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As much as I feel more soured on it from what it implied with Twilight and the others. I don't think I completely hate the characters or concepts but execution left a lot to be desired. Looking back, perhaps the biggest waste was that BOTH the netflix series and YT shorts were dumbed down compared to FiM. Thus they didn't have a shot of inheriting both kids who grew up with FiM and the some larger chuck of the fandom.   

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Surprised I missed this post. 

> The earnest fans of the show I've seen seem quite passionate about it, and that's in spite of the obvious strong hatred the show received from the fandom. So I can't help but respect people who not only love something so hate
> and that was with a huge supportive fandom still left intact. What the G5 fans are going to do and where they're going to go, I've no idea
A big question I have is how separated G5 and G4 fans are. I know there is an overlap but I've seen talk of a lot of G5 fans being zoomers who have a distaste for the old G4 fandom to some extent but I don't know if these are real dynamics or half made up dynamics that are more complicated Like, eh, Skibidi Toilet, the supposed "gen alpha" meme that is made by an old source film maker guy, any ol' person who even was partly familiar with SFM videos would know how surreal those could be at times.

> By which I mean not just that the sooner we get G6 the sooner we'll see which one of these it will be, but the sooner we get G6, if it's bad, the sooner we'll get G7 too, and G8 and so on until they bury the franchise, or manage to make it into something again.
That is like the most optimistic take on the corporate milking cycle. I am, while not completely cynical, more skeptical anything new from the franchise could ever hold my interest. Yet I get the sentiment. I have been debating going through and reviewing Pony Life. Even if it is kind of stupid and low quality, maybe I would be inspired by meme fuel or something. Some fun could still be had.