MLP Rule 34 Update: October 2014 / Hub Homage: Part 1 · 2:06am Oct 11th, 2014
[Disclaimer: While this blog post discusses Rule 34 statistics, it doesn't contain explicit imagery, embedded links to pornographic material or excessive coarse language.]
Four years ago today, the Discovery Kids cable channel was relaunched as The Hub. During their first day of broadcasting, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was one of the shows which premiered. Much of its initial appeal came from the creative direction of Lauren Faust, who previously worked on the Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Friendship is Magic is the reason why My Little Pony has grown into a phenomenon the likes of which has never been seen before. [Please enjoy this tribute by SciFiBrony.]
This blog post is meant to honor the four year anniversary of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic by remembering all that this show has given to the brony community. 
My tribute to the laughter, happiness, tears and controversy surrounding Friendship is Magic will involve discussing another controversial subject: porn. It's the tenth of the month, so you know what that means. That's right! It's time for another in-depth analysis of clop! 
My previous Rule 34 blog posts are available at the following links.
August 2012 / At the rate things are going...
September 2012 / Famous Bronies
October 2012 / Digimon
November 2012 / Equestrian elections
December 2012 / Top 11 Hottest Animated Women
January 2013 / General porn statistics
February 2013 / Touhou review
March 2013 / Season three wrap up
April 2013 / Idolm@ster
May 2013 / OC woes
June 2013 / Ribald Rivalries
July 2013 / A major announcement
August 2013 / Rule 34 Origins
September 2013 / Equestria Girls Review
October 2013 / Three years of MLP:FIM
November 2013 / Season Three Episode Retrospective
December 2013 / Twilight Sparkle's Rival
January 2014 / Passing the Bechdel Test
February 2014 / CP Atone
March 2014 / Loli and Stitch
April 2014 / The Binding of Wonder Woman
May 2014 / Cybersix Showdown
June 2014 / Sailor Moon and he Celestial Sorority
July 2014 / Misunderstood Monsters
August 2014 / Monogamous Malaise
September 2014 / All You Need is Love
Without further ado, here's the latest data from Rule34.paheal.net!
As of October 10, 2014, here's the state of Rule 34:
Pokemon still holds the lead with 84,942 images. 1,707 new explicit images were added during September, giving Pokemon a 2% increase in porn from last month.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is in second place with 60,180 images. 1,273 new explicit images were added during September, giving My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic a 2.1% increase in porn from last month.
Touhou is in third place with 51,652 images. 587 new explicit images were added during September, giving Touhou a 1.1% increase in porn from last month.
DC Comics is in fourth place with 24,982 images. 195 new explicit images were added during September, giving DC Comics a 0.7% increase in porn from last month.
Street Fighter is in fifth place with 19,342 images. 143 new explicit images were added during September, giving Street Fighter a 0.7% increase in porn from last month.
Naruto is in sixth place with 18,933 images. 97 new explicit images were added during September, giving Naruto a 0.5% increase in porn from last month.
Marvel Comics is in seventh place with 18,130 images. 213 new explicit images were added during September, giving Marvel Comics a 1.1% increase in porn from last month.
Sonic Team is in eighth place with 17,824 images. 305 new explicit images were added during September, giving Sonic Team a 1.7% increase in porn from last month.
Digimon is in ninth place with 13,425 images. 201 new explicit images were added during September, giving Digimon a 1.5% increase in porn from last month.
Super Mario Bros is in tenth place with 12,463 images. 265 new explicit images were added during September, giving Super Mario Bros a 2.1% increase in porn from last month.
For the second consecutive month, Pokemon dominated in terms of porn production by generating nearly 500 more images than My Little Pony.
My Little Pony reached a monumental milestone by generating more than 60,000 total explicit images! When Friendship is Magic premiered four years ago, there were only 88 images of My Little Pony on rule34.paheal.net. The amount of pony porn has increased by 68,286% in just four years!
Naruto had an unusually poor performance this month; garnering less than 100 new explicit images.
Meanwhile, Sonic Team is catching up with Marvel! Can the comic colossus keep its position, or will Sonic take seventh place?
Now that we've gone over the monthly update for the top ten porn producers, it's time to analyze the latest data regarding Rule 34 images for the mane six.
As of October 10, 2014, here's the state of Rule 34 for the mane six, according to Rule34.paheal.net:
Twilight Sparkle
has 8,831 images. 157 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 1.8% increase from last month.
Rainbow Dash
has 7,462 images. 129 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 1.7% increase from last month.
Fluttershy
has 7,052 images. 173 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 2.5% increase from last month.
Pinkie Pie
has 6,398 images. 96 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 1.5% increase from last month.
Rarity
has 5,841 images. 137 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 2.4% increase from last month.
Applejack
has 5,727 images. 146 explicit images were added during September, giving her a 2.6% increase from last month.
Fluttershy reached a milestone by generating a total of more than 7,000 images! 
Fluttershy also managed to garner more porn than Twilight Sparkle this month! In an unexpected turn of events, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were the two lowest generators of porn in September. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash used to be the two most popular ponies after Twilight Sparkle. During the third anniversary last year, Fluttershy surpassed Pinkie Pie in terms of total porn production. Rainbow Dash is holding on to second place by roughly 400 images. It may not be long before Fluttershy surpasses Rainbow Dash. Congratulations to Rarity and Applejack for not being in last place this month!
Special thanks to Infinion, who made these amazing graphs of the data I collected.
To start off with, here's the master chart of the top ten Rule 34 producers.
This chart represents four years' worth of Rule 34 data. In order to more closely examine the numbers, Infinion has broken the data into more manageable semi-annual charts.
Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2011.
Apr. - Sept. 2011.
Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2012.
Apr. - Sept. 2012.
Oct. 2012 - Mar. 2013.
Apr. - Sept. 2013.
Oct. 2013 - Mar. 2014.
Apr. - Sept. 2014
Which brings us to October 2014.
To get an idea of how far My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has come since its premiere, here's a chart highlighting the monthly numerical and percentage increase of MLP porn.
Here's a special chart which details four years worth of growth for Pokemon and My Little Pony.
For those who desire a more consolidated look at the raw data, here's the numbers for the top ten porn producers, as well as their monthly increase.
Now let's take a look at the Rule 34 stats for the mane six. Here's their master chart.
In order to discover what these numbers mean, we'll need to delve deeper. In order to do that, we'll break down the data into semi-annual chunks.
Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2011.
Apr. - Sept. 2011.
Oct. 2011 - Mar. 2012.
Apr. - Sept. 2012.
Oct. 2012 - Mar. 2013.
Apr. - Sept. 2013.
Oct. 2013 - Mar. 2014.
Apr. - Sept. 2014.
Which brings us to October 2014.
For those who desire a more consolidated look at the raw data, here's the numbers for the mane six, as well as their monthly increase
While it's staggering to think about the sheer amount of new pony porn created each month, it's important to remember that it comprises only one-tenth of all brony fan art. A tithe of tawdry titillation, if you will. Derpibooru has more than 650,000 images on their site. Roughly 10% are explicit. This would correlate with the data I've gathered from rule34.paheal.net.
Pie charts of Derpibooru images by Draco_2k
Today is truly bittersweet. The day in which we celebrate the fourth anniversary of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is also a day to mourn the loss of the Hub Network.
Discovery Communications and Hasbro are ending their equal partnership in the Hub. Discovery received a controlling majority of the network when it acquired 10% of Hasbro's stake in the Hub. Beginning October 13th, Discovery will take control of the Hub Network and rebrand it as the Discovery Family channel, which will be aimed at parents as well as children. 
Hasbro will retain a large stake in the content and control six hours of daytime programming on the network, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Launched in 2010, the Hub was designed to be an outlet for some of Hasbro's best-known toy brands, including G.I. Joe, Transformers and My Little Pony. The Hub found difficulty competing with the other networks. Nickelodeon and Disney Channel both average more than one million viewers a day while the Hub barely garners 100,000 viewers, according to the Nielsen rating. In addition, streaming services like Netflix have been providing stiff competition by aggressively targeting children's programing.
The Hub was a source of contention between Discovery and Hasbro. Hub executives frequently contended with Hasbro over programming strategy. Hasbro viewed their partnership with Discovery as a way to further toy sales by promoting shows designed to sell merchandise. This resulted in Hasbro withholding support from shows which had good ratings but weren't selling toys.
The Hub Network only lasted four years and MLP:FIM was there from the beginning. If the Hub Network didn't allow the creative team the freedom they needed to create Friendship is Magic, then the brony fandom wouldn't exist and My Little Pony wouldn't have become a cultural phenomenon. On this fourth anniversary of Friendship is Magic, let's look back and remember all that the Hub did to help nurture and grow the brony fandom.
For this month's rule 34 update, we're going to examine some of the other cartoons which are part of "the Hub family." These are the animated series which were overshadowed by the overwhelming popularity of My Little Pony. Now is the time for these shows to get the recognition that they deserve! We'll examine their origins and any connections which they may have had to My Little Pony. The shows are arranged based on when they first premiered on the Hub.
Pound Puppies
The original Pound Puppies series was animated by Hanna-Barbera and first aired in 1986 as a means of promoting the popular stuffed animals of the same name. 
Compared to some of the other properties from the 1980s, Pound Puppies has gone the longest without any sort of revival. After more than twenty years, the second iteration of Pound Puppies premiered on the Hub Network, Oct. 10th, 2010.
The style of the theme song is reminiscent of Disney's Recess. 
Both of those shows drew inspiration from films like The Great Escape and the television series Hogan's Heroes.
The 2010 Pound Puppies show lasted for three seasons. Stylistically, the new designs were more dog-like than the original 1986 series. The characters in the new show walked on all fours and didn't wear clothes.
Episode 21, "I Never Barked for My Father," premiered on the Hub Network's one year anniversary. This episode involved the main character, Lucky, having to come to terms with his neglectful father, Slick, after the two are reunited. 
Slick abandoned his family when Lucky was a puppy. The episode tackled difficult issues while treating them with the seriousness that they deserved. In 2012, I Never Barked for My Father was honored with the HUMANITAS Prize for Excellence in Writing for Children's Television Animation.
There were also several nods to My Little Pony throughout the series. In Episode 23, "Olaf in Love," the guitar riff from the Cutie Mark Crusaders song can be heard playing in a car radio. In Episode 37, "No Dogs Allowed" The Puppies investigate why people are returning their pups to the pound and discover that the landlord of an apartment complex has a no-dogs-allowed policy. The Puppies discover the landlord’s daughter likes ponies and she’s been invited to join the “Pony Sisters Club”. The Puppies look inside her apartment and see that every inch is filled with colorful pony figures, artwork, etc. In a "shocking twist," her father, the landlord, was the pony lover and all the colorful pony stuff in the apartment was his. He was a member of the “Pony Boys Club” and was pressuring his daughter to be in the “Pony Sisters Club.” A man liking pony stuff? That's just crazy, right?
Equestria Girls included a reference to Pound Puppies.
No discussion of Pound Puppies would be complete without mentioning one of the most infamous catchphrases associated with the series. The phrase gained popularity because it was included as part of a promo for Pound Puppies which played during the end credits of My Little Pony.
The phrase "secret, but fun" was tweaked to "secret butt fun" and the character Niblet became synonymous with sodomy.
The phrase was still being used as recently as the release of Equestria Girls, as evidenced by this comic in which the dog-version of Spike is about to get a crash course in burying bones.
Strawberry Shortcake
Originally designed for American Greetings' cards in 1977, Strawberry Shortcake became quite popular in the early 1980s. Clothing, sticker albums and dolls of the characters were everywhere. 
Six animated TV specials were made featuring the characters, one was released each year from 1980-1985. The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak was introduced in Strawberry Shortcake's first adventure, The World of Strawberry Shortcake. The Purple Pieman is described as a "misanthropic fathead with a skinny physique." 
He controls a flock of Berry Birds, which he uses to steal berries and eavesdrop on the denizens of Strawberryland. The Purple Pieman is one of the few villains whose anger is fueled by his hatred of puns. Specifically, hearing the same lame berry puns ad infinitum. Although he acts as the main antagonist of the series, the Purple Pieman has "berried" the hatchet and made peace with Strawberry Shortcake on numerous occasions.
In 2003, DIC Entertainment produced the first Strawberry Shortcake animated series, which premiered nearly twenty years after the last TV special aired. Strawberry Shortcake was redesigned to look less like a rag doll. Her striped green stockings were replaced with blue jeans. A total of 44 episodes were made and released on 21 different DVDs which were packaged with new Strawberry Shortcake dolls.
In 2003, the webcomic Penny Arcade posted an "advertisement" for an imaginary computer game, American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake, which was a parody of the actual computer game American McGee's Alice, a twisted and violent take on the works of Lewis Carroll.
American Greetings was offended by the parody and issued a cease-and-desist letter, to which the authors begrudgingly complied. Some argued that Penny Arcade's case was not covered under the fair use doctrine because the use of the characters in this case was for satire; they claim that fair use only protects the unauthorized use of copyrighted characters in parodies of the original material, and that satire and parody are completely different concepts. Most definitions consider parody to be a mimicry of an established idea, concept or person for comedy, while satire deconstructs a subject for humor without reproducing it directly. Satire tends to be more subtle, while a parody clearly defines what is being mocked. Dr Stangelove is a film which satirizes Cold War paranoia. Johnathan Swift's essay, A Modest Proposal, is a satire designed to instill a desire for societal and political change. The Bratz satirized their legal troubles with Mattel by making a Barbie analog the villain of their animated series. If parody is protected under the fair use doctrine, then satire should be protected as well. Robot Chicken has made several raunchy parodies of Strawberry Shortcake, yet they haven't received any cease-and-desist letters from American Greetings.
Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie is a 2006 computer-animated film produced by DIC Entertainment, and released theatrically in select cities on October 7, 2006. This was the first feature-length film for Strawberry Shortcake. Also the first time she's appeared CGI.
Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures is the first CGI animated television series based on the Strawberry Shortcake Franchise. 
Produced by the French animation and production company MoonScoop Group, the series follows the adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends who live in Berry Bitty City. The series premiered on the Hub in 2010 and lasted 52 episodes. This is the third iteration of the franchise overall, following the original 1980s television specials and the 2003 relaunch. Strawberry Shortcake was redesigned again for the new series. This time, she let her hair down and eschewed her jeans in favor of a return to her green-striped stockings.
Here's ponified versions of Strawberry Shortcake and her friends illustrated by Amy Mebberson, who works on the official My Little Pony comics!
G.I. Joe
In 1964, Hasbro created G.I. Joe to compete with the popularity of Mattel's Barbie doll, which debuted five years earlier. Don Levine, who was the director of marketing for Hasbro at the time, wanted to make a doll which could be marketed to boys. G.I. Joe was the first toy to be called an "action figure" because the conventional wisdom was that boys wouldn't want to buy something marketed as a "doll." One year after G.I. Joe debuted, the U.S. Military's involvement in Vietnam escalated and eventually peaked in 1968. The image of Hasbro’s proud and stalwart soldier was contrasted by the seemingly endless brutal conflict as reported on the evening news.
G.I. Joe sales slumped as public support for the Vietnam war waned. By 1970, Hasbro hoped to revive the brand by downplaying the military element. G.I. Joe kept his name, but he was reinvented as an intrepid explorer. 
This also introduced the infamous "kung fu grip" feature, which had nothing to do with martial arts. It just sounded better than saying the character had soft rubber hands which allowed him to hold his weapons more easily.
Incidentally, Mattel attempted to market their own "action figure" named Big Jim.
The flamboyancy of He-Man is nothing compared to the homoerotic undertones of Big Jim, which featured characters with suggestive names, such as Dr Steel, The Whip and Tornado Fist. But I digress...
The escalating price of oil in the 1970s caused the price of plastics to rise. The action figures were becoming too expensive for Hasbro to produce, so they retired the twelve-inch G.I. Joe model in 1976. Less than one year later, Hasbro's losses were $2.5 million and the company held a large debt load. In contrast, Kenner was finding enormous success marketing four inch tall figures based on characters from Star Wars. 
In 1981, Kirk Bozigian, who was the marketing director for Hasbro at the time, dreamed of reinventing G.I. Joe based on the success of Kenner's Star Wars action figures. Not content with merely copying a good idea, Bozigian sought to improve upon it. The Kenner Star Wars figures had only five points of articulation. Bozingian wanted this new line of action figures to focus on one of the original selling points for G.I. Joe: its ability to assume a variety of poses. The Hasbro team worked to develop a new type of smaller action figure which was roughly four inches tall. Unlike the Star Wars toys, the new G.I Joe would feature not five, but eleven points of articulation. 
The drastic reduction in scale also allowed for the development of several toy vehicles, playsets and other accessories. Tom Griffin, who was a publicity agent for Hasbro at the time, believed that the success of the Star Wars action figures was largely a result of the hype surrounding the brand. Unlike Star Wars, G.I. Joe didn't have a storyline or mythology. One fateful evening, Hasbro CEO Stephen Hassenfeld and Marvel Comics President Jim Galton met by coincidence at a charity fundraiser. Hassenfeld shared Hasbro's plans for the G.I. Joe relaunch. Galton offered Marvel's services as creative consultants, and Hassenfeld agreed to allow Marvel a chance to design a concept for G.I. Joe. Marvel worked to create a a comic book that would feature new characters from G.I. Joe before their action figures were available in stores. According to Bozingian, when Hassenfeld heard the pitch for the G.I. Joe comic and new line of action figures, he looked at his staff with joyful, tear-filled eyes and said, "You all found a way to bring Joe back. I'm going to tell my father." Hassenfeld then left the room to visit his father's grave.
The G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero action figure line was launched in 1982. Marketing agencies were prohibited from showing more than ten seconds of animation in toy commercials due to concerns that the actual product would fail to meet the fantastic promises made in an animated advertisement. Not showing the actual toy for a majority of the commercial was considered deceptive advertising. However, by means of a clever loophole, there were no rules in the National Association of Broadcasters voluntary guidelines about comic book advertisements. A Hasbro employee named Bob Pruprish came to the sudden realization that comic books were protected under the first amendment and there couldn't be any animation restrictions placed on advertisements for a publication. So, G.I. Joe was able to have fully-animated commercials promoting its comics. This was the first time a television commercial had ever been used to promote a comic book. Hasbro executives trusted that the kids would make the connection between the comics and the toys.
The animated commercials and comics succeeded in revitalizing G.I. Joe. An animated series was released in 1983, which lasted for four seasons and 95 episodes. G.I. Joe: The Movie was released in 1987. The film was originally supposed to be a theatrical release, but due to poor box office returns of the animated Transformers movie and My Little Pony: The Movie, the G.I. Joe film was instead a direct-to-video release.
Marvel's G.I. Joe comics lasted for 12 years and was considered a huge success. Due to declining sales in the 90s, Marvel canceled the series in 1994, which is the same year Hasbro canceled the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy line.
If the 80s was a highpoint for G.I. Joe, the 90s saw the property sink to a new low with G.I. Joe Extreme, which incorporated the tropes of 90s Image comics. In the series, G.I. Joe Extreme fights against the terror group known as "SKAR" and their leader, "Iron Klaw." Presumably, the villains are trying to steal enough money to replace all the missing letter C's from their keyboards. I'm guessing that Cobra Commander took them with him out of spite during the transition. Here's the intro for G.I. Joe Extreme, presented in extremely poor quality.
In 2003, G.I. Joe was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York. A couple of years later, G.I. Joe experienced another redesign. The Sigma Six line of action figures were eight inches tall and served as a reboot for the new animated series.
If the designs of G.I. Joe Extreme took a page from Image comics, then the Sigma Six took a page from Japanese anime. The series premiered in 2005 and lasted for twenty six episodes.
2008 saw a relaunch of G.I. Joe comics at IDW Publishing, which would later make comics for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
In 2009, a live-action movie was released entitled G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
"Hmm. You know, curiously enough, the X-rated version had the same name."
— Mike J. Nelson, Rifftrax.com
The Rise of Cobra opened at the top of the box office and grossed over $302 million worldwide by the end of its run. Critical reception was mostly negative. Fans of G.I. Joe were upset by the studio's attempts to butcher the mythos in favor of derivative storyline cliches. One example of character assassination was the Baroness, who was changed from an East European noble in the comics to Duke's brainwashed ex-girlfriend in the film.
As a way to promote the live-action movie, a mini-series was made called G.I. Joe: Resolute. It was a more mature interpretation of the G.I. Joe mythos. No red or blue laser blasters. Made for adult fans of the original series from the 80s, Resolute is easily the darkest animated entry in the franchise: both sides fire actual bullets, blood and death are shown, and the entire city of Moscow is destroyed within the first five minutes. The webisodes premiered on Hasbro's G.I. Joe website and were eventually aired on Adult Swim as an hour-long special event.
I wish this could've become a long-running series.
On November 26, 2010, the Hub premiered a new animated series entitled G.I. Joe: Renegades.
The premise is that a crack commando unit was accused of a crime they didn't commit. Still wanted by the government, this ragtag band of fugitives fights a covert battle to clear their names and expose the insidious enemy that is Cobra. Some call them outlaws. Some call them heroes. Why does that sound familiar?
The producers of the series have confirmed that this is G.I. Joe meets The A-Team. It lasted for one season comprised of 26 episodes.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which was a sequel to the Rise of Cobra, was released in 2013. Originally slated for release in June 2012, the film was delayed in order to convert the movie to 3D and boost interest in international markets. It was released in North America on March 28, 2013, and received generally negative reviews, but was a box office success, grossing over $375 million worldwide. The delay severely hurt the film's performance, since Paramount had already implemented a substantial advertising campaign beginning with a Super Bowl commercial.
A toyline for the film was released by Hasbro in February 2012. Despite the movie's release being moved from June 2012 to March 2013, the initial assortments of figures, vehicles, and playsets were shipped to retailers, and appeared on store shelves in May 2012. The toyline was re-released in the United States in February 2013.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of G.I. Joe. There were obstacles to overcome, but the original action figure has endured for half a century. So, how does Hasbro commemorate this historic event? How do they honor this iconic toy line on its golden anniversary? By essentially killing the brand. In March, less than one month after the 50th anniversary, Hasbro announced that their G.I. Joe brand team had been dismantled and was working on other projects. This announcement was reported one month before the 2014 G.I. Joe Collectors Convention 50th Anniversary Celebration in Dallas. Inquiries were made if a representative from Hasbro would be attending the convention, but no one from Hasbro came because the brand team had already been dismantled.
There were no plans to release a “50th Anniversary Commemorative G.I. Joe” twelve-inch action figure in toy stores. The 2014 JoeCon in Dallas,TX featured a twelve-inch “Codename: GIjOE” exclusive 2-figure set, which is the closest thing fans will see to an official acknowledgement of the original toyline from Hasbro for G.I. Joe’s 50th Anniversary.
Hasbro released a series of four-inch figures celebrating 50 years of G.I. Joe, in addition to a new line of G.I. Joe Kre-O building sets. 
Some fans were less than thrilled with Hasbro's underwhelming celebration for G.I. Joe on its golden anniversary.
Some fans of the original twelve-inch action figures made custom shirts for G.I. Joe and shared them with fellow collectors.
In one of the most puzzling turn of events, Hasbro recently licensed G.I. Joe for Kindle Worlds, which allows for the publication and sale of fanfiction. Writers will be able to make money from their own original fanfiction using the G.I. Joe mythos. This can mean one of two things: Either Hasbro is becoming less litigious regarding their intellectual properties and allowing the fans to have more control, or Hasbro has effectively decided to drop G.I. Joe from their portfolio of “active” properties and will slowly begin to phase out the toy line. Even if the latter option is true and G.I. Joe is M.I.A. for a while, that doesn't mean the toy line is gone for good. All it takes is a passionate, creative person at the helm to breath new life into a franchise. 
The results can occasionally be something that no one could've predicted.
Just imagine what would happen if Hasbro allowed My Little Pony fanfiction to be published on Kindle Worlds!
When Twilight fanfiction is being made into major motion pictures, anything is possible!
So now we know the history of G.I. Joe... and knowing is half the battle!
For the first time ever, I'm breaking my Rule 34 update into multiple parts. There's just too much content to cover in one blog post. Click on the link below to read the continuation.
Click here for Part 2.
Rest assured, I won't wait a month before releasing the next part of this blog. Look for the continuation sometime next week.
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That First Video:
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Oh man, as a huge Transformers nerd I just can't wait to see what's gonna appear in part two.
Bloody hell
That is some TL:DR post.
But still very impressive work.
What impresses me is not how much content that's created, but how fast it was created and dethroned touhou.
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To be fair, if we were counting pornograhic manga, in addition to explicit images, Touhou would have everyone else beat. Due to the rules of Rule34.paheal.net, comics with more than 8 pages are exempt.
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It took My Little Pony more than three years, but it finally surpassed Touhou.
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I hope it lives up to your expectations. As someone who hasn't followed the Transformers storyline very closely, there was a lot I learned while compiling this essay. I should be ready to post it within a week.
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Oh god I hope you used the Transformers wikia. Never before shall you see a wiki more dedicated and hilarious than that one.
Happy 4th Anniversary! Also, I have the same Derpy Plot USB but I lost her legs.
Bronystories, have you realized that you are the closest thing this site has to a monthly columnist? And that your blog posts are often more informative than most actual 'articles' pushed around in the fandom?
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Between you and me, I wouldn't mind if my stuff got pushed around a little more.
I wish it was easier to promote blog posts on this site. The main page highlights new and popular stories, but not blog posts. I realize that this site is designed to cater to fanfiction. I just wish it did more for bloggers.
I'm flattered by your kind words. Thank you! I plan on cataloging rule34 trends as along as My Little Pony is airing new episodes. When Friendship is Magic eventually ends, I'll continue to monitor the Rule 34 data until one of two things happens: Either My Little Pony surpasses Pokemon and becomes the undisputed king of rule 34, or the pony porn producers stop making new content.
Woot! It's been two years, almost three actually, since I first became a brony. Still love this fandom (mostly) and I especially love these blog posts. There seriously has to be a way to promote awesome blog posts like yours, Bronystories.
And by the way, when's your next horribly perverse, terribly twisted, darkly comedic story gonna come out?
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As far as stories go, it all depends. In order to pay the bills, I'm having to work more hours, which leaves less free time for the things I love, like writing. I'm lucky to budget time for these monthly Rule 34 updates.
I've seriously been considering Patreon; the virtual tip jar. If every person who was following me donated just one dollar per month, I'd be able to quit my second job and spend all that time working on new stories and blog posts.
I just feel weird considering it, though. Patreon is a great way for fans to support content creators, but I don't do this to make money. I do it because I love the show.
The problem is that when it comes own to how I spend my time, it's difficult to justify working on projects which don't help to pay the bills.
This probably needs to be its own separate blog post in order to gauge the feelings of everyone who reads my writings. How many people who enjoy the content I create would be willing to donate a "virtual tip" of one dollar per month?
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Sentiments shared to the max. This site has some absolutely fantastic blog posts scattered about that sit shamkefully on a few hundred views. Sometimes less. And yours are definitely up there at the top in terms to quality and dedication.
The phrase "second job" makes me die a little bit inside, as I consider one to be hard enough work as it is, but that's just me. So yup, I would donate to ya. But one dollar a month? Psshh, I'd easily hurl two British pounds your way each month. That's $3.21 at the time of writing!
This is one of my favorite aspects of my birthday coinciding with the premiere of ponies: Statistics happen, and I get to think of them as a present. Thank you as always for an enlightening read, Bronystories. I look forward to part 2.
I hope part of the joke in the G.I. Joe "Lego Guy" picture is the fact that isn't a Lego.
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3 years yes
But when was the touhou community created ?
If the wiki is correct touhou was created in 1996, MLP:FIM in 2010.
It took 3 years for the MLP:FIM to equal/surpass the touhou community; a community who was created 18 years ago.
Another (IMO) excellent topic for your r34 blogpost. You don't always hit home with your topics (as in catching my interest) but when you do it really strikes true. Spent an hour reading this post and I eagerly anticipate the next part.
Where the fuck can I get that Fallout: Equestria set? Like, holy shit. I'mma go change my pants.
"You and me, baby, we ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like the My Little Ponies on the Discovery channel!"
And Big Macintosh was never more proud
or aroused 
Not me, I skipped like 90%