We don't really post the 4chan news much anymore, but I figured the old /co/ folks that still visit (all 20 of you), and the /b/ronies would be thrilled to see this new addition to the armada of boards over at what is essentially the birthplace of pony on the internet.
It looks like they are either sincerely rolling with this, or trapping everyone for a massive pony ban. Either way, we are apparently relevant in the eyes of overlord Moot.
Anyhow, you can find the board here!
Note: I can't respond to all these emails! Thanks to everyone that sent it!
330 comments:
I suppose that's good news.
ReplyDelete............................... -_-
ReplyDeleteI'm ambivalent.
ReplyDeleteThis is the mark of victory.
ReplyDeletecool beans
ReplyDeleteThe cutie mark of victory
ReplyDeleteNeato
ReplyDeleteABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN GO WRONG WITH THIS IDEA
ReplyDeleteIT BEGIIIIINS!
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ReplyDeleteI ignore 4chan like the plague so meh
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I will post here.
ReplyDeleteGood for 4channers, I guess. I'm not big on imageboards in general, but I suppose it's nice to see.
ReplyDeleteProceed with caution.
ReplyDeleteThis is the worst thing to happen to the 4chan MLP fans. The fans from /co/ and /b/ do NOT get along at all and everything was just fine before this happened.
ReplyDeleteAs it stands, we are well on our way to becoming the next /vp/
Dammit moot. Dammit no, it's not going to be relevant in five years. /vp/ is good because Pokemon's a lasting thing with hundreds of hours of content. No one cares about pre-g4 ponys, no one is going to care about post-g4 ponies because no Lauren Faust or Jayson Thiessen
ReplyDeleteI left 4chan a few months ago right before I got my gaming PC. I only ever went on /v/ and I have no intention of ever going there again.
ReplyDeleteBut I guess that's good for those still on 4chan. Though I expect /mlp/ will turn into an even more negative version of /pony/ on Ponychan.
Will this be like April Furs Day?
ReplyDeleteThis is the mark of victory.
ReplyDeleteRIP MLPG
ReplyDeleteY'ALL MY DAWGS WE RIDE TOGETHER WE DIE TOGETHER
REAL TALK
Heavy doses of caution are advised...
ReplyDeleteIt took me approximately thirty seconds to see a horse penis. Yep, that's 4chan alright.
ReplyDeleteThat's just killed ponychan... I'm not gonna be seen dead using 4chan.
ReplyDelete.
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Its a trap!
I... May actually return to 4chan.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to feel.
That's just killed ponychan... I'm not gonna be seen dead using 4chan.
ReplyDelete.
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Its a trap!
The smart money says it's a honeypot.
ReplyDeleteOh...OK. I don't go to 4chan, so honestly, this is irrelevant to me.
ReplyDeleteSeems legit.
ReplyDeleteOh, dear, the board is not listed on the actual site, so I'm betting this is just a trap. He's going to catch a lot of anti-fans if he does a mass ban, though.
ReplyDeleteI don't trust this
ReplyDeleteuse caution bronies
YES!
ReplyDelete4Chan helped start the brony thing show respect SETH!
ReplyDeleteSERIOUSLY? FUCKING WHY LINK THAT HERE? THAT BOARD IS BAD ENOUGH.
ReplyDelete4chan.... still uneasy about this.
ReplyDeleteEither its a massive troll or the /co/ and /b/ bronies will tear each other apart.
ReplyDeleteIf it is serious the board will get scrapped when interest in pony wanes. Boards have been deleted before.
And not a single buck was given from be.
ReplyDeleteITSATRAP!
ReplyDeleteThanks, but no thanks. I don't like 4Chan anymore, for many reasons (not least of which is the horrible, horrible content that pops up there!). I prefer it here, and on my own forum. This is where pony lives, this is where it thrives.
ReplyDeleteSeeing this kind of felt like hearing that the Pope converted to Buddhism. Completely unexpected.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it looks like it could easily be turned into a place for brony-hating trolls to lurk, waiting for unwary prey.
Remember folks, you can tolerate, but you don't HAVE to love.
Hmm, the board isn't listed on the nav panel on the site. I smell a trap
ReplyDelete...Return to 4chan? After ponies? I... I don't know if I should...
ReplyDeletePosted a bit later than I thought that it would be, but nice nonetheless
ReplyDeleteNo real home? I dunno about that one.
ReplyDeleteYou guys want to know why Seth left his DragonFur Den to post this? He knows /co/ hates him. He knows /co/ hates you. He wants to try and shit up that board because he knows you people are cancerous and he wants to watch the world burn.
ReplyDeleteDo us a favor and stay here.
I like looking at /co/ pony threads. I read ponychan as well and they're pretty much like protestants and catholics. They take the fandom in very different ways. The so-called ideal of "love and tolerance" is scoffed at on 4chan and they tend to have a sarcastic and cynical view of the fandom in general, while ponychan is a lot more kinder and are more in line with the show's message.
ReplyDeleteThe question is, how many click-thrus will he get from the ads? That's the determinant on how he'll run this thing.
ReplyDeleteIt's already overrun with porn: pony, humanized pony, human, and photographic beastialist. Will it become a NSFW board, or remain "SFW" and have deletion of porn?
open the trollgates...
ReplyDeleteThe new board /vg/ [Video Game General] isn't listed yet, as for the other 2 hidden boards. This one is probably going to end up like /fur/ everyone that posted there is going to get banned.
ReplyDeleteShould we trust them? They did kick the bronies out before...
ReplyDeleteTo elaborate, I avoid 4chan like the plague, I will be avoiding this since i'm sure it's going to be full of content i'd like to avoid.
ReplyDeleteI meant it was probably good news to someone.
That or it could be a massive trap or something.
Either way i'm not bothered.
Well guys, we now know what hell looks like upon the earth.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the worse that could happen? I might get banned from a place that I think is full of morons :p
ReplyDeleteI am quite content to stay away from 4chan in its entirety. They have a reputation, and it is not a place I want to go because of it.
ReplyDelete@40387d3e-cd3f-11e0-b87b-000bcdcb8a73
ReplyDeleteOh look, an original and witty comment.
Take your paraspriting back to 4chan.
I never went to 4chan before and I don't plan to now, but I don't really know what this means for us.
ReplyDeleteI agree that anypony who goes there use caution.
i never understood what was 4chan , and never tried....mainly because i never really saw a POSITIVE comment about it.
ReplyDelete@Pete Dash
ReplyDelete4Chan's a lot of trouble just waiting to happen. While moot's efforts may be genuine, it's not worth it.
Wow, never been on 4chan til you posted this Seth.
ReplyDeleteThat was just... really horrible.
We sure have come a long way! XD
I'm excited! I haven't been back to 4chan since the bans on ponies last year xD
ReplyDeleteI doubt that it will compare to Ponychan. Ponychan has multiple boards for a start. 4chan is stuffed full of people doing their internet things, and this will be one messy board.
ReplyDeleteFor the love of God, Equestria Daily, do NOT post anything until you know what 4chan is like. It's bad enough that they took away the community I loved, the one that started this whole thing in the first place. I don't need people going in there like it's Ponychan.
ReplyDeleteTHEY WILL TEAR YOU APART IF YOU ACT LIKE A BRONY ON THAT SITE. I'm warning you now. If you act as normal as possible and do your research on the other boards before hand, you'll be find.
If you don't, no one can save you, and I will watch you crash and burn with the most sadistic smile on my goddamn face.
Don't. Ruin. This.
Good, I hope none of you come there, it's really terrible, don't browse the other boards, we don't want you there either.
ReplyDelete@The Lotus Tea Dragon
ReplyDeleteI guess thats just another negative comment to add to the pile :p
thanks for the reply anyway
Well, that is probably the closest thing we will get to an apology from the Administration on 4chan. I mean we were persecuted like Jews there.
ReplyDeleteHaven't been on 4chan, or any of the chans for well over 3 years.
ReplyDeleteAs cool as this is, I'm just going to stick with EQD and my Facebook group.
Seth, just delete this blogpost.
ReplyDelete@wackypony :O
ReplyDeleteWow. You guys sure are killjoys.
ReplyDeleteWell it finally happened, won 4chan, Us bronies can die happy now.
ReplyDelete4Chan about as bad as the EQD community with the amount of flameing and hate that has been around here i must say.
ReplyDeleteIt's either a geniune thing, or a prep for massive genocide. I'm willing to believe that Moot is actually legitimately being good to us with this. (considering the amount of people lost in the brony exodus)
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to keep avoiding 4chan like I have been.
ReplyDelete@Pete Dash
ReplyDeleteI don't really mean to be negative, just being honest. I have been there before, and while parts of the board are fun and decent, I'd say a high traffic section of the board (referring to /b/) is terrible, and filled with things that will give you nightmares for years to come. I'm not exaggerating, either. It's pretty bad.
Eh.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that the 4chan origin of the brony fandom is the worst part of it, a "dark history" of sorts. I'm extremely glad about how far we've come since then.
Thanks but no thanks.
I guess that no matter how much we all wish it wasn't so, we do owe 4chan for bringing ponies into the "spotlight".
ReplyDeleteOr am I mistaken? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm excited! I haven't been back to 4chan since the bans on ponies last year xD
ReplyDeleteBahahaha! The revolution is complete.
ReplyDeletethis is silly
ReplyDeletei'm gonna go play music and dance like nopony is watching
half the replies to that first thread are lolzy and full of fuck.
ReplyDeleteinternet, you make me proud.
Well, Moot is talking to Leth about getting a mod position on /mlp/, it looks like there isn't going to be a genocide on his hands
ReplyDeleteI'm only going to say this once. 4chan is not like another other pony website. We do NOT embrace that whole "love and tolerance" bullcrap. We do not go to meetups or show "how manly we are by wearing brony t shirts in public". We do not do any of that hugboxing shit. STAY OFF OUR BOARD.
ReplyDelete4chan didn't help start the bronies at all; we just happened to be born there and thrived despite the attempt to break us. They did, however, spend a great deal of time and effort expelling, b& and trolling us with gore and animal murder as if we were the cancer. Where do you think "Love and Tolerate" came from?
ReplyDeleteNo sugarcube, we've found a good place of our own, I think. I for one don't feel the need to go back to that hive of scum and villainy; it leaves a haze of despair and anger on the minds it touches.
Even if legit, we really don't need it. The rainboom led us here and even considering Derpygeddon, it'll be a home for us for a while yet. We have EqD, we have Reddit, we have Ponychan, and for better or worse, we have each other. This is a pretty good life considering.
Insert Admiral Ackbar's "It's a trap!" quote here.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm among the people who wouldn't touch 4chan with a 20 foot pole. Not unless you gave me an obscene amount of money, and knowing 4chan, I'd probably just get obscene money. So STILL no.
Wow... at first I thought this was cute... but then I remembered it was 4chan.
ReplyDelete@wackypony I want to ask "who's side are you on?!", but I fear that I may have read your comment wrong.
ReplyDeleteWe just brought the mighty 4chan to it's knees.... No flippin' way! O_O
ReplyDeleteI don't use 4chan either and I never want to be part of it, but I appreciate their insanity. 4chan has given us a lot of hilarious stuff and it basically is how all of the internet behaves.
ReplyDelete@wloff
ReplyDeleteI agree. Its astonishing that something so positive could come out of 4chan. The 4chan origin may be another reason we are shunned by various groups.
@Tora
ReplyDeleteExactly. I discovered MLP without 4Chan's help. I believe in love and tolerance.
As a long time 4chan user, been there for basically half its lifespan,
ReplyDeleteI don't really get all this fear and trepidation about the site.
Yeah, it has awful crap, but that stuff's easily avoided and the cool stuff is pretty hilarious -
WE are the ones who come up with every major "meme" or significant cultural thing, after all.
Really, our anonymity is a double-edged sword.
A lack of identity opens the floodgates to jerkfaces and trolls,
but it also eliminates ego, self-consciousness, vanity,
and pride, allowing people to contribute absolutely whatever they want.
I don't even know if most of 4chan realizes it has a "reputation".
The concept is completely alien to us.
Lawl i love how we have all these flame wars and piss fights then say 4chan is shit for those reasons.
ReplyDeleteEqD and Ponibooru are pretty much the 'homes' I have now. 4chan used to be my home up until the Great Pony War that occurred nearly a year ago now.
ReplyDeleteNothing's gonna change on my end, except I may start lurking the /mlp/ board to just see how it settles. If it's a trap, it doesn't matter, because I now have access to dozens of pony sites that didn't exist after I left 4chan a year ago.
That's probably what a lot of us are just gonna do. Visit the /mlp/ board out of curiosity, perhaps take a seat and participate in discussion, but otherwise not treat it like home and not spend a lot of time there.
@Kaijyuu
ReplyDeleteWith Pleasure
meh I've never been on 4chan either and it's not the sort os place that appeals to me. maybe I'll check out ponychan tho besides EQD i never visit any other pony boards.
ReplyDelete1/3 of the comments: "WE HAVE DEFEATED THE ALMIGHTY 4CHAN! PRAISE CELESTIA!"
ReplyDelete1/3 of the comments: "THE HORROR! THE HORROR!"
1/3 of the comments: "AWWW SHIT, THIS IS OUR TURF YOU STUPID PONY F!@#TS GTFO!"
i'll be on the side of
"4chan can do whatever it wants, i'll stick to Ponychan and EqD, live and let live :) "
From my experience, anything related to 4chan is, at best, neutrally alined. At worse, a small percentage of the hope for mankind dies.
ReplyDeleteThis, I suppose, would fall under the first category. Let's see how this pans out.
(Though I guess we do owe them for being the first to start spreading around our wonderful show.)
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI've never been to 4chan before.
ever.
the only two chans i've ever visited regularly are fchan and ychan, both full of furry porn.
Okay even though this is a obvious victory for pony kind. Do we really want to go back to 4chan? to get spammed with porn or trolls, 4chan just wants popularity guys. we got ponychan anyway.
ReplyDeletePeople should not be so whiny... how bad can the side possibly be? I am not going to find out myself but don't hate on a page because you don't like it much. That is just like hating on Furafinity or furries in general. Shouldn't we from all people accept and TOLERATE people who are deviant. Nothing they do should matter to you as long as what they do is HARMLESS, and honestly.. most things on the internet are at the end of the day harmless.
ReplyDelete(Now, people who got kicked from 4chan back in the day and are upset because of that do get a free pass in my book. Feel free to be upset, just don't linger on it or you make yourself sound like a douche)
Well, everypony who posts after me, it seems every concern possible has already been covered, so we can get back to business as usual or pay a visit.
ReplyDeleteI was never attached to 4chan, so this does not change much for me.
I, personally, will tentatively count this as a victory for MLP over 4chan (again), though.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean Twilight is going to have to fly into the internet and fire a friendship torpedo right into 4chan while being given mystical advice by whomever died ealirer?
Really though I think i'll stick with EqD and the occasional Ponychan browse.
IT'S A TRAP!
ReplyDeleteI'd rather stay on EQD thank you.
ReplyDeleteMost people in the comments are just going to stay amongst their own circles for discussing the show. I don't think there's gonna be this massive migration like people are trying to make it out to be.
ReplyDeleteI'll stick to my sites but keep tabs and see how this story develops
@Amonisis
ReplyDeleteAnd I will be there right next to you.
Also, the reaction from 4chan is:
ReplyDeletethis is hella bad.
We actually have (or had I guess) TWO brony communities -
one on /co/, or comics and cartoons board (where this whole thing was born)
and one on /b/, our random board.
/co/ ponies discuss the show exclusively, and they're pretty snarky and ironic about it as people have mentioned.
/b/ ponies are basically a group of friends who like to post pony pictures and flirt with each other, but that's it.
Combining these two fanbases is like combining water and grease,
even IF this whole thing isn't a massive trap.
my cutie mark is a 4chan... *poker face*
ReplyDelete@Celestia
ReplyDeleteImplying EQD has been better lately.
I don't really go to "chan" boards.
ReplyDeleteThey scare me. .__.
@Mdnthrvst
ReplyDeleteSee, I kind of view 4chan as the firewall between the R34 and gore sections of the internet and the rest of the internet. While it may be easy to avoid most of the NSFW stuff, I would rather not have to deal with the landmines and booby-traps just to get a couple of quick laughs. I like not needing to have brain bleach at the ready in case of a nasty surprise.
We got an apology from the very first anti-bronies. I call this a success.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'm leaning towards this being one massive trap. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, at least for now.
ReplyDelete@Mdnthrvst Does this board eliminate discussion on those boards? Out of curiosity. Assuming this isn't a trap.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll stay in Equestria Daily, I never liked 4chan anyway. This is also the first time I joined a blog, I can't ditch this place just now...
ReplyDeleteI don't even visit 4chan and I question Moot's decision to include such a board. Is he motivated by a perceived loss to ad revenue from the existance of ponychan? Is he setting up a trap to reap mighty lulz from both brony and non brony alike? Is he genuinely trying to mitigate the constant flame war between 4chan and the brony community?
ReplyDeletePersonally I'll keep my fingers crossed it's the second one. Don't lie, you all know it'll be hysterical if this is one big ban trap that catches both bronies and anti-bronies in its clutches. Drama will ensue, lines will be drawn in the sand, much butthurt will be had, and at the end of the day nothing of value will be lost.
This is going to be fun.
@Hawklaser
ReplyDeleteIt's not THAT bad. Gore or crazy crap doesn't show up on boards about actual subjects, just the random one. Which no one should EVER visit.
We've got boards for music, literature, technology, science, politics, cars, sports, all sorts of stuff.
These are all SFW, by the way.
I've heard so many bad things about 4chan... I'm just too scared to go on it... Plus it looks like a massive trap, set to put us all into the one place to get trolled...
ReplyDeleteWhat's the worst that could happen? A mass banning? Like that stopped the /b/ronies last February.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, don't whinge or whine, just do your own thing and see what happens. It's not like getting banned from 4chan is a bad thing
that's great and all but i think i'll stick to EQD
ReplyDeleteAnd all of the trolling that has already appeared just proves why I will never visit 4chan. I don't need all that manure in my internet.
ReplyDeleteIf we are the cancer of the internet, we originated in the dark horrible rectum that is /b/, then metastasized to spread love and tolerance throughout the rest of the body, leaving what was left to wallow in its hatred before succumbing to the kindness.
The world is a better place with bronies; this community has already done so much to think that untrue, and all those haters on the board will either one day realize it or be pitied for missing the truth.
@Ikusa GT
ReplyDeleteNo one honestly knows how this'll be enforced.
Already, one outright hateful troll was visibly banned,
so it at least APPEARS that Overlord mootykins is sincere.
But I think /b/ and /co/ will still have ponies regardless,
those communities are as entrenched and distinct as any other.
Wasn't apart of 4chan and the whole Brony beginings but I guess I will lurk around to board and see what how things settle in the coming days, weeks and months on the board. I think I browsed around the site a little when I found about the show a little before the second season started. Think I was on the co boards lurking then. Wasn't that bad.
ReplyDeletedammit i always tried to stay away from 4chan... now I must go. btw is it just me or are the comment boxes green all of a sudden?
ReplyDelete"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
ReplyDeleteOn second thought lets no go to 4chan its a silly place.
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE becareful, i cant stress this enough. as the mane(lol) enemy of all trolls, even if this real, trolls could overwhelm and hijack the site and board long enough to do harm. that site is a challenge to skilled hackers and they could just be waiting for us to get comfortable with the board and then have fun with screwing us all up.
ReplyDelete@Mdnthrvst
ReplyDeleteI have been to 4chan at one point in my life, and the experience was not pleasant because the crazy stuff did show up in several places. The first time or two, maybe mods were slow, but it didn't happen just a couple of times, it happened pretty consistently. So I decided to stay away from the site because I don't want to view that stuff at all if I can help it. Things may have changed since back then, but I don't care to find out either.
I don't think this will unite the scattered clans. I don't think this will end the trolling. I don't think anything will change because of this, and I doubt that many will even care. But simply the fact that there is now a /mlp/ board on 4chan fills me with some indescribable happiness.
ReplyDelete@Kelvin Nice reference! And so true.
ReplyDeleteI am ok with this. I found out about ponies through 4chan. I haven't really visited the site much since then, and when I do, it's only for non pony stuff. But I'm willing to give /mlp/ a try. That said, if it's just a trap, and we all get banned, that would actually be kind of funny (that's my 4chan sense of humor talking, sorry).
ReplyDeleteAlso, for anyone saying that EqD shouldn't link to the board, for whatever reason, you gotta remember that this *is* a pony news site, and that this is pretty big news.
@MedicShy
ReplyDeleteExactly.
Hey 4chan, I'm happy for you and all, and Imma let you finish... but EQD is the best pony website of all time. OF ALL TIME!
ReplyDeleteThis /is/ interesting, but tbh I would really rather just stay the hay out of 4chan entirely.
@Shrpsho0ter
ReplyDeleteSame here, especially the only time I actually went there the computer I was on got a TON of virus infection warnings right afterwards. But then again, it WAS a 10-year-old Dell running Windows XP.
If I even cared about 4chan this'd be cool... I guess...
ReplyDeleteI tolerate that site by ignoring it. I like keeping it that way.
The general reaction on the board seems to be general anger. Anger by the bronies for being lumped in with the seedier fans and the show haters are being drawn in like moths to the flame bringing their anger with them. How long till it all blows?
ReplyDelete@Bronyhub I'm surprised it hasn't yet, to be perfectly honest, but maybe that's because I'm a fairly cynical person when it comes to how horrible people can be.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a good idea.
ReplyDeleteThe brony fandom may have originated on 4chan, but being separated from it did it a world of good. Why would take a step BACK is beyond me.
I prefer Ponychan, it's much friendlier.
Never been to 4Chan, and I never plan on going there, but I guess this is a victory... kinda...
ReplyDeleteIf nothing else, it's a symbol of tenacity.
I'll stay here where it's friendlier and much safer >:3
ReplyDeleteI think it's a nice gesture!
ReplyDelete*shrug* There will be a LOT of spam, trolls, etc. But after a while people will stop caring (a bit) and things might push off better. Sure, I consider 4chan the sespool of the internet, but some pretty awesome and hilarious stuff has come from there, I'll admit that ^^
ReplyDeleteSo you ponies who browse 4chan, congrats! I understand this is a pretty big step we've taken from being the stupid ponyfag plague on the internet that was banning the lil homos left right and center. We've been acknowledged by one of the biggest image boards in the world. So even if its both a good and bad thing, congrats my bronies. Congrats <3
One day short of my Brony aniversary. Sure took them long enough
ReplyDeleteSheesh, what's with the 4chan natives commenting here just to give us a hard time? I will happily leave your precious hangout alone, you should do the same. Dunno what we have to climb all over each other for, no wonder Seth hasn't mentioned it in a while.
ReplyDeleteI don't see the reason for all the negativity.
ReplyDelete1) Bronies were born in 4chan. No denying that, without 4chan this fandom would have never really formed. Hell even Derpy was named in a 4chan thread. You may not agree with most of them, but you can't they are a vital part of the fandom.
2) Good for them for getting their own board. They were persecuted all hated on by 99% of the forum but they stuck to their guts for over a year! That's not easy to do, but they did it and proved they were above the trolls. They finally got their own board now. I salute you /b/ronies and /co/mrades
Yeah, thanks and all that, but we're doing just fine without the /4/tards. Of course, now that we're popular, they want to jump on the bandwagon and take credit...
ReplyDelete...no.
Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived on a farm. She was friends with a lazy dog, a sleepy cat, and a noisy yellow duck.
One day the little red hen found some seeds on the ground. The little red hen had an idea. She would plant the seeds.
The little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me plant the seeds?"
"Not I," barked the lazy dog.
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat.
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck.
"Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen planted the seeds all by herself.
When the seeds had grown, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me cut the wheat?"
"Not I," barked the lazy dog.
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat.
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck.
"Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen cut the wheat all by herself.
When all the wheat was cut, the little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me take the wheat to the mill to be ground into flour?"
"Not I," barked the lazy dog.
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat.
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck.
"Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen brought the wheat to the mill all by herself, ground the wheat into flour, and carried the heavy sack of flour back to the farm.
The tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me bake the bread ?"
"Not I," barked the lazy dog.
"Not I," purred the sleepy cat.
"Not I," quacked the noisy yellow duck.
"Then I will," said the little red hen. So the little red hen baked the bread all by herself.
When the bread was finished, the tired little red hen asked her friends, "Who will help me eat the bread ?"
"I will," barked the lazy dog.
"I will," purred the sleepy cat.
"I will," quacked the noisy yellow duck.
"No!" said the little red hen. "None of you were willing to do the work, but you are all eager to reap the reward. I will eat the bread." And the little red hen ate the bread all by herself.
Just checked it out. That was the first time I've ever been on 4chan. Scrolled through one page. I've seldom come across such an impressive collection of stupid in one place. Why would I want to visit a pony site with such rampant animosity when all awesome pony stuff tends to end up here anyway.
ReplyDeleteSo thanks, but no thanks.
@Mdnthrvst "WE are the ones who come up with every major "meme" or significant cultural thing, after all."
ReplyDelete"Eliminates ego," does it?
Well... that certainly is something alright. lol A surprise even from an oldfag like me.
ReplyDeleteThen again, it could always be a potential tarp. Better consult Admiral Ackbar.
@EPHorizon
ReplyDeleteWe don't owe them anything; the bronies spread the show with our pony threads. 4chan's various tribes kept trying to muscle Bronies out and eventually banned Bronies altogether.
Now moot wants ad traffic from us? Sorry 4chan, I don't seem to have any forks I can give. No bits either.
@Derpestia
If you have such a problem with EqD and equate it with 4chan, by all means, go live there and enjoy the lulz. I don't know how many have seen the worst that 4chan is capable of... it can be far worse on an average day than we were at our worst.
The most insidious part of 4chan though is that it poisons your soul slowly over time as you become numb to all the various manifest lurking horrors and tiny bloodsucking creepy-crawlies that regularly pop up in threads. Then one day you realize you don't like who you've become. True story, eeyup.
@TheDoktor I say, good shot.
ReplyDeleteWell tbh I don't really visit 4chan so doesn't make a difference to me. EQD is my main site I go to so I'll stick to it!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to think that it's *not* a trick of some sort given that they've done something like this before with a supposed "furry" board, and even if it's legit, I'm not one for visiting 4chan in the first place and this doesn't create any incentive to go there now.
ReplyDeletePost ponies on 4Chan. Board turns out to be a trap. Banned from 4Chan.
ReplyDeletePost ponies on 4Chan. Banned from 4Chan.
Banned from 4Chan.
So, um, which part of this is the downside?
Meh there are many ways to get around a 4chan ban. They couldn't stop us even if they wanted to. Then again I don't like 4chan that much so I don't really care.
ReplyDelete@Tora
ReplyDeleteEeyup. That's why I left. I started becoming desensitized to the behavior that was so commonplace there, and it became "normal". I finally got away from there, and I have no desire to go back. They could offer free pony prizes and I wouldn't go back. I cherish my soul.
That may sound overly dramatic, but really, you do get used to the horrible things that appear, and the trashy behavior, and it becomes normal, and you adjust, but it's not good for you. Everypony is free to do what they like, but it's not the much touted place of free thought and creativity that has become it's reputation.
EqD, Ponychan, all the nice little pony fora, those places are better for everypony to enjoy the show, to enjoy the community. Just because one comes from ooze does not mean one should return to it so readily.
Not really interested in checking out this board... 4chan generally leaves me feeling dead inside, quite honestly. Mind you, moot may be sincere. I'd like to think so. It's some of 4chan denizens that are the problem, as witnessed by some of the posts here. Of course not ALL of the 4chan folks are bad, but there are enough bad apples to spoil the bunch for me.
ReplyDeleteHey, they didn't want the Bronies around before, and made their displeasure clear. We have places like this, Ponychan, etc now. Who needs 4chan?
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out, but I think I'll be watching from a distance.
Hmmmmmm... Nah.
ReplyDeleteMoot the ultimate fagooter lost for the 3rd time? Hehe. I was getting back to my home 30 seconds after each "horsekawk" ban so I didn't really care but it can be fun.
ReplyDeletePS.
That dumbass made it a "15" lol
@The Lotus Tea Dragon
ReplyDeleteThink I am going to agree with this for now. I tried reading through some of the threads and well I'm not liking how I am feeling right now. Kinda sick to my stomach. Probably should be sleeping anyway. Almost 1 AM for me.
Please guys... Don't think all of 4chan is as bad a /b/. It's not. Most of it is actually entertaining without being full of porn and stupidity and the trolls are either clever or too dumb to be taken seriously (which is clever in its own way).
ReplyDelete@Nämahs
ReplyDeleteYeah, bronies were born in 4chan... a long, long time ago. Since then there's been several generations of new bronies who have never been to 4chan nor do they ever want to.
It's kind of like saying how the US was founded by England. Old history.
Personally, I don't have anything specific against 4chan -- I just don't want ponies to be associated with it anymore. To me, ponies are all about love and positivity, while 4chan is all about hate and ignorance. They just don't mix.
4chan =/= /b/
ReplyDeleteJesus.
This is bad comedy.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but.... no. Not forgiven, 4chan. Sorry. I find it impossible to believe that any pony fans would ever want to have a pony board on 4chan, a place that is already incredibly unfriendly, unwelcoming, intolerant, and exceptionally difficult to find any reasonable discussion there.
I think I'll have to echo the sentiments of one General Ackbar from Star Wars, for this.
all the bashing of 4chan is sad and uninformed.
ReplyDeleteThis fandom was at it's BEST when we were pretty much just on 4chan, there was almost no drama or infighting and there wasn't this crazy twisted version of "love and tolerance" back then it was treated as the joke that it was, a way to deter trolls by not responding angrily.
Back then this fandom wasn't chock full of insane r34 ether.
@Vipera
ReplyDeleteyup sadly this fandom is full of morons, cowards and people who don't understand the internet.
Ponies are triumph over hate and get there own board on 4chan, I love it, but it seems to be getting mixed reception so far. Either way I'll probably just stick with Ponychan.
ReplyDeleteSeriously.
ReplyDeleteDo they really think they're fooling anyone with this?
I do kind of find it funny that 4chan and moot has such an inflated opinion of themselves and their awful fucking website as to think that trying to corralling bronies into a trap that'll result in a "ban", is, in any way, some kind of a BAD thing. As I see it there are two choices. To either voluntarily not post there, or to involuntarily not be able to post there.
Wait, go back a bit.... did I say I find it kind of "funny"? No, i'm sorry. "Pathetic." Yeah. that's the word I meant.
@Mojo
ReplyDelete"all the bashing of 4chan is sad and uninformed."
no.
"All the bashing of 4chan is absolutely reasonable and completely, 100% accurate."
Fixed.
Does this mean I will experience less hate on the site that brought me into the fandom?
ReplyDeleteThe sweaty smelly asscrack of the internet wants us back. I'll withold my enthusiasm if you all don't mind.
ReplyDelete@NightStarX
ReplyDeleteWere you around back then, during the early days of the fandom?
do you partake in any internet memes?
@NightStarX
ReplyDelete"all the bashing of 4chan is sad and uninformed."
I totally agree
"All the bashing of 4chan is absolutely horrible and completely, 100% not called for."
Fixed.
@Mojo I was going to say something, but I suppose you brought this one upon yourself: Do not feed the parasprites. Love and tolerate. Your opinion is yours to have and I'm glad we live on an internet free enough to express it.
ReplyDelete...no, sir, I don't trust it.
ReplyDelete@MedicShy
ReplyDeleteWho said it's free? you like what i like or you are DEAD to me!
jk love you
The closest association I have to 4chan is looking around the archives of /tg/ (nice community there, once turned a picture of Shadow of the Colossus into a discussion of a setting where people live on the backs of giants.), so...indifference is bliss.
ReplyDeleteDumb idea... Srly very dumb. First we have ponychan which is moderated. Second we don't have to put up with the trolls shit.(50% of the threads are trolls.) Third disgusting spammed images. Fourth it's not mlp board, it's defend the show likes it's your life board. Srly why should we even care?
ReplyDeleteMeh, Love and Tolerate my fellows.
ReplyDelete4chan is the anus of the internet anyway.
@Gekkey
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Not all of 4chan is like /b/. A lot of people not real familiar with the rest of the site don't realize that though. But there's even intelligent discussions and some pretty smart people in some areas. It's like a city. There's bad and good areas in it.
4chan has a certain chaotic nature that it not only indulges in, but encourages. There's nothing wrong with its form of expression regardless of how extreme it gets, but it is not a site I could ever take seriously.
ReplyDeleteIt can have whatever fun it wants, but wanting me to *trust* it? No, sorry, that is not possible.
@MlpCrazedBronie
ReplyDelete>Ponychan
>Well moderated.
HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA.
if you like mods who ban for little to no reason for mere dislike of something and play favorites.
that city has some of the worst moderation iv seen.
@Mojo
ReplyDeleteThis a thousand times.
May be a bit late for this, but I'm calling a rollcall for anyone who was on /co/ from October thru January 2010.
Sean Okaroid reporting.
I made the very first minecraft pony. I've been watching since episode 1 and hail from 4chan's /co/. I'm damn proud to be one of the original bronies. We brought this fandom up from nothing and fanned it into the monstrosity it is today.
Huzzah, I love this idea!
ReplyDelete(Im the kind of person who loves the chaotic hell /b/ creates.)
I discovered the wonders of 4chan thanks to ponies. Is that right?
ReplyDeleteInb4hatersruineverythingagain.
ReplyDeleteIt WILL happen. But from my experience, all the good trolls are now bronies, and all the haters suck at trolling.
Course I haven't seen many haters trolling outside of TF2 and Second Life and their lousy trolls may just be a general thing for those communities.
http://derpyhoovesnews.com/moot-addresses-concerns-about-a-pony-board-on-4chan/
ReplyDeleteI feel compelled to bring this up. EqD isn't the only news site y'know. Just the biggest.
Joey: I discovered the wonders of pony thanks to 4chan. In the chaotic mess of 4chan I saw people posting reaction images of the show. I ignored them for a few weeks then talked myself into watching the show.
ReplyDeleteThe safe boards can be constructive but be adviced April 1st is a month and a half away.
Also, I imagine /mlp/ is in a state of chaos right now. It should fall into some kind of order eventually... maybe.
Wow. So it wasn't a rumor, they really did it.
ReplyDeleteI am happy about this, but also weary. However, 4chan is a hostile place only to those who consider it so. I never considered it hostile, so I am really okay with this. Ponies have a board for their own now. I think it's a good way to contain the endless traffic of pony and pony threads that invade other boards in a daily basis.
If anyone from 4chan reads this comment, this is all I have to say:
Thank you guys /]*[\
It won't last. There are /b/tard pony fans who are claiming that they are /b/tards and /b/ is their home, not the /mlp/ board. I can't see it lasting.
ReplyDeleteAnd granted, not all of 4chan is a cesspool of hate like /b/. I need to remind myself of that more, I hypocritically lump all the 4chan users together based on what I've seen of /b/, and get annoyed when they do the same thing to bronies.
I have to wonder if this isn't a trick like the furry board was.
ReplyDeleteThe success of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the online brony phenomenon has absolutely, positively NOTHING whatsoever to do with the perpetually miserable rotting hell-den of hatred and stupidity known as 4chan, in any way, shape or form.
ReplyDeleteNo part of the MLP:FiM fanbase owes absolutely anything to that cesspool of a website.
MLP:FiM's popularity and the entire Brony movement and community as a whole..... every last bit of it, owes it's dedication and allegiance fully to the creative mind and imagination of Lauren Faust, the immeasurably hard work and quality production of Studio B, and the executive decision makers and franchise leaders at Hasbro.
No one else, aside from the individual bronies themselves who discovered it, NO MATTER where they came from or what website they MAY have been posting on at the time, can lay ANY claim to that which Faust, Studio B, and Hasbro have full, and exclusive credit for creating.
And certainly no debt or respect owed to a miserably pathetic, nearly worthless, entirely soulless, troll-infested, impossibly overrated repository of everything wrong with the internet today, that sums up the very lowest common denominator of the deepest reaches of intolerant hostility and the most wretched aspects of humanity as a whole, as 4Chan.
I mean, really? The biggest online conglomeration of blatant racists, pedophiles, criminals, pirates, hackers, and general scumbags, now want to claim to be the origin of something like the combined work of Lauren Faust's imagination, Studio B's hard work, and Hasbro's intellectual property?? REALLY??
I would laugh at that concept, if it wasn't so absolutely sickening to even consider.
4Chan is responsible for absolutely NO part of this fandom, has NO claim to any part of this fandom and it NEVER will.
Those assorted pockets of people who noticed a cartoon airing on The Hub. They individually, each as people, no matter the site they were posting on, might have discovered a TV show that a lot of other decent people were being attracted to AS WELL..... But 4CHAN as a combined, administered collective "created" bronies? NO. NO. NEVER DID. Untrue.
The fact of the matter is, 4Chan has about as much legitimate claim to the "brony" movement as Amid Amdi from Cartoon Brew does.... You know... the guy also claims he created bronies because he insulted us and the show and believes he convinced us to "band together" against him, first.
Which is to say that Amid is full of crap, and 4Chan and especially moot, are also full of crap.
4Chan can sit here and now claim to have invented bronies because some people saw the show while posting on that awful site? Ok. But if I was eating at a McDonalds and saw a rainbow outside the window, it doesn't mean that McDonalds created that rainbow outside.
Not to mention that 4Chan wouldn't have any claim to make for the brony phenomenon even if they DIDN'T actively shun and ban everyone for liking the show, immediately after. It just makes them sound like even more of a hypocritical assortment of attention whoring douchebags trying to lay false claims to something that as an entity, they had precisely zero to ever do with from minute one.
(cont) It doesn't matter where you were at, it doesn't matter what arbitrary website you might have been posting on. It matters that Faust begat G4 ponies as a reinvented property. It matters that Hasbro commissioned her to make the show. It matters that Faust and the Studio B team made a great quality show that attracted people WITH it's quality.
ReplyDeleteAnd it matters that people all over the world, online and off, tuned into the show and noticed it, no matter what awful, little nothing website can blitheringly claim to be it's first sighting, when there's not even the slightest shred of evidence to ever back that up, even if ignoring 4Chan's incredibly negative initial reaction of mass bans TO it, anyway.
4Chan is nothing. It's always been nothing aside from where everything that's wrong with the internet starts and ends, lives and dies in chaos, anarchy, stupidity obscurity and irrelevance, and Friendship Is Magic has no ties to anything involving that site.
You want the origin of FiM? Look to where it really began. Not to a bunch of hateful, nobody, egotistical dirtballs trying to stake their claim on something they never respected or had any rights or claim to since day one.
meh. 4chan has good elements - /b/ is the real hellpit to which no one should go. there's a surprising degree of community elsewhere, though, especially on some of the slower, more cloistered boards (at least in my experience) - maybe /mlp/ could become like that?
ReplyDelete@NightStarX
ReplyDeleteCareful mate. Lets not try and start an infighting flame war on a fan website on a show that has "Friendship is Magic" as the subtitle, okay?
...wow...
ReplyDeleteThis is going to take a while to sink in.
This is of enormous significance, considering our origins there a year and a half ago.
I remember browsing those threads on /co/ and /b/. Good times. Until they came down on us with the banhammer at least.
I don't use 4Chan, but I am aware that they did a Trap Board in the past in which anyone who posted on it got a Permanant Ban, that was on April Fool's Day last time, but I'd advise caution if you are a 4Chan regular.
ReplyDeleteBah. We have good thing. Screw anything else.
ReplyDeleteApplejinx here, used to post on /b/ long before ponies or anythin'.
ReplyDeleteSeems like it might be fun to me! Ponychan's gonna be a lot nicer, but you can't get naughty on ponychan out of respect for the site's intentions and their hosting issues. Everybody knows 4chan is fair game for anything.
I'm definitely going to drop by and lurk from time to time, and I might even write special things for th' new board if I'm feelin' lively.
@Mike
ReplyDeleteI thought this was less likely than Hasbro making show-accurate toys. But now, both have happened.
Incredible. Just incredible.
BANNED FROM /mlp/
ReplyDeleteBACK TO /b/ IN TEN SECONDS FLAT