Explain Anon-a-Miss to me · 4:40am Aug 8th, 2018
Hello followers, today you are my google
So I visit fimfic daily just in case anybody's favorited one of my stories so it can bring a smile to my face. (And people do, with surprising frequency! Humblebrag!) And one thing I inevitably see is the current top/recent stories, and there are a huge number of stories about something called Anon-a-Miss (I may have the capitalization and/or punctuation wrong idk) in connection to Sunset Shimmer. And I like Sunset Shimmer a lot but I don't know what this Anon-a-Miss thing is. Is it a really good thing that everyone likes? Why are there so very many stories about it? Should I experience whatever it is because I would like it?
(ALSO HELLO YES I AM ALIVE BUT I HAVE NOT WATCHED ANY OF THE SECOND HALF OF THIS SEASON YET, I DON'T KNOW WHY, I JUST HAVEN'T THOUGHT TO DO SO EVER)
It’s uh
Not the best.
You can probably figure out why after reading the MLP Wiki article here, but just in case because you said you didn’t want to Google:
Basically Sunset gets blamed for spreading rumors on the internet about her friends, they all ditch her, and then forgive her after they find out it wasn’t her fault. The vast majority of the fics focus on Sunset getting some form of revenge or suiciding from the pain of her friends abandoning her over the false accusations.
I wouldn’t read it by choice, but since becoming a story approver that choice has been revoked from me.
Anon-a-Miss is what happens when someone thinks it's a good idea to combine a cyberbullying PSA and a holiday special in the same comic.
Aside from that monstrosity, the plot wants to be simultaneously before and after Rainbow Rocks, Fluttershy finds a bit of the school in a completely different season (remember, this is a holiday special,) and Sunset shuts her locker open.
It's just terrible on every level.
Anon-a-Miss as a fandom trope, then, involves people who don't believe in forgiveness reading that awful, awful comic, taking it too seriously, and writing a story wherein either A) Sunset is sad and kills herself, or B) Sunset is mad and kills everyone else, for some definition of "kill". These stories are by and large horrendous, though the parodies are often amusing.
I giev proofs nao
It's trash that ultimately suffers from poor timing. A story of this style can fit between Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks, but they had it take place after Rainbow Rocks instead. So it's trash, but people keep writing about it for some ungodly reason.
Huh, interesting. On the one hand it sounds like this is probably something close enough to a experience a lot of writerfolks have had in their own lives--perhaps in school--that they feel compelled to work through their feelings about the subject in prose. On the other hand it's really impressive how passionate y'all seem to be about how bad this apparently is, so I think this is an hornet nest I should leave well alone. Thanks for the informative thoughts and feelings!