>>92844572>MLP as a phenomena is an oddity. It's like years of subconscious furry fetish fed to late 90s/early 2000s kids through things such as Pokemon and Sonic finally exploded. It's the social conditions behind it that made it so popular, because otherwise it would be a meh show for any cartoon fanEh I think you have a small point there, the whole "talking animal" part of it had an audience primed for that kind of thing but you're seriously discounting a lot of other things that made it popular, I for one was never a furry
For one thing, it actually was a good show...I know it's a meme to say otherwise, or say it isn't anymore (I think it still is) but strictly talking about the early days, it was a good show...it had good self aware humor that wasn't really seen in kids shows at the time with most of it being strictly slapstick or gross out leftovers, lore and heavy story driven elements combined with SoL which once again, not usually a thing in kids shows of the time, and it brought back a couple forgotten things.....one being the musical cartoon, with music that actually had effort put into it, and the idea of fantasy cartoons not being plated strictly as some kind of parody
Combine that with the shock factor that "wow, you mean a girl branded show can be not cookie cutter bullsit?!?!?!!?" and all of these things had to do with the success of MLP: FIM, it wasn't strictly furries anon, in fact I'm pretty sure the show itself is what turned a lot of people into them
In any case, whether you like it or not, to deny it's influence or shrug it off as some fluke is pretty dumb and just makes it seem like you're an anti-brony, MLP FIM has every bit as much to do with the current eras trend of "whimsical/magical/fantasy" themed girly leaning shows as Adventure Time, IMO those two shows are the only reason we have half the shows we do now
