i live in a densely populated suburb, meaning that i don’t have a night sky. light pollution masks the stars behind an orange glow. everyone else seems used to it..

know what would be really fun? asks. i swear, totally worth both of our time. asks are welcome, always, but now, they would just be adored, by me. so, just.. ask me something.. otherwise i will have received confirmation that even the internet fails to provide escape from my complete isolation..

applebeansokay:

I actually think a lot of the negative aspects of the brony community are pretty blown out of proportion. People are too saturated in the goings-on of tumblr and reddit to a point where they just engulf themselves in negativity over things that are hardly even prominent outside of said sites.

Kids, young girls, are more likely to end up on redtube or brazzers than they are to stumble into the depths of ask-molestia to be traumatized for life over ‘rape jokes’. They’re not going to end up in a subreddit reading paragraph-long arguments over the skin-color of a humanized character. Kids are going to generally be hanging around top google searches, youtube, and club penguin.

At this point, to say that the show isn’t made for anyone other than the specific target demographic is ridiculous. Besides, the producers of the show and Lauren Faust have said plenty of times that they wanted it to be a show that parents can also enjoy, alongside their children. Hasbro has no trouble with paying mind to the unexpected, older demographic as well, and why should they? Why wouldn’t you embrace a large and incredibly vocal part of your audience when there’s money to be made and people to entertain? 

Nobody is out to snatch the show from little girls, that’s not happening and the main focus of the show is still there. In fact, the older audience has in many ways made the show far more successful and there’s plenty of statistics to enforce that, but really, use your common sense on that one. 

Anyway, the risk of a kid seeing porn on the internet is ever-present. MLP doesn’t even have a very impressive amount of pornographic images and it far from overshadows the 300,000+ clean images that flood deviantart. I’m probably missing a few hundred thousand images from that estimate too, but I have to rely on specific tagging. All of that dips into google images and makes the chances of seeing unwanted, explicit images very unlikely. 

I’ve gone through the entirety of the first-most image result pages for the search words ‘friendship is magic’ quite a few times, scanning around to report anything that shouldn’t come up in the moderate safe-search and I’ve very seldom had to report anything. If you care as much about the kids on the internet as you claim you do, then organize some people to clean up google pages and other sites by reporting stuff. There you go bronies, if you want to look cool then organize some clean-up efforts or something.

Otherwise, if parents don’t want to put safe-search on google, then that’s out of anybody’s hands. You’ll find explicit images for anything if you don’t have safe-search on. All you can do is urge people to be considerate towards the kids on the internet who aren’t fortunate to have technologically responsible parents. If you’re doing that then you’re not in the wrong, but there’s no reason to condemn thousands of people just because there’s explicit images on the internet. 

Now, that isn’t to say that there aren’t still places where explicit material based on the show is easily accessible. Geten made a very good point of this awhile back. Many places on Youtube can lead straight from actual show material to explicit content in just one click. Some of the videos have age-restrictions and a lot of them do not for whatever reason. If you want to try and fix this then flag stuff that’s inappropriate and if that doesn’t work then I don’t know, good luck complaining to youtube about it, that’s all I can say.

For the record, I’m just trying to be fair here because I keep seeing the same negative posts popping up. I’m personally not very concerned with kids seeing some ‘bad’ stuff on the internet, because I grew up watching robocop and cheesy horror flicks and thinking about funny ways to mutilate kids’ shows when I was a kid myself. If you wanna put yourself up above a community because you don’t like a few aspects of it then go right ahead, I think it’s still going alright though.

I still find it kind of weird though, how a lot of the people who put down the entirety of the community are also the same people who follow well-known artists in the fandom. I mean, don’t you think you may be forgetting something there? Get off tumblr, stop pissing yourself off with confession blogs and resurrecting old, irrelevant topics. There’s still a lot of good people here, go donate to a charity or something, there’s been a lot of those going around lately, geez….

TL;DR: too bad chump, read it.

i have used this as an opportunity to prove my theory that all mechanical pencils except mine suffer from major, major design flaws.. my theory was correct.