Just think about it, you and a couple of friends are watching classic South Park or something edgy. And then, some person comes who's not even a fan of it, demands changes (censorship) or outright turns off the program. Just why do people do this? Why do they ruin everyone's fun?
Seriously, they are. This is by far the most important issue, if they made their asses fatter it would improve viewership. If they made the ponies thicc prudes would complain, which would only draw in even more viewers. Twilight Sparkle, the protagonist of the series has a fat ass, and her teacher Princess Celestia, who's ass is even fatter.
The main reason is uncanny valley. When something looks human but not quite. A perfect example would be a robot trying to mimic being human, it looks unsettling. It's somewhat insulting towards the ponies, you have Twilight Sparkle there a beautiful unicorn and you can't embrace her just because she's not fully in human shape, even though she has all the qualifications to be a sapient-minded
So true! By the way, that gives me an idea for a Story: You remember the whole yivo incident? What would happen, if the inhabitants of an universe, like the futurama one made another anomaly, but instead of Meeting 1 universe sized octopus-thingy, they meed 2 multiverse sized ponies, that both want to date their universe. now they have to decide, wether they should date one, both or stay neutral, without getting crushed in the love triangle.
4986731 Yep, although in that one, the ponies start out somewhat small, and Need the humans to grow bigger. In the yivo Thing, the ponies are already bigger than the univese (or planet) and probably dont know what humans are. The Thing could start off by them discovering earth, and when the humans first contact them, their Response is like "did that Tiny blue Pebble just talk?". Also in this, if celestia and Luna could make themselves small enough to visit earth properly, they would, but sadly, they dont. So they have to watch These cute Tiny creatures from afar. They do have amazing eyesight, but even with that, they can only come so close, without risking a single eyelash could slam into the planet.
They could also "try" to help the humans to impress them. They dont know anything About planetbound life, so if the humans explain to them, that they Arent really a Talking blue Pebble, but rather even tinier creatures Living ON the Pebble (mindblow), and that they try to colonize the red Pebble (mars) over there in the near future, which is Pretty close for the alicorns, but really far away for humans, celestia and Luna would try to move mars Closer to earth (just to be helpful), not understanding, that something so simple as two pebbles touching each other could anihilate the whole species.
So true! By the way, that gives me an idea for a Story: You remember the whole yivo incident? What would happen, if the inhabitants of an universe, like the futurama one made another anomaly, but instead of Meeting 1 universe sized octopus-thingy, they meed 2 multiverse sized ponies, that both want to date their universe. now they have to decide, wether they should date one, both or stay neutral, without getting crushed in the love triangle.
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Maybe... I kind of somewhat making that. Friendship Is Gigantictimal.
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Yep, although in that one, the ponies start out somewhat small, and Need the humans to grow bigger.
In the yivo Thing, the ponies are already bigger than the univese (or planet) and probably dont know what humans are. The Thing could start off by them discovering earth, and when the humans first contact them, their Response is like "did that Tiny blue Pebble just talk?". Also in this, if celestia and Luna could make themselves small enough to visit earth properly, they would, but sadly, they dont. So they have to watch These cute Tiny creatures from afar. They do have amazing eyesight, but even with that, they can only come so close, without risking a single eyelash could slam into the planet.
They could also "try" to help the humans to impress them. They dont know anything About planetbound life, so if the humans explain to them, that they Arent really a Talking blue Pebble, but rather even tinier creatures Living ON the Pebble (mindblow), and that they try to colonize the red Pebble (mars) over there in the near future, which is Pretty close for the alicorns, but really far away for humans, celestia and Luna would try to move mars Closer to earth (just to be helpful), not understanding, that something so simple as two pebbles touching each other could anihilate the whole species.