Everytime when i take this history of the show itself, the crew of the show and the analysis about the quality of the show. I feel that Lauren Faust and the crew didn't really doing that much to hook the people into fandom.
The series to most insightful critics is poorly written, unrealistic and shortly should-be-terrible to older kids. I mean that the show supposed to be written for young girls, so of course the quality of the show is not good for elder people. But what i mean here is that MLP instead of getting more little girl fans, it gets flooded with teenagers and audults. Everyone in the entire world knows this is the weridest story ever written in history.
I didn't see Lauren Faust never intends to make this for teenagers and audults. She didn't ambitiously make the show popular in the internet. All it is because of luck!
Never dreamed to be a meme. Never dreamed it to be loved by audults. Never dreamed to get this popular.
When comparing to Harry Potter to Sherlock Holes, from Game of thrones to Star Wars,.... Those developers spent about millions of dollar to make their series really super popular, using all their brains to be as much as creative, hiring special effect guys,....
MLP crew didn't really spend that much profit like those popular series, but those profits are so luckily getting MLP into insanely popular today.
I questioned that how did Lauren Faust and the crew did it? Although their effort is not really much hard.