- calling Applejack a “background pony” when she's clearly a main character
- popular out-of-character portrayals (Celestia is clearly not a cruel tyrant who routinely sends her subjects to The Moon, Fluttershy doesn't even have a shed)
- overreactions to Twilight becoming an alicorn
- "Remember, it is a kid's show." Lauren Faust intended it to be for all ages, dammit
- "Flash Sentry stole my waifu." Twilight was nopony's waifu to begin with. We all had our first teenage crush on someone who, in retrospect, was a boring airhead whom we ultimately deserved better than