othius.bsky.social
21 Artist, Musician, Game Developer // Creative [Incomprehensible Horror {Living In Your Walls}] One day I existed! Not much has changed since then.
👤 Joined on 18 September 2024
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@othius.bsky.social@othius.bsky.social → @greg.show@greg.show → @othius.bsky.sociali have a very distinct memory of my sister in law, a perfectly normal not-online 40 year old progressive mom, complaining about FIM in 2011 or so because the redesigns "pervert the wholesomeness of the originals and are clearly meant to have sex appeal for teen boys and young men."
Show Posti don't know where this anecdote fits in the discursive constellation you're describing, it's just one of those things that happened in real life and has haunted me ever since.
Show Postand they all took the show's clear signals to an older demographic like adventure & action & light character drama and said this must secretly be for men in their twenties, because little girls r all just toddlers until they are 18
Show Postin 2011 the bronies convinced me that i was not in the target demographic for my little pony friendship is magic even though i was 11 years old
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