Tweet Encouragement to DHX! · 2:00am May 15th, 2013
Alright. Making jokes is all well and good. Making fun of a spinoff we are uncertain of is all in good fun.
Seeking out cast and crew and giving them shit? Fuck no. It's time to pry your fingers off the keyboard and get your fucking ass outside. Especially when some cast and crew at DHX are considering leaving because of the criticism aimed at them and the trailer to Equestria Girls.
Take a few moments, go to your twitter account, and send some words of encouragement to the studio that gave us this amazing show. Use the hashtag #thankyouDHX.
And seriously - if you are among the bronies who are actively seeking out Facebook and Twitter accounts of staff to give them shit for a 60 second trailer, then you seriously need to unplug your damn modem.
Try making something for your fans, then receiving no thanks because they aren't getting what they want.
*cough* *cough* Fanfics *cough* *cough*
There are people that get really worked up, and get offended because they think they are owed something for being part of the fandom that made the show famous. A shame really. I'm supporting everyone working on the show and its spinoffs, and hope they do well in their endeavors.
1080453 Crap like this merely reinforces what I have believed for the past 2 years:
When the fandom dies, it will be by our own hand.
1080459 Well, let's think.
This show was originally designed as a show for little girls that wasn't some half-assed work, right?
Do these girls actively go up to our favorite band of writers and make demands or criticize their every move?
1080467 I am referring to the Bronies. Not the target demographic.
1080476 Yes, but not everything is about the bronies.
I praise bronies for taking pride in MLP, but they are not the only ones watching it.
After all, "love and tolerance", correct? Because that'll always be our slogan.
1080459 Truer words have never been spoken.
1080496 Which is exactly why whoever is giving DHX crap about the trailer needs to shut the fuck up.
1080566
Right, so I agree that giving the animators, writers, actors, etc. crap over this sight unseen is a terrible thing; they are, after all, presumably only doing what their corporate masters bade them do.
That being said...am I the only one who thinks that tracking down any facebook/twitter accounts for the Hasbro marketing...whatever that mandated the idea in the first place might be...perhaps not "appropriate" but at the least...deserved?
Really, seems they're the ones who deserve the blame for it.
Oh, that being said, I'd also say we're good to complain to the animators/writers/&c. after it comes out if its an irredeemable pile of refuse that was obviously halfassed. After all, mandates are one thing; not trying is quite another. But let's hold off on that, shall we?