Equestria Daily
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| File:Equestria Daily logo.png | |
Type of site | Fan site |
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| Created by | Shaun Scotellaro |
| URL | http://equestriadaily.com |
| Commercial | No |
Equestria Daily (sometimes shortened as EqD) is a fan site dedicated to the 2010 animated show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
Overview
The fan site was originally established in January 2011 by 23-year-old college student Shaun Scotellaro, a resident of Arizona, to collect fan fiction and news specific to the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. While on the site, Shaun goes by his internet alias 'Sethisto', or simply 'Seth'. Other members of the site's staff include the editors 'Cereal Velocity' and 'Phoe'. After the temporary banning of pony-related content on the English imageboard 4chan,[3] the fan site quickly became popular within the brony subculture, as of June 2011 garnering roughly 175,000 through 300,000 page views per day.[4][5] Eventually, the Friendship is Magic production team, as well as the network on which it airs, The Hub, recognized the existence of the site, and have since occasionally sent official material to Equestria Daily, with the most notable being an extended promo of 'Equestria Girls', a parody of Katy Perry's California Gurls.[6] Emily Manuel of GlobalComment wrote and that scanning the site for fan-created works got her through the long wait until the next season.[7]
Shaun has found his inspiration for Equestria Daily not just in the brony subculture, but also from websites such as Joystiq and Kotaku, to the extent that he once mentioned he "always wanted to either join one or run one [himself]."[8]
As of September 2011, the site boasts over 40 million hits since its creation in January.
References
- ^ "EquestriaDaily.com - Equestria Daily". Whois.domaintools.com. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ "equestriadaily.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ LaMarche, Una (2011-08-03). "Pony Up Haters: How 4chan Gave Birth to the Bronies". New York Observer. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
- ^ Watchcutter, Angela (2011-06-09). "My Little Pony Corrals Unlikely Fanboys Known as 'Bronies'". Wired. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ Griffiths, Daniel (2011-06-09). "Colt success: My Little Pony's reboot, Friendship is Magic". Wired UK. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ "Some Clarification From the Guys Over at the Hub". Equestria Daily. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ "Welcome to the Herd: A Feminist Watches My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic". GlobalComment. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
- ^ Sethisto (2011-06-09). "Equestria Daily FAQ". Equestria Daily. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
