HawkNightingale

After watching a recent video by Raymundo 2112 I started to think back about the parts of the fandom that terrified back in the day. I do definitely remember being pretty freaked out by "Smile HD" (as well as MisterDavie's other vids) back in the day, but not as others claimed to have been. For example it didn't give me any nightmares or altered the way I saw Pinkie on the show, to me it was just a really disturbing video. I was more scared by the Luna Game, especially the scary faces that would pop up. This was back in like 2013 when creepypasta was a thing and a lot of that kind of stuff traumatized middle school aged me. SHED.MOV scared a lot of people but I wasn't terribly scared by it, I think I was old enough to get that it was supposed to be a joke. I know MisterDavie's videos were a joke but the fact that they looked so much like the show was what freaked me out. The .MOV vids looked nothing like the show so I was largely ok with them. There was also this one guy on Derpibooru I believe who made the ugliest MLP art imaginable. I can't remember what his username was or anything but I remember he made a lot of racist Nazi art and his art style was intentionally very ugly and hard to look at. I seem to remember one art piece by him of this giant Godzilla like monster in a Nazi uniform attacking a bunch of ugly ponies. I'm pretty sure the artist was intentionally trying to be "edgy" but back then I thought it was anti-Brony hate art and it made me severely upset. On the topic of that, some of the Fluffy Pony abuse art that would sometimes turn up on DB made me feel really uncomfortable. Was there any fan content that traumatized you back in the day?

Episode 100 hooves down. The fandom was at its absolute peak at the time and the episode was the ultimate shout-out.