(I didn’t, largely since I’ve never watched a single episode, but the psychic damage and whiplash of Wholesome Pony Show having said this line was too fuckn much for me)

EDIT: More replies than upbears now. It’s probably an official struggle session now (although most of it is that one person). One must imagine SisyFEWs happy.

      • Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Honestly, unless you’re talking about MLP as it existed before or after the 2010s, I just don’t see how you can conclude that so confidently. Friendship is Magic was better written than half of the shows that adults are supposed to like.

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          I didnt watch all seasons of it but the first 3 seasons are a pretty fun kind hearted show. Gonna finish it one of these days.

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            The end of Season 3 just feels like such a great place to stop watching. Twilight learned all about friendship and became a princess, The End. Perfect. 10/10.

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        MLP is literally for babies that barely comprehend language and operates as such.

        You clearly don’t actually know anything about the show and you’re just going off of either your own assumptions or what other people have told you. I’d explain why you’re wrong, but I’ve dealt with enough people like you to know you’d just double down. You don’t have any good reason for believing what you believe. You just want an excuse to feel superior to other people.

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              As @[email protected] already put it in this thread, the response to that show in retrospect does say a lot about the people making that response.

              There’s plenty of room to criticize its ideology and its political messages, but “X IS FOR BABIES” dogma is just… exhausting. And feeds into so much bullying-adjacent reactionary hog shit. disgost

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                  You know, my trans roommate likes MLP. She used to live with her abusive family who tried to force her to detransition. Among many other ways they abused her was ridiculing her for liking MLP and forcing her to hide her interest in it, and their attitude towards her interest in the show is a lot like what I’m seeing from you right now.

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                    You know, my trans roommate likes MLP. She used to live with her abusive family who tried to force her to detransition. Among many other ways they abused her was ridiculing her for liking MLP and forcing her to hide her interest in it, and their attitude towards her interest in the show is a lot like what I’m seeing from you right now.

                    I work in a public school where I had seen “mature” kids bully other kids for having MLP flair on their backpacks. Or having the wrong color backpacks. Or for seeming too sensitive. Such “mature” kids tended to go to detention a lot and made teaching a lot harder than it had to be because that “maturity” seemed to compel them to bully people. debord-tired

                    The shows have changed over time, but the “X IS FOR BABIES” brainworms wriggle through, year after year.

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                  You are a baby. It’s why you need the bright colored images of emojis in all of your treat treatises.

                  Your mask has fallen completely off at this point. Are you going to foam at the mouth about Owl House next? frothingfash owl-wink

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            Histerical baby shit.

            In one line you managed to present an adolescent-like preoccupation with performative adulthood in a bullying way and added some misogyny! congratulations

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                The way you’re presenting your “X IS FOR BABIES” dogma could be plucked right out of a grade school cafeteria from about ten years ago.

                It really does seem immature to be that mad about people enjoying something that has insufficient “mature” blood, gore, or sexual violence for your tastes.

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                Oh, you just posted this too:

                You are a baby. It’s why you need the bright colored images of emojis in all of your treat treatises.

                THAT KID’S LUNCHBOX HAS TOO MANY STICKERS IT IS TIME TO BULLY THEM IN A VERY MATURE WAY frothingfash

                I take it this was written by a “baby,” too?