When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving at the last Bronycon When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing And you look to the north and a pale moon is rising And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn In the distance hear the laughter of the last Bronycon I'm alive, I'm alive When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has passed without even a last desperate warning Then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is torn Look and see her how she sparkles, it's the last Bronycon
Yeah, it's been years since I thought about Friendship is Witchcraft, and all I could think during that voiceover compilation was, "Wow, those were all ONE person?"
The arrogant doucheness is off the charts. I can't help but imagine him gatekeeping random other fandoms and celebrities. "Oh this? Yeah it's a character from Star Trek. I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them." *cut across to show he's obliviously talking to Patrick Stewart.*
I am going to go with second most profound. First would be "Loving something unconditionally doesn't mean you love it more. It just means you love it sadder" from her 'Top 10 Worst Reasons You Liked Rogue One'
"If you were ever labeled as cringy, congratulations. You've used the internet for it's intended purpose and were given heck for it" - Peter Knetter, 2016
@@PaulEmsley I mean, the idea that men sexualise feminine people is as old as time itself, not that it doesn't bear repeating, but I think it's different because it's framed in an almost empathetic context. Men often recite that they can't be "just friends" with the opposite sex but this is something socially imbued into men, not some intrinsic trait. This is just another way that idea is embodied, except instead of it being viewed as "men are disgusting and bad" it's "men have been socialised in a way that prevents them from having healthy platonic relationships with both men and women", which, in my opinion, is a much more nuanced look at a very real problem.
Ronnie Filyaw made a very good Whomp! comic about this once. The awkward, asocial male protagonist tries to confess his love for his female roommate but it's pointed out that he doesn't actually have romantic feelings for her, he just isn't used to having positive, friendly mutual relations with women and they get recontextualized. Not even that he's rejected or doesn't get it back, but that he literally is not in love, and just assumes that's what it is. It's common in childhood and school settings, but even among adults I've known a lot of people like that. Not really knowing how to be friends, not knowing how to process "I like being around this person" in platonic contexts, and so they assume they're in love.
Jenny revealing that she was "horse famous" and that she contributed to a large portion of brony fan culture is like that Darth Vader twist before it became iconic in pop culture.
Me and my friends were huge fans of Friendship is Witchcraft, and I legitimately freaked the hell out at her reveal and paused the video to tell those same friends.
Here I am just entertained by this documentary and then she drops THAT FACT and I was like holy shit??? Cuz I watched the HELL out of Friendship is Witchcraft. I still remember so many songs. Wow small world lol
Jenny extremely undersells how integral to the fandom she was. Like a full half of the early memes that endured a full decade are directly her responsibility
Yeah when she first mentioned, my thoughts as someone who has no real connection to this community was "oh that's cool, Jenny made a parody of MLP maybe I'll check it out" but the more she talked about the cons and how much her stuff got referenced, the more I realized that this was like A Thing.
As a non-mlp fan I literally didn’t even know that friendship is witchcraft was a parody and not a professional spinoff- it’s so integral to mlp fandom
I was always SO happy interacting with the Brony fandom as a little girl. I LOVED attending cons, I would always take pictures with adults in full cosplay, and they’d draw my clumsily made OC for me for free while having nice, innocent conversations about the show with me. I felt surrounded by friends. I met several “horse famous” people who were, with one exception, SO incredibly kind to me, and it meant the world to me as the weird, mentally ill, autistic, often outcast kid at school. In fact, Jenny, you and your friend made a significant contribution to that. I had made a very, VERY poor, clumsy attempt at a Derpy cosplay and I attended a FiW panel at Fiesta Equestria in Houston, Texas. I had worked so hard on it, and though it was poorly made, I got so many compliments, including several from y’all, who were so so cool and funny in my little eyes. You guys said I looked like an angel, and I didn’t get compliments like that outside of family often. So, despite all of the weird shit and the harmful impacts I later realized exposure to the worse parts of the fandom had on my brain, I’m still very grateful to the fandom, to YOU, for that. Thank you, everypony
That's the kind of consistency that gets you a job as a guide at Galaxy's Edge, where your job is to fail to guide people because you're not supposed to stop talking in Star Wars terminology that PARENTS of CHILDREN don't know.
Finding out Jenny did Friendship is Witchcraft is like when I found out Neil Cicierega made Potter Puppet Pals and Brody Quest. I suddenly understand how Speed Racer felt finding out Racer X was his brother the whole time.
See also: WayneRadioTV, who made a video where he screamed Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff at the baby in Fallout 4 VR in 2017, and broke through this year when him and his friends made Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware.
Sarah's reveal was like that scene in a movie when one of the characters finally opens up about their past and what happened in the war. this is a bit more like when Miley finally takes off that wig and reveals to the world that she's Hannah Montana.
calling the creator of one of the biggest mlp fan series a fake fan is so funny or me im sorry like. i hope that guy remembers that and it keeps him awake at night
She is a fake fan lol. Just because she did work on the worst abridged series in the fandom doesnt mean she is right. This video is 99% trust me bro i know better. Also she didnt watch past season 4? And then has the guts to talk what the show is like and how it was going? Wtf?! She has no freaking idea what she is talking about. Did she rwad some stupid article and got her ibfo from there? Because it really sounds like something from horse news the stupid drama site. And she has that drama idiot aura around her so i guess it fits. Funy how its 2024 and the fandow is still strong and alive while the show ended in 2019 we still make the most art fan amimations music etc. But sure lil miss incest writer tells us the show was dying while she wasnt even part of the fandom after 2014 lol Ppl realy are dumb
Bronies came from 4chan. He doesn't need to remember it: dedicated, antisocial Friendship is Witchcraft superfans have probably hunted him down the moment this video dropped and made their extremely petty ire at this honest (but still very rude) mistake known to the unfortunate pony OC creator.
I did security for Tara Strong’s line at a con and she was 100% the coolest celeb I ever did security for. She gave a young fan who didn’t understand how meet and greets/autographs work a print and her autobiography and sent her on her way because she didn’t have the heart to tell her that it wasn’t free. I CANNOT STRESS HOW RARE THAT IS.
So are we REALLY just going to skim over the fact that someone tried to steal Jenny's fame by pretending she was a voice actor for Friendship is Witchcraft and i guess no one bothered to fact check this? I WAS CACKLING.
The video undersells how weird it was. There's a clip out there, and the impersonator literally rushed the stage during opening ceremonies, took the mic, and launched into her grift. Apparently she WAS checked by a number of people on credibility (she couldn't do the voices and claimed they were edited in post) and lies (she didn't just take credit, she said Nicholson was bullying her into silence), but I guess when you act with that much confidence..?
K L the fact that apparently no one found it suspicious she couldn’t do ANY of the character voices is so funny to me. It’s like if someone went on stage and claimed to be Tom Kenny then was asked to do the Spongebob or Powerpuff Girls Narrator voice and he was like “um I can’t they’re uh. Edited in post”
Saberspark dude, your list of the top 20 MLP fandom songs was one of my introductions into the show! Still a great video that I revisit sometimes when I want to feel nostalgic.
The video description says "Due to the runtime this counts as a brony documentary and, as such, it is the best brony documentary." I still think that "The Brony Chronicles" is the best brony documentary. This is a good video, but far from the level of "The Brony Chronicles"
Your brony documentary had a huge influence on me when i just found the show (found the show first). You made that self doubt i had go away, and embrace the show rather than shy away from it, and the show ended having a legit effect on me, making me see the people around me in a brighter light. In short, I guess the show pushed me towards being a better person, simply by reminding me (as an adult) about the child like optimism that comes from seing your friends as people that are "good", and not as "grey individuals", and that in return made people around me more happy to be around me, because i would focus on the best in them. I think that is what real friends does, they see the best in each other and focus on that, and that is a lesson for all ages. So thank you Saberspark. Not because you made the change in my life (MLP deserve that thanks), but because you gave me the courage to start going down that road :)
confession: when i was 12 or 13 and obsessed with MLP, i was on equestriadaily and stumbled across a very sweet comic where fluttershy confesses her feelings to pinkie pie. i grew up extremely religious but always knew i had feelings for girls that weren’t ‘normal’ but when i saw that comic i was like, this can happen??? and it’s okay??? and it basically helped me through massive internalized homophobia lol. thanks bronies
I mean, at a pony con, it's just habit. You don't even think about it. I sometimes just say "everypony" without even thinking of it in normal people conversations. I've decided to not fix this because I want to see if anyone's fight or flight gets activated.
I love that this one guy was throwing shade at Jenny for not knowing who is OC was, meanwhile he was probably lip-singing to her songs every week without knowing who she was. A true, foot-in-mouth moment.
@@crossproduct42 nah digi was still super reserved at the first few cons. and although he has a bit of an ego with his online persona, he's not an asshole - he's chill in person.
Reminds me of the current Marvel Editor In Cheif: C.B. Cebulski, telling a story on Twitter. *"4 dudes were giving each other portfolio reviews at midtown comics store. One looked decent, so asked if I could look. He told me not to bother them. Oh well..."* Ouch.
I gave piano lessons to a 9-year-old girl around the time that the brony fandom was really taking off. Between teaching, she'd just beam and tell me as much as she could about the characters, the story, and the plot of the show, and would have me teach her how to play songs from it. Quite frequently, she complained about all the adults suddenly taking the franchise over and "making it weird". She was the literal target audience of the show, and still she felt this awful alienation from it.
As a non-target audience - I felt the same. (at that time 30-year man) It was a beautiful innocent show for kids that could have been watched by almost anyone. When they started to aknowledge the adult fandom I stopped watching .I watched it because it was an innocent show without any drama. Just a nice time-out from everyday stupidity, work and stress. In oher words, my inner child was very unhappy.
it's very distasteful to me to imagine a group that is, like, the inverse of the old-and intended-demo just... suddenly taking the fandom away _from_ said demo, and remaking it in their image; _i.e.,_ making it *weird* to the original audience... ...but yk I'm sort of reminded of something suddenly. something Jenny herself said in this video, in fact _(though apparently without any irony or self-awareness-)_ I'm a fan of WH40K, as are all right-thinking men (and even many of the classier women). now, though this wasn't that successful overall - although I doubt they've given up tbh - I do recall when there was suddenly a big push to make it "female-friendly" so there wasn't "gatekeeping". lots of arguments over whether the violence could be toned down just a bit in the art and lore; and why Sisters had lower stats than Ultramarines; and, _say,_ why *were* there no female Marines anyway? and aren't those Eldar looking a little _too well-sculpted_ if you know what I mean? and- well, in any case:- *_is_*_ there a principled distinction_ between what Jenny celebrates (men being successfully "gatekept" from influencing this IP any more)... and what she complains about (women being successfully "gatekept" from influencing a _different_ IP)...? maybe I'll make a video about it. ...nah who am I kidding even when I had people asking for them I was too lazy 😢
@@Kveldred "is there a principled distinction between what Jenny celebrates, and what she complains about?" That's such a great question to consider! I'd imagine that it's all pretty nuanced and goes case by case. Regardless, it often seems quite awkward and forced to me when the creators behind a franchise feel obligated to accommodate an influx of people in their fandom with differing desires for said franchise (IE, women in WH40K; which admittedly, I know nothing about. --And, sorry, but I have to lol a bit at the notion of something being made "female-friendly" by toning down the violence... That sounds more like PG13 friendly to me😆) So what are creators to do in response to these divisions in their fandoms? Risk alienating the original demograph to appease the new, or risk being called out (in some cases possibly "cancelled") by the new demograph for not accommodating them and their preferences / ideals? I suppose at the end of the day, the decision typically boils down to what will sustain their franchise for the longest (AKA, where the $$$ is at). I suppose one risky, and likely expensive option would be to create a spinoff of the original material catered to the new demograph, but I can imagine that itself would bring with it a whole host of issues too... Anywho, you sound like you've given this topic a fair bit of thought, and I'd enjoy watching your video on it should you ever choose to make one!
I think there's quite a significant difference between the two examples. Saying a kids show should be kept a safe space for children, not be pandering to the adults sexual interests is one thing. Saying a previously male dominiated space should make space for women, become less focused on the male gaze is another. @Kveldred
@@Kveldred Well one difference is that in one situation you are broadening the audience and in the other you are narrowing it. In the situation you describe, the game is being made more inclusive to women, not less inclusive to men. In the MLP situation, the show becomes less comprehensible and enjoyable to kids as it becomes more narrowly catered towards the inside jokes of a niche online community. Having strong female characters in a game does not prevent men from enjoying the game in the same way that inserting 4chan memes into a children's cartoon does prevent children from enjoying the cartoon.
Cannibal discourse drama: an artist friend of hers on twitter had a running joke about cannibalism and a bunch of unwell twitter people accused the artist of being a cannibal/sexual pervert/predator and when Jenny made a tweet making fun of the ridiculousness they accused her of defending cannibalism as well.
I had an ex-girlfriend who had a friend who passed away when they were still young, and the girl who passed LOVED Twilight Sparkle so Tara Strong came to her funeral and I think that's absolutely crazy
As someone who took the Jenny-pill very recently after the Star Wars hotel video, this rabbit hole has officially turned into the Mithral mines of Moria
SAAAME. as a non-Brony, like I'd heard ABOUT FiW and passed it off as a weird spinoff thing, and I saw Jenny did a Bronies video but since I had friends who were former Bronies before transition I thought "oh she'll be unfair to a fandom she isn't part of." i uh. kind of didn't realize this woman was basically the catalyst of the first wave of MLPFiM's fandom itself. This is like watching a Civil War documentary and midway through the narrator turns out to be Abe Lincoln
Muckknuckle that’s insane. Especially by a grown man. Reminds me of the bobs burger episode Equestranauts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equestranauts where one of the daughters is targeted and scammed by a brony.
It really takes a special kind of asshole to be that self-absorbed. The best part is that he probably WAS familiar with her original characters/content from Friendship is Witchcraft and could have had a neat conversation with its creator if he hadn't been such a raging bonehead.
I had a very similar experience at a fan meetup for a very different fandom, it felt so absurd and surreal as this grumpy little gremlin of a man did his best to dunk on me
@@RichardMNixon @RichardMNixon Precisely! I don't think it's a stretch to say that Jenny Nicholson's contributions to Friendship is Witchcraft had a profound impact on like half of the Brony meme culture. That guy and his OC are probably unheard of compared to Jenny in the ocean of content that is the Brony fandom.
maybe i misinterpreted this, but i thought that the exchange went the way it did because the rude man assumed that jenny couldn't distinguish between the real characters from his oc. he was shaming her not because she didn't recognize his oc, but because she supposedly didn't have the ability to know that it was an OC in the first place
I love how a lot of Jenny's videos, even about cringe things, are a lot like a zoologist talking about snails. Like no big emotions, just this kinda wholesome enjoyment and wonder at the strangeness of the internet and the people on it.
i think it's very healing tbh. she doesn't cringe at them, and in just acting kinda normal about it, she's inviting the audience to do the same. considering how the internet is so happy to point and laugh at furries and bronies and anything "cringe" i much prefer this. i've never been in any of these communities but they don't deserve to be shamed for existing
Now that its been revealed idk how i never knew this. It makes so much sence from thr obscure references to other fandom to the very literal EXACT same sence of humor. Now i just appreciate it 10x more
This is such a well done video on the whole brony fandom that I could easily pass it as a documentary short film. like, holy shit this felt like the scene with Ego taking a bite of the Ratatouille. P.S. I can now say I was in a Jenny Nicholson video, sweet! the whole segment about horse famous was gold
As someone who came about in the hayday of the brony fandom, pun intended, it is so weird to see only 135 likes, and three comments on anything attached to The Living fucking Tombstone, you shaped my taste in music for like a year straight back in the day, keep being awesome.
I really appreciated talking about the fandom becoming increasingly exclusionary and hostile for children to be in. I feel like adults (and especially teenagers and young adults who are trying to prove their maturity) assume that children can't pick up on hostile vibes or, dare I say, can't tell when they are being objectified or when there's a skeezy vibe in the air. On the more banal end, they assume kids can't tell when something's an innuendo or super violent- I think it's because they know how much they've changed since their childhood that they assume kids are (or should be) cool with everything because they're too dumb to notice anything. I can remember being little and even if I didn't know why something felt weird I could tell something was up and felt uncomfortable and/or unwelcome. I ended up not watching or reading a lot of stuff that was officially for kids because there were weird adult jokes or hyper-sexualized characters in there. Also, not to be blunt but many children don't get a choice for when they're exposed to sexual stuff. Even on the most chill end of this- not even talking about more direct messed up shit- little girls know they're often vaguely sexualized by adults and hate it. I remember talking about it with my friends on the playground at age 9. I remember shopping with my mom at age 7 and being disgusted by how many pajamas and shorts had quasi-sexualized stuff like "kitten" and "princess" printed on the butt- or emblazoned with rhinestones that hurt to sit on. It took hours for us to find shorts that didn't have printing on the butt. And by age 12 odds are good you've been horribly catcalled by an adult man. Kids get a vibe for what objectification is long before they actually know what sex is. There should be spaces and media that they can enjoy without having to worry about that, and where adult fans should take a back seat.
Teen girl here, can confirm. I have friends who were followed by men and asked me to stay on call with them to feel safer, I was catcalled when I was like 13 by a group of around a dozen teenagers that looked to be mostly 16yo boy’s, I see loli’s in anime I watch, I have heard the boys in my class objectify one of my classmates for her body type, ect, ect. We can tell and we know. It’s hard to find a place where teenagers and young kids, regardless of gender, can feel safe and like it’s something actually made for them without perverted corruption.
I was a super sensitive and socially anxious little kid and I can imagine that having that negative interaction at a young age could traumatize me to the point of no longer being in the fandom or even liking mlp.
53:20 losing my mind at “a highly educated group of heterosexual males.” something about the line delivery, the implication that you can’t be gay and smart, the way he seems to fully believe what he’s saying. it’s so funny
It's extra hilarious because conservatives love to complain about the connection between higher education, liberal values, and queer people. Like, part of the stereotype is literally that we're highly educated, lmao
Yeah, in the decade since I watched the show I've become more highly educated, bisexual, and a girl. The only people I still see talking about MLP anymore are other trans women. Weird how a bunch of terminally online, socially awkward nerd boys got really interested in this show for girls for some reason.
@@peat_moss856 It's always fascinating to see what media eggs latch onto for any excuse to enjoy the things they like "ironically". I mean, really sad, but interesting how the self-selection plays out over time. At least as a trans man egg, being a tomboy was relatively acceptable, so I had it easier in that particular way. I really feel for AMAB trans folks.
Dude her singing is sooooooo good. I love how her nasaly voice translates to singing and voice acting. I don't mean that in a mean way either since Zach Hadel, or Psychicpebbles, has an infamously nasaly voice that makes him great for voice acting.
Bitch when I tell you I had to rewind three times because I was like.. Where did she do the voices, I don’t hear her? It’s just the original voices (not super familiar with the material)? And then I realized each distinct voice was her own and I was like WHAT?? The TALENT jumped out
The only thing I wish that was touched on more in this video is going deeper into the darker sides of the Brony community. I'm someone who got into My Little Pony when I was a 12 year old girl, and someone who actively went to conventions and fan meetups, along with interacting with the online community. I had multiple instances of grown men being creepy towards me, and there are a few stand out instances I look back on and realize how not okay they were. I still remember vividly being 13, dressed up as Princess Luna at a local con and a 20 something year old guy continually coming to sit by me and make conversation, offering to pay for my badge and to buy me dinner. At first I just thought he was being nice, but then it reached a point where he came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'm just going to be honest here, I'm sexually attracted to you." I awkwardly told him I wasnt interested and that I had to go find my friends, but it still just makes me uncomfortable to think about. The part of that all that makes me even more uncomfortable is that that I ran into him the next day, when I wasn't in my Princess Luna cosplay, and he didn't even recognize me. It made me stop and think about how this guy saw a visibly underaged girl dressed up as Princess Luna, projected his fantasy of getting with a pony princess onto me, and then didnt even recognize me when that perceived fantasy was gone. I know my first hand accounts aren't all there is and I could have just had isolated incidents, however something leads me to believe that's just not the case, and I think how underaged girls were treated within the fandom is something that needs to be discussed.
Some similar stuff happened to me when I was 14 at a mlp convention, and it kind of ruined cosplay for me. The adult male part of the fandom has a serious issue with creepy behavior especially towards younger female fans.
I remember back in 2013-ish hearing a lot of this king of horror story. As far as I can tell it wasn't uncommon for some artists to get a table at a MLP con once, see how the adult men were acting, & never come back. I know that one artist even had to let a pre-teen girl hide under their table until her parents could come find her cause a guy was following her around propositioning her.
Jayne Strange all of these stories sound so scary and horrible. i went to a brony convention when i was only 10 years old. the summer before i turned 11 in 2014. it was my first ever convention experience and i went with my dad and my friend. we went for a few hours and i got a plushie/met some of the voice actors. it was a great time! or atleast... it was a great time to 10 year old me. i realized once i was older that creepy men were constantly staring at me and even tried to talk to me when i was away from my dad. i was dressed up as my oc with paper wings and was clearly underage. lets just say once my dad realized men were looking at me that way... we left as fast as we could. in the end we were only there for 3 hours at best.
That makes me so sad. Before the bronies came, the pony cons were more like the biggest collection of long haired women around coming to trade plastic horses with each other.
"I was heavily involved in Friendship is Witchcraft" has the same energy as Fredrik Knudsen saying "I play the hurdy gurdy" or Summoning Salt subtly saying he has the world record speedrun in punch out in his history of punch out speedrunning video
@@satsfallingdown As someone who is definitely not a part of this community, reading this thread made me feel like I had a stroke. I don't mean that in an offensive way at all -- just that this reads as utter gibberish to the uninitiated. =D
@@oppie2363 lmao that's totally fair, my phase as an online mlp fan was years ago, but series like Summoning Salt's are recent so even reading it *myself* was bizzarre lol
I can't believe that the star wars hotel youtuber i just discovered made that my little pony parody i thought was hilarious when i was in middle school
As a former 4chan Shadow the Hedgehog person, I owe the pony fandom a lot specifically for that irony to sincerity step. Learning how to enjoy something without feeling the need to be such an edgelord was a hugely important step in my life and I'm vastly more chill as a person these days because of it.
happy for you dude. it’s nice hearing stories like this, where the internet actually helps people learn and grow, especially coming from a place like 4chan
I was already deep into Pokemon by the time I joined the MLP fandom back in 2012, so things like "Oh my Celestia!" were not much different than "Oh my Arceus!"
36:35 imagine being these guys you put so much effort into making this ROBOT based on an inside joke and you have no idea the actual voice actress is RIGHT THERE i hope they've seen this video
Not to be that guy but she didn’t actually voice sweetie bot unfortunately. Your point still stands though, I’m SO curious if she said anything to them, I’d be devastated if I was the one that made the robot and saw this video and realized I DIDN’T talk to the creator of the parodies I was referencing lmao
I mean to be fair the transforming gimmick makes it really hard to make accurate sculpts of certain characters. There are definitely people in the transformers fandom who would prefer the toys to be static statues, the big difference is Hasbro isn't pivoting the toyline to their preference.
Completely outside of this community. But I remember having My Little Ponies when I was a little girl. For me, they were not characters from a cartoon, but rather dolls that happened to be ponies. Their hair, and combs... were kind of everything for little girls. Anyway- they look oddly masculine now... can't imagine there being an appeal for as many little girls as there was, but who knows.
Honestly, it made me kinda sad to think a toy company cares less about the little kids the dolls originally cater to and more about how to market to grown men. All about that money.
As someone who used to use 4chan (don't worry, I don't anymore and I've healed since then), hacker rebel shadow the hedgehog boys is literally the perfect description of how they view themselves
@@martykunte As an old anon, the rest of the site is similarly bad. It used to not be in my memory in terms of awful people, but it certainly got overly terrible at almost every place. /pol/ was a mistake.
@@martykunte You can also tell she never really went searching for other boards. TG and CO are (were?) some of the tightest shit. Weird how, in spite of knowing how big MLP got on 4chan, she never mentioned how absolutely huge it got on /co/. Anyone who'd been around /co/ for say, 2 years would have surely heard of the /co/ is love meme.
@@1000huzzahsas a lifelong Trekkie myself, I get it tbh. 90% of the fandom is wonderful, we’re all just nerds who love a franchise about aliens and starships, but the insufferable 10% sour it for everyone. That’s pretty much the same for basically every fandom ever tbh.
@@DuvalSt1 I don’t think he’s a jerk, I think fanboys are just annoying. I can’t imagine being Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford. The latter also seems to hate his fanbase.
"My friend and I made a parody series call Friendship is Witchcraft" I literally froze midstep and I was like "THAT'S WHERE I KNOW YOUR VOICE FROM" That's of my few good memories from Middle school. Thank you Jenny.
I used to have the songs on my iPod then iPhone. I’d no idea she made that and her voice never even sounded familiar to me.. It just feels like a weird coincidence
You know what's funny? I'm actually the chairman of the convention at which you were impersonated. I remember exactly how it happened, too. I was attending to some business when some of my staff came up to me and said that we had some extra time in one of our panel rooms because of some scheduling issue or something, but they told me, "Hey, Jenny Nicholson said she can fill up that slot and entertain the crowd." I'm like, "Jenny Nicholson? Who's that?" That's the girl who made _Friendship is Witchcraft_. "Oh really? I don't remember booking her! I love those videos!" Nah, she said she came as a guest (which didn't sound outrageous, because content creators are still fans of the show like everyone else). "Oh, well, I guess if she's cool with it, that'd be a big help!" So I walk into that panel a while later and I've never seen Jenny Nicholson before. I'm just listening to this girl talk about creating the show and whatnot, then one of the crowd asks her to do an impersonation. I was interested, too. And, boy, let me tell you, that impersonator gave her best Pinkie Pie impression and I knew IMMEDIATELY that she was a fake. I called my staff together and I'm like, "Guys, we screwed up. I don't think that's Jenny Nicholson..." When we held the convention the following year, it was kind of a meme. I even designed a shirt with a name tag that said, "Hello, my name is Jenny Nicholson," but we never sold them. It was just an embarrassing story about how we let some random liar up on stage with our equipment. Even worse was a lot of people thought we actually booked the impersonator and PAID HER. Lol
@@NegaLomie We never produced them, but I still have the mock-up. Here's a TinyURL to a picture of the mock-up: tinyurl.com/JennyShirt You can make one for yourself if you feel like it lol.
you summarising that men aren't used to unsexual fondness for female characters was a revelation that took me out back and shot me in the head with accuracy
@@starlightrains a guy/dude wants to conquer a woman to say they can. a boy is horny, will say anything. a man says what he means and means what he says. aka the lion does not care about the sheep. a man treats a woman just like anyone else. not caring about female sexuality. hunt from jurasic park. lydia from beetlegeuse. ripley from alien. sara conor of terminator. i grew up with strong women. sexuality was always secondary if not tertiary.
Friendship is witchcraft nearly got mlp banned in my household growing up since my ma thought that was the shows actual name, and that was my only experience with fiw. Love your work!! And I’m surprised it all circles back
@@PoochieCollins My favourite internet quote of all time is, ' That is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever seen involving incest and magical talking horses.'
everyone in the comments shocked that the announcer at the con would say 'everypony'... like yall don't understand. this is literally how we talked to each other. it was normal
Nah, but changing the name of a horse from one slur for Romani people, because its offensive and changing it to ANOTHER lesser known slur for Romani people is darkly hilarious.
Europeans have mastered racism. In America it’s been taboo to be openly racist. You gotta find some kind of workaround to dislike entire races of people like how the fear and anxiety in America after 9/11 caused many people to dislike Arabic people. If you go to Europe and ask anyone about the Romani people you’ll probably get a response that’s something along the lines of “oh the *slur*? Fucking scamming thieves they are”
@Bluescore De'La'vie leave it to "empathetic, compassionate" bunch to decide who is human and who is subhuman filth. Right side of history, here we go again
"In fact, they're a highly educated heterosexual group of males". Even without the context that's one of the funniest dead-pan deliveries I've heard. 53:15
I love the hell out of John DeLancie's work and I think I'm okay with him hating that. He might not like it but going from voicing a villain that defined my childhood and then a video game character that defined my adulthood leaves a pretty big impression on a guy.
i literally used to fight adult men on 4chan (luckily the pony stuff was my only exposure to it 😂) as a nine year old and would write passionate tirades about how they knew nothing about writing and sucked and were mean people 😂😂😂 they assumed I was also an adult guy because i just went with it but its HILARIOUS to think about me pissed off as a 9 year old wearing a twilight sparkle shirt fighting adults about how they sucked at writing and would be worse at making a cartoon
I stumbled across websites like 4chan as well when i was 9 years old ish, its most likely just unsupervised internet access lmao@@thischannelisfullofspiders
I like that they made sure to film the conservative dad in front of his tool rack to really drive home the fact that he is a manly conservative who likes man stuff
It’s the fact that she seemed like she was chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to say it. Like she was thrilled at having the chance to say everybody into a microphone.
I still think it’s hilarious how the con body pillow presence was so relevant that the show itself referenced it in the Daring Do convention episode. Why did they do that. They just straight up showed a (highly sfw) bondage body pillow as a visual gag where rainbow dash walks past it, notices it, then points at it in disbelief.
I really want more of Jenny doing social study anthropology on fandoms like this. This corner of the internet eluded me for so long but I liked her genuine chronicling and analysis
I think this one is special because her involvement with the Fandom as it was developing. I'd trust anything Jenny said about other Fandoms, but I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if she wasn't part of the Fandom.
Holy shit your voice acting for the ponies was genuinely incredibly impressive. They didn't even feel like comedy dubs they just felt like they could have been the regular voices
Hey, I don't know if you've already had comments about this, but 'Tinker' is actually also used as a slur against the Irish travelling community - I just burst out laughing when you said it was 'cute' loooll (but yes, once I actually witnessed an Irish traveller being called a 'filthy tinker' in Dublin, so I think it is unfortunately still a pejorative term..).
@@simly5189I think at this point they should just embrace the fact that this horse will always be known for being named after slurs and just name it after every known soir so that everyone’s equally offended
I love the sound they replaced it with and I want that to be applied to the whole song, but instead I am stuck listening to the same 30 second clip over and over again 😂
@@EmeraldLavigne no, it's that I can see the pain in twilight's eyes, the way she is almost pleading to get out of the purgatory that is the body pillow that she has been placed into by the bronies. And I empathize with that.
funny thing is, I've been wanting a body pillow for the longest time up until I saw one irl. the eyes stare into your soul and it's so creepy. at first I thought they were hot but when you stare at one long enough, it states back.
I love how Jenny is so kind about Bronies in the first half and then on the 2nd half explained how they influenced so much of the show, merchandising, and the hatred and harassment thrown at LGBT fans and women. Over a show meant for little girls.
Yep! It’s really weird looking at it in “waves” but I always liked the unapologetic nice kind of Bronies but obviously there was always a pretty sinister element on the fandom. Feels weird that I *NEVER* saw much of the anti-gay sentiment in the fandom? Like, maybe I was in a weird not-quite-as-toxic bubble, idk. But I did find it weird the whole “yeah we’re not gay.” in the documentary (which I never watched all my friends said: “yeah it’s Garbo.”) but I always thought it was like: “yeah we’re not gay but it’s cool if you are, who cares?” But it’s sad to know that wasn’t actually a thing. At least not broadly. That’s very sad for me because me and my brother we’re always pretty wholesome about it. And a lot of the people we interacted with were similarly wholesome. Sucks that wasn’t everyone’s experience but it makes sense.
“Please don’t jump” is so wholesome to me, as is “Shout out to the other room”, because they both represent scenarios in which the bronies could have been really grumpy and complained, but instead found a new thing to be excited about
I found her from the Star Wars hotel video but I'm starting to think I could listen to Jenny talk about any topic for any amount of time. I never even watched MLP.
The 1.3K dislikes are just that guy that Jenny didn’t know his OC, and once he realized that she created Friendship is Witchcraft, he was so embarrassed
That still makes me mad. I wish i could've embarrassed him infront of his friends by goin "oh so the creator of friendship is witchcraft isnt a REAL fan, huh?" and walked away. Unfairness always gets me. Hope he rests in shame.
I hope he did find out it was her so he couldn't enjoy this thing that everyone was talking about or hear any of the songs and references without cringing
Something about your media criticism just hits different. This is the real, honest, unironic, good faith commentary that the youtube community sorely lacks!
I never watched Star Trek so to me De Lancie was just "Jane's dad in Breaking Bad" so I spent the rest of the video thinking "damn, Jane's dad is a dick actually" lol
Hey Jenny, I've still got one of those felt hats from the 2012 Bronycon. You were right, its been sitting untouched in the back of my closet for eight years. If you've got a PO box or an address I can send it your way.
i honestly cannot believe that i was the exact target demographic when i liked mlp, a young girl, yet got on the internet early enough in my life that i thought that i myself would be persecuted for liking a show that was MADE FOR ME bc of all the bronies...
THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCE EXACTLY THANK YOU!!!!!! I was maybe 10 when I started watching and I watched FIW and some analysis videos of episodes but all of the other stuff I saw about the fandom completely scared me off.
Exactly!! I *was* judged heavily for my interest in the show and fanart, despite literally being the target demographic. It made me feel ashamed for liking something that was literally made for myself and my peers lol. I still have fond memories of it, but it’s not something I talk about bc I still kind of feel that way. The judgement was largely from outside of the community, bc people just assumed I was an adult man lol
I very much relate to this because when I was 8, I stumbled upon some weird MLP stuff and that definitely helped with me not being a fan anymore (including me just not caring for it anymore).
2:32 Part 1: How Did the Bronies Happen? 8:10 Part 2: The Growth of the Fandom 10:09 Part 3: MLP: Irony Becomes Sincerity 14:25 Part 4: So Is It a Weird Sex Thing? 19:17 Part 5: The Birth of Bronycon 21:34 Part 6: Horse Famous 25:16 Part 7: My Dark Brony Double Life 31:10 Part 8: The Anatomy of a Brony Convention 40:10 Part 9: Brony Propoganda 45:41 Part 10: The Dark Side of Bronies 1:01:31 Part 11: The Last Bronycon 1:04:55 Part 12: The Death of Bronies
You will never understand how my JAW DROPPED when you said that you and your friend created friendship is witchcraft!!! I still remember all the songs from that show!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I wonder if in Japan there are people who had a very similar experience to this because they like went to Comiket in the mid 80’s and bought a fancomic from this relatively new up and coming collective of otaku who call themselves CLAMP and they didn’t really think about it for years until they started seeing Cardcaptor Sakura explode with popularity in the late 90’s
during the height of my interest in the brony fandom I got into an argument with my mother. (it wasn't about mlp, it was just a regular argument) At one point I inadvertently used the word "everypony", entirely seriously. needless to say i did not convince my mother of my point over her mixture of hysterical laughter and deep disappointment
The line I think about the most in this video is “it’s pretty cringey, but so are most fun things.” It’s so crazy how accurate that is, and abstaining from fun things to avoid being cringe must be a very sad life
Cringe culture is over. I live by that fact. Lol just let people enjoy things. Sure it’s cringe. But a lot of things I love are cringe. That’s why I try to be nice to tik tok teens even as a millennial that doesn’t really get it.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle It's mainly Gen Z just hating old stuff in general and labeling it as "cringe" when in reality it wasn't at the time and we all had fun doing it with our peers. Now everything is judged by how cringe and weird or different something is which is really sad because stuff like bronies and furries are now considered somewhat taboo for being severely sexual and not pg for the kids and I totally understand that, but y'know, some people are like that unfortunately.
@@zombiyh I’m only a millennial by about three years so I try to be charitable to older gen z. Lol but I wonder if they’re so afraid of “being cringe” because social media and documenting EVERYTHING is so common now? Like, I was doing highly cringe things in highschool in the late 2000s and 2010s. But I didn’t even have a phone till 2011 and the camera barely functioned. We weren’t constantly documenting our lives and embarrassing things we did at the time.
@@zombiyh ‘Cringe’ may be mainly a concern of Gen Z now, but that’s mostly because Gen Z are currently in the age range where that’s a common concern for most generations. Most millennials are adults with jobs and starting families, of course they aren’t concerned about cringe, most of them aren’t even out and proud geeky enough about any particular thing for them to possibly be cringy. But you can’t front like millennials didn’t have plenty of things they considered cringe when they were teens and younger adults. Emo kids, furries, weebs, crocs, 80’s hairstyles, etc etc
Finding out that the person who made the 4 hour long star wars hotel video (that I fully watched) also made mlp: Friendship is Witchcraft (my childhood) was not on the agenda today but I am so glad I came upon this channel.
47:40 Imagine being asked about your custom plush pony OC, giving you an excuse to show it off and gush about your OC and talk all about it, but instead you decide to shame and ridicule the person because they *haven't heard of your OC* like what??????????????????
Yeah like, I don’t know if it’s because of how much the view on OCs have changed in the last few years but I cannot for the life of me can imagine somebody acting that rudely when asked about their OC, especially if you love them enough to have a custom plush of them.
He sounds like an arrogant piece of shit who posts his artwork on deviantart and thinks that just because he got a couple of favs there it must mean that his OC is really popular.
@@viraltang not limited to the Brony community, though. this is what the Simpsons Comic Book Guy character was a parody of, back in the early 90s even.
I hope it cheers you up, even if only a little bit, to know that the jeering at old-school ponies has reduced a lot in the last few years. People have more of an appreciation for the franchise as a whole now; it's one way in which the fandom is (overall, not pretending it's perfect of course) a nicer place now.
I actually find the gen 1 art style to be charming and pleasing to look at! I used to not like it very much but I watched a few episodes and came to love it.
35:42 It's actually even slightly weirder than that: that plushie is Blackjack, from the Fallout Equestria spin-off Project Horizons. Jenny owns a factory-made, mass produced, unlicensed plush of a character from a fanfiction of a fanfiction of My Little Pony.
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When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain
And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain
In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn
They will stare unbelieving at the last Bronycon
When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing
And you look to the north and a pale moon is rising
And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn
In the distance hear the laughter of the last Bronycon
I'm alive, I'm alive
When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning
And the future has passed without even a last desperate warning
Then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is torn
Look and see her how she sparkles, it's the last Bronycon
That movie traumatized me as a child
I'm not crying you're crying
Wow this one hurt.
This is lowkey giving me flashbacks to that movie......
"Vored, if you will"
God, you're acid.
The biggest thing I learned today is that Jenny has some impressive VA chops
Yeah, it's been years since I thought about Friendship is Witchcraft, and all I could think during that voiceover compilation was, "Wow, those were all ONE person?"
i watched it in middle school and i remember jenny being all of them but i didn't remember how distinct most of them actually sounded
@MissingnoXpert Hey I really liked watching LGPY and LGPB btw
I still listen to Pinkie's Brew and Gypsy Bard all the time and I didn't even know that was her?? My world has been shattered.
I'm interested in how much the finished audio was digitally tuned.
Never forget that someone looked one of the creators of 'Friendship is Witchcraft' in the eye and told her she wasn't a true fan
The arrogant doucheness is off the charts. I can't help but imagine him gatekeeping random other fandoms and celebrities.
"Oh this? Yeah it's a character from Star Trek. I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them."
*cut across to show he's obliviously talking to Patrick Stewart.*
Jeremiah Reagan you obviously meant Star Wars. Idjit.
@@addammadd no? Patrick Stewart acted in Star Trek. That example was not related to Jenny lol
Brooke Worley the fact that I have to tell you that I was being sarcastic makes me a sad pony.
@@addammadd a /s might have helped, because there was no context that made it seem like a joke
"It's a little cringey but most fun things are." Might be the most profound statement of our time
I like that sentence
This is truth
Yup.
I am going to go with second most profound. First would be "Loving something unconditionally doesn't mean you love it more. It just means you love it sadder"
from her 'Top 10 Worst Reasons You Liked Rogue One'
"If you were ever labeled as cringy, congratulations. You've used the internet for it's intended purpose and were given heck for it"
- Peter Knetter, 2016
"men are not socialised to recognise uncomplicated, unsexual fondness for a female character". Concise, precise, correct.
Seconded. That’s the reason the brony fandom came to be, whittled down to one sentence.
Funny that it took until now for someone to make this remark...
@@VAB419 I don't think it's the reason it came to be, but instead it's why it is the way it is.
@@PaulEmsley I mean, the idea that men sexualise feminine people is as old as time itself, not that it doesn't bear repeating, but I think it's different because it's framed in an almost empathetic context. Men often recite that they can't be "just friends" with the opposite sex but this is something socially imbued into men, not some intrinsic trait. This is just another way that idea is embodied, except instead of it being viewed as "men are disgusting and bad" it's "men have been socialised in a way that prevents them from having healthy platonic relationships with both men and women", which, in my opinion, is a much more nuanced look at a very real problem.
Ronnie Filyaw made a very good Whomp! comic about this once. The awkward, asocial male protagonist tries to confess his love for his female roommate but it's pointed out that he doesn't actually have romantic feelings for her, he just isn't used to having positive, friendly mutual relations with women and they get recontextualized. Not even that he's rejected or doesn't get it back, but that he literally is not in love, and just assumes that's what it is.
It's common in childhood and school settings, but even among adults I've known a lot of people like that. Not really knowing how to be friends, not knowing how to process "I like being around this person" in platonic contexts, and so they assume they're in love.
I love how Jenny has a strip of hair deliberately placed over her fake ear, but tucked behind her real ear
oh my god-
It took me for-fucking-ever to finally get that.
I only just noticed that almost an hour into the video
i kept staring at it the whole time
I noticed it during the problematic stuff section and then I felt better again.
Jenny revealing that she was "horse famous" and that she contributed to a large portion of brony fan culture is like that Darth Vader twist before it became iconic in pop culture.
lol i will always remember friendship is witchcraft
Me and my friends were huge fans of Friendship is Witchcraft, and I legitimately freaked the hell out at her reveal and paused the video to tell those same friends.
I shrieked too I loved fiw
Here I am just entertained by this documentary and then she drops THAT FACT and I was like holy shit??? Cuz I watched the HELL out of Friendship is Witchcraft. I still remember so many songs. Wow small world lol
same, when she said she made a fan parody I was like "No way it's fiw it's just some small one I haven't heard of- holy shit"
Jenny extremely undersells how integral to the fandom she was. Like a full half of the early memes that endured a full decade are directly her responsibility
YEAH, Friendship is Witchcraft was so major!!! Like she just kinda talks about for a bit but I was like um?? That was so major!
There look to be millions upon millions of views for the songs and episodes. It's really cool to see.
Yeah when she first mentioned, my thoughts as someone who has no real connection to this community was "oh that's cool, Jenny made a parody of MLP maybe I'll check it out" but the more she talked about the cons and how much her stuff got referenced, the more I realized that this was like A Thing.
As a non-mlp fan I literally didn’t even know that friendship is witchcraft was a parody and not a professional spinoff- it’s so integral to mlp fandom
it was even referenced in official show media.
I was always SO happy interacting with the Brony fandom as a little girl. I LOVED attending cons, I would always take pictures with adults in full cosplay, and they’d draw my clumsily made OC for me for free while having nice, innocent conversations about the show with me. I felt surrounded by friends. I met several “horse famous” people who were, with one exception, SO incredibly kind to me, and it meant the world to me as the weird, mentally ill, autistic, often outcast kid at school.
In fact, Jenny, you and your friend made a significant contribution to that. I had made a very, VERY poor, clumsy attempt at a Derpy cosplay and I attended a FiW panel at Fiesta Equestria in Houston, Texas. I had worked so hard on it, and though it was poorly made, I got so many compliments, including several from y’all, who were so so cool and funny in my little eyes. You guys said I looked like an angel, and I didn’t get compliments like that outside of family often.
So, despite all of the weird shit and the harmful impacts I later realized exposure to the worse parts of the fandom had on my brain, I’m still very grateful to the fandom, to YOU, for that. Thank you, everypony
this is so adorable
To quote from another fandom: "Fascinating"
That’s so wholesome 🥺
Why am I crying
@@TheGypsyVanners 🤨🖖
That woman who says "Please exit the emergency exit, every pony!" is really doing her job.
37:59
Pay her extra!
It makes me laugh every time. 🤣
That's the kind of consistency that gets you a job as a guide at Galaxy's Edge, where your job is to fail to guide people because you're not supposed to stop talking in Star Wars terminology that PARENTS of CHILDREN don't know.
I ran out the front door before I realized it was the video
Finding out Jenny did Friendship is Witchcraft is like when I found out Neil Cicierega made Potter Puppet Pals and Brody Quest. I suddenly understand how Speed Racer felt finding out Racer X was his brother the whole time.
I remember it vaguely from when it used to pop up on my yt feed, so finding out is was Jenny was behind it is a fun revelation.
WOAH speed racer spoilers much!
See also: WayneRadioTV, who made a video where he screamed Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff at the baby in Fallout 4 VR in 2017, and broke through this year when him and his friends made Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware.
It was honestly pretty embarrassing for me, with how much I used to watch the show.
That's *exactly* how it felt. Literally same situation with Neil for me too.
Jenny's "I was horse famous" and Sarah Z's "I was in the Onceler fandom" have the same, yet opposite energies.
Sarah's reveal was like that scene in a movie when one of the characters finally opens up about their past and what happened in the war. this is a bit more like when Miley finally takes off that wig and reveals to the world that she's Hannah Montana.
@@OliverHeikkinen this made me cackle
Honestly being a part of the Onceler fandom is much more embarrassing
Idk what the Onceler fandom or Sarah Z is 👀
Sarah Z barely scratched the surface of the Onceler fandom tbh. I uh... unfortunately know from experience.
calling the creator of one of the biggest mlp fan series a fake fan is so funny or me im sorry like. i hope that guy remembers that and it keeps him awake at night
She is a fake fan lol.
Just because she did work on the worst abridged series in the fandom doesnt mean she is right.
This video is 99% trust me bro i know better.
Also she didnt watch past season 4? And then has the guts to talk what the show is like and how it was going? Wtf?! She has no freaking idea what she is talking about.
Did she rwad some stupid article and got her ibfo from there? Because it really sounds like something from horse news the stupid drama site.
And she has that drama idiot aura around her so i guess it fits.
Funy how its 2024 and the fandow is still strong and alive while the show ended in 2019 we still make the most art fan amimations music etc. But sure lil miss incest writer tells us the show was dying while she wasnt even part of the fandom after 2014 lol
Ppl realy are dumb
Bronies came from 4chan. He doesn't need to remember it: dedicated, antisocial Friendship is Witchcraft superfans have probably hunted him down the moment this video dropped and made their extremely petty ire at this honest (but still very rude) mistake known to the unfortunate pony OC creator.
I did security for Tara Strong’s line at a con and she was 100% the coolest celeb I ever did security for. She gave a young fan who didn’t understand how meet and greets/autographs work a print and her autobiography and sent her on her way because she didn’t have the heart to tell her that it wasn’t free. I CANNOT STRESS HOW RARE THAT IS.
AWEEE
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I didn't know those things weren't free either! :o
@@animalobsessed1 some of them are free but for some of the bigger celebrities they charge 20-50 dollars not including their prints
Oh my HEART I like you for telling us this xxx
So are we REALLY just going to skim over the fact that someone tried to steal Jenny's fame by pretending she was a voice actor for Friendship is Witchcraft and i guess no one bothered to fact check this? I WAS CACKLING.
I get a kick that she disappeared. Never to be heard from again. But I agree, HOW did no one check that?!?
That person is out there 😐
Weirdanimalguy that person could be reading this😐
The video undersells how weird it was. There's a clip out there, and the impersonator literally rushed the stage during opening ceremonies, took the mic, and launched into her grift. Apparently she WAS checked by a number of people on credibility (she couldn't do the voices and claimed they were edited in post) and lies (she didn't just take credit, she said Nicholson was bullying her into silence), but I guess when you act with that much confidence..?
K L the fact that apparently no one found it suspicious she couldn’t do ANY of the character voices is so funny to me. It’s like if someone went on stage and claimed to be Tom Kenny then was asked to do the Spongebob or Powerpuff Girls Narrator voice and he was like “um I can’t they’re uh. Edited in post”
I feel like a Brony veteran listening to another Brony veteran sharing her war stories. What an absolute trip the fandom was lol
Saberspark dude, your list of the top 20 MLP fandom songs was one of my introductions into the show! Still a great video that I revisit sometimes when I want to feel nostalgic.
I'll never forget your classic mlp vids I watched as a kid! One of the few creators I watched then who still makes awesome content now
The video description says "Due to the runtime this counts as a brony documentary and, as such, it is the best brony documentary."
I still think that "The Brony Chronicles" is the best brony documentary.
This is a good video, but far from the level of "The Brony Chronicles"
Big agree. It was a weird 9 years
Your brony documentary had a huge influence on me when i just found the show (found the show first).
You made that self doubt i had go away, and embrace the show rather than shy away from it, and the show ended having a legit effect on me, making me see the people around me in a brighter light. In short, I guess the show pushed me towards being a better person, simply by reminding me (as an adult) about the child like optimism that comes from seing your friends as people that are "good", and not as "grey individuals", and that in return made people around me more happy to be around me, because i would focus on the best in them.
I think that is what real friends does, they see the best in each other and focus on that, and that is a lesson for all ages.
So thank you Saberspark. Not because you made the change in my life (MLP deserve that thanks), but because you gave me the courage to start going down that road :)
confession: when i was 12 or 13 and obsessed with MLP, i was on equestriadaily and stumbled across a very sweet comic where fluttershy confesses her feelings to pinkie pie. i grew up extremely religious but always knew i had feelings for girls that weren’t ‘normal’ but when i saw that comic i was like, this can happen??? and it’s okay??? and it basically helped me through massive internalized homophobia lol. thanks bronies
I stumbled across a very different story where pinkie made cupcakes with dash, and then I became a traumatized child. Thanks bronies!
@@baintreachasso... were you not on fimfiction much?
It's a sin
@@skbproject5589 ok and. a ‘sin’ is just a theological concept but gay people are real lol
That's actually so sweet 🥺
I can't believe Jenny made an hour long brony documentary just to flex on us that she was horse famous.
literally the weirdest flex, but ok.
Admit it! You still loved it!
and I watched the whole thing!
You love to see it
I can definitely believe Jenny would make such a thing. I can't believe that I actually just watched the whole thing
I'm speechless in that during a fire. The announcer tells "everypony" to evacuate. That's dedication to the craft.
I mean, at a pony con, it's just habit. You don't even think about it. I sometimes just say "everypony" without even thinking of it in normal people conversations. I've decided to not fix this because I want to see if anyone's fight or flight gets activated.
She probably didn't even realize she said it because that was just the vernacular at those events. Everyone said it.
I love that this one guy was throwing shade at Jenny for not knowing who is OC was, meanwhile he was probably lip-singing to her songs every week without knowing who she was. A true, foot-in-mouth moment.
And how big does his ego have to be to expect people to know his OC? smh... I bet it was Digibrony.
hoof in mouth
@@crossproduct42 nah digi was still super reserved at the first few cons. and although he has a bit of an ego with his online persona, he's not an asshole - he's chill in person.
Reminds me of the current Marvel Editor In Cheif: C.B. Cebulski, telling a story on Twitter.
*"4 dudes were giving each other portfolio reviews at midtown comics store. One looked decent, so asked if I could look. He told me not to bother them. Oh well..."*
Ouch.
@@crossproduct42 LOL
I gave piano lessons to a 9-year-old girl around the time that the brony fandom was really taking off. Between teaching, she'd just beam and tell me as much as she could about the characters, the story, and the plot of the show, and would have me teach her how to play songs from it.
Quite frequently, she complained about all the adults suddenly taking the franchise over and "making it weird". She was the literal target audience of the show, and still she felt this awful alienation from it.
As a non-target audience - I felt the same. (at that time 30-year man) It was a beautiful innocent show for kids that could have been watched by almost anyone. When they started to aknowledge the adult fandom I stopped watching .I watched it because it was an innocent show without any drama. Just a nice time-out from everyday stupidity, work and stress.
In oher words, my inner child was very unhappy.
it's very distasteful to me to imagine a group that is, like, the inverse of the old-and intended-demo just... suddenly taking the fandom away _from_ said demo, and remaking it in their image; _i.e.,_ making it *weird* to the original audience...
...but yk I'm sort of reminded of something suddenly. something Jenny herself said in this video, in fact _(though apparently without any irony or self-awareness-)_
I'm a fan of WH40K, as are all right-thinking men (and even many of the classier women). now, though this wasn't that successful overall - although I doubt they've given up tbh - I do recall when there was suddenly a big push to make it "female-friendly" so there wasn't "gatekeeping".
lots of arguments over whether the violence could be toned down just a bit in the art and lore; and why Sisters had lower stats than Ultramarines; and, _say,_ why *were* there no female Marines anyway? and aren't those Eldar looking a little _too well-sculpted_ if you know what I mean? and-
well, in any case:- *_is_*_ there a principled distinction_ between what Jenny celebrates (men being successfully "gatekept" from influencing this IP any more)... and what she complains about (women being successfully "gatekept" from influencing a _different_ IP)...?
maybe I'll make a video about it.
...nah who am I kidding even when I had people asking for them I was too lazy 😢
@@Kveldred "is there a principled distinction between what Jenny celebrates, and what she complains about?"
That's such a great question to consider! I'd imagine that it's all pretty nuanced and goes case by case. Regardless, it often seems quite awkward and forced to me when the creators behind a franchise feel obligated to accommodate an influx of people in their fandom with differing desires for said franchise (IE, women in WH40K; which admittedly, I know nothing about. --And, sorry, but I have to lol a bit at the notion of something being made "female-friendly" by toning down the violence... That sounds more like PG13 friendly to me😆)
So what are creators to do in response to these divisions in their fandoms? Risk alienating the original demograph to appease the new, or risk being called out (in some cases possibly "cancelled") by the new demograph for not accommodating them and their preferences / ideals? I suppose at the end of the day, the decision typically boils down to what will sustain their franchise for the longest (AKA, where the $$$ is at).
I suppose one risky, and likely expensive option would be to create a spinoff of the original material catered to the new demograph, but I can imagine that itself would bring with it a whole host of issues too...
Anywho, you sound like you've given this topic a fair bit of thought, and I'd enjoy watching your video on it should you ever choose to make one!
I think there's quite a significant difference between the two examples. Saying a kids show should be kept a safe space for children, not be pandering to the adults sexual interests is one thing. Saying a previously male dominiated space should make space for women, become less focused on the male gaze is another. @Kveldred
@@Kveldred Well one difference is that in one situation you are broadening the audience and in the other you are narrowing it. In the situation you describe, the game is being made more inclusive to women, not less inclusive to men. In the MLP situation, the show becomes less comprehensible and enjoyable to kids as it becomes more narrowly catered towards the inside jokes of a niche online community. Having strong female characters in a game does not prevent men from enjoying the game in the same way that inserting 4chan memes into a children's cartoon does prevent children from enjoying the cartoon.
learning that the tiktok slur discourse stems from a Jenny Nicholson song is somehow still in like my top 10 most surprising things of 2020
ME TOO oh my god I'm shocked!! I've heard that song clip so many times and had no idea where it was from!
kinda not surprising after coming fresh from a cannibal discourse around her on twitter :/
WAIT BACK UP. SORRY WE CANT SKIP OVER THIS. CANNIBAL DRAMA???
Cannibal discourse drama: an artist friend of hers on twitter had a running joke about cannibalism and a bunch of unwell twitter people accused the artist of being a cannibal/sexual pervert/predator and when Jenny made a tweet making fun of the ridiculousness they accused her of defending cannibalism as well.
Same!
The dude who said Jenny was a fake fan probably quaking watching this
He BETTER be quaking!
Jenny IS a fake fan!
I haven't seen her spin once!
A girl actually just wanted to learn about my beloved oc???
@@sarahgraves6759 I see what you did there. Take my angry thumbs up.
Yeah! How dare she not recognise some random guy's oc 😂
I had an ex-girlfriend who had a friend who passed away when they were still young, and the girl who passed LOVED Twilight Sparkle so Tara Strong came to her funeral and I think that's absolutely crazy
wait for real?? thats so interesting
Wow
props to Tara Strong for going to the funeral
Awww ;-;
I think this didnt happen and you're lying.
As someone who took the Jenny-pill very recently after the Star Wars hotel video, this rabbit hole has officially turned into the Mithral mines of Moria
LITERALLH ME?? The shock I experienced in the middle of the video when I heard the FIW music ohmhhod
Welcome 😂
Same, I’ve watched this video at least 20 times in the last 2 weeks hahaha
SAAAME. as a non-Brony, like I'd heard ABOUT FiW and passed it off as a weird spinoff thing, and I saw Jenny did a Bronies video but since I had friends who were former Bronies before transition I thought "oh she'll be unfair to a fandom she isn't part of."
i uh. kind of didn't realize this woman was basically the catalyst of the first wave of MLPFiM's fandom itself. This is like watching a Civil War documentary and midway through the narrator turns out to be Abe Lincoln
I'm so jealous. I wish I could wipe my memory of some of her videos and rewatch them
the announcer saying that 'everypony' needed to evacuate the building activated my fight or flight response
I think thats the goal
i honestly cant believe people were still saying that unironically in the fandom even after all these years.
Yep
Maggie Holland I choose to fight the fire
It's preferable that you do not try to fight the burning light fixture.
Howling at the idea that they thought you were a fake fan for not knowing HIS ORIGINAL CHARACTER
Muckknuckle that’s insane. Especially by a grown man.
Reminds me of the bobs burger episode Equestranauts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equestranauts where one of the daughters is targeted and scammed by a brony.
It really takes a special kind of asshole to be that self-absorbed. The best part is that he probably WAS familiar with her original characters/content from Friendship is Witchcraft and could have had a neat conversation with its creator if he hadn't been such a raging bonehead.
I had a very similar experience at a fan meetup for a very different fandom, it felt so absurd and surreal as this grumpy little gremlin of a man did his best to dunk on me
@@RichardMNixon @RichardMNixon Precisely! I don't think it's a stretch to say that Jenny Nicholson's contributions to Friendship is Witchcraft had a profound impact on like half of the Brony meme culture. That guy and his OC are probably unheard of compared to Jenny in the ocean of content that is the Brony fandom.
maybe i misinterpreted this, but i thought that the exchange went the way it did because the rude man assumed that jenny couldn't distinguish between the real characters from his oc. he was shaming her not because she didn't recognize his oc, but because she supposedly didn't have the ability to know that it was an OC in the first place
"Please exit the emergency exit, EveryPony" makes me cry every time I watch this
As someone never involved in the fandom, that part got me too. Smiles all around.
*Everypony*
Every time. I like that all of us have been coming back to this video every few months since last year.
Wait. You've watched this 71 minute video several times???
@@nikkilee3840 you haven't??
I love how a lot of Jenny's videos, even about cringe things, are a lot like a zoologist talking about snails. Like no big emotions, just this kinda wholesome enjoyment and wonder at the strangeness of the internet and the people on it.
She's like the David Attenborough of internet era fandoms.
Next stop: #AstridLundberg
i think it's very healing tbh. she doesn't cringe at them, and in just acting kinda normal about it, she's inviting the audience to do the same. considering how the internet is so happy to point and laugh at furries and bronies and anything "cringe" i much prefer this. i've never been in any of these communities but they don't deserve to be shamed for existing
Jenny revealing that she was one of the main creators of Friendship is Witchcraft is such whiplash
RIGHT!?! I had to pause what I was doing and take a breather because I was not ready for that plot twist.
I mean, I already knew from the comments of a Lindsay Ellis video. It was actually because it was Jenny that I watched FiW
I nearly choked
I paused and had vietnam flashbacks during that.
Now that its been revealed idk how i never knew this. It makes so much sence from thr obscure references to other fandom to the very literal EXACT same sence of humor. Now i just appreciate it 10x more
Oh snap. Jenny, I made hats like those. I have so many extras in my parent's garage if you want one. They don't have the eyes but...
I hope she sees the post!
I hope she sees this too! Try to contact her on other social media, maybe.
I upvoted to help her see it
@@oliviawilliams6204 you meant... like?
Everyone comment until she replies!
This is such a well done video on the whole brony fandom that I could easily pass it as a documentary short film. like, holy shit this felt like the scene with Ego taking a bite of the Ratatouille. P.S. I can now say I was in a Jenny Nicholson video, sweet! the whole segment about horse famous was gold
Yoooooo
YOOOOOOO
As someone who came about in the hayday of the brony fandom, pun intended, it is so weird to see only 135 likes, and three comments on anything attached to The Living fucking Tombstone, you shaped my taste in music for like a year straight back in the day, keep being awesome.
Yeah, it's kind of trippy that this is buried xP
Discord still slaps dude, thanks for providing the soundtrack to my preteen years lol
I really appreciated talking about the fandom becoming increasingly exclusionary and hostile for children to be in. I feel like adults (and especially teenagers and young adults who are trying to prove their maturity) assume that children can't pick up on hostile vibes or, dare I say, can't tell when they are being objectified or when there's a skeezy vibe in the air. On the more banal end, they assume kids can't tell when something's an innuendo or super violent- I think it's because they know how much they've changed since their childhood that they assume kids are (or should be) cool with everything because they're too dumb to notice anything.
I can remember being little and even if I didn't know why something felt weird I could tell something was up and felt uncomfortable and/or unwelcome. I ended up not watching or reading a lot of stuff that was officially for kids because there were weird adult jokes or hyper-sexualized characters in there. Also, not to be blunt but many children don't get a choice for when they're exposed to sexual stuff. Even on the most chill end of this- not even talking about more direct messed up shit- little girls know they're often vaguely sexualized by adults and hate it. I remember talking about it with my friends on the playground at age 9. I remember shopping with my mom at age 7 and being disgusted by how many pajamas and shorts had quasi-sexualized stuff like "kitten" and "princess" printed on the butt- or emblazoned with rhinestones that hurt to sit on. It took hours for us to find shorts that didn't have printing on the butt. And by age 12 odds are good you've been horribly catcalled by an adult man.
Kids get a vibe for what objectification is long before they actually know what sex is. There should be spaces and media that they can enjoy without having to worry about that, and where adult fans should take a back seat.
Teen girl here, can confirm.
I have friends who were followed by men and asked me to stay on call with them to feel safer, I was catcalled when I was like 13 by a group of around a dozen teenagers that looked to be mostly 16yo boy’s, I see loli’s in anime I watch, I have heard the boys in my class objectify one of my classmates for her body type, ect, ect.
We can tell and we know. It’s hard to find a place where teenagers and young kids, regardless of gender, can feel safe and like it’s something actually made for them without perverted corruption.
I was a super sensitive and socially anxious little kid and I can imagine that having that negative interaction at a young age could traumatize me to the point of no longer being in the fandom or even liking mlp.
“Vored, if you will” _no, I don’t think I will_
Your loss XD
That made me laugh so hard 😂
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@@blarg2429 oh fuck off, not again
I certainly will not.
So if im correct
The best thing about bronies was their unbridled passion
The worst thing about bronies was their unbridled passion
They're just... unstable
As a brony, I can safely state that we are the personified versions of "haha, just kidding ... unless?"
The ultimate monkeys paw
@@Liam-vu7wo
More like had no stable
Cuz they're horses
I so love that you worked the “unbridled” pony pun in there TWICE! Well done!
"it's pretty cring-y but so are most fun things"
well, that is... a good way to think about life
Indeed
Reminds me of that Monty Python song about death
Life is indeed the big cringe
To cringe or not to cringe, THAT is the question.
53:20 losing my mind at “a highly educated group of heterosexual males.” something about the line delivery, the implication that you can’t be gay and smart, the way he seems to fully believe what he’s saying. it’s so funny
It's extra hilarious because conservatives love to complain about the connection between higher education, liberal values, and queer people. Like, part of the stereotype is literally that we're highly educated, lmao
Yeah, in the decade since I watched the show I've become more highly educated, bisexual, and a girl. The only people I still see talking about MLP anymore are other trans women. Weird how a bunch of terminally online, socially awkward nerd boys got really interested in this show for girls for some reason.
@@peat_moss856 It's always fascinating to see what media eggs latch onto for any excuse to enjoy the things they like "ironically". I mean, really sad, but interesting how the self-selection plays out over time. At least as a trans man egg, being a tomboy was relatively acceptable, so I had it easier in that particular way. I really feel for AMAB trans folks.
“Vored, if you will.”
I won’t
I love you
So casual. So places faire, if you will.
im screaming
I felt bad when she made the reference, but I feel worse for even knowing what that is in the first place.
@@dan5609 no need to kink shame :)
“Please make your way to the emergency exit, everypony!” Is not a sentence I thought would actually exist
Wow
Tara Strong can make every phrase work
It's a sentence I didn't anticipate but revel in unbridled excitement and mysticism upon hearing
The use of the word "everypony" hit my like a truck filled with liquid nostalgia driving on the highway at full speed
38:02 if anyone needed it lmao
okay but can be talk about jenny’s voice acting in her mlp parody videos? like those impressions are pretty spot-on lmao. also her singing!!
Dude her singing is sooooooo good. I love how her nasaly voice translates to singing and voice acting. I don't mean that in a mean way either since Zach Hadel, or Psychicpebbles, has an infamously nasaly voice that makes him great for voice acting.
Welp....now I have 'Pinky's brew' stuck in my head again...I though I was free. [But for real Friendship is Witchcraft was pretty funny way back when]
Bitch when I tell you I had to rewind three times because I was like.. Where did she do the voices, I don’t hear her? It’s just the original voices (not super familiar with the material)? And then I realized each distinct voice was her own and I was like WHAT??
The TALENT jumped out
Wish I was aware enough of MLP to fully appreciate all of this, but I'm hyped about hearing her VOs still
It's how many of us FOUND this channel, and look how far we've come lol
"A highly intelligent group of heterosexual males" got me real good
👏
as a former brony asaigent person, i am not highly intelligent, nor heterosexual.
@matchflame I am highly intelligent, but *not* heterosexual by any means. EDIT: Or male. Nope, can't forget the male.
HAHAHAH
@@imthebossmermaid3648obviously you're not heterosexual. You like my little pony
The only thing I wish that was touched on more in this video is going deeper into the darker sides of the Brony community. I'm someone who got into My Little Pony when I was a 12 year old girl, and someone who actively went to conventions and fan meetups, along with interacting with the online community. I had multiple instances of grown men being creepy towards me, and there are a few stand out instances I look back on and realize how not okay they were. I still remember vividly being 13, dressed up as Princess Luna at a local con and a 20 something year old guy continually coming to sit by me and make conversation, offering to pay for my badge and to buy me dinner. At first I just thought he was being nice, but then it reached a point where he came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'm just going to be honest here, I'm sexually attracted to you." I awkwardly told him I wasnt interested and that I had to go find my friends, but it still just makes me uncomfortable to think about. The part of that all that makes me even more uncomfortable is that that I ran into him the next day, when I wasn't in my Princess Luna cosplay, and he didn't even recognize me. It made me stop and think about how this guy saw a visibly underaged girl dressed up as Princess Luna, projected his fantasy of getting with a pony princess onto me, and then didnt even recognize me when that perceived fantasy was gone. I know my first hand accounts aren't all there is and I could have just had isolated incidents, however something leads me to believe that's just not the case, and I think how underaged girls were treated within the fandom is something that needs to be discussed.
Some similar stuff happened to me when I was 14 at a mlp convention, and it kind of ruined cosplay for me. The adult male part of the fandom has a serious issue with creepy behavior especially towards younger female fans.
I remember back in 2013-ish hearing a lot of this king of horror story. As far as I can tell it wasn't uncommon for some artists to get a table at a MLP con once, see how the adult men were acting, & never come back. I know that one artist even had to let a pre-teen girl hide under their table until her parents could come find her cause a guy was following her around propositioning her.
Jayne Strange all of these stories sound so scary and horrible. i went to a brony convention when i was only 10 years old. the summer before i turned 11 in 2014. it was my first ever convention experience and i went with my dad and my friend. we went for a few hours and i got a plushie/met some of the voice actors. it was a great time! or atleast... it was a great time to 10 year old me. i realized once i was older that creepy men were constantly staring at me and even tried to talk to me when i was away from my dad. i was dressed up as my oc with paper wings and was clearly underage. lets just say once my dad realized men were looking at me that way... we left as fast as we could. in the end we were only there for 3 hours at best.
Yeah, i feel this. Me and my then girfriend in middle school got groomed on Fimfiction. There are some seriously fucked up people in the MLP fandom.
That makes me so sad. Before the bronies came, the pony cons were more like the biggest collection of long haired women around coming to trade plastic horses with each other.
"I was heavily involved in Friendship is Witchcraft" has the same energy as Fredrik Knudsen saying "I play the hurdy gurdy" or Summoning Salt subtly saying he has the world record speedrun in punch out in his history of punch out speedrunning video
what i found most baffling about fred after listening to him be himself on stream is his absolute filthy sense of humor
The community that understands this comment has to be so small but I'm so glad to be a part of it
@@satsfallingdown As someone who is definitely not a part of this community, reading this thread made me feel like I had a stroke. I don't mean that in an offensive way at all -- just that this reads as utter gibberish to the uninitiated. =D
@@oppie2363 lmao that's totally fair, my phase as an online mlp fan was years ago, but series like Summoning Salt's are recent so even reading it *myself* was bizzarre lol
wait
why do you know both of those
wait what is this overlap what the fuck
"Jenny, a horsegirl?" i say, as i stare at the horse-shaped shelf in the background.
cringe comment
@@lingricen8077 late comment
@@littlemonztergaming8665 ok, and his comment will continue be cringe 10 years from now, hopefully you wont still be an imbecile
WAIT I LOOKED AT THAT WHEN SHE SAID THAT TOO???????
It couldn’t possibly be true
I can't believe that the star wars hotel youtuber i just discovered made that my little pony parody i thought was hilarious when i was in middle school
I WAS SO HOPING THIS WOULD HAPPEN LMAO
i love that the star wars hotel video has made people discover jenny
You and me both
based pfp
As a former 4chan Shadow the Hedgehog person, I owe the pony fandom a lot specifically for that irony to sincerity step. Learning how to enjoy something without feeling the need to be such an edgelord was a hugely important step in my life and I'm vastly more chill as a person these days because of it.
good for u man, growth comes in many forms and it's great that this fandom got u to a better place
I want to thankqol for sharing. thumbs up
its nice to see when op pulls trough and becomes better.
You should report back to those still stuck and show them there is in fact a way to chill out.
happy for you dude. it’s nice hearing stories like this, where the internet actually helps people learn and grow, especially coming from a place like 4chan
The fact that the announcer said " reach the emergency exit *everypony* " just had me in tears
One day it will be as infamous as “Oh the humanity!” from the Hindenburg
I wish I hadn’t read this and came upon that part of the video on my own 🤣
I once was in a heated argument with my mother and said, completely automatically, “everypony”
The argument paused for her to laugh
I had to rewind and make sure I heard it correctly! How delightful.
I was already deep into Pokemon by the time I joined the MLP fandom back in 2012, so things like "Oh my Celestia!" were not much different than "Oh my Arceus!"
"in fact, they are a highly intelligent group of heterosexual males"
omg. he says it so earnestly.
Remember kids, if you want to legitimise something elevate it to the level of intelligent heterosexual males.
If you want prestige and attention, the easiest way there is to cater to straight men on chanboards.
To be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to understand Derpy Hooves.
Add white to the mix and they have the perfect gatekeeper
@@sunwoopark6762 the white part is implied just like the cis part ;p
'it's pretty cringey, but so are most fun things' healed something in me
I know right, I think about this a lot, the sheer power of that statement
Jenny was honestly so real for saying that, it's something that more people need to hear and understand imo
I dunno, I like only non cringey stuff like staring out the window at 3 am
A cringe man will always think he's based but a based man stays true to his cringe self.
It's like we've come full circle back to the early 2000s
36:35 imagine being these guys you put so much effort into making this ROBOT based on an inside joke and you have no idea the actual voice actress is RIGHT THERE i hope they've seen this video
Yes! I always wonder if she told them who she was.
Not to be that guy but she didn’t actually voice sweetie bot unfortunately. Your point still stands though, I’m SO curious if she said anything to them, I’d be devastated if I was the one that made the robot and saw this video and realized I DIDN’T talk to the creator of the parodies I was referencing lmao
They...hate brushable hair? Thats like hating that the Transformers...transform.
I mean to be fair the transforming gimmick makes it really hard to make accurate sculpts of certain characters. There are definitely people in the transformers fandom who would prefer the toys to be static statues, the big difference is Hasbro isn't pivoting the toyline to their preference.
Completely outside of this community. But I remember having My Little Ponies when I was a little girl. For me, they were not characters from a cartoon, but rather dolls that happened to be ponies. Their hair, and combs... were kind of everything for little girls. Anyway- they look oddly masculine now... can't imagine there being an appeal for as many little girls as there was, but who knows.
Honestly, it made me kinda sad to think a toy company cares less about the little kids the dolls originally cater to and more about how to market to grown men. All about that money.
Yuuup. As soon as the show became a reflection of the adult fandom, I just checked out.
Logan Miller RIGHT? Gross..
The girly stereotypes: environmentalist, teacher, rollerskater, circus clown, volcanic sacrifice. The five types of girls.
+
These are the five types, no other girls are possible.
huh. not far off from my friend group
Ironically they don't have horse girls
Tag yourself, I'm the volcanic sacrifice
As someone who used to use 4chan (don't worry, I don't anymore and I've healed since then), hacker rebel shadow the hedgehog boys is literally the perfect description of how they view themselves
Jenny roasting 4chan while sitting next to a Twilight Sparkle body pillow is a power move.
and being horse famous to boot!
Idk I never personally understood the whole 4 Chan is one personality of edge lords pol and r are pretty bad granted but it’s a big site
@@martykunte As an old anon, the rest of the site is similarly bad. It used to not be in my memory in terms of awful people, but it certainly got overly terrible at almost every place. /pol/ was a mistake.
@@martykunte You can also tell she never really went searching for other boards. TG and CO are (were?) some of the tightest shit.
Weird how, in spite of knowing how big MLP got on 4chan, she never mentioned how absolutely huge it got on /co/. Anyone who'd been around /co/ for say, 2 years would have surely heard of the /co/ is love meme.
/pol/ is what is wrong with the world
“They came from 4chan” sounds like a horror flick
I'd watch it. Def terrifying
I wonder which one was the greatest existential horror to be spawned from within 4chan. The SPC Foundation, or the Brony fandom.
To be fair "It came from 4chan" would be more likely and still works as a horror title.
Why isn't this a thing already? I didn't know how badly I needed this, and now I can't have it :(
I laughed way too hard at this joke
I know this is unrelated, but I feel like you did your make up like Twilight Sparkle and I'm a huge fan of that.
Hii! Love your videos😍! Were you also a brony?
her makeup literally slaps here i love it
I DID I didn't think it showed up but I did my eyeliner in dark purple and pink eyeshadow and sparkly pink highlighter 😭
legends recognizing legends here 2night
I couldn't stop thinking about how nice Jenny's eye makeup looked
John de Lancie's hatred for Bronies really says something when you consider he's had to deal with Trekkies for most of his life.
I hear he's not terribly fond of them, either.
@@1000huzzahs Its always a coin flip whether an actor known for playing jerks is a good actor or really just a jerk.
@@1000huzzahsas a lifelong Trekkie myself, I get it tbh. 90% of the fandom is wonderful, we’re all just nerds who love a franchise about aliens and starships, but the insufferable 10% sour it for everyone. That’s pretty much the same for basically every fandom ever tbh.
This made me sad ngl :(
@@DuvalSt1 I don’t think he’s a jerk, I think fanboys are just annoying. I can’t imagine being Mark Hamill or Harrison Ford. The latter also seems to hate his fanbase.
"My friend and I made a parody series call Friendship is Witchcraft" I literally froze midstep and I was like "THAT'S WHERE I KNOW YOUR VOICE FROM" That's of my few good memories from Middle school. Thank you Jenny.
same same same
WOAH
Yeah I was watching an episode of FIW and I kept seeing these comments about her so I decided to check out her chennel
I used to have the songs on my iPod then iPhone. I’d no idea she made that and her voice never even sounded familiar to me.. It just feels like a weird coincidence
right i gasped out loud and felt like what she was saying right before abt ppl being famous within the fandom😭😭 i was literally like omg..... You..
You know what's funny? I'm actually the chairman of the convention at which you were impersonated. I remember exactly how it happened, too. I was attending to some business when some of my staff came up to me and said that we had some extra time in one of our panel rooms because of some scheduling issue or something, but they told me, "Hey, Jenny Nicholson said she can fill up that slot and entertain the crowd." I'm like, "Jenny Nicholson? Who's that?" That's the girl who made _Friendship is Witchcraft_. "Oh really? I don't remember booking her! I love those videos!" Nah, she said she came as a guest (which didn't sound outrageous, because content creators are still fans of the show like everyone else). "Oh, well, I guess if she's cool with it, that'd be a big help!" So I walk into that panel a while later and I've never seen Jenny Nicholson before. I'm just listening to this girl talk about creating the show and whatnot, then one of the crowd asks her to do an impersonation. I was interested, too. And, boy, let me tell you, that impersonator gave her best Pinkie Pie impression and I knew IMMEDIATELY that she was a fake. I called my staff together and I'm like, "Guys, we screwed up. I don't think that's Jenny Nicholson..."
When we held the convention the following year, it was kind of a meme. I even designed a shirt with a name tag that said, "Hello, my name is Jenny Nicholson," but we never sold them. It was just an embarrassing story about how we let some random liar up on stage with our equipment. Even worse was a lot of people thought we actually booked the impersonator and PAID HER. Lol
Hilarious 😂
lololol
OH MY GOD 😂😂😂
You still have those shirts???
@@NegaLomie We never produced them, but I still have the mock-up. Here's a TinyURL to a picture of the mock-up: tinyurl.com/JennyShirt
You can make one for yourself if you feel like it lol.
you summarising that men aren't used to unsexual fondness for female characters was a revelation that took me out back and shot me in the head with accuracy
men wont.
not all men are dudes
@@tonyb7615 nigga what
@@tonyb7615 come again?
@@starlightrains a guy/dude wants to conquer a woman to say they can. a boy is horny, will say anything. a man says what he means and means what he says. aka the lion does not care about the sheep. a man treats a woman just like anyone else.
not caring about female sexuality. hunt from jurasic park. lydia from beetlegeuse. ripley from alien. sara conor of terminator.
i grew up with strong women. sexuality was always secondary if not tertiary.
Friendship is witchcraft nearly got mlp banned in my household growing up since my ma thought that was the shows actual name, and that was my only experience with fiw. Love your work!! And I’m surprised it all circles back
finding out jenny nicholson was a pioneer of friendship is witchcraft is like a season finale to a large part of my life. thank you jenny :)
Her channel also has videos of her cleaning ponies and brushing their hair.
figuring out she was the one who sung the pony incest song filled me with more shock/joy than anything has in the past 6 months
@@ryntalkstoomuch4686 Since they're not related it'll be okay
@@ryntalkstoomuch4686 : r/NoContext
@@PoochieCollins My favourite internet quote of all time is, ' That is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever seen involving incest and magical talking horses.'
everyone in the comments shocked that the announcer at the con would say 'everypony'... like yall don't understand. this is literally how we talked to each other. it was normal
Not everypony would understand 😩😩😩
"Everypony needs to be sure to wash their hooves" and stuff like that was just delightful when I was in the fandom
I gotta respect her saying it even in an emergency
And the "brohoof" /) greeting being used everywhere :P
Good times.
@@MarkyDav (\ :,)
OMG JENNY IS SO TALENTED SHE DID ALL THOSE VOICES?! THAT REEL IS AN ABSOLUTE FLEX
Nah, but changing the name of a horse from one slur for Romani people, because its offensive and changing it to ANOTHER lesser known slur for Romani people is darkly hilarious.
No matter what, this horse will be called a slur for Romano people
pretty soon they'll just rename it to The Slur Horse
@@jessicest The Slorse, if you will
@@KhyrberosI won't
Europeans have mastered racism. In America it’s been taboo to be openly racist. You gotta find some kind of workaround to dislike entire races of people like how the fear and anxiety in America after 9/11 caused many people to dislike Arabic people. If you go to Europe and ask anyone about the Romani people you’ll probably get a response that’s something along the lines of “oh the *slur*? Fucking scamming thieves they are”
"And by people, I mean 4chan."
I think the distinction between the two is very important.
They need "people" in quotes
@Bluescore De'La'vie leave it to "empathetic, compassionate" bunch to decide who is human and who is subhuman filth. Right side of history, here we go again
@@SyberianLynx It's *almost* as though people are naturally just c****, non?
And I may be a judgemental c*** for extra points.
Yay me!
The Bronies died of Aids.
@@SyberianLynx no of course that's fair chans never did anything wrong and no matter how mean they are you can't be mean to them...
"In fact, they're a highly educated heterosexual group of males". Even without the context that's one of the funniest dead-pan deliveries I've heard. 53:15
It's also total HS. (That's like BS but with more glitter.)
Jennie is the master of dead pan deliveries
@@felix_a_fiend it.. It wasn't Jenny who said it... Lol
Edit: agreed though, she is. She's not the one who said that tho
The person who spoke that line in utter seriousness walks among us. He's out there.
Learning tara strong is incredibly sweet about her fans even privately gave me a complete sense of relief i didnt know i needed
Same I was clenching cause I thought she was gonna say Tara was awful about fans or something. Huge relief that she's supportive even in private
I love the hell out of John DeLancie's work and I think I'm okay with him hating that. He might not like it but going from voicing a villain that defined my childhood and then a video game character that defined my adulthood leaves a pretty big impression on a guy.
Same. She’s always been so charming and it’s wonderful to know that the voice of my childhood actually is an angel.
@@xxEbonyShardxx right but he not only hated them but worked to take advantage of them for a buck. Certainly THAT must upset you
i met tara at a con a while back, can confirm she’s an absolute angel and total sweetheart!
i literally used to fight adult men on 4chan (luckily the pony stuff was my only exposure to it 😂) as a nine year old and would write passionate tirades about how they knew nothing about writing and sucked and were mean people 😂😂😂 they assumed I was also an adult guy because i just went with it but its HILARIOUS to think about me pissed off as a 9 year old wearing a twilight sparkle shirt fighting adults about how they sucked at writing and would be worse at making a cartoon
oh my god how did you get on 4chan?? who told you about that when you were NINE
I stumbled across websites like 4chan as well when i was 9 years old ish, its most likely just unsupervised internet access lmao@@thischannelisfullofspiders
@@thischannelisfullofspiders This made me smile. 9 year olds in the gutter of the internet, good job parents.
@@thischannelisfullofspidersit's a well known major site and image board for hobbies, especially the pony fandom
lmao, I hope you put Anon in his place!
I like that they made sure to film the conservative dad in front of his tool rack to really drive home the fact that he is a manly conservative who likes man stuff
Tool rack with a big old 'BUSH' placard in the back.
He truly is a bear of a man
A very big man, wouldn't you say?
@@riley8385 As big as a Horse, I would say
Riley - as big as Jake?
I’m glad she called out the documentary for infantilizing neurodivergent adults because that was super weird and insulting for them to put in a film
Honestly, it's more embarrassing that 60% of medical medical professionals don't actually view us better than that shitty documentary.
@taco trader you're a special kinda stupid, aren't you?
@taco trader wow! A dumbass in it’s natural habitat! I’ve only seen these in zoos!
@taco trader you know what I'll say it
You're a pp head
@taco trader it’s almost like people can like whatever the hell they want no matter their age, dumbass
"Please exit the emergency exit, everypony" made me feel an indescribable emotion
It’s the fact that she seemed like she was chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to say it. Like she was thrilled at having the chance to say everybody into a microphone.
@@annadean387 *everypony
I literally screamed when I heard that
You don't drop character until the EMT is carting you away in the meatwagon
i think that emotion is "ough"
I still think it’s hilarious how the con body pillow presence was so relevant that the show itself referenced it in the Daring Do convention episode. Why did they do that. They just straight up showed a (highly sfw) bondage body pillow as a visual gag where rainbow dash walks past it, notices it, then points at it in disbelief.
...no but really, WHY did they do that
I really want more of Jenny doing social study anthropology on fandoms like this. This corner of the internet eluded me for so long but I liked her genuine chronicling and analysis
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I think this one is special because her involvement with the Fandom as it was developing. I'd trust anything Jenny said about other Fandoms, but I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if she wasn't part of the Fandom.
I agree!
Agreed. Her keen eye has made many things I've never heard of into fascinating things to learn about.
Holy shit your voice acting for the ponies was genuinely incredibly impressive. They didn't even feel like comedy dubs they just felt like they could have been the regular voices
I was impressed. And I never intend to give this show any more attention than this video. She’s a good voice actress.
yeah jenny has real talent. if she wanted to i imagine she could have a very successful career in voice acting
Yeah I've never watched the original show, but her dubbing is so good it sounded completely authentic. Fantastic singing too.
At first i thought she just showed random clips which confused me, when i realized it was her acting i was so shocked
Jenny has done a lot of quality voice work, but none of it matches her starring role as Addison Cain in the two-parter by Lindsay Ellis.
sometimes you just gotta throw an "everypony" into everyday conversation and deal some psychic damage
me and my friends occasionally do this and it kills all of us everytime.
“psychic damage” omg
38:00 "One of the light fixtures has caught fire." - "Please exit the emergency exit, everypony."
"hay brony" who remember
3d6 Psychic Damage to be exact
Hey, I don't know if you've already had comments about this, but 'Tinker' is actually also used as a slur against the Irish travelling community - I just burst out laughing when you said it was 'cute' loooll (but yes, once I actually witnessed an Irish traveller being called a 'filthy tinker' in Dublin, so I think it is unfortunately still a pejorative term..).
So, the push is to rename that horse breed from one slur... to another slur for the same group of people?
@@simly5189 unfortunately, yes😅
oh my god
that sucks but it is a little hysterical… what was the thought process behind renaming it to a DIFFERENT slur???
@@simly5189I think at this point they should just embrace the fact that this horse will always be known for being named after slurs and just name it after every known soir so that everyone’s equally offended
Even without knowing what "horse famous" is, if someone told me "Jenny Nicholson is horse famous" I'd probably be like Yep, that makes sense.
Now Tik Tok only uses a version of the sound without the slur, so your legacy has been saved Jenny!
I actually can’t listen to the censored version without hearing 🎶 listen to the jingle jangle of my FUCKING tambourine 🎶
I love the sound they replaced it with and I want that to be applied to the whole song, but instead I am stuck listening to the same 30 second clip over and over again 😂
It's not from MLP it's from a parody called FIW
@@ee8568 Jenny Nicholson, the owner of the channel you're commenting on, is one of the creators of FIW.
@e e I know, I watched the video. Did you?
Jenny I'm sorry but that twilight body pillow is staring into my soul, and it's painful. Like it literally hurts.
Like ... because it's hard? It's making it so hard it hurts?
Because it's a weird sex thing, right?
@@EmeraldLavigne no, it's that I can see the pain in twilight's eyes, the way she is almost pleading to get out of the purgatory that is the body pillow that she has been placed into by the bronies.
And I empathize with that.
Jesus Christ. Now I can't not see it. It's burning in my peripheral vision.
funny thing is, I've been wanting a body pillow for the longest time up until I saw one irl. the eyes stare into your soul and it's so creepy. at first I thought they were hot but when you stare at one long enough, it states back.
Right? I can't stop looking at it, and it won't stop looking at me.
Every time this woman posts I have to binge all of her videos bc you know what she’s so right
i was a "brony" when i was 8, and i was frequently called a fake fan. despite, being a literal little girl. y'know, the target demographic.
Little girl: * watches and likes a show that's made for her *
4chan neckbeard bastard: idk seems like you just like mlp for the clout
That was me, I was like 10 but I called myself a pegasister
@@felicityf.7767 wow I thought I was the only one xD
@@felicityf.7767 i did that too oh my god
Felicity Fox yeah same from 9-13. im almost 20 now
I love how Jenny is so kind about Bronies in the first half and then on the 2nd half explained how they influenced so much of the show, merchandising, and the hatred and harassment thrown at LGBT fans and women. Over a show meant for little girls.
Yep! It’s really weird looking at it in “waves” but I always liked the unapologetic nice kind of Bronies but obviously there was always a pretty sinister element on the fandom. Feels weird that I *NEVER* saw much of the anti-gay sentiment in the fandom? Like, maybe I was in a weird not-quite-as-toxic bubble, idk. But I did find it weird the whole “yeah we’re not gay.” in the documentary (which I never watched all my friends said: “yeah it’s Garbo.”) but I always thought it was like: “yeah we’re not gay but it’s cool if you are, who cares?” But it’s sad to know that wasn’t actually a thing. At least not broadly. That’s very sad for me because me and my brother we’re always pretty wholesome about it. And a lot of the people we interacted with were similarly wholesome. Sucks that wasn’t everyone’s experience but it makes sense.
@@YOUFREAKINNERD i have a fun thing for you to look up if you're still unaware of it! look up "anti gay rainbow dash memes"
“Please don’t jump” is so wholesome to me, as is “Shout out to the other room”, because they both represent scenarios in which the bronies could have been really grumpy and complained, but instead found a new thing to be excited about
I found her from the Star Wars hotel video but I'm starting to think I could listen to Jenny talk about any topic for any amount of time. I never even watched MLP.
Definitely recommend her videos on Vampire diaries and opposite worlds. Jenny does these kinds of dives a lot
You've taken your first step into a larger world!
I enjoyed her Evermore analysis too and had never even heard about the park or its problems.
The 1.3K dislikes are just that guy that Jenny didn’t know his OC, and once he realized that she created Friendship is Witchcraft, he was so embarrassed
That still makes me mad.
I wish i could've embarrassed him infront of his friends by goin "oh so the creator of friendship is witchcraft isnt a REAL fan, huh?" and walked away.
Unfairness always gets me.
Hope he rests in shame.
How many sockpuppets does this guy have!?
@@calebwheeler8143 It’s just a bunch of old bronies that have nothing better to do with their lives
I hope he did find out it was her so he couldn't enjoy this thing that everyone was talking about or hear any of the songs and references without cringing
@@benjaminwilliams8030 youre describing 4chan
Something about your media criticism just hits different. This is the real, honest, unironic, good faith commentary that the youtube community sorely lacks!
P W What content creators would you recommend? 🙂
@@hannahclaire4683 ruclips.net/user/tiffanyferg
the good faith commentary is a tricky one
Matt Rightman I appreciate the recommendation! I have seen her in my recommended but haven’t gotten around to checking out her stuff!
@@pw5975 well someone sounds entitled, did someone hurt your widdle ego 🥺
@@hannahclaire4683 my pleasure, if you are looking for something more funny/socio-political commentary check out Shoe0nhead she is great!
I did not expect this video to make me hate renowned actor john de lancie
I need to know what he said/did in those green rooms to give the impression he hated his fans. The curiosity is fucking unbearable.
I never watched Star Trek so to me De Lancie was just "Jane's dad in Breaking Bad" so I spent the rest of the video thinking "damn, Jane's dad is a dick actually" lol
The truth is that at least 50% of actors hate their fans, if not more. They just do not show it in their outward appearance.
It's 2020 and everyone's getting exposed.
@@NathanWubs Yeah, youd lose money that way! Dont meet your heroes kids T.T
holy shit can we talk about how good her pony impressions and singing were
Hey Jenny, I've still got one of those felt hats from the 2012 Bronycon. You were right, its been sitting untouched in the back of my closet for eight years.
If you've got a PO box or an address I can send it your way.
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i honestly cannot believe that i was the exact target demographic when i liked mlp, a young girl, yet got on the internet early enough in my life that i thought that i myself would be persecuted for liking a show that was MADE FOR ME bc of all the bronies...
THAT WAS MY EXPERIENCE EXACTLY THANK YOU!!!!!! I was maybe 10 when I started watching and I watched FIW and some analysis videos of episodes but all of the other stuff I saw about the fandom completely scared me off.
Exactly!! I *was* judged heavily for my interest in the show and fanart, despite literally being the target demographic. It made me feel ashamed for liking something that was literally made for myself and my peers lol. I still have fond memories of it, but it’s not something I talk about bc I still kind of feel that way. The judgement was largely from outside of the community, bc people just assumed I was an adult man lol
YES i was 10 when i started watching mlp and i was so scared of people knowing/judging me for it !! like what the fuck ? this is a childrens show !
OMG SAME AHHHHHHH
I very much relate to this because when I was 8, I stumbled upon some weird MLP stuff and that definitely helped with me not being a fan anymore (including me just not caring for it anymore).
2:32 Part 1: How Did the Bronies Happen?
8:10 Part 2: The Growth of the Fandom
10:09 Part 3: MLP: Irony Becomes Sincerity
14:25 Part 4: So Is It a Weird Sex Thing?
19:17 Part 5: The Birth of Bronycon
21:34 Part 6: Horse Famous
25:16 Part 7: My Dark Brony Double Life
31:10 Part 8: The Anatomy of a Brony Convention
40:10 Part 9: Brony Propoganda
45:41 Part 10: The Dark Side of Bronies
1:01:31 Part 11: The Last Bronycon
1:04:55 Part 12: The Death of Bronies
You will never understand how my JAW DROPPED when you said that you and your friend created friendship is witchcraft!!! I still remember all the songs from that show!! ❤❤❤❤❤
I wonder if in Japan there are people who had a very similar experience to this because they like went to Comiket in the mid 80’s and bought a fancomic from this relatively new up and coming collective of otaku who call themselves CLAMP and they didn’t really think about it for years until they started seeing Cardcaptor Sakura explode with popularity in the late 90’s
“PLEASE EXIT THROUGH THE EMERGENCY EXIT EVERYPONY” sent me into HYSTERICS
SAME
😂😂😂
LMAO
i have no words….
during the height of my interest in the brony fandom I got into an argument with my mother. (it wasn't about mlp, it was just a regular argument) At one point I inadvertently used the word "everypony", entirely seriously.
needless to say i did not convince my mother of my point over her mixture of hysterical laughter and deep disappointment
This is prime Jenny... a topic I care nothing about has me glued to me seat for over an hour and wanting more.
You said "glue" in a comment on a horse related video. Lol
@@NegoClau what do u mean
This.
@@purpleey never grow up kid, some things are best left unknown.
@@Thehillsfamily2009 you made me even more curious TELL ME BRUH. not a kid btw
The line I think about the most in this video is “it’s pretty cringey, but so are most fun things.” It’s so crazy how accurate that is, and abstaining from fun things to avoid being cringe must be a very sad life
Cringe culture is over. I live by that fact. Lol just let people enjoy things. Sure it’s cringe. But a lot of things I love are cringe. That’s why I try to be nice to tik tok teens even as a millennial that doesn’t really get it.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle It's mainly Gen Z just hating old stuff in general and labeling it as "cringe" when in reality it wasn't at the time and we all had fun doing it with our peers. Now everything is judged by how cringe and weird or different something is which is really sad because stuff like bronies and furries are now considered somewhat taboo for being severely sexual and not pg for the kids and I totally understand that, but y'know, some people are like that unfortunately.
@@zombiyh I’m only a millennial by about three years so I try to be charitable to older gen z. Lol but I wonder if they’re so afraid of “being cringe” because social media and documenting EVERYTHING is so common now? Like, I was doing highly cringe things in highschool in the late 2000s and 2010s. But I didn’t even have a phone till 2011 and the camera barely functioned. We weren’t constantly documenting our lives and embarrassing things we did at the time.
Abstaining from things in fear of being cringe is the cringiest of all things.
@@zombiyh ‘Cringe’ may be mainly a concern of Gen Z now, but that’s mostly because Gen Z are currently in the age range where that’s a common concern for most generations. Most millennials are adults with jobs and starting families, of course they aren’t concerned about cringe, most of them aren’t even out and proud geeky enough about any particular thing for them to possibly be cringy. But you can’t front like millennials didn’t have plenty of things they considered cringe when they were teens and younger adults. Emo kids, furries, weebs, crocs, 80’s hairstyles, etc etc
Finding out that the person who made the 4 hour long star wars hotel video (that I fully watched) also made mlp: Friendship is Witchcraft (my childhood) was not on the agenda today but I am so glad I came upon this channel.
47:40 Imagine being asked about your custom plush pony OC, giving you an excuse to show it off and gush about your OC and talk all about it, but instead you decide to shame and ridicule the person because they *haven't heard of your OC* like what??????????????????
Yeah like, I don’t know if it’s because of how much the view on OCs have changed in the last few years but I cannot for the life of me can imagine somebody acting that rudely when asked about their OC, especially if you love them enough to have a custom plush of them.
He sounds like an arrogant piece of shit who posts his artwork on deviantart and thinks that just because he got a couple of favs there it must mean that his OC is really popular.
That is just what the Brony community became sad to say.
@@viraltang not limited to the Brony community, though. this is what the Simpsons Comic Book Guy character was a parody of, back in the early 90s even.
@@yrobtsvt True.
As a kid who was the President of my schools My Little Pony Fanclub from 1989-1992, the mockery of my beloved "old school" ponies breaks my heart :'(
I hope it cheers you up, even if only a little bit, to know that the jeering at old-school ponies has reduced a lot in the last few years. People have more of an appreciation for the franchise as a whole now; it's one way in which the fandom is (overall, not pretending it's perfect of course) a nicer place now.
I sold all my 80's ponies in a yard sale when I moved as a kid 💔 I'm sorry ponies, I hope you're doing okay out there wherever you are
I actually find the gen 1 art style to be charming and pleasing to look at! I used to not like it very much but I watched a few episodes and came to love it.
Omg I'm the same era 😭 🫂
i rlly dont see why people feel like they cant love all the gens, all of their art styles are cute in their own ways
35:42 It's actually even slightly weirder than that: that plushie is Blackjack, from the Fallout Equestria spin-off Project Horizons. Jenny owns a factory-made, mass produced, unlicensed plush of a character from a fanfiction of a fanfiction of My Little Pony.
(Oh and as a side note, Project Horizons is a whopping 1.7 million words long, making it roughly as long as A Song of Ice and Fire)
lux deadass? That’s kind of amazing. Scratch that. Thats fully amazing