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I personally don't mind G4 fans hating G1, providing they are educated enough about G1 to form that opinion. I think what annoys folk is the fact most of the time it's hatred in ignorance. And that's the worst kind of hatred in all walks of life. So it isn't political or important when it's ponies, but if someone can hate something without really understanding it or bothering to find out about it - that can transfer to real life opinions too. So I guess it is serious, deep down because of that?
1) As a child, my only point of reference for ponies' identities was the cartoon series, unless I got the ponies new. But about half of my herd was bought second-hand. So, I didn't understand why my "Gusty" had flowers as her symbol and a white streak in her hair, why my "Firefly" had ducks for her symbol, or why my "Posey" had hearts for hers. I just figured Hasbro made the ponies a little different from the cartoon series. I had no idea it was because I owned different ponies.
Quote from: Taffeta on May 08, 2018, 02:34:37 AMI personally don't mind G4 fans hating G1, providing they are educated enough about G1 to form that opinion. I think what annoys folk is the fact most of the time it's hatred in ignorance. And that's the worst kind of hatred in all walks of life. So it isn't political or important when it's ponies, but if someone can hate something without really understanding it or bothering to find out about it - that can transfer to real life opinions too. So I guess it is serious, deep down because of that? Yeah. If someone is hating out of ignorance, and it's ponies, its probably more serious than that because it can move to more serious issues.
Quote from: Safflower on May 08, 2018, 07:00:13 AMQuote from: Taffeta on May 08, 2018, 02:34:37 AMI personally don't mind G4 fans hating G1, providing they are educated enough about G1 to form that opinion. I think what annoys folk is the fact most of the time it's hatred in ignorance. And that's the worst kind of hatred in all walks of life. So it isn't political or important when it's ponies, but if someone can hate something without really understanding it or bothering to find out about it - that can transfer to real life opinions too. So I guess it is serious, deep down because of that? Yeah. If someone is hating out of ignorance, and it's ponies, its probably more serious than that because it can move to more serious issues. I don't think someone needs to research G1 in depth to decide they don't like it. If G1 doesn't vibe with a person then that's ok. But for Celestia's sake if you (general you) don't like something and other people do then let them like the thing. It's annoying when people use their dislike of a thing as a way to hold themselves above those that like it.
Quote from: Wardah on May 08, 2018, 08:40:02 PMQuote from: Safflower on May 08, 2018, 07:00:13 AMQuote from: Taffeta on May 08, 2018, 02:34:37 AMI personally don't mind G4 fans hating G1, providing they are educated enough about G1 to form that opinion. I think what annoys folk is the fact most of the time it's hatred in ignorance. And that's the worst kind of hatred in all walks of life. So it isn't political or important when it's ponies, but if someone can hate something without really understanding it or bothering to find out about it - that can transfer to real life opinions too. So I guess it is serious, deep down because of that? Yeah. If someone is hating out of ignorance, and it's ponies, its probably more serious than that because it can move to more serious issues. I don't think someone needs to research G1 in depth to decide they don't like it. If G1 doesn't vibe with a person then that's ok. But for Celestia's sake if you (general you) don't like something and other people do then let them like the thing. It's annoying when people use their dislike of a thing as a way to hold themselves above those that like it.Disliking is easy. Hate shouldn't be as easy. If you dislike something, you can go ahead and keep disliking it. HATING something because all you've seen is the art style, though? Thankfully, when I posted G1 stuff on some other site's mlp board recently, I got a small few positive replies and absolutely no negativity for it. I hope that means that bronies' collective hatred for older gens has died down to a normal amount of dislike or indifference.
Starshine is my favorite. We really need this pony! Imagine what she would be like... Bright, rainbow hair colors, bold symbol, classic pose...
@PKW - I'm now waiting for one to be discovered just to blow your mind
My CJ and Snowflake often played boy ponies in my herd, though I don't think of them as boys. So I guess that happened in my childhood collection too.
I thought ponies (regardless of the gen) were only about tea parties.Huh. Guess not.
I don't think it's too surprising that people commonly associated G1 with tea parties and frills, because the commercials were 100% tea parties and frills.