d3]

i hated the wedding stuff because as a small child i loved candace and thought she should date the self insert pony i made. i have so much bad art of it

[@OblivionFalls]

42:35 As someone who had (and still has) direct access to these files, I can confirm 100% that leaked DHX assets were used in the production of Double Rainboom. I was one of the first people to ever get their hands on the leaked DHX rigs. The DHX files were given to me in March 2013, a few days before Double Rainboom aired. The person who gave me the DHX rigs was a guy called RobBob, who wrote and directed several popular fan animations, the most popular of which were Epic Cupcake Time, Epic Pie Time, and Epic Wub Time. He was working on a new project called Epic Rage Time, for which I would be the lead animator. It turned out his usual animator (The same guy who made "Save Derpy" seen at 15:00) was unavailable. I worked on Epic Rage Time for several months. I did not know that I was using leaked DHX rigs at first, as I was simply given a file called 'Puppets.fla' and told not to share it with anyone. My suspicions began when I discovered character concept art hidden within the Library of the Puppets.fla file with the names of certain well-known DHX staff attached to them. My suspicions were confirmed on June 11th 2013 when someone leaked a modified version of the Puppets.fla file to 4chan, claiming that they were indeed DHX leaks. The version posted to 4chan had been modified slightly from my own, as several hidden assets from the Library were moved to the stage, and the 'Date Modified' had been updated to sometime in 2013. (The 'Date Modified' for my copy of the file dates back to September 9th 2012, for comparison). Several days after the files were leaked on 4chan, I received an urgent Skype call from RobBob. He confirmed that the files were actually from DHX, and he explained how the files became compromised (TL;DR - someone from another fan project had left them in an unsecure Dropbox folder). He instructed me to keep quiet and play dumb if anyone ever asked me about the files, because he feared that one of his friends (a well-known storyboard artist) could lose her job at DHX. It honestly seemed pretty scary back then, especially for me being fresh out of highschool in New Zealand at the time. In the end, there was no legal action, and that certain storyboard artist got to keep her job. Now... the assets for Double Rainboom project were publicly available for a long time. In fact, I'm pretty sure that Zachary Rich just posted them right to DeviantArt for people to play with. I downloaded those Double Rainboom files back then, and I still have access to them today. There's nothing suspicious about the Mare rigs, but the same cannot be said for the Stallion rigs. One look at the Lipsync symbol (i.e. the mouth shapes used for animating speech) reveals everything. I have both the DHX files and the Double Rainboom files open on my computer right now for comparison. Let me list a few similarities that go beyond what you'd expect from simply referencing or even tracing over the show. - The mouth assets are visually identical. - The number of vector points (and their placement) is identical. - The mouth assets are presented in the exact same order. - Arbitrary values like scale, rotation, and translation are identical between files. - The asset structure (i.e. how shapes are broken up into layers) is identical. - Hidden and overlapping shapes align perfectly when viewed in wireframe mode. - Identical layer names are used. - Identical layer colors are used. - Identical frame labels and comments can be found in both files. I hope this info is enough to substantiate the 'unsubstantiated' claims. I also hope the fact that I am a primary source (rather than an anonymous source) helps a bit too, lol.

[@Cpt_JackSparrow]

Thanks for sharing, interesting stuff!

[@TobbyMLP]

Great comment. Thanks for the insight

[@Annafyz]

Fascinating, thanks!

[@pastelprincesss]

a very interesting read, thank you for the input !!

[@suraidonetto]

4:12 Ponyposting is banned on 4chan 6:04 "Cupcakes" is published 7:30 "Fallout Equestria" is published 8:15 Lauren Faust leaves the show 10:48 The Lyra plush 11:53 DerpyGate 16:31 Doctor Who becomes a canonical character 18:05 Twilightlicious 18:54 Tara Strong's unhinged tweets 20:05 "A Canterlot Wedding" alicorn reveal 22:44 The Island of Equestria Project 24:42 Pinkie Pie tulpa 26:25 The Twilicorn Controversy 36:16 Las Pegasus Unicon 40:46 Double Rainboom short film 43:27 Equestria Girls and Flash Sentry 45:24 Lou Reed's final tweet 46:24 Celestia and Luna go to space 48:15 Slenderpony 48:56 Dark Skyes dating sim scam 53:41 Rainbow Dash jar 53:45 Antarctic snow shrine 54:45 Dim Sum the Dragon 55:50 Flurry Heart 58:42 Bootleg "Cupcakes" merchandise 59:11 MLP violates the Geneva Convention 1:00:02 Equestria Daily's movie theater etiquette 1:01:23 Alicorn Applebloom movie leaks 1:02:18 Rarity x Applejack made canon 1:03:29 Pinkie Pie x Weird Al made canon

[@wiwita63]

Thank you, wish she would put this in the description.

[@Trollestiatumblur]

The Rainbow Dash Jar being 4 seconds is killing me 💀💀💀

[@Y0sh1nova]

@@Trollestiatumblur "The Rainbow Dash Jar" "no"

[@Twinklethefox9022]

When was rarity and applejack cannon? Edit: oh, EG. OK... Yeah no wonder I was confused I only watched mlp.

[@maxreese6985]

Surprised chris chan isn’t mentioned in this video, even for a teeny bit. Pretty sure they were a background pony in an episode

[@itsbetsynotbetsey]

“The rainbow dash jar! …no.” GOT ME CRYING

[@Tenchinu]

"I just wanted wings as well! I just wanted to be an alicorn... but I was just a human child" this one hit too close to home :(

[@laceyjackson8366]

"You think your life is hard? TRY GROWING UP WITHOUT A FATHER" gets me every time

[@weirddd469]

WHERE IS THIS FROM

[@Theinkbunny]

Are we just gonna ignore how beautiful they always do their makeup? And how stylish the clothes and backround are?

[@lolcat]

that's half the reason we're here isn't it?

[@Theinkbunny]

Fair fair

[@Glory2Snowstar]

I genuinely hope for tutorials some day, legit the looks are always killer. 1 Million Subs celebration maybe?

[@Theinkbunny]

Ye

[@SunsetEnvy]

Like 10000 people always mention it lmao