What if MLP:FiM was made during the 90's?

Kiryu2012

I couldn’t help but wonder: What if MLP:FiM had been made and released during the 90’s? Would it have been as popular as it is now? What would have been different? Would it still be going in the 2010’s, or would it have been eventually ended at some point in time?
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I kinda think G2 (which had no cartoon), G3, and G3.5 (ugh) needed to happen first. I think Hasbro wouldn’t have been as interested in getting a fire going for MLP had it not sunk so low.
 
My Little Pony Tales aired in 1992, just 5 years after the first My Little Pony cartoon just finished airing in 1987.
 
I have a hard time picturing it, but I think it’s because I know too much about how MLP history actually unfolded. I think even with good writing it may have struggled. I really do think the Internet had a huge influence on advertising the show for Hasbro; I have to wonder if enough people would have been convinced to watch the show. I mean, I can’t tell you how many people came into Pony really, really skeptical. Would people have been convinced with clever advertising in the early 90s? In the early age of dial-up, especially after AOL offered a flat-rate plan in 1996, online video consisted of deliberately seeking out poor-quality video files that took a VERY long time to download. Social media consisted of LiveJournal, which was typically text-heavy. Posting pictures was a bit of a pain, and thus a very deliberate process.
 
YouTube, 4chan, Twitter, MySpace, and FaceBook didn’t exist until the 2000s.
 
…musing a bit more, I remember being a part of Invader Zim fandom in the early 2000s. YouTube hadn’t been invented yet, and I was still on dial-up. I remember hunting down weekly episodes and downloading them so I could play them on RealPlayer. I think I only knew about Invader Zim because a friend got me into the show, not because of anything I saw online.
 
It is interesting to think about.
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