Fizzbuzz wrote:I think FiM would've taken off even without that ancient Cartoon Brew article. Even in those earliest days it had the force of 4chan behind it.
Except the reason many on 4chan watched it to begin with was
because of that article, as well as the one from Ms. Magazine. The site is really into watching Rome burn, so they'd be all over something deemed to be the end of all we hold dear about animation.
The show got bad press from the start, was on a dead-end channel built from the decaying remains of a long, long dead
Discovery Kids, and was about a toy product everyone saw as nothing more than cutesy trite due to the previous generation and the shallowness of pop culture references. People
would have discovered it, but it would have most likely been a Firefly/Breaking Bad/any other cult show kind of scenario where everyone falls in love with it
after it's all over or just about to end.
We certainly wouldn't have what we have now if it weren't for the articles bringing the show to people's attention and widening its audience. We wouldn't have the big, specialized conventions. There wouldn't be multiple websites dedicated solely to news about the show, three comic series to date, or more than 65 episodes. The fanbase would be significantly smaller, more insular, and treated about the same as it ever was by the larger geek culture.
And I know about 90% of the site feels that world would be better. (Minus there not being anything past episode 65, but still...)
...Oh, and Cadance's mane is the best toothpase because it has a chance of being cinnamon, and cinnamon toothpaste is the pinnacle of humanity's achievements.
