Throughts on the current state of the fandom

Kane the Wimged Hussar

Kane the Winged Hussar
What are your thoughts on the current state of the fandom? That it is a fraction of what it used to be. It’s no longer the mighty empire it once was back from 2011-2016. Its population from millions to possibly only under a million. G4 is finally ending after 9 years, 2019 will see the last bronycon (from my knowledge), I’ve seen already discussions of it possibly being entirely absorbed into the furry fandom and becoming a branch of it. No longer any major fanfics or animations (If there are they are far and few between). Derpibooru is from my knowledge the last major Brony website. It saw a minor spike when the movie came out, but after that its decline resumed.
 
Do you think it’ll ever comeback? When G5 starts up will their be a Brony revival? Even if not as great?
 
Am I exaggerating this?
Background Pony #E046
@Kane  
Après nous, le déluge.
 
And honestly Hasbro dont deserve any “revival” ,anyway it’s not like that it will ever happen since any potential artist probably wont want to make any creative efforts for Hasbro when you see how Faust was treated and left because of the insulting garbage that is EQG for which Faust was “pretty vocal with her disdain for the spinoff”  
I dont see G5 being succesful ,one (and that is not Hasbro fault) it’s very hard to make the lightning strike twice but when to top it off,you have point number two :no real talents at the helm but yes men that spent the past decades living off a creative spark they are unable to produce by themselves (so they’ll probalby resosrt to recycling and slavishly copy/endlessly reference G4 to start  
Let Hasbro be Hasbro,let them realize they cant have their cakes and eat them too,let them see there is a better way to balance commerce and art and that in their current state,they’ll be woefully unable to replicate it if they dont moderate their approach and move away from outdated 80s economy models.Or let them wallow in G3 tier garbage if they can grab some penny this way.
 
After us,the flood
 
There’s a temptation to reckon the attempts of artists like Lauren Faust to create entertaining and meaningful shows within the straitjacket of corporate commerce as entirely futile, hopeless. A mug’s game. But then I remember the Grand Galloping Gala in full swing. In time the techno music was blasting and a throng of kids massed together in the center of the dancefloor, dressed in cosplay pony ears and swishing tails and all sorts of homemade cartoon finery, pogoing, and suddenly it became clear that they were all chanting together.
Evan, I said. Are you hearing what they’re chanting. He’s all, What is it? It was this:
“Friendship! Friendship! Friendship!”
Let’s say you run a big public company; your rivals come up with a product you must compete with, you make a business plan and share some of the details about it in a conference call with analysts, and they publish reports anticipating earnings and make recommendations based on those. And then if all your plans succeed, there will be a solid uptick in the share price, thereby fulfilling the fiduciary responsibilities of the corporate management and board of directors. That is Commerce. But if two hundred kids in Anaheim are pogoing in a hotel conference room and shouting “Friendship!” over and over? Nobody at all knew that that was going to happen, or could possibly have anticipated it. That is Art.
Maria Bustillos,Friendship is Complicated,Longreads.com
 
Ruin, if you like, when we are dead and gone
Background Pony #5BA6
Hopefully it’s revived when G5 comes around and if not, wait a decade & perhaps someone in the fandom will be rich enough to buy the ip and make something of it. I hope for a cartoon with writing on par with Avatar The Last Airbender & a slightly higher rating so the show can be more impactful without crossing the line into intense gore or sexual content. But that’s just wishful thinking from me…
Background Pony #E046
@Background Pony #E4FA  
>perhaps someone in the fandom will be rich enough to buy the ip and make something of it  
That’s more like it (if the “someone” is a bigger company),i genuinely dont believe that G5 can make the lightning strike twice for the reason i mentionned above nor do i fault (despite everything i said) Hasbro for trying ,it make sense to try ,it’s one of their franchise that succeded after all.Maybe if Disney buy Hasbro,they can do something good with the franchise instead of shoving the character into a bullshit dimension that gravitate around a singular highschool and transform the characters into shitty DeviantArt OCs  
Dont get your hopes high for G5,just wait for Hasbro to realize that the “it factor” doesnt come out of focus group
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