This is a user sandbox of Bulbil. You can use it for testing or practicing edits.
This is not the sandbox where you should draft your assigned article for a dashboard.wikiedu.org course.
To find the right sandbox for your assignment, visit your Dashboard course page and follow the Sandbox Draft link for your assigned article in the My Articles section.

This is the user sandbox of Bulbil. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here.

Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Template sandbox

Finished writing a draft article? Are you ready to request review of it by an experienced editor for possible inclusion in Wikipedia? Submit your draft for review!

TITLE

One of the first^[1] critical reviews of the show, published shortly^[2] after the initial broadcast^[1] in October 2010, was written by Amid Amidi for the animation website Cartoon Brew. Amidi wrote that the show was a sign of "the end of the creator-driven era in TV animation".^[3] Amidi's essay expressed concern that assigning a talent like Faust to a toy-centric show was part of a trend towards a focus on profitable genres of animation, such as toy tie-ins, to deal with a fragmented viewing audience, and overall "an admission of defeat for the entire movement, a white flag-waving moment for the TV animation industry."^[3]^[4]^[5] Though the show had been discussed on 4chan's cartoon forum before the essay's publication, the alarmist nature of the essay led to more interest in the show, resulting in a positive response for the series for its plot, characters, and animation style.^[4]^[6] This reaction soon spread to the other boards of 4chan, where elements of the show quickly inspired recurring jokes and memes on the site.^[4] Some of these included adopting phrases from the show like "anypony", "everypony", and "nopony", instead of "anybody", "everybody", and "nobody",^[7] or jokingly stating that they watch the show for the "plot", a reference to the ponies' flanks.^[8]

02:33

^ ^a ^b "nabilk". chunks. Retrieved 2-7-2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
^ Chunks, McMuffin. "What Now".
^ ^a ^b Amidi, Amid (2010-10-19). "The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dennis, Scott (2011-03-10). "Ponies overachieving, from feminism to 4chan". The Daily Barometer. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
^ Beck, Jerry (2011-09-24). "We've Created A Bronster!". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
^ LaMarche, Una (2011-08-03). "Pony Up Haters: How 4chan Gave Birth to the Bronies". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
^ Cite error: The named reference macleans1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference wired defend was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[chunks-1] "nabilk". chunks. Retrieved 2-7-2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

[2] Chunks, McMuffin. "What Now".

[cartoon_brew-3] Amidi, Amid (2010-10-19). "The End of the Creator-Driven Era in TV Animation". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2011-06-09.

[Dennis-4] Dennis, Scott (2011-03-10). "Ponies overachieving, from feminism to 4chan". The Daily Barometer. Retrieved 2011-05-10.

[5] Beck, Jerry (2011-09-24). "We've Created A Bronster!". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2011-09-25.

[nyobserver_origin-6] LaMarche, Una (2011-08-03). "Pony Up Haters: How 4chan Gave Birth to the Bronies". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2011-08-03.

[macleans1-7] Cite error: The named reference macleans1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[wired_defend-8] Cite error: The named reference wired defend was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]