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But here in the US we grew up with cartoons telling us lot of stuff like don't do drugs, don't run away from home, always wear a life jacket, don't steal cars, clean up litter, always tell a trusted adult if you're being abused, guns arent toys.
Quote from: Leave a Whisper on September 07, 2020, 02:52:21 PMBut here in the US we grew up with cartoons telling us lot of stuff like don't do drugs, don't run away from home, always wear a life jacket, don't steal cars, clean up litter, always tell a trusted adult if you're being abused, guns arent toys.Yeah, but at least these are all lessons that are actually very useful to children in real life, instead of just preaching again and again about being nice to your friends.
Quote from: SpacePinto on September 07, 2020, 06:32:47 PMQuote from: Leave a Whisper on September 07, 2020, 02:52:21 PMBut here in the US we grew up with cartoons telling us lot of stuff like don't do drugs, don't run away from home, always wear a life jacket, don't steal cars, clean up litter, always tell a trusted adult if you're being abused, guns arent toys.Yeah, but at least these are all lessons that are actually very useful to children in real life, instead of just preaching again and again about being nice to your friends.Well that is a good lesson. If you treat the people who care about you like crap, you'll end up with no one, or they'll tell you where you can shove it and to change your attitude before it gets to that point.Its being nice to your enemies or trying to force everyone to be like you without bothering to understand them, that's the issue. But even the first two cartoons had ponies forgiving a good chunk of their enemies.
Growing up as an undiagnosed autistic kid in the eighties and nineties had a lot of challenges, the biggest of which were bullies. And people I tried to be nice to to get them to leave me alone, and you know what happens? You get more bullied. And having been through the experience of learning that you can't make friends with everyone the hard way...and having had to learn manually from scratch to "conform and fit in" because society really can't be bothered with adapting to difference...FIM just bothers me. It feeds the wrong ideas about friendship. Whereas on the other hand you have Monster High which was continuously pushing the idea, it doesn't matter if you're different, we're all different, share your differences and be quirky and weird. (Just random small details like the fact Rochelle can't swim because she's a gargoyle and so made of stone...)
Well that is a good lesson.
And FIM DID create the brony problem. Without FIM, there are no bronies.
Quote from: Taffeta on September 08, 2020, 05:08:37 AMAnd FIM DID create the brony problem. Without FIM, there are no bronies.Something people seem to forget is that the brony thing started of ironically. People started watching it because it was the kind of thing that wouldn't normally attract an older male audience. And it was these ironic bronies that brought in the genuine bronies, both good and bad. If the dudebros on the internet hadn't started watching the show as a joke and posting about it online, I can almost guarantee that the show would not be nearly as big as it is was.Either way, I'm sorry you were treated like that in school, and I can understand why a lot of the messages in FiM would make you and others uncomfortable.
Quote from: NanoRuby on September 08, 2020, 07:09:04 AMQuote from: Taffeta on September 08, 2020, 05:08:37 AMAnd FIM DID create the brony problem. Without FIM, there are no bronies.Something people seem to forget is that the brony thing started of ironically. People started watching it because it was the kind of thing that wouldn't normally attract an older male audience. And it was these ironic bronies that brought in the genuine bronies, both good and bad. If the dudebros on the internet hadn't started watching the show as a joke and posting about it online, I can almost guarantee that the show would not be nearly as big as it is was.Either way, I'm sorry you were treated like that in school, and I can understand why a lot of the messages in FiM would make you and others uncomfortable.How do you figure that when MLP gets along quite well without a toxic internet fanbase who thinks they're the only ones who are more important then everyone else Including the Target Audience? In the states, Hasbro was rolling in dough during the G1 and G3 eras.