Something notable with the SU fandom like others have mentioned is how badly they treat the staff. There are several incidents of death threats and harassment, and one fan actually sent hatemail to someone who worked on the show's actual house IIRC. Not even bronies did that when that show had a major shift, and they did it over a continuity error.
No, no, your extremely painful cramps are a beautiful thing, evidently. You've just internalized the oppression or some shit.
The death of real art was the exact second that someone realized you could fuck a rag doll on stage, call it art, and claim that anyone who didn't get it just "couldn't appreciate the nuances". Take this for instance: http://nypost.com/2013/05/15/43-8-million-for-this/
That's nothing compared to what the staff of the actual show drew. Let's just say that pairing characters together was pretty common.
It's not uncommon for many cartoons actually. I still remember when Mainframe's staff leaked Beast Wars pin-ups with dicks on official models. Art people in general are a bit fucked up.
I've seen one picture in particular that was really fucked up. As in, I can't believe it was drawn by someone on the staff I'm trying to find a way to be subtle about it but click the spoiler if you want to know:
I believe it. But it makes it funny when you've got fans who are so anti anything sexualized and the person who made their show didn't stop at artistic nudity. And generally just having to deal with such an overly-protective and obnoxious fandom is probably a mix of hilarious and scary to them. I mean you've got them being upset at new fans potentially being interested in the show on one end and them sending death threats on the other.As an art people, I can confirm this.
Please do not judge, it comes with the territory.
It's pretty ironic too. I see women drawing porn of Transformers bitching about men drawing porn of ponies, as if sexualizing toy robots for boys is ok and "strong indipendant women showing her power through sexuality" via Megatron raping Starscream, but don't you fucking dare draw a pony or you're "misogynistic scum who's stealing a show from young girls, and a rapist pedophile."
Most of the R34 producers before bronies were women anyway. They don't seem to get that. I honestly think that if the fandom were as big, but completely Tumblr-dominated, it would have a pretty similar amount of porn.
Go nuts. Just remember your choice in favorite gem is bad and you should feel bad.oh, oooh! can i have the honor of putting up the SU lolcows thread?
or at least helping because i am very much involved in the fandom. i'll type properly, i promise!
So maybe it's jealousy a bit? I think if it were easier to draw/share art during the time Pokemon came out we would have gotten about the same amount of content in the same amount of time MLP gave. It took 15+ years to get to that level because the tech had to catch up.
