>>5481 >Austism is the answer but it doesn't explain why it can be so high quality or different from your normal fandoms. I could sort of explain this. Considering that this fanbase always involves the same circles, the sense of familiarity and mutual favors increase a lot. The high quality might be explained because people who have been drawing for MLP have stayed long enough so now, they have improved and have become high profile artists because of support and the desire of always looking for more material. I personally haven´t spent a single euro yet on digital fanart but I suppose bronies spend their money on their Patreons so those artists stay comfortably in the community and deliver more content. Lots of interviews in EQD have revealed that artists have received lots of support in the fanbase and have praised their support (the huge majority are drawing for hobby). So, in this regard, the donations/commissions encourage at least, more content (witht their respective numbers of likes and favorites). Quality comes over time and/or experience. Don´t think that the fanabse aimed all that high in the early drawfriends of Equestria Daily.
However, high quality pictures are anywhere really just that the brony community has it pretty well organized.
>Your fandom is starting to look to me like some bastard furry son of the Serial Experience Lain fandom and trekies. You got the pointless debates and the various factions of the trekkies with the insanity and loyalty of lain and mega projects like they both do. well, I believe that you have nailed it with that comparison with the treekies. Sometimes the show arises levels of discussion that are tense and taking way seriously for every single detail in terms of characters, pessimism towards any new material and the huge avalanche of varied opinions in some controversial opinions that make it really hard to come up with conclusions. At some point, I said that discussing about the show was harder than discussing about politics for me....and it´s not even worth it in order to convince to faggots who are entitled to their views and will downgrade yours, consuming lots of energies for nothing. About Serial Experience, the concept of waifus domains the discourse and mentality of /mlp/. The day when holograms exist with real voices of the original VA from the show, the cyberpunk scenes will get written by themselves (if they aren´t typing them already...)
>I just wonder how MLP could do that when you have other ambitious shows that broke boundaries or were trailblazers yet there fandoms are pretty average like Avatar the Last Airbender or Adventure Time. MLP is special for several reasons. FiM had a familiar tone that could appeal to the family at first but in no way, it thought that it would reach this far. The charm about MLP is how it manages to change over time (its evolution throughout the seasons), the fact that nothing is filler (in a slice of life show, the word filler doesn´t exist) and you have to take everything into account in order to rank the seasons properly. It hasn´t changed the animation industry but as I say here: >>5120, >>5121, >>5122, >>5123 and >>5124, this show hasn´t changed that but the toy commercial cartoon. Whenever someone decides to make a show aimed at little girls, the poor writing won´t be justified because MLP, toy commercial at its core, has managed to reach this far despite all the directions/restrictions from Hasbro. No one has any excuse anymore and this show will be their curse, including future generations of MLP.
Besides that, there are more charming things but I believe that I will explain those for another day. Those posts define it better than I could do tonight.
