this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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Somebody wrote a kind of condescending article about animators "selling out" or something and listed MLP as an example and contrarian 4Channers decided to go watch it as a bit and a decent chunk of them ended up kinda getting into it, and since 4Chan was still the nexus of internet culture back then it spread through memes and became a bigger thing.
The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation. which was crazy because this was like the beginning of it lol