The Coffee Pony

Guys! It''s been 9 years, we had our fun,we'll have had 9 seasons, 2 movies, years worth of comics, a spinoff that also has a ton of content, not to mention all the fan works under the sun. It's over guys, you have to come to terms with reality, live with it and move on. All good things come to an end eventually. Besides it has so much content and you can revisit it whenever you like. BRING ON G5!!!

So for the past couple of pages all I've been seeing are about the Fandom. I have to be blunt, right now, who the fuck cares about the fandom? The Fandom or the reputation of the fandom should be far from everyone's mind. I don't know why people have to announce their "departure from the fandom" or have to "defend the fandom", this isn't about you, it's not about Dr Wolf's thoughts on the situation and it's not about the fandom. All this fandom really is, is a bunch of people who happen to like MLP, sometimes a bit too much. There's nothing special about it. Why are you guys even focusing on it? It doesn't matter, especially not at this moment. This is about an individual preying on a bunch of people and his victims. The questions you should all be asking right now is "Will he face justice?", "What can be done to help the victims of this guy?" and "What can be done to stop more people like him?". The fandom's reputation is irrelevant.

That's more than likely not going to happen simply because the loss the bronies aren't a big source of income for Hasbro, the fandom never was. The fandom only made Hasbro a small amount of money because most bronies don't buy the merchandise. In fact they spend more money on fandom made merch than the official merchandise. They didn't make up a huge number of DVD/Bluray sales either as most of them tend to watch the show, movies and specials via Netflix and Piracy. Besides, by 2020 we will have had 9 seasons, a movie, a comic series and a spin-off. G4 has produced quite a lot of content that we can enjoy long after it ends. Isn't that enough? We knew this day was going to come for a long time and I am more than satisfied with what we've been given. I've been ready for the end for a good couple of years now and while I am sad that G4's going, I'm ready to give G5 a chance. From what I've read from the leak, Meghan McCarthy wants to make G5 a damn good show. She wants to take what made G4 good and improve on it and I like most of what she has in mind. So yeah, I embrace G5 with open arms and I embrace the change! I hope the show will be a success and I hope it'll even top G4 in quality. And I would also like to remind the "Doom & Gloomers" here that you're not the first fandom to ever go through this phase. You're not even the first Hasbro-based fandom to go through this. Allow me to tell you about MLP's brother franchise that also had a beloved show and gained quite a fandom. It ended too and got another generation that outraged many! Guess what? It ended up being a massive success and Hasbro learned from it and incorporated what made it a success, including the storytelling, into future shows. And while it's had a couple of downs most of the shows in this franchise are still loved and have huge followings. It's called Transformers and it has a fandom that far outsizes this one. It even has its own obnoxious and insufferable fans that can't seem to move on from an entry, the most well known of these fans are called the Geewunners. After being a Transformers fan since I was a little kid and seeing what's happened to the franchise since Beast Wars, I am more than confident that Hasbro will be as good to MLP as it has been to Transformers.