Basically some mad fuck at Hasbro decided to get Lauren Faust, who is an evil cartoon making genius, to do a My Little Pony cartoon and come up with some designs that could be made into dolls to sell to little girls.
Lauren Faust then somehow created a fucking mind virus, which began its spread on 4Chan's /co/ board, before it finally jumped to /b/ and turned the internet hate machine into some weird brightly coloured post-heteronormative rainbow brigade of My Little Pony fans.
This led to something about as horrible as it sounds, but then the saddlesore mods at /b/ made posting ponies a bannable offense, and that's how equestria daily (and ponychan and ponibooru) was made.
One of the ways it has spread is because basically all the creativefags from 4chan latched onto the show because it was a perfect storm of incredibly sharp writing, wonderful yet simplistic art work, matched to extremely high quality animation (plus musical numbers that get stuck in your head FOREVEEERRR), so there's been this seemingly endless stream of just awesome fan produced product, a major chunk of which has been the "ponified trailers" thing which this is a part of, in which the sound from a movie trailer is overlayed to various clips from My Little Pony, so you have things like Pony Craft 2 (http://youtu.be/JJbAT1wzS8U), or Elder Scrolls VI: Equestria (http://youtu.be/egrlzkKa6O8).
And then there's the really creative stuff, like Corridors of Cupcakes (http://youtu.be/nNDMEVJzvfQ) (which is a version of "corridors of time" from the snes game Chrono Trigger redone using nothing but sound samples from the show) or this redoing of this (http://youtu.be/L53gjP-TtGE) Kanye West video with nothing but PONIES (http://youtu.be/8srUyAIjCdo).
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Date: 2011-07-24 12:28 pm (UTC)Lauren Faust then somehow created a fucking mind virus, which began its spread on 4Chan's /co/ board, before it finally jumped to /b/ and turned the internet hate machine into some weird brightly coloured post-heteronormative rainbow brigade of My Little Pony fans.
This led to something about as horrible as it sounds, but then the saddlesore mods at /b/ made posting ponies a bannable offense, and that's how equestria daily (and ponychan and ponibooru) was made.
One of the ways it has spread is because basically all the creativefags from 4chan latched onto the show because it was a perfect storm of incredibly sharp writing, wonderful yet simplistic art work, matched to extremely high quality animation (plus musical numbers that get stuck in your head FOREVEEERRR), so there's been this seemingly endless stream of just awesome fan produced product, a major chunk of which has been the "ponified trailers" thing which this is a part of, in which the sound from a movie trailer is overlayed to various clips from My Little Pony, so you have things like Pony Craft 2 (http://youtu.be/JJbAT1wzS8U), or Elder Scrolls VI: Equestria (http://youtu.be/egrlzkKa6O8).
And then there's the really creative stuff, like Corridors of Cupcakes (http://youtu.be/nNDMEVJzvfQ) (which is a version of "corridors of time" from the snes game Chrono Trigger redone using nothing but sound samples from the show) or this redoing of this (http://youtu.be/L53gjP-TtGE) Kanye West video with nothing but PONIES (http://youtu.be/8srUyAIjCdo).