/pone/ - My Little Pony★

Here we go again with the impending doom II

>>291154 (OP)

Why the fuck is that number so tiny

MLPforums is an authoritarian shitshow where anyone too centrist for the far-left mods get harassed, given "Warning points" for every little thing, then smugly banned.

/mlp/ is a glimfag-infested shitshow full of glimfags throwing childish insults around and shitting up show discussion threads while bumping general circlejerks to use them as slide threads.

Ponysquare died due to having too many retarded children playing make-believe and getting into retard contests over bullshit.

And nobody fucking uses Canterlot Forums.

Blame Canada.

>>291183

We should do something about this. Run recruitment. "Come to /pone/, where dissent is allowed, debates can happen, mods ban "I only pretend 2 like shitpost horse because she triggers glimmer haters xddd"-tier glimmerniggers, and art is good!".

I sort of got bored so I stopped posting here regularly. Also I haven't watched any since like 2015

I swear pone game will be finished eventually but if anyone has an idea for a less ambitious project to generate publicity, now's the time

I am kind of surprised that there has not been an increase in traffic owing to the show actually being good again. Maybe it will take a while for folks to come back, or maybe they really did get off the ride.

>>291188

We could use the assets from that to make a platformer as well.

>>291193

Thread is still up, help yourself. Cant make any new animations until I get my rig out of storage, and I cant do that until I solve some personal shit.

>>291154 (OP)

we just gotta bump

>>291184

/mlp/ has a new janny that's been deleting and banning all glimmer shitposts/ers

>>291190

>the show actually being good agai

Its not. Its gotten better than season the 3-4 darkage, but it still has all the problems they created.

There is next to no conflict and thus very little engaging drama left, since all the mane 6 get along perfectly now. The shows internal consistency went out the window in the name of "character progress" while the characters weren't allowed to evolve. Hence, Rarity got to open a shop in canterlot, yet somehow only ever spends any time at all running her entire chain of stores, when the plot demands it, and RD is always hanging around except when the plot remembers SHES A FULL TIME MILITARY OFFICER (when the wonderbolts aren't demoted to being jocks who just train together every now and then) and so on.

Its part of the old argument about the show going from "little ponies in big world" style to "big and important ponies in a small world where noone else matters much and only the heroes can do anything" style.

Just look at their habbit of redeeming popular villains, turning them, almost without exception, into boring stale characters without any of the things that made them fun in the first place.

Discord has gotten neutered and lost all his charm and depth.

Glimmer turned into a generic mary sue who can do everything better than even the rest of the main characters.

Diamond Tiara has gone MIA since her redemption. I'm guessing the writers have no close what to do with her now.

Trixie is probably the only redeemed villain who is even remotely interesting at this point.

Due to the lack of antagonists to play off, the writers keep introducing one off characters that noone cares about. Case in point, Gabby the griffin, that casino owner, the two who ran an indian restaurant, the colt that could dance and so on. None of them ever have any real impact or do anything interesting and so far, very few recurring characters since season 2 have been introduced.

Basically, the show has no conflict left to drive any kind of proper narrative and has more or less run its course.

What is needed is a clean slate with new characters, writers who actually plan their characters arcs more than one season ahead.

So overall, while the show now is better than the worst seasons in its run, its not going to recover. It has been permanently crippled and is stagnating with no real options for the writers to resolve the underlying problems dragging it down, quality wise, since actually letting the characters evolve into more adult roles with actual responsibilities and different life goals taking them down different paths in life is entirely beyond the scope of the series, yet its the only real growth left for the characters to pursue with any meaning to it.

The last episode of the Mentally Advanced seires summed up the problems pretty well.

>>291183

THIS

Euroshits last season fucked up the finale streams

Now it Canadian shits.

I remember sticky streams getting 140 -180 the day the ep aired

I remember wemb anon

what happened?

>>291198

There is no getting rid of the Season Three bullshit without a full retcon, but this season has shown that it can be worked around. Yeah, Discord has no reason to exist, and Twilicorn is bullshit. None the less, Discord and Twilicorn can be made to serve useful functions within a narrative.

Case in point: the season premier finally put Princess Twilight into a new role on the show. She has responsibilities now, notably to Starlight Glimmer, and an unfamiliar role that she is working her way into by following Celestia's lead. It is what we had expected to happen to her in Season Four, albeit with the ridiculous castle playset as her home. She still got her wings for a pants-on-head retarded reason, but now at least they have a function.

There has been conflict, but it has not been coming from within the Six. Instead, it manifests in their relationships with others (Rarity with Sweetie Belle, Twilight with the Abomination, Pinkie Pie with Maud). They keep going back to the ApplejackXRarity well, but that "Odd Couple" thing they have going on makes that work.

You can explain away Rarity's and Rainbow Dash's continued presence fairly easily. Sassy Saddles and [redacted] Pommel do all the real work at the other boutiques, and Rainbow Dash no longer has to pull weather duty. Still, it is high time that those two got a spin-off.

>Diamond Tiara has gone MIA since her redemption.

They eliminated her function on the show. It is such a pity. She was absolutely the show's best villain. She was loathsome, adorable, fantastic in porn, served as a subtle jab at cartoons for little girls, and always good for creating schadenfreude at the expense of the obnoxious Cutie Mark Crusaders. I want Diamond Tiara back.

>None of them ever have any real impact or do anything interesting and so far, very few recurring characters since season 2 have been introduced.

Let's see. There's Maud, Sassy Saddles [redacted] Pommel, Starlight Glimmer of course, The Abomination, the one orange wizard guy that sucks at magic, King Thorax of the gay rainbow deer, Ork Boss Rutherford, and recently Old Granpappy Hillbilly.

>>291198

I would love to see a spin-off with Trixie learning on her own and sometimes with glimmer, how to be a good pony. Would be cute as fuck. The adventures would be cute and short and I'd be relaxing with a cup of chamomile. It would be better then continuing to rape our dead, rotting horse.

>>291210

Give it an invader Zim style villain protagonist, with Trixie trying various insane schemes to show off how great and powerful she thinks she is, while always backfiring in various comedic ways.

Possibly such a series could be made about Chrysalis and her changelings trying to take over equestria with various insane schemes.

>>291215

>chrysalis and her channelings

I think a spinoff would be a prime opportunity to return the show to it's low stakes roots and simple stories. Great and Powerful Trixie trying to steal cinnamon nuts and out act rival magicians, traveling Equestria getting into silly misadventures sounds a lot more comfy then getting any big, heavy story line and crazy narratives that more often than not shit on canon and leave us with more questions than answers

>>291182

Because the time of solo growth for pone is over. Now every pony site needs an in stream. People have to be talking about it on Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan, the places that can direct an influx of people towards it. /mlp/ for example has the constant turnover of 4chan users to constantly refill its buffers.

8chan doesn't have that. The only board on 8chan that has been growing is /leftypol/ and that's because they advertise out the ass on 4/pol/ and reddit. 8chan doesn't have a natural influx of users like 4chan that /pone/ can leech off of like /mlp/. /pone/ doesn't have any content that draws people in from Tumblr, Derpibooru, or Reddit like /mlp/ with APA, those damn CYOAs, or Raggie.

It doesn't matter how much a shitshow a site is in itself, all that matters is if it has enough users coming in to match the users leaving. That's why /pone/ is dying.

>>291154 (OP)

Its time to let go, we must set ourselves free from this hell

>>291219

Y-you don't mean we should go outside, do you?

Hey we're back up to 72 users, tied with /liberty/ but above them because our board is older

>>291251

God damn furfags.

>>291219

Personally I'm not leaving *this* ride anytime soon, I want to see the bitter end of 8chan, maybe even horse show.

On the other hand I fear that the former will never truly stop being a thing and the Jim & Ron Show will continue to drag its dead bones across the ground.

>>291251

/fur/ ought to rebuild their anthropomorphic moderator bot ten feet higher then, to keep /leftypol/ out. ^:)

>>291182

and what about ponygoons?

>>291297

Looks like the thread regenerated properly so ignore this.

Everyone on the life boats >>>/twi/.

>>291154 (OP)

good, we dont want casuals in this hell hole.

>>295500

Yes, now is the perfect moment to shill your emoty board. It's not like that could only decrease the user count of this board further.

>>291184

Y'all sure you want more users? Beacaise it's actually not that hard to do considering the vast amount of people that used to watch it back in the day and therefore are likely to feel nostalgic for it if it's brought up. But more members means lower quality posts.

>>295537

*because

>>295537

We do need newfags, but I don't think that there is anything to draw them here at this point. Our drawfags are gone, and our writefags seem to have discovered real writing lately.

>>291154 (OP)

bumping

>>295537

Fuck that. We used to get newfags all the time and it was nonstop dank OC. The thing about it is we get the in small batches and train them to be quality shitposters.

>>295576

True but it doesn't mean we shouldn't try again.

I still have the original book cover files.

lurker here

time to save the day with my unique IP range

>>302205

I don't think the Asian Cajun is stupid enough to cause another exodus. Plus I don't really want halfchanners here. That isn't to say I don't want more users but can they be from somewhere better for a change?

>>302218

>can they be from somewhere better for a change?

People who migrate to 8chan are pretty much either from 4chan or from reddit, so no.

>>302218

Well it's now a cesspool of malware so either he's that stupid or he's playing extradimensional chess.

>>302218

>That isn't to say I don't want more users but can they be from somewhere better for a change?

There is nowhere else to draw from, and the chans are bleeding users with all the law enforcement and copyright shit. Chans were the product of a free internet that is now almost entirely consumed by commercial garbage and NSA fuckery.