Do you ever forget MLP is a "little girls show"?

[NeonCobalt 256]

I gotta be honest, I sometimes completely forget who this show is technically targeted at. Anyone else experience this?

Edited December 20, 2015 by NeonCobalt

[DuskRain 193]

All the time. Its not something I think about a lot.

[Sporemane 546]

Yes I have to remind my self sometimes that the cartoon with colorful horses was intended for children

[Sidral Mundet 1,666]

I pretty much have to remind myself of this any time I get a cool idea because it would never fly on the show.(Mostly because there would be violence and serialization needed for it to work) 

[Koukatsu 5,899]

No, I don't forget that this show is targeted at families. I also don't forget that, just as children can enjoy this without their parents, so can adults who don't have children. c:

[power strike 198]

yes i do completely ! i almost thought this was made around 2000s and forget it was made for more teenage/adult show like the 90s cartoons lol.

[Akari of Duskshire 581]

I never forget that it's a family show, just as I never forget that the sun is bright.  In my mind, it's common knowledge, what's the big deal?

[Trixie Heartstrings 434]

From time to time I forget, because it doesn't really matter to me that much.

[Dark Qiviut 22,430]

Nope, because it's factually wrong to call it a little girls' show. FIM is an all-ages, unisex, family-friendly show that aims to capture all demographics regardless of age or gender. Good quality is demographically blind.

Edited December 20, 2015 by Dark Qiviut

[melody5697 195]

I don't really think about it that much, which is different from forgetting.

[[NULL] 906]

No. I've always been aware that it's primarily marketed towards young girls.

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

I never gave it much thought. The season ending two parter seems more adult orientated though. Altering small things in the past causing greater and greater disruptions in the future, until all was a lifeless wasteland, seems a bit much for the little ones to grasp. I was waiting for Starlight to grin and Twilight, and stomp on a butterfly!

[Foxy Socks 2,599]

Not really, I don't forget that it's made for the target audience, though I consider it more of a family show.

[kanwe yest 157]

On episodes that really hype you, I do. Like the last two episodes of season 4. But of course I'm aware it was intended for a younger audience.

[skbl17 199]

No, I don't. MLP is a girls show, true...that doesn't mean I (as a guy) can't enjoy it. 

[Shimmer Sparkle 4,101]

I honestly don't think about it that much. Although, I've had to make that realization a few times. 

[TubeSock2018 325]

No, for me, unfortunately.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,558]

I kinda forgot about that a long time ago. At this point, I am not too fond of giving a show like this such a simplistic genre or category. FiM just isn't a 'little girls show'. It is far beyond that at this point. What owuld we call the transformers cartoons? 'Little boys show?' Many people wouldn't because apparently a girl can watch that kind of show but a boy can't watch something like FiM. That stuff is a bunch of ideals I have distanced myself from.

[Unlikeable Pony 2,698]

Eh, I've never stopped realizing that this show and franchise are, at its core, 100% for the little girls. I understand that completely, as hasbro and the staff have made it VERY clear (and said so explicitly) that, while adult fans are a nice addition, the primary audience of young girls is still the priority by far. So I know that its "still" a little girls franchise.



That being said, Its not something that I think about when WATCHING the show. I mean, when I watch transformers or TMNT I don't constantly think to myself "this is a small boys show" or anything
I only think about such things when questions of merchandise or show directions for the future come up.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

Funny thing is, if you make a show for little girls really, really well, it becomes a good show for anyone!

[cider float 2,538]

Not really, I've always knew I was watching a little girl's show because the show doesn't go past a lot of barriers and seems pretty clean and even most of the time unlike how Japanese cartoons start out innocent and soft than goes hardcore and batshit crazy at the end.

 

In fact the show seems to be plummeting into more of a typical girl's show. I mean telling Luna and Starlight it's okay let's be friends has been everything that needed to be said? Gimme a break.

[Comic Sans 401]

It is actually surprisingly easy to forget, yes.

[JeyWiz 1,097]

Yes! Actually, I do! I thought i was the only one who sometimes forgets that the show is targeted to girls, maybe because I focus a lot of the fan content, which isn't too 'girly' at all, but no. Turns out that i'm not the only one who doesn't consider it a show for little girls anymore. Even Faust herself said that FiM was for all ages and genders. Maybe also because I don't buy the official toys that were made for the girls, and I only collect the funko models, posters etc.

Edited December 20, 2015 by Ravelicious

[Pinkiest Pie 405]

I remember this all the time. I can never get it out of my head.

[Malinter 3,064]

Not really. The show is for everyone (that isn't a souless killjoy). The gender and age of those actually buying the toys and merch is of no concern to me.

Edited December 20, 2015 by Malinter