I don’t talk about it much but I’m super mad about how bronies ruined FIM. FiM is taking a very painfully slow nose dive into the same problems that SU has. Except in FiM’s case it was supposed to have a specific demographic audience: young feminine girls. But then t eh creators of FIM saw that it gathered an audience of anti SJW anime obsessed men. For awhile listening to the anti SJW anime obsessed men sort of helped the show. Sadly though the FIM creators didn’t use enough critical thinking when taking advice from bronies.



They soon began to think that everything bronies wanted was good for the show. Including…making a villain character that looked like an exaggeration of a design you’d see from old MLP cartoons. (And no I’m not talking about Cozy Glow, I’m talking about Starlight who was the catalyst for the show’s downfall.) The problem with this is that while the old MLP cartoons were often superficially girly they were supposed to be that way. They were basically the Western media industry’s version of the magical girl genre. But the FiM writers quickly lost their understanding of MLP’s original purpose as they got dollar signs in their eyes over the brony craze.



The original MLP cartoons were more strongly pro feminist leaning. At least originally, until that garbage that was MLP FIM G 3.5 (the half with the toddlers) came out. Anyways the point is that FIM was supposed to be as proudly pro feminist as the other MLP cartoons. But the brony community started on 4chan which was and is a very pro anti SJW site. You should be able to see where the problems with that would arise.



The show after making Starlight Glimmer be this evil pro feminist stereotype that was meant to bash feminism comes in and the show gets more and more pro anti SJW. Now the show has the same problem as SU. It’s lost its original purpose in a bad way and the FiM creators don’t know how to take criticism. Just like SU. The FiM creators have gotten so bad at taking criticism that they legit made a whole episode portraying their critics as irredeemable bullies.



I won’t lie I still love some aspects of FiM but the bronies ruined the core purpose of the show and I won’t stop being mad about that. Like bronies literally looked at a pro feminist show made for PRE SCHOOLERS and went “How can I make this about me.” And the FiM writers only listened to these anti SJW bronies because of money. Then to hammer in the nail in the coffin they make Cozy Glow, a character who is the epitome of a young girly girl and have her literally sent to hell for being manipulated by a male villain worse than her. Like wow, way to miss the message you guys were originally sending before Starlight came in.



And before anyone tries to cry “It’s just Twlight having character development!” I don’t care. It’s bad character development lmao. if you went to me when I was new to the FiM told me that Twilight in season one would eventually become an incompetent God who can only stop a corrupted toddler by banishing her to hell I would’ve said “0/10 bad shitpost.”