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Every Pony gen has the fans making the staple art of it- fan drawings, fanfiction. But with g4, we saw a whole flood of different forms of pony art- from original fan made music and remixes of the official music, to PMV’s, custom sculpts and crafts, to fan made fracking animations!
Quote from: Mana Minori on June 07, 2020, 06:02:30 PMEvery Pony gen has the fans making the staple art of it- fan drawings, fanfiction. But with g4, we saw a whole flood of different forms of pony art- from original fan made music and remixes of the official music, to PMV’s, custom sculpts and crafts, to fan made fracking animations!To be honest, I find plenty of G4 fan works to be pretty cringeworthy.
Other then fanmade animation none of what you mention is new to any franchise that lends itself to creative endeavors. I don't know why anyone thinks sculpting, writing, customs, songs, crafts and stuffed toys got their start with FiM fans? Sorry, but if some of them actually think that, they are full of themselves.I remember my friend drawing and writing stories about new characters, because it was her dream to work at Disney's animation department some day. I've seen handmade crafts at swapmeets with popular characters before and during the time when the internet was what it is today. When I started going online to research G3s and look up my old G1s, I saw lots of pony customs and fan crafts. I've even commissioned a few. The only difference is that it can be widely shared. Why would it be some recent thing when lots of people have tried their hand at it even as kids? And people have been making up lyrics to songs for ages, often parodies belted out on the playground. Or Weird Al. As for G5, I've seen a few pics but with it only an announcement, Hasbro wildly see-sawing between two different styles and no further official information in sight, people can only speculate, and there will be little of it till further notice.
Previous to G4, we didn't have as much tech to have a platform to share fanwork. Well, yes you can upload images of your plushies to a website, but having web platforms like Youtube, DeviantArt, and Imgur and Flickr really helped. plus all the social media sites!