Repeat Stuff: The Most Subversive PMV Ever

[Stellafera 3,836]

A fair warning that this song is PG-13; don't show it to your kids or your boss. Also contains mild use of flashing text. No jump scares or anything like that, though.

 

With that out of the way...

 

 

 

This was a pretty intense one, no?

 

The fact that I included some real life footage is something of an acknowledgement that, well, I’m making this really satiric video -- but I actually enjoyed Rainbow Rocks myself, and that’s, ah, hypocritical, so I guess I was sucked in too. Creating anything for an audience is a form of emotional manipulation, and that’s not all bad. The EQG series is undoubtedly a cash grab. And yet they seem to be making something pretty good with it now, actually. But then you look at stuff like the Friendship Rainbow Kingdom Castle, and you remember some of the negative manipulative aspects of MLP, and the EQG movies have more of that than the original with things like Flash Sentry.

I tried to stress the original show as the “good guy” here, because it’s not necessarily MLP that is the big problem, but the culture around some of girls’ media. The kind of stuff Lauren Faust tried to stop. And she definitely helped, oh, she helped, but even now there’s still places where they’ll repeat this stuff.

 

That's what I'd like to say.

 

Edited November 17, 2014 by Stellafera

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

Reminder to everybody that Stellafera and Bo Burnham are after your daughters' money and hearts and they aren't to be trusted.

 

This video's very in the spirit of MLP itself, in a way. Corporate shlubs may mandate pumping out questionable stuff in an attempt to worm their way into our wallets hearts, but that doesn't mean people like you or Faust can't find a way to make something positive out of it. And I think that's pretty cool. My favorite part is still the CMC scene at the end.