/mlp/ - Now vs Then

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>>29518762
This is /mlp/ culture and history, friend.

>>29518728
Well, /mlp/ needed it's time to fit to the faggotry of 4chan. Now it's on the final stage.

>>29518728
>a) The board was much faster. A typical thread had a post per minute. MLPG burned through its 500 posts every two hours.
True
>b) The vast majority of images were screen caps. Memetic pony images accounted for most of the remainder. Art was perhaps 10% of images. Now art is the vast majority.
Doubtful, but I'll take your word for it.
>c) Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted. Around 10% of posts.
Agreed
>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive. Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
Maybe. I was definitely one of them, but that doesn't mean that was true for the whole board. It may have been that because the board didn't have the established identity that it has now, people who didn't sexualize ponies were comfortable being vocal about it. Now, everyone who browses knows what kind of response you're going get if you don't whack it to horses.
>e) Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone adored the show, bar none. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing. The show was a source of unity, positivity, and hope.
Subjective. I feel like it was, but that's hard to quantify and measure.

>>29518821
Most images being screencaps is, I gather, due to it having been only a year since the fandom exploded and 4chan reposting images they've saved from 4chan, resulting in an art lag.

>>29518728
>Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive
Yeah, and for a simple reason.
They thought it would last a few years and then they'd have to go back to their normal life. They wanted to make the most out of it.

Back then the people just hadn't realized they were here forever.

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>>29518821
As OP, the last point is coming from the perspective of someone who joined Jan 2014. I was never there, so my impression is not clouded by nostalgia.

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>>29518949
That's probably a factor, but I believe it was predominantly the era of the show.

This is natural. March 2012 was mid-S2, two alicorns and friendship reports. The show hadn't yet changed in any way from the show people had fallen in love with.

>>29518728
Yeah that was when the show was good, Twilight wasn't a princess, and we didn't have to worry about EqGkiddos and Glimmerniggers spamming their shittyass writefag bait threads every fucking second

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>>29518728
there was a time when i didnt even have a reaction image folder. i was autistic enough to know exactly when and in what episode the face i wanted was, and id go take a screenshot of it and reply with it, then trash the image.

i sure got lazy.

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>>29519301
Yes, just tripfags everywhere and other types of spam like IWTCIRD.

As for your complaints about the show, the impartial perspective is >>29519280, simply that nothing had yet changed. When things changed some were ok with it and some, like you, never were, so the show ceased to be a source of positivity and unity. Combine this with >>29518949 and we have people like you spreading acrimony indefinitely.

>>29518728
>Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
They were on the denial phase. They wouldn't feel uncomfortable about something they didn't feel

>>29518728
>in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
Link to this thread?

>>29520792
It was of no interest; just a couple dozen banal replies and then it was deleted.

I was hoping to find more like it but again, there was really no open sexualization back then. Like >>29520776 said, it seems like it was a sort of taboo/denial.

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>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive.
Do you mean to say there once was a time when Xenos and Horsefuckers were the Exception rather than defining the fandom?

>>29522459
Many people were just uncomfortable with it. >>29518821 was one of them. I found no explicit sexualization, but some people dancing around the issue.

IWTCIRD originated during those first few months and I think the reason it became a meme is that, at the time, it was bold and brash.

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What namefag/tripfag do you guys remember the most from /mlp/'s prime?

Every time I think of extinct namefags on /mlp/, I think of the irish police officer.

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>>29523104
>sexualization was tepid
>then bold and brash
More like, belongs now in /trash/.

>>29518728
I miss it

>>29518728
>tripfags accepted and posted more

This is only because making lewd greens was a huge part of "content creation." Now, 75% of trip/namefags have that shit on for no raisin at all.

>>29518728
Been out of the loop for too long, where can I check the archive?

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>>29525232
Yes, was the joke.

>>29525323
I saw not one green in the first few months. Maybe they existed, but it would have been difficult with each thread having a post per minute and then quickly dying. Every one of the tripfags had it on for no reason as they posted around the board and the /mlp/ /b/read threads were just 30 trips socializing.

>>29525330
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/
You can search, sort by date, and there's a gallery if you want to view an "archive catalog."

>>29525372
Thanks, appreciate it. I know what I'm doing tomorrow on my day off. I've been on a super nostalgia kick after starting an S1 rewatch so I've been kinda yearning for the super early parts of the fandom's birth here.

>>29518728
And that's when the fire nation attacked

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>>29518728
>mfw old /sun/

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I remember the downfall was when people started to say you would regret your shitposting and the posters said "lol you can't make this board worse than it is xD"

>>29526111
you mean
>quality
being a rampant meme that you were met with whenever you tried to tell people to stop acting like fucking idiots?

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>>29526111
>can't make the board worse than it is
>non existent moderation
>they removed the sticky
Heh, and here we are, shittier than before

>>29526115
No
They were talking about how forcing the board to be made would come back and bite you all in the ass somehow.

I remember (back when regular episode discussion was a much larger part of board culture) being able to remember any episode title by the acronym (like OBA for Over a Barrel and GIYC for Green Isn't your color) and people would instantly know what you meant.

Now, aside from the fact that many people haven't even seen the whole show, there are too many episodes, some with non-unique acronyms, to do that.

>>29525372
>there's a gallery if you want to view an "archive catalog."
Thanks for mentioning this. I've been using desuarchive for a while and never discovered that option.

>>29518949
>NOTHING HAS CHANGED ABOUT THE SHOW. IT'S AS GOOD AS EVER. IT'S ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE CHANGED

I'm so sick of this awful delusion. After everything that's changed about the show, I just don't understand how some people can still act like it's the viewers that changed most of all.

>>29526145
Excellent blaring caps lock. Really adds to the thread.

He didn't say that.

>>29526134
>back when regular episode discussion was a much larger part of board culture
Back then it felt like the episodes mattered because they were establishing a permanent lore of the whole pony universe. Now new episodes feel like they're tacking shit onto the world haphazardly and none of it really matter. We have the changelings in season 2, but by season 6 they're gradient butterflies. There's not point in discussing this stuff seriously anymore because everything that happens in MLP is subject to arbitrary changes and defiance of all logic.

>>29526157
But he did say that. His reason for the board being positive is that the people were different. Nobody realized they "be here forever", but it's patently false. /mlp/'s demeanor didn't change because we realized the show would run for seven seasons plus a movie. Our demeanor changed because they started changing everything and turned the cute little escapist fantasy into a playground for autistic, corporate, toy executives.

>>29526118
>non existent moderation
more just inconsistent. sometimes the mod removes shitposts, low quality threads and spam, but then other times they just dont do shit.
mulp thrives under light moderation, but even then it needs to be consistent or it just feels like a shitstorm.

>>29526115
This response >>29526123 doesn't even make sense. Yours does, the terrible
>quality
meme, synecdochal for the attitude.

>>29526170
You are imposing a false dichotomy. He just said, "A reason is that so-and-so."

>>29526173
If any of that was true we wouldn't have the daily dozen glimmernigger shitpost threads

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>>29518728
this is accurate

I would only argue about the tripfags, because even back then we had scandals (like rainboomcrash)

I would add that porn dumps were frequent, but they were more of a countermeasure to shitty threads (ex. raids would turn into clop dumps)

I would say that the pivotal moment in board attitude was the scruffening, where an outside force with no reverence of the established culture decided it needed to force a new culture upon the users

you MUST keep in mind the context of what is happening in the medium when doing historical evaluations, so that you do not get tunnel vision

The board was positive because there were no divisive directions in the show. There was no twilicorn, there was no eqg, there was Faust.

There was weren't any sides, where the fandom is split.

Art wasn't posted, perhaps because of it's sheer abundance. Look now, where there is less art being created- is it posted here because its becoming harder to find?

The board was obviously faster because there were so many people in this fandom.

Millions and millions.

We are 14 million strong according to the Toy Fair, but how many would we be if everything didn't change in 2013.

>>29526193
i make a point to hide shitpost threads after doing degenerate duty. that hidden thread list shrinks every now and then by multiple threads at a time.
despite there still being glimmer shitposts everywhere, some of them do get removed.

>>29518728
What hasn't changed is that you're a colossal faggot. Please die.

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>>29526197
Thanks for the verification. I enjoyed the historical study. Yes, the context is important >>29519280 >>29519453, and >>29518887 is, to me, a more likely reason for the screencaps.

>>29518728
We had better threads, neo/mlp/ didn't exist and is now extremely cancerous, and we have too many generals.

>>29528431
Looking through the archives at uses of the term, "neo-/mlp/" seems to refer to people having different opinions from the hivemind /mlp/ used to have.

It's interesting that you and many others think that different people having different opinions is cancerous.

>>29529611
not every opinion is the correct one

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Good thread. Thanks /mlp/. Saging for dignified death.

Brought to you by an actual Glimmerfag who is no longer able to even casually attach a picture of his waifu a post like >>29525372 without being immediately loathed on a personal level with a derailed thread thanks to people thinking we're the execrable shitposters. We have all been telling you this for months, and when we glimmerfags express to the salt-mining shitposters our loathing of them for making the board loathe us to the point we went in hiding, they mock us.

So please. Stop calling them glimmerfags. They're glimmer-spammers.

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>>29518728

>>29530894
Thanks (sarcasm). It was just a couple posts away from death in the catalog.

>>29530945
I killed your general? Sorry.

>>29518728
That's why revisiting old fags hate you all.

>>29530967
No, this thread I made was just about to die and you saved it, with that unreflective inapplicable garbage of all things.

I see you post images to discussion threads without reading the thread first in any way.

>>29531012
Yes, nice isn't it?

>>29531017
Please don't do that. That's meme-thinking. You're capable of better.

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>>29531031
Can you stop replying?
Can't read the op? You have to ignore the bait and make this place great again.

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>>29531044
If you're >>29531017, you're saying you intentionally came here to intentionally shitpost in a thoughtful discussion thread for no reason.

If you're not >>29531017: he was not baiting, and you are the shitposter.

>>29531031 was because I will always believe in the potential of every person on this board to critically reflect and participate in civilized discussion.

>>29531133
I came here just to bump an interesting thread that maybe somebody would read and do something, Not a shitpost, but then theres this faggot >>29530945

>nobody knows how to use sage

>>29531152
You showed up to lie and shitpost and bait in a civilized discussion thread from which you did not read a single post.

Phenomenal.

Goodnight.

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>>29531190
Kek.

>>29518728
>c) Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted. Around 10% of posts.
>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive. Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
>e) Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone adored the show, bar none. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing. The show was a source of unity, positivity, and hope.

This is all vapid bullshit you newfag

Einherjar
Durriken
Applefag

>>29531219
None of those people were here during that time

>>29531210
Another person who didn't read the thread.

>>29518821
>>29526197

>>29531227 was to the above, verbatim.

I realized this might be the same lying shitposter who showed up to destroy this thread if he's going to call BS on my hours of research in the archives and the word of two oldfags validating the points on an individual level and another oldfag looking back with fondness on the useless tripfags who were everywhere.

If you're not shitposting, ask yourself: Were you here during the very first two months of /mlp/? This is crucial. Not first six months. First two months.

If the answer is no, then please don't jump to conclusions and actually read the entirety of a post before calling them a liar.

If you claim you were here by this month 2012, then you are the liar.

>>29518728
The difference in attitude is a result of the board developing a hardline opposition to more positive fandom sites and groupings. Keep in mind that the original browsers of /mlp/ came almost exclusively from /co/, which is one of the more positive, less elitist boards who tend to shun things like reddit, tumblr and such less.

As /mlp/ matured as a board more and more people came here who heard about how it was "/b/ with ponies" or "/pol/ with ponies" and some things happened in the show that were very divisive for the fandom on top of this.

The result was a shitstorm where all the positive anons of /mlp/ and the negative anons started arguing furiously about the show. To cut a long explanation short, in the end the negative anons kept shitting up any and all threads with any kind of positivity and all the positive anons ended up deciding to leave the board and either leave the whole fandom or go somewhere more positive where they could actually discuss the show without being constantly shitposted into oblivion by angry negative anons.

In the end what was left is the board as it is now. A wasteland of generals, shitty RP threads, shitposting bait threads and pornographic greentexts.

It's honestly not a surprise all the people who actually like the show left, /mlp/ is shit now. I know because I was one of those people and nowadays I only occasionally lurk here when I'm hoping or anticipating some kind of news about the show because despite all of that this board is still one of the fastest ways to get clued in on new show related developments. The reason I'm here right now is because I've been lurking the last few days because of the toy fair.

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>>29531298
This board is currently a hellhole.

See what life is currently like for me:

>>29530791

I've adored this board since I joined three years ago but the past few weeks things have really hit the fan.

This place used to accept all waifufags. This is a waifu culture.

Now if people find out I am enamored of Glimmer, I am loathed, "gas all glimmerfags," etc, just for falling in love with a pony.

It's really destroyed my faith in the intelligence of this board that they think the saltmining shitposters who intentionally spam obnoxious Glimmer images (and make variants that are even more obnoxious) are glimmerfags.

Not a single one of the saltmining shitposters gives a single damn about Glimmer.

Stop. Calling. Them. Glimmerfags!

>>29531298 is right. This is fucking disgraceful /mlp/. This is a waifu culture and you flat out loathe me for falling in love with this pony. Every day I hear nothing but gas glimmerfags, Every day if I so much as casually post the pony I love in the course of discussion, "gas glimmerfags" and hate and hostility against me for loving a pony.

STOP CALLING THE SPAMMERS GLIMMERFAGS.

>>29518728
>Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted.
Remember that EQD and ponychan were both offshoots from here and /co/. Those faggots were there, no doubt, but they left and "acceptance" is a bit of a leap. It was more like a moderate toleration simply due to the fact that the fandom was small.

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>>29531361
And after you stop calling the spammers Glimmerfags, stop spitting on us every time you notice one of us likes Glimmer as if we were second-class citizens. And absolutely stop saying "Gas all glimmerfags" every time I fucking casually post or express a positive opinion of THE PONY I LOVE.

We have tried for months to be patient with you, explaining over and over and over and over that the spammers are not Glimmerfags.

Glimmerfags are just like Twifags or any other type of fag.

But in your seething hatred of Glimmer you were deaf and blind, even mocked us, as you continued to assume the saltmining spammers were glimmerfags because how could anyone fall in love with this pony I hate so much because she's not in the original Mane 6? You refused to reject that the saltminers weren't just saltmining you and *insisted* that they were glimmerfags who, for some reason, had an agenda of spamming her to feed off salt and make the board hate her more which produces more salt which makes the board hate Glimmer even more but... clearly they do that because they like Glimmer!

That is you, /mlp/. You seething hate-filled idiot.

I have been for years one of the kindest, most compassionate, and most considerate anons you will ever meet. Month after month, kindly explaining to you again and again and again, every time alongside other glimmerfags, that the spammers are not actual glimmerfags.

My patience is up as you spit on me every chance you get.

GLIMMERFAGS DO NOT SPAM GLIMMER.

GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK FUCKING SKULL.

>>29526145
Of course the show has changed, but it's undeniable that we have as well. The concept of grown men enjoying and fapping to a show for little girls is now viewed as completely normal among the community instead of being seen as strange and controversial. When MLP does an action sequence or a full musical episode, it doesn't strike us as a bold step forward, just as what we've come to expect. The fandom hardly batted an eye at the news that William Shatner would be in S7.

We are not what we used to be.

>>29531471
Anon, you must understand that many of the people saying the things which have angered you are themselves only doing it to provoke a hostile response.

>>29531298
Is that why I keep seeing anons saying "season 1 & 2 are the only good seasons in mlp!!!"

>>29531620
Well, after months of this absolute bullshit I am the first to hostile. I have been in hundreds of threads kindly explaining how glimmerfags don't spam glimmer. Some people slowly came around. Others hardened in the opposite direction, so convinced every glimmerfag was a spammer and every spammer a glimmerfag that they would mock or pre-empt our positions, "> inb4 not all glimmerfags"
Even turning our words against us by implying we were saying they're glimmerfags too when we have always said the exact opposite. I never saw hostility from any glimmerfag. That together with that that sort of word inversion indicates hatred, stupidity, and meme-thinking far more than any sort of elaborate mastermind cunning, no, they have not been trying to goad actual glimmerfags. They genuinely think that glimmerfags spam. Some "defend" us, saying "Not all of them spam." Thanks for the good intention? But no glimmerfag spams glimmer!

So no. They do not want a reaction.

But a reaction I gave, a passionate heartfelt one as an anon who loves a pony from the show.

And I hope /mlp/ listens.

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>>29531298
Anon, 4chan with the lack of moderation is a place designed to shitpost. Discussion only happens as a happy accident.

See, when a new board or a new topic is formed, people aren't bored, and they're engaged. The moment that fresh car smell is gone, we nigs must nog and anons get bored and shitpost.

I've been to new boards. I've been to 7+1chan. You give a new topic or a new board three months, maybe six and then the place goes back to shitposting. Give it two years, and it's unrecognizable from any other area in a chan.

As a result, shitposting nukes all but the lowest common denominator topics on this site, and is the status quo for any chan.

Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way. Once you learn to mentally filter the shitposting, you can engage into it as much or as little as you want to. The kicker is, there isn't much to it if you're looking for something of substance. Most likely, you'll be killing time posting in a shitpost thread that gets derailed into some side topic that gets our autism running.

>>29531774
This is why some of us stay in generals: the shitposting children.

>>29531774
>4chan with the lack of moderation is a place designed to shitpost.
No, 4chan with the lack of moderation was a place designed to freely discuss the board topic without having speech be restricted.

I really don't even give a fuck about shitposting most of the time but for the love of god keep it out threads that haven't already gone to shit.

>>29531471
Nah, you're all a bunch of shitposting faggots

Prove me wrong

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>>29531471

What he says is true, My waifu is someone else and yet i SP Glimmy

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>>29518728
>was around during this time

>c) Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted. Around 10% of posts.
Only in generals, really, when it was called for. Tripping for common shitposts was frowned upon.

>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive. Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
Fast forward a year, and /MLP/ was nothing but porn and shit and piss sandwiched between fifty fucking generals. People drew clop before even the first episode aired.

>e) Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone adored the show, bar none. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing. The show was a source of unity, positivity, and hope.
You're kind of rosetinting it there. People were just as hysterical about their differences as they've always been. It was a time of high passions, sure, but ponies were something new and different. A lot of people around that time were drawn in by it, rolled around in the shit with the rest of us for a while, then left when the novelty wore off. Same thing with several "golden age" brony musicians who jumped on the bandwagon early on, then sold out when they'd gotten the boost they wanted.

I don't like the "golden age" sentimentality because it overlooks the shitty parts and emphasizes the things that were nice. It was good times, but I feel more like the MA Larson era has been a "dark age" that is coming to an end. I feel genuinely optimistic for S7, though I remain skeptical of the movie until we get more details. The furries and OC level characters are cringe material, but I doubt the movie is going to center around them entirely.

>>29518728
I really like Twinkie.

>>29533076
>I don't like the "golden age" sentimentality because it overlooks the shitty parts and emphasizes the things that were nice.
I agree. But there was an excitement, because who we were was still something we were trying to figure out. The only unifying thing was love of pony. Some of us were relatively normal guys laughing at ourselves for suddenly becoming obsessed with a show for little girls. Others were obvious foreveralone types with pony waifus. There were tulpafags. There were an alarming number of attentionwhores, many of them claiming to be suicidal. There were lots of folks who hid their powerlevels, and a few who went to cons. Some of us even hoped this board would become /b/, but with ponies. (We were a minority). Cloppers seemed to be a minority, though erotic greentexts were common. Regardless, autistic hugboxers were to fuck off to ponychan.
>I feel more like the MA Larson era has been a "dark age" that is coming to an end
Boy I hope you're right

>>29531361

As a person who does not like Glimmer, I will not actively try to shitpost and call out Glimmerfags when they post her. If it is a discussion about her or her personality, I tend to get a little wild and reply with my feelings on her character, her role in the show, and what her as a character in the mix does right and wrong. You have to learn to ignore shitposting Anon. Every single waifu-er gets the same shit. I see Dash called a cunt non-stop, but if there aren't any words past that for discussion of her character, I leave it and don't reply because it's someone memeing or shitposting to get a rise out of someone like you. You need to learn to pick your battles and if you ignore shitposters and have real discussions, you show them that it isn't worth the 10 seconds it takes to post a quick throwaway line and the topic doesn't shift to insulting the defender.

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>>29533188
I have absolutely no problem with people calling Glimmer a bald poochie mary sue or whatever they like.

People can insult and loathe Glimmer as much as they like.

But for months, it has been not loathing of Glimmer, but loathing of Glimmerfags because the board is recalcitrant in thinking shitposting saltminers are glimmerfags.

The atmosphere is vile and hostile to people who love this pony on a level of interpersonal loathing. It's not, "I want poochie to to go back to her home planet" spam. That would be completely acceptable, and it never bothered me one bit. People can loathe Glimmer as much as they like.

But it's "Gas all glimmerfags" every time someone who likes her is identified. Loathing and hate and vile against people who love one of the ponies from the show, against anyone who posts an image of her or likes her, because people think Glimmerfags are shitposters.

/mlp/ is waifu culture. There has always been banter against other ponies. "Top cunt," "Bald Mary Sue," you name it. There is no problem with that. This is completely different.

But when an entire group of waifufags is completely disenfranchised, /mlp/ a pit of hate against those who love her, then /mlp/ reneges on its waifu culture. I am not able to casually post her, not able to say anything positive about her, often not even in our containment thread where actual Glimmerfags contain themselves because people come to our containment thread to spam it because they think Glimmerfags are shitposters.

It is a loathsome, vile culture that personally attacks and disenfranchises every anon who happens to love her.

>>29518728

With your (e) there has been a large change of the view of the show itself. There are many people who solely come here for non-show related threads and posts which means if they ever venture out of those threads, you will see them post their lack of knowledge of what the show is now. This is not in defense of the idea that criticism is not allowed here, but more that lack of understanding and thought out replies should be frowned upon or ignored. I was not a very big fan of season 5 and have almost lost all interest because of season 6. That does not mean that I don't watch the show still, because there are episodes that still make me happy and excited and I think are well done (Examples being Saddle Row and Stranger Than Fanfiction). This causes rifts in views. Most people who came here back then had blind optimism for the show and were so excited for what it was becoming and had proven itself to do at that point. Your point that everyone adored the show is wrong though because there were still the >muh Faust posters who were complaining since the creation of /mlp/. With changes being made to lore and show cannon all the time, it creates splinters from the group that don't like x, y, or z and that gives reason for more people to show a negative view of something. You can only hold onto everyone for so long and sooner or later opinions will push people apart, but there were still people posting the same hot garbage as they are now.

>>29533275

>>29533275
I think you might be victimizing yourself a little hard my friend. I don;t know how long you really have been around, but there were multiple threads a day for a very long time calling out anyone who identified as a Dashfag/Dash waifu-er. The problem is that it's easier for the people who post shit like that to see it now-a-days because the speed of the board has slowed significantly. The hate for people who wiafu or like a certain pony has never been absent from the board and as a person who waifus Dash, I can tell you there are infinite numbers of false-flagging and hard core insulting posts towards waifu-ers and Dash fans. What I'm trying to get at is to ignore those posting shitposts because it's not worth your time letting it get to you. There have always been dedicated shitposters and there always will be.

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A and E are entirely down to Twilicorn.

But are you sure this board was more hostile to sexualising when porn rules were more lax?

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>>29533331
I remember the Dash hate. Top cunt, Dashfags are the worst, etc. But nobody thought every Dashfag was a shitposting spammer. People may have occasionally gone to Dash threads to post "Dash is top cunt," but they didn't spam the containment threads of actual Dashfags to completely disenfranchise them of their ability to enjoy their ability to enjoy their waifu; if someone casually posted an image of Dash it was not rare for some moron to reply with a memetic "top cunt" image but nobody was personally loathing and attacking every Dashfag where-ever they were, any Dash image begetting personal loathing and personal attacks.

Like I said, the analogue would be the "Poochie the horse" or "Pink Shimmer" etc. That was no issue whatsoever. But now if I include a picture of Glimmer people respond with "Go shitpost somewhere else" and "Gas all Glimmerfags."

It is impossible to post an image of Glimmer without being automatically vocally loathed and disregarded because people assume you're a shitposter.

>>29533331
As someone who is not a waifufag but thinks Dash is best pone I remember all the hate people got for identifying as a Dashfag. Or at one point an (insert any pony name here)fag. It wasn't really much a surprise. Thw writers beat the shit out of Dash during S2, turning a lot of fans against her by making her op Cunt.

>>29533406

Small group forcing a single meme opinion. There are plenty of people who will not shit all over you personally when it comes to you posting Glimmer. You just choose to let those that do get to you and get replies, and we all know how valuable (you) dollars are.

>>29531774
Even though what you said is true, it's pretty sad that this is the mindset of most people now, an this is what people see. Lack of moderation as a ticket to free shitposting. I guess that kind of attitude seems normal but I don't think it's healthy in the long run.

The onset of human spam (on the pony board, of all places) ruined pretty much everything.

Human is off-topic on this board. It is not allowed. It is not welcome. It causes lots and lots of damage.

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I miss the /mlp/ before faust.
When everyone bar none shat on equestria girls

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How do we fix /mlp/?

>>29533571
It was a more freewheeling place, and I spent a lot more time here. Faust coming here was amazing, and it was incredible to be a part of it. But I don't think anyone of us expected what followed.

>>29518728
You're wrong on D and E. Other points are correct

>>29526160
>There's not point in discussing this stuff seriously anymore because everything that happens in MLP is subject to arbitrary changes and defiance of all logic.

This
I would like to discuss any new episode, but I don't feel like it matters anymore, any nu-writer will just push his own shit in it and will ruin whatever the other writer did. So why bother?

>>29533820
Other oldfags in this thread disagree. Are you sure you're not thinking of post-S2 finale? OP is about the first couple months.

>>29533944
Sexualization wasn't as commonplace, but it wasn't a point of discomfort, and for the first couple years we were raided nearly every day, which weren't positive posts.

>>29534038
Yes, but that was external negativity, not negativity within /mlp/ among members of /mlp/.

Also, again, OP is about pre-S2 finale, first two months, not first two years (though point about raids is likely similar).

>>29531298
>In the end what was left is the board as it is now. A wasteland of generals, shitty RP threads, shitposting bait threads and pornographic greentexts.

And the few interesting threads that exists (or existed) on /mlp/ are the ones that barely people contributes to the thread.

>>29533580
Kill bronies.

>only 50 posters
see ? full of generals.

>>29536756
>why isnt anyone joining in on our meta discussion?
shit changed with time. no point discussing it. if something is bothering you then take steps to add something you want.

>>29536802
Let me correct myself.
Actually the problem is not the generals, i even like to participate in a few.
The problem is that the Generals are containment threads Funny concept because this is already a containtment board.
So less people post outside their generals because the main reason they are in /mlp/ it's because they only lurk a particular thread/general and nothing more.

>>29536835
you make it sound like people cant possible lurk more than one general, or even a general and multiple other threads.

>>29536802
For me, it is for its own sake. /mlp/ is just different; nothing bothers me about it. But the cultural history—our cultural history—is interesting to know.

>>29536886
He's right. I do that for months at a time. Just one or two generals. Occasionally I wander out for a month or two and then retreat back.

The reason is largely >>29531817. People in generals behave like adults.

>>29536886
sometimes people forgot theres the whole board to lurk

>>29536913
>But the cultural history—our cultural history—is interesting to know.
Agreed. I think these meta discussions are a little repetitive but still fascinating.

>>29531361
If you love Glimmer as much as you say you do, then surely that love will outlast the patience of a few shitposters, right?

Once these guys get tired of shitposting, one of two things will happen: if they don't really like Glimmer that much, then they'll move on to something else. If they are real Glimmerfags, then they'll calm down and stop giving their waifu such a bad name. They'll still do it from time to time, but there's nothing wrong with that; there's a chance that the shitposting is what drew them to her in the first place, and every group on /mlp/ needs a merry band of faggots.
Until glimmerposting stops being a meme, you'll just have to grin and bear it. Asking us to stop calling them Glimmerfags is ridiculous; until they associate themselves with something other than her, that's what they are. If you truly love her enough to brave a few names being thrown at you, then there's nothing to worry about. If not, then you don't deserve her anyway.

Besides, if I were you, I'd want them to stay as long as possible. If the writers manage to make Glimmer an interesting character before they leave, then you'd look better while they look like shit.

>>29531964
>4chan with the lack of moderation was a place designed to freely discuss the board topic without having speech be restricted
Right. That was actually the design, I guess.

But the results are different than what was designed. Lack of moderation creates shitposting that kills discussion.

My point still stands.

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>>29518728
God damn it I try to shake off the fact I'm a damn newfag. joined 2015 I guess ill have to accept times were better back then and like the survivors of the fall of Rome crawl into the garbage can to survive.
>pic related

>>29537450
I came here in 2014, although I first watched the show in 2013.

>>29537092
Glimmer is already an extremely interesting character. I've written paragraphs analyzing her character and engaged in discussions about this with other people where they've also written paragraphs. Her character is why I became attracted to her. She is the most interesting character in the show.

>>29536917
I refer to them as the front-page crowd. When digits like quints occur, someone on the front page notices and posts some stupid response, and then others do, keeping it near the front page for the front-page crowd to shit up the general for a bit.

This was my perspective when I spent a year almost exclusively in a couple generals.

I then left for a year.

Then I returned, went to a couple of old generals and also the Glimmer thread because I really liked the arc of her characterisation after Every Little Thing.

I remember when the front page decided to shitpost in our Glimmer general because they thought we were shitposters. I tried for hours to get them to listen to elementary reason, venturing out of the general to investigate the shitposting and then giving civilized logic after reason after citation after analogy after logic after reason why we were not the shitposters, and they utterly refused to listen. They shitposted for about four days solid.

After that finally stopped, we were able to have things like meaningful show- and character-analysis discussion again. It was nice.

And then I ventured out.

(continued)

>>29537496 (continued)

It's been three months.

I've had a few good experiences, but overall:

The entire front-page crowd is riddled with logical fallacies like false dichotomy, ad hominem, false analogies, paraquoting, meme-thinking, emotional thinking, and an extraordinary amount of hate.

It is intolerable.

For the first time in my years on 4chan, I completely lost my composure in >>29531471. It was really the result of not just that but of pent-up frustration about almost every aspect of the front-page crowd, everything about the endemic and recalcitrant enmity and resistance to critical thought. That one issue just became a focal point, an outlet. I'm sorry about shitting up the thread with it.

Some of you front-page lurkers are ok, especially in this thread. Though it has its instances of some of the things I mentioned that one would never find in generals, this thread is overall truly exceptional (though the front page sets a ridiculously low bar for exceptionalism that equates it to good).

I have no idea how you few reasonable people tolerate it. >>29531471 was my wake-up call. >>29531298 is probably ridiculously correct as to what went wrong with this place. I'll enhance it slightly with brackets:
>To cut a long explanation short, in the end the negative anons kept shitting up any and all threads with any kind of positivity [discussion other than hate] and all the positive anons [people who want reasonable discussion] ended up deciding to leave the board and either leave the whole fandom or go somewhere more [reasonable] where they could actually discuss the show without being constantly shitposted [not literal, but in the form of hate-filled, uncompromising, juvenile, bull-headed bile] into oblivion by angry negative anons.
And most of the rest of the front page is memes and literal shitposting.

I love the idea of /mlp/. I love the idea of anonymous culture. And anonymous culture works in generals.

But the rest of /mlp/ is broken.

>>29519280
Does Rarity's right eye look weird or is it just me?

>>29537504
That is due to the Makeup obove the eye..

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>>29531361
I'm sorry, Anon. I think that the hate you guys get is absolutely unfair, and I wish I had the words to comfort you. I'll try my best.

Just now I've realized something. As my fellow Dashfag said, people used to be vitriolic against us, but I think that the difference was, we kinda had each other as support. I guess that having nothing but negative posts makes it much harder for you, maybe even on a subconscious level, and probably that's why "ignore them" isn't working for you. So, for what it's worth, I want you to know that if it seems that no one is by your side when those retards attack you, maybe it's just that those of us who disagree with them think that they don't even deserve a reply. Don't ever think that everyone hates you. And remember that you're not alone, other people have been through the same shit, we survived and so will you.

This too shall pass.

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Do people really take this waifu business that serious? Are you actually offended by "misrepresentation" of your waifu and her fans that it outright bullies you out of "identifying as" her fan? Going as far as calling it hate and almost personal attacks. Never though I'd see something like this on this site of all places. And then you wonder why 3/4 of the board is general threads.

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>>29536917
There's a whole board to lurk indeed.
But also there's a lot of generals that you don't really wanna to join because of a lot of reasons. Let me give you some examples of what kind good threads we have on /mlp/. I can make a whole list why some generals are shit, but im gonna focus on the "good" ones:

>EQG related threads
even if i hate eqg because it detracts the whole pony thing, i had to admit that i readed some greentext from the normal norman threads and they were really cool. I repeat, i find all the EQG thing disgusting, but some greentexts are really good.
>CYOA threads in general
Those are cool threads, because there's a connection between the story teller and the rest of the anonymous, the only problem that i see is that there are way too many CYOA in this board already. I used to participate on a few at first, but i got bored because it feels that it will never finish. Is there any CYOA that has been ever finished?.
>Content creator thread
This is one of those threads that i enjoy, even if they are slow, because you can actually see pony related stuff on different forms.
>Draw thread and drawfagship and drawfag improvement general
A slow thread but that has an actual purpose, which is drawing and improvement, it's not just " another containtment general ".
>/MLP/ Plays
As for me, /mlp/ plays is (or was, because now it's really slow) the pinnacle of the whole board, the summit of it, the Top 1 best threads.
Why? because, it's that kind of thread that actually grabs a lot of anonymous / namefags / tripfags together to make SOMETHING, something that will perdure, something that is better for the board, something that says: " Hey, mlp is a shithole... but look!, if they want, they can make cool things ".

>>29537502
>/b/ with ponies
>is probably ridiculously correct as to what went wrong with this place.
That is some revisionist history. Yes, this thing started onm /co/, but /b/ is where it blew the fuck up. By the time this board was created far more people had gotten into the fandom by hearing about it on /b/ than /co/. And on episode days before this board we were stuck in threads on ponychan waiting for youtube links. Very few of us wanted this board to be /b/ with ponies, but we sure as fuck didn't want it to be the love and toleraste hugbox that ponychan was. From the start we mocked fandom dramawhores, bronycon and people being overly austistic about this shit. Most of us hid our power levels, laughing when others spilled their spaghetti. Those delicate flowers who found the spirit of the place a little too rough were told to fuck off back to ponychan.

We collectively made the decision not to be /b/ with ponies, but we were still 4chan. We knew love and tolerate was a reverse troll move from /b/, not the ethos to which we subscribed.

>>29537846
Go shitpost somewhere else.

>>29538464
Absolutely; this place has that right. It is the only self-aware part of the fandom.

The issue really isn't rudeness; some people need to be told to fuck off.

The issue isn't hate; it is great that people tell each other to kill themselves in certain circumstances as a way of expressing certain strong opinions.

The issue is the blinding hate. I think the following interaction sums it up well:
>>29529611
>>29529633

When enough people have that sort of attitude, where they cover their ears so they can't hear anything anyone says and instead just spew how much they hate things like angry deaf people, that is toxic.

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Thats a lot of beautiful words but this doesn't work when you fell for one single faggot forcing Christan Shimsham, N*x, Moondiaper, Glimmershitpost, >no feet, W Knight.

You have to stay posting nice things and ignore faggots like this, so nobody will follow him.
This is why old /mlp/ were nice because 4chan culture were about ignore shitpost and be smart to do your thing (being nice and kind in the ponies case).

You can't just say things and ignore the human factor.

>>29539073
1. the shimmer flooding has been over for a while now, the worst we see is them starting an occasional thread outside their containment
2. the footfag is a ban evading mobileshitter, blame gookmoot
3. glimmer and nyx need to be banned

>>29538749
The fact that you write that off as shitposting already tells a lot about your mindset. I guess some people just enjoy getting triggered.

>>29539112
Remember to check you shitpost threads often

>>29539092
There he is.
The /mlp/'s barneyfag.

If you are not, then I'm sorry to say but you fell for the retarded barneyfag mindset.

>>29539208

>>29539153

>>29539232

>>29539153

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>>29531361
>>29531471

Glimmerfags are just the new Dashfags, we went through this exact same thing the first year on /mlp/ or so, where you couldn't post Dash without getting shat on and Dash threads were consistently derailed into oblivion, typically by Rarifags. Fuck, people still talk about some of the legendary shitposters from back then.

It'll blow over, eventually. Just fucking suck it up like us Dashfags did.

Or get out of 4chan.
Preferably that. You're factually wrong on several points, blatant lies like:
>This place used to accept all waifufags. This is a waifu culture.
makes you come across as revisionist or highly manipulative, the kind of shitstain that really shouldn't have a place on 4chan.

>>29539274
I remember the Dashfag hate. My impression of it was >>29533406.

>>29539414

Your "impression" is highly revisionist, at times it was impossible to hold even a "containment thread".

>>29539427
I suppose you're right and I have rose-colored glasses.

I can't believe Rarifags would maliciously prevent Dashfags from discussing Dash even in their containment thread, or that any ponyfag would do that.

That's sickening.

Banter can be as cruel as one likes, but malevolence against fellow pony fags we should look back on with shame.

We should be better than that.

>>29539579
That's right, what happened to the love and tolerance guys, the cornerstone of our community?

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>>29539639
It's the nu- times man, its gone quite far into the shitter, i suppose..

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>>29539639
>>29539791
Raiding each other is too far. It makes this place inhospitable to ourselves.

You know all that Glimmer spam? That was us raiding ourselves, shitting up our own board.

I am saying we should not shit up our own board.

What the hell is wrong with you that you think it's ok for us to raid each other?

>>29539861
Some people just can't help themselves, they shit all over their room just because they can, and then wonder why it's covered in shit. But it's all ok because it was ironic.

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>>29539861
>What the hell is wrong with you that you think it's ok for us to raid each other?
Never said that, what i meant is that, while i was gone for about one year and rejoined the board since few weeks ago, i just may noticed an influx of newfags who are not able to integrate themselves fast enought into the board culture, thus scooping only the most recent and memed on characters which i suppose are shimmer and glimmerfags, just for the sole purpose of "memeing", while those who are actually trying to do something to contribute for their said waifus, say art or green, are getting into the same spotlight as these newfags, similiar what is happening with /pol/ right now, i may be wrong or not but thats my opinion, i was surprised to find this board in such shape, even in fucking plush threads anons are getting told to off themselves, then erupting into endless fucking discussions why trump is justified president and why hillary should have been in office while not contributing anything to the thread, which is angering me quite a bit.

>>29539639
>love and tolerance guys
I'm confused. Doesn't /mlp/ hate love and tolerance types? When were they a "cornerstone"?
>>29538464
>Very few of us wanted this board to be /b/ with ponies, but we sure as fuck didn't want it to be the love and tolerate hugbox that ponychan was.

>>29540004
Well, it wasn't supposed to be a hugbox, but everyone with the special kind of autism was not welcome, as far as i can put it like that.

>>29539985
You are not wrong, I've noticed the same, and on a lot of boards. Maybe the whole culture is changing. People coming here think that it's how it's supposed to be and has always been, while older visitors learned to filter it and just don't pay attention or don't care enough. At this point ironic shitposting is the norm, it's part of the "board culture" and more often than not you can't even discern the irony anymore - if there is any at all.

>>29540069
>>29539985
newfag here
How would you guys describe old 4chan qualitywise?

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>>29540069
This.
But in other theory i think that just the age demographic of the major boards is changing, and with it is coming a really shitty increasing change of the board cultures which is relateable to the real world social dynamic behaviour which does not correlate with our special behaviour, and, most importantly, 4chan is getting more attention in the real world in general, thus becoming mainstream, which means that this isnt our weekly/daily closet autist meetup club, it is becoming more of a club of self proclaimed oldfags which are stating of how the board should be, something like "i was born in the wrong generation and the 80 are like this and that because i watched some youtube videos about it"

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>>29540114
I can't describe how good it was, i have not joined early enought, i came here about the time S2 was announced. Everything was fine to me until the S3 finale had come, then the show went slowly more into "commercialized memeing" and so the board was slowly degrading. I dunno about the other boards, but from what i am witnessing is that /pol/ has gotten too much public attention, which indicates its own impending downfall, up until the election everything seemed somewhat hyped, i remember the sleeples nights with vodka i had because of the happening threads about russia actually invading ukraine and that nukes are actually about fly, kek

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I blame Pony Thread Simulators for a lot of the decline in posting quality.

>>29540325
That too, while being quite kekworthy, it still dagged more and more attention to us, which is bad when en masse.

>>29518728
you forgot one thing: nobody wanted this board

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>>29540185
I personally don't think of it as "old was better" but it definitely was different for me. Granted not only board's demographic changed but we also change. Maybe it has always been like this and I just didn't notice?
>>29540114
Generally 4chan? I would describe it as more tolerable, though it really depends on the board in question. Sure some like /v/ were always meme galore to an extent but it was more civil I suppose. For example infamous "viral marketing" was nothing compared to constant shilling and falseflagging of today. Some boards changed over time by sheer force of shitposting and mod retaliation to it like /jp/.
Can't say a lot about /mlp/ itself because I stayed in mlpg exclusively for first couple of years it was moved here

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>>29540379
>I personally don't think of it as "old was better" but it definitely was different for me.
For me in this case it was better, because it hadn't had as much public attention, so the board had a easier time letting them integrate themselves into its culture, now that we have way too much attention in general, we can't integrate them fast enought, thus shaping this board once new, adopting old memes, but behaving differently, which i dont believe my autism can accept that this easily, i just came back for sun threads and green, but those are not even worth the visit anymore, so i just try to stick with the main reason, poners. sorry if i have written some bullshit, its 23:40 over here and im way too tired to discuss such matters.

>>29540365
kek, this tho, we were scared that we would get the same treatment as /fur/

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>>29540552
It's true, sometimes I too feel completely disconnected with this place like when cuck became the new go-to insult and "baka desu senpai" became so widespread it had to be wordfiltered, maybe I'm just not "with it" anymore.
>being sunfag right now
I feel your pain, though with her episode ahead all may change.

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>>29540612
Wow, she'll finally get an episode?
Well, but with my current understanding of how composed the writers now are, i am not expecting much, but still it may have a positive impact because of the sole reason that she finally gets attention. if celly gety any scene remotely compareable to what flutterfags have gotten to live throught, i'll make sure to locate the writer responsible for this and send a pack of niggers to raid his fucking house

>>29540682
I don't think it's confirmed to be straight up "celestia episode" but I guess she will play a significant role in it.
She seems to be sharing it with Starlight. What could possibly go wrong?

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>>29518728
I'm glad we've got so much more art now.

>>29540325
Pony thread simulators haven't been a big thing for years

>>29540185
You think the average age is decreasing? It should be increasing because people don't leave. This should be especially true of /mlp/ with the fandom's ebb.

>>29540753
More art gets made, more good art gets made, more good art gets posted. That's a big plus at least. Now if only I could say the same about the music of this fandom

>>29540325
I blame /pol/.

>>29540004
The only way I can explain it was a bunch of /b/tards found a softer side of themselves they never suspected through pone. And we were open to exploring that side. We were proud of being online monsters who loved cute cate videos, and for some of us this was the next level of cute we were ready to accept. For others it was the line drawn in the sand,

But it was a line drawn in the sand. Those who rebelled against it got nothing but more pone focused against them because they refused to be converted. That's how we eventually got our containment board.

>>29542947
The way I understood it was that pony blew up on /b/ through these "everybody loved; everybody tolerated" threads. Those threads were full of tripfagging /b/tards who barely watched the show and instead formed MLP into something resembling a cult. They created their "love and tolerate" meme for conversion purposes as well as repelling trolls. Such a mentality was so radically different from /b/'s normal culture that the whole board rebelled. Eventually moot decided to purge the burgeoning fandom, but the /b/tards were incredibly adept ban-evaders. He couldn't control them, and rather than continue fighting he went with the appeasement option by making /mlp/.

How accurate is this?

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>>29542448
I blame (You)

>>29541495
I haven't listened to the music for well on 4 years now.

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>>29543136
You are right in one thing, "love and tolerance" IS a meme.

>>29543136
Not all that accurate to the way I remember it. The General thread was on /b/, just like it's here, and began on /co/. It's a thing that happens on boards sometimes - a social thread where trip/namefags check in with each other on a day to day basis. But what blew pony up was more than that. Screenshots from the show were perfect reaction images, and they got reactions from others - self-styled badasses comfortable with cute cats saw pony as a step or two over the line. This was a perfect cultural fit for /b/'s ethos of trolls trolling trolls, and many ran with it. Many of these folks actually watched the show at some point and ended up on the ride. /b/'s culture had shifted from cp, gore and hacks being shocking to traps, cucks and alt.right rhetoric filling that role. Anonymous had gone from gray hat pranksters to borderline SJWs. Against that backdrop pony was a breath of fresh air to some but a threat to others. moot didn't actually get it, but realized for about a year it was 4chan's biggest contribution to internet culture. By that time the front page of /b/ had three or more pony images on it at any given time and the Faust copypasta had successfully gotten many to watch and enjoy the show. A large group of users was horrified and attempted to troll/spam anything pony into oblivion. That's when some genius came up with love and tolerate as a counter troll - it's was one thing /b/ was powerless against. But we knew it was a joke - a counter troll. We watched in horror as it spread to the rest of the fandom as a kind of ethos (especially on ponychan). Eventually /b/'s inability to purge pony from its culture led to the establishment of this board and Global Rule 15. Pony had become such a thing we not only got a board, but a global rule regarding pony content. It's not that moot was anti-pony, he was just responding to user complaints about pony taking over 4chan, which it pretty much did for a while.

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>>29518728
If you've been here for at least amount of time to remember Faustening and Scruffening you'd know that you are wrong in most of these. But since nowadays most people are post S4 I have no words for this bullshittery ITT.
>a) The board was much faster. A typical thread had a post per minute. MLPG burned through its 500 posts every two hours.
Yep, that is correct, the board started to decline after Eqg, S4 opening and all the other shit, during summer 13 pretty much.
>
>b) The vast majority of images were screen caps. Memetic pony images accounted for most of the remainder. Art was perhaps 10% of images. Now art is the vast majority.
Now that's some bullshit to justify 1000000 generals here. You may have visited mainly screencaps threads, Back when heinessen was still alive there were stats of most posted pictures, 4am lyra, iwtcird, dubs, constanza, other pony reactions dominated the scene.
Percentage wise there may be more art, but sure as hell there is less of it. You have the wrong perception because this board is nowadays mainly fetish generals and other circlejerks.
>c) Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted. Around 10% of posts.
Once again, there used to be more of everything, and no, they were not accepted, they were despised as attention whores as everywhere else except for notable art fags such as LSA, or others community fags, such as cappergeneral in the beggining.

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>>29544591
>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive. Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
Nope try again, I suppose you missed all the fetish, nightly clop threads or CYOA's where we constantly fucked all mares we've met.
>e) Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone adored the show, bar none. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing. The show was a source of unity, positivity, and hope.
What the fuck are you talking about? S3 was so hated and despised that many people were complaining about complaining, twilicorn was a fucking butthurt mine, also we had a lot of happenings, such as sandstorm, based anon, mandopedo. We used to be "dark and edgy" part of the fandom. We were pony hate machine. From where the fuck did you get this from? Or did you only lurk early posts with hope after S2? inb4 somebody thinks that /mlp/ is as old as ponyfagging.

Holy hell the fucking newfags and their "research". It's like I teleported to another dimension where /mlp/ was nice, anti porn and attention whore friendly. If anything right now everything seems to be infested by hasbro shills and semen slurping EqG faggots. Dunno, maybe "old /mlp/" you're reffering to is 2014 and beyond because pre S4 sure as hell it wasn't anything like you are describing.

>>29536756
>>29536802
>>29536835
I also feel that the decreased discussion may also be in part because of the hiatus. One thing that this history thread may or may not account for is when the shows were airing and the amount of activity during those periods vs the hiatus. Things definitely slowed down during hiatus periods and the biggest ones were the S3-S4 and S4-S5, which I think hurt the board more than we probably remember.

>>29544598
>We were pony hate machine.
Well said, brother. It was lolcats 2.0 in a way. People who consider themselves the worst kind of monsters (at least online) get hung up on something cute without a trace of irony, then go on to celebrate its cuteness while their own vile natures remain largely unchanged by it. We were generally /b/tards who maintained a sociopathic worldview while enjoying candy colored talking horses giving us lessons in friendship. Our appreciation of the show was sincere, but the irony of that appreciation was not lost on us.

>>29544637
>Things definitely slowed down during hiatus periods and the biggest ones were the S3-S4 and S4-S5
>S4-S5
That was such an awful hiatus.

>>29544598
Except you're wrong about the last part.

Yes, S3 wasn't liked even as it aired, but there was still alot more hope about the future of the show from everyone until 1/29-the good episodes like SIP were praised near unanimously (and not just a few samefags spamming like nowadays).

Also what's the most up to date version of that image?

Make /mlp/ Great Again

>>29544757
S3 was brutal. We were skeptical about S2 ending with a Canterlot Wedding, but they managed to pull it off. But then we got a short unsatisfying season that ended with the Twilicorn breaking the fourth wall to tell us everything was going to be just fine. Followed by a long hiatus.

Brutal shit.

>>29544591
>>29544598
It looks like you also didn't read OP. You are may be right about /mlp/ in 2013, but OP stated "first few months" -- that's mid-S2, before even Cadance. I don't know why you're talking about S3.

>>29544816
I was there. My only regret was not finding 4chan sooner so that I could remember my first year here better. But I still think this board failed by not getting the show and fandom canned. Just saying that the board's negativity wasn't nearly as bad as early as 2014, even with episodes like Spike At Your Service.

And you don't have the most up to date version then?

>>29544757
Like this anon said >>29544816
and about the map, I don't know if anybody made any updates, that is the last one I made and didn't bother to make the next one.
>>29544839
Because first months were a mess where migrants from /co/ and /b/ were arriving and /mlp/ was taking general shape .
Also most of relevant shit and "glory days" were after S2 finale and ended I'd say around S4 during the hiatus when most of the board was very bitter. That is the time most of us are reffering to when talking about "back then on /mlp/.

>>29543964
No.

>>29538044
>Is there any CYOA that has been ever finished?.
There's 48 completed CYOAs on the archive that popped up a year or two ago. CYOAs completing is pretty normal.

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>>29518728
>>a) The board was much faster. A typical thread had a post per minute. MLPG burned through its 500 posts every two hours.
Yes
>b) The vast majority of images were screen caps. Memetic pony images accounted for most of the remainder. Art was perhaps 10% of images. Now art is the vast majority.
I wouldn't say since there were a fair amount of creative generals like TEMPO
>c) Tripfags were fairly common and were overall accepted. Around 10% of posts.
Only if they made green.
>d) People were uncomfortable with finding ponies sexually attractive. Sexualization was rare, and in a thread about how OP was uncomfortable with finding himself attracted to them, most people shared the sentiment.
No. There were common porn threads and threads about irl beast.
>e) Above all: /mlp/ was overwhelmingly positive. Everyone adored the show, bar none. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing. The show was a source of unity, positivity, and hope.
Yes because everyone loved horsepussy and the only thing to argue over was best pone.

>>29545928
>everyone loved horsepussy
Do we not love horsepussy anymore? I never got that memo.

>>29546006
We still do. Don't think I saw any memo saying differently.

>>29546006
>>29546022
probably means the presence of more eqgfags

fans, pardon me

>>29546047
>more eqgfags
I don't spend nearly as much time here as I used to, but we don't accept THEM now, do we?

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I've been here for 6 years and I still don't whack it to ponies. I think it's because I was older when I found ponies (20), and my sexuality was already well established and not as easily bent.

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>>29546067
They're a vocal bunch, I'll give them that

I do not accept them, however

>>29546072
*6 weeks

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>>29544873
I understand that late 2012 through pre-scruffening is the time period most refer to as the glory days. But the point of OP was the very beginnings.

>>29545928
Again, OP said first two months. >>29518821 understood this, >>29523149 corroborates the useless tripfags, >>29526197 says it's accurate, etc.

>>29546072
Same here. Also I think some people can whack it to cartoon characters and some can't. I've always enjoyed sexy cartoons, but could never whack it to them.

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>>29546072
>>29546140
>being normal

>>29546177
I'll jerk it to real horse porn, but not cartoon.

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>>29546067
Fuck eqgfags.

I watched the films. I can see that there might be one or two things that were maybe ok if you were really generous (1st movie- one song, 2nd- muh redemption, 3rd- muh action) . But taken as a whole, those films were absolute shit and ripoffs.

If you unironically like them, you have no purpose being here.

>>29546072
Wanting to fuck a cartoon there's nothing to do with age.

>>29546177
I'm sorry I'm not a non-conformist like everyone else

>>29546246
But it probably has a lot to do with one's sexual experience. If you have actual sex partners irl you're unlikely to dream of a cartoon waifu. That's some real foreveralong permavirgin shit.

>>29546281
Ponies made me autistic.

During my years before pony, I had sexual partners and was fairly well-adjusted.

Now I am one of you.

>>29546281
>not having irl wife and fantasizing about fucking cartoons with your partner

You must be a virgin or have a sad and insecure sexual life.

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Never mind.

>>29546242
Why do you watch cartoons?

>>29532986
This is noteworthy. What created the Glimmer spam:

>>29548485
>>29548592

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>>29546323
Fantasizing about other sexual partners is one of the surest indicators that your marriage is in trouble.

>>29539639
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>>29518728

You should check out the archives of the old /co/lt days. Those were some good fucking memories before ponychan became a thing.

I never got too attached to /mlp/ as a board when it first came around. Kinda wished I did, but figured I'd just find a corrupted version of what I was a part of on /co/. I wasn't too far off, but still, I feel like I missed out.

>>29518728
Just in case hyperindex.mlpg.co