I’m pretty sure we didnt, because you seem to think that a couple of initial looks of confusion over someone doing something they’ve never been seen doing before is the same thing as shaming.
As far as I recall, no one made fun of Big Mac for dressing in drag. They were caught off guard at first, but no one tried to shame him or make him feel stupid for it.
And that screen of Rainbow Dash is her saying she and Scootaloo are still going to win. She’s being competitive, not mean.
The only thing that made Big Mac feel any shame was that he started not playing very sportsmanlike. He went too far and got Applebloom and himself disqualified. That’s what upset him, that he wasn’t able to get his sister the blue ribbon.
Seriously, people try too hard to find reasons to be offended by MLP.
Never forget that this fandom started as a reaction to someone being offended by MLP.
hey Grandpa @conspicuouslad, is that really how the fandom started?
GET OFF MAH LAWN
*ahem*
The article NGM links is literally how the fandom started. Some members of 4chan decided to delve further after reading the article and went, “Wait, this guy is full of it. This is pretty good.” They started spamming 4chan, which got the expected backlash, which caused more attention. (These early wars are also where grimdark ponies came from, including the imfamous Cupcakes, made to try to disgust fans. Turns out some people were still into it.)
But I must admit this is all before my time. I didn’t start watching until halfway through the second season.
I do not recall how far in, but it was during the first season I started watching after hype started hitting some of the forums I frequent. I did go back and watch from the beginning though, no jumping in half way.
I started watching halfway through season 2 when someone had taken the effort to write about how hype it is in game informer.
I want to see them do an episode of The Price is Right with ultra rich people I want to see Mitt Romney try to tell me what he thinks the price of dish soap is
I have this theory that Neville is supposed to represent everything that Peter could have been. You know, both of them were the weak link in the friend group, the guy easily influenced. But instead, Rowling made Neville weak to prove the two paths an individual could take. How each of our weaknesses manifest in different ways. Peter’s weakness made him a villain, ultimately worse than Voldemort because he betrayed his friends, while Neville’s weakness made him work harder and in the end made him Harry’s strongest ally.
Harry = James, Ron = Sirius, Hermione = Remus, Neville = Peter, Ginny = Lily, Luna = Snape.
You will notice that none of the six from the old generation survived. The kids each have traits from the old generation but they’re here to fix the past, and thus must survive the series to metaphorically right the past. Some may raise their eyebrows at Luna as Snape, but just as Harry represents James (the popular kid who was good at quidditch, but didn’t become arrogant like his father) or like Peter and Neville (two people who could have been cowards, but Neville rises to life’s challenges) Luna mirrors Snape in being mocked, a pariah, Looney Lovegood and Snivellus. Instead of being resentful, she rose above it, and loved herself regardless.
If you went with Harry to the Ministry of Magic in book 5, you mattered beyond just backing him up against Voldemort. This core six represented the loss and failure of the Marauders generation, and the hopes of a post-Voldemort future.
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