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I was horrified when Hasbro took an interest in "our" little private convention, of a niche collectible, and went mainstream with it. A lot of people were like, "but looooooooooook, sponsorship $$$$ AND access to insider knowledge!" but it set off a landslide of decisions that could not be undone.
Legally we can't even use the name of the convention anymore outside of a Hasbro-sanctioned event, and it was going on successfully for years before Hasbro started paying attention and searching up animators who did MLP fan art, and C&Ding artists who made products that they didn't approve of, or were competition to already existing licenses.Yet the last time I went to a popular comic convention a few years back, and asked about G1, as they had advertised MLP on the booth, I was laughed out of the space by the men running it. Men who were eager to sell other bronies G4 merch. "Who would want that?" they snidely said, "Go to a yard sale and ask Grandma."
. The amount of gatekeeping that I've seen from them that made children, female fans, established female fans of the brand before FiM, fans of color and LGBTQ+ fans like myself feel unsafe really hurts my heart. I'll admit, the G1 and G3 animated content isn't really my thing as much as I love their toylines but I still appreciated the amount of fans they introduced into the franchise. But the way the bronies (and at some points FiM) made it out to be so low quality and awful and how you were bad if you as so much liked them just brings out their true colors. I will never wrap my head around how this group straight white cis men turned a little girl escapism haven into...that. It's something that I will forever be somewhat salty about. This is getting waaaay too long so I'm gonna wrap it up here but My Little Pony deserved much better. I weep for those with negative experiences such as myself. This really hurts man.
The amount of gatekeeping that I've seen from them that made children, female fans, established female fans of the brand before FiM, fans of color and LGBTQ+ fans like myself feel unsafe really hurts my heart.
Quote from: SweetLemons on October 12, 2020, 10:50:35 AMThe amount of gatekeeping that I've seen from them that made children, female fans, established female fans of the brand before FiM, fans of color and LGBTQ+ fans like myself feel unsafe really hurts my heart.I thought I had posted this already, but disability is missing from that list. There is a fierce amount of discrimination against autism in the brony community, coupled with a lot of autistic people involved in pony. On the few occasions I have gone into that space to look up something G4 related, there's always someone making a slur or using the term offensively.I actually experienced that in person at 'Ponycon' on Saturday and it still bothers me. Not because I think I'm a victim, but because someone thinks that it's okay to make such comments and that somehow disability discrimination is less relevant than other types of discrimination.I could've sworn I posted this already, but I cannot think why pointing out the problems for disabled people would be removed by the mod team, so maybe I didn't. Perhaps I'm actually losing my mind...
Yet the last time I went to a popular comic convention a few years back, and asked about G1, as they had advertised MLP on the booth, I was laughed out of the space by the men running it. Men who were eager to sell other bronies G4 merch. "Who would want that?" they snidely said, "Go to a yard sale and ask Grandma."
To be honest it's neither positive nor negative for meOh and to circle back to the point of friendships, marriages, jobs coming from FiM. I don't think that really is a big deal because if it wasn't this animated show it would've been another cartoon. The same thing can be said of Adventure Time but overall I think it has a much less toxic fandom?
I was horrified when Hasbro took an interest in "our" little private convention, of a niche collectible, and went mainstream with it. A lot of people were like, "but looooooooooook, sponsorship $$$$ AND access to insider knowledge!" but it set off a landslide of decisions that could not be undone. Legally we can't even use the name of the convention anymore outside of a Hasbro-sanctioned event, and it was going on successfully for years before Hasbro started paying attention and searching up animators who did MLP fan art, and C&Ding artists who made products that they didn't approve of, or were competition to already existing licenses.Yet the last time I went to a popular comic convention a few years back, and asked about G1, as they had advertised MLP on the booth, I was laughed out of the space by the men running it. Men who were eager to sell other bronies G4 merch. "Who would want that?" they snidely said, "Go to a yard sale and ask Grandma." So clearly there is a discrepancy in the general collector populace between people who collect FiM and people who collect "those old baby toys". It's cool for all people to collect G4 Pinkie Pie, wear a Spiderman costume, and legally change your name to Sparkle Pegasus, yet there are death threats and doxxing for (primarily women) simply because they like to buy the toys they had as children. That is a HUGE problem and I don't know if this rift will heal naturally on a corporate and legal level, or if it will take the fandom and collectors to create another independent sub-movement on their own initiative. Or if Hasbro would even allow that. But until Hasbro officially acknowledges that it has catered to the worldview of New Vs. Old fandom and actively resolves to change that, I don't think anything will change. We will all continue to have to "take sides", as it were.
Quote from: Taffeta on October 13, 2020, 12:18:27 AMQuote from: SweetLemons on October 12, 2020, 10:50:35 AMThe amount of gatekeeping that I've seen from them that made children, female fans, established female fans of the brand before FiM, fans of color and LGBTQ+ fans like myself feel unsafe really hurts my heart.I thought I had posted this already, but disability is missing from that list. There is a fierce amount of discrimination against autism in the brony community, coupled with a lot of autistic people involved in pony. On the few occasions I have gone into that space to look up something G4 related, there's always someone making a slur or using the term offensively.I actually experienced that in person at 'Ponycon' on Saturday and it still bothers me. Not because I think I'm a victim, but because someone thinks that it's okay to make such comments and that somehow disability discrimination is less relevant than other types of discrimination.I could've sworn I posted this already, but I cannot think why pointing out the problems for disabled people would be removed by the mod team, so maybe I didn't. Perhaps I'm actually losing my mind...All we have to do on this front is see that Hasbro MADE the Muffins pony a character, gave her a name, put her in some episodes, AND uses her differences as a prop for a joke.If there was a disabled pony in ponyland, you would think that the animators would have enough common decency to NOT stereotype and caricature her in a demeaning fashion! But no. No, instead it caused so much drama that speaking her very name on a COLLECTOR'S FORUM FOR ADULTS ended up being banned.*so much face, not enough hoof*