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Whats up with my little pony? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cedarmesa@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just checked out the lemmy version of r/place. On there, on people profiles, and many lemmy communities are devoted to my little pony and various other childish cartoon stuff. Im mostly out of the loop. I read an article a while back about a website that was an alt-right thing that used childish speech and my little pony imagery. Is this what this is? Is it a fetish thing? What is the reason for the prevalence of childish cartoonish imagery on the internet in places most likely inhabited by adults? Dead serious question by someone out of the loop. Anyone in the know please help me out here. Marked Nsfw just in case.

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In the late 00's a new version of my little pony has been aired. The producers and authors decided to make it an anime for the whole family rather than an anime for little girls. So basically something that a dad can enjoy as much as their daughter. An unplanned side effect is that there was a whole public of single men in their 20's who really enjoyed that show, add the toxic masculinity around it blaming grown-up men for watching a girl thing, and it created a lot of fuzz/meme about people liking it and people hating-it (or hating the person liking it, because you know right wing hate everyone including themselves) and it's how my little pony became an internet meme (but objectively if you end-up being the parent of a daughter, watch that anime with her, you'll enjoy it together)

[–] whyrat@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, anyone with children in that target demographic today should skip ponies and watch Bluey. That's a show clearly geared for the whole family. Parents can learn as much as kids about how to play and interact together in a wholesome way.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Theres only so many episodes of Bluey, and my kids want it on every single damn day, on autoplay.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have no problem with anyone watching whatever show they want. Bronies took it WAY too far though

[–] Ghost33313@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This. My autistic daughter loves that generation of MLP and watches it daily for the past five or so years. At first it was somewhat enjoyable for the memes and subtle adult humor. Now it's overkill and I think I could out quiz bronies at a MLP quiz game. Certainly more tolerable at first than many of the other shows she likes though.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

As the father of a daughter, I concur. I've been forced to watch worse cartoons than my little pony.

[–] rynzcycle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Aww, I can't say I've ever watched it, but this comment and the agreement under it is the faith-in-humanity restorer I needed today. Y'all awesome!