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@ponypony221
Unfortunately many of our fandom’s fan are narcissists, yup, every fandom has one.

@galloping-searching-for-ponnies
Is it? Because it seems like it should be the opposite. The argument against always has to do with having a somehow different, better culture than furries. Everyone here should know from the autism commonly display among bronies that such thinking is delusional at best. If any argument of quality is to be made, it should come from the oblivious up-their-ass types at places like Derpibooru who think they are better than everyone else all the time and can’t figure out why people dislike them. It still wouldn’t change fitting the definition.

@ponypony221
Unpopular here alright, but popular on the public…?

Bronies are a form of furry. I’m not even sure if this is unpopular HERE, one look are Derpibooru should dispel any thoughts of “we’re not like them” that might exist.

We need a whole lot more glimmerbuse

@TheBridge  
I forgot about that one. I was thinking of the Equestria Girls movies.

@πʊßƛįϰ  
Neighsay would come to mind. Love him or hate him, he isn’t somepony one would naturally describe as cute.
 
@Dex Stewart  
Do you not like the Best Gift Ever (I assume you count that as bad movie, though I see a special as something different).

@Havoc  
When ranking ponies from cutest to least-cute, who are near the top and bottom?

Some ponies aren’t cute.
 
@Acres  
Everyone knows that Draconies are the based ones.

@Absol95  
G5 has only had one movie. G4 had like five bad movies.

I hope G6 of MLP is where the Franchise comes back at least slightly from the rut that is most of G5.

@Acres  
mud ponies?

Earth ponies are the most based of all the pony races.

@Dex Stewart  
I hear that Pony Life was a pleasant surprise to most skeptics. It has the same problem as Steven Universe in getting me to actually watch it: I dislike the art style. It’s good that they visually differentiated themselves to show that it’s a different kind of show from FiM but the style screams “90 second fan animation”, not “official MLP media”
 
@ANoobis  
As if this wasn’t already our proud reputation.

@Havoc  
You’re going to have to try and articulate that. I’ve gotten over my dislike of that ship, but it still seems like bland mixed with bland to me.

Flashimmer is the best ship.

@Anonymous #6FBE  
Brand confusion. Such a rabbit hole to get lost in. Just a few more knockoffs to grow their own exclusive fanbases, and we’ll collectively be demonized as ‘unpleasable man-babies’ just like the Sonic fandom.

@πʊßƛįϰ  
I was talking more about splitting the audience and casing brand confusion rather than splitting the fanbase. EqG may have split the fanbase, but it was created at a time when FiM was at its height and was a clear offshoot meant to go for a slightly different market.

@πʊßƛįϰ  
So far I’ve liked Pony Life. Not sure what my thoughts on g5 will be until I see it.

@Anonymous #6FBE  
The fandom has been fractured ever since EqG. It’s a problem that’s gotten worse, not a new problem with Pony Life and G5.

@Fleur de Lis  
Oof, that’s actually a good point. I hadn’t thought about it before, but now that you mention it, this is all looking eerily similar to the things Hasbro was doing to devalue the MLP brand before Friendship is Magic revitalized it.

@Anonymous #6FBE  
Hasn’t brand confusion and fracturing viewership been going on for a long time?  
I wonder if that contributed to falling interest in MLP generally.
 

I was really hoping the pandemic might help kill Pony Life by staggering the release of the second season. Seems it’s coming back for season 2 soon… and it looks like it’s introducing furries full stop.
 
It might still die, depending on how it’s toy sales and ratings are doing, only having a single season for over a year now may have hurt its popularity but I don’t know. Furthermore G5’s release at the end of the year might cannibalize interest in it. Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder if it was a mistake on Hasbro’s part to have too many pony-related things out at once. That seems like a good way of creating brand confusion and fracturing viewership.

@Fleur de Lis
 
Cadence and Shining are fine in concept, they need major re-working to be interesting characters and to slot Cadence into the mythos properly but their useful characters to have on hand to add dimensions to Twilight as well as have a Younger Goddess to bridge between the new diety and the old immortals.
 
Also, with a few extra lines of dialogue you could work Celestia takeing an L to Chrysalis, like as Goddess of the Sun I could see her being like Head Captain Yamamoto from Bleach where he rarely fights because even a little of his power causes major collateral damage. So Celestia might be able to vaporise Chrtsalis with ease on a battlefield but in the middle of a city at a crowded wedding it would have done more harm than good. Also I think Celestia starting to heat up and Cryssy chastising her for not being careful with her temper would have been a great character moment.
 
Either way it needs more work to iron out the holes.
 
For me Canterlot Wedding’s real issues is it the first time the higher ups stuck their nose into the story for the sake of product placement, which would become a running theme and open the door for more corperate dickery as time went on.

@Fleur de Lis  
You can’t forget that it also introduces a big brother to the protagonist out of nowhere (though Twilight at least gives an explanation as to why she never mentioned him before then). Either way, Twilight’s parents have some serious connections. Is her mom the head of the Canterlot Intelligence Agency or something?