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Times sets online world abuzz. YouTube isn't the only place online creative communities are gathering in pony love. The online artist collective deviantArt had, at last count, nearly 90, pieces of My Little Pony artwork and hundreds more are going up each day on one random day in May, about pieces were submitted.

My Little Pony creations have taken off in other areas as well. On Equestria Daily , a fan blog that on first blush could be mistaken for a fifth-grade girl's locker door, site curator Shaun he asked that his last name be withheld struggled to find a half-dozen pieces of art to post in a given day back in January.

He now claims he can easily fill a post with 30 images. Shaun isn't just impressed with the amount of new content bronies are submitting to his site, he's also amazed by his own fascination with the show.

Equestria Daily started back in January as a fun place to collect fanfic and news about the show, Shaun said, but "it has, obviously, evolved way past that. In the decades since the release of the first line of ponies in , there have been a number of dolls, TV shows and direct-to-DVD releases related to the My Little Pony name.

Yet, save for a pop cultural archivist here and there or perhaps a raver , very few of those variations have found an audience beyond the ageand-up children for whom My Little Pony is intended. So, why the breathless adoration? Some fans say the show's appeal lies in good illustration, excellent characters or, as Allen put it, a "perfect storm of '80s nostalgia and cultural irony.

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Manage Print Subscription. Main Menu Search nationalpost. But a substantial number of them are extremely, jarringly violent. An image that I recently viewed on the site depicts a My Little Pony character presiding over three lynchings and one beheading of cartoons drawn to represent various marginalized groups.

For years, this has been the status quo in the world of My Little Pony. In supposed deference to principles of free speech and openness on the internet, the presence of self-described Nazis within a fandom that idolizes compassion-oriented cartoon characters has become a coolly accepted fact. The community has sorted itself largely into two camps: those who think anything goes as long as someone finds it funny, and those who would rather ignore toxic elements than admit that not everything is perfect.

Until now. Even a quick glance at the history of My Little Pony fandom serves as a valuable template for how not to build an online community. The fandom was born on 4chan , the largest den of chaos and toxic beliefs available on the internet. It took off because there is nothing 4chan likes better than things spiraling out of control.

But the site still borrowed from the 4chan ethos by billing itself as an archive in the absolutist sense of the word: Everything would be allowed; nothing would be destroyed.

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