Thursday, September 22, 2011

CNN Marquee Blog Reports On FiM Again!

A while back, the Marquee Blog on CNN did a report on Friendship is Magic, primarily revolving around the Katey Perry "Equestria Girls" video.  This time around it goes a bit more in depth into the brony culture, including a few of our major achievements and overall age group information.

If you are up for some light reading, check out the article here!

39 comments:

Jelfes said...

Woohoo, more media coverage!

ZAquanimus said...

Dude, this is serious business.
I'm super cereal.

wackyteen said...

"What does "My Little Pony" mean to you?"

<_< uh.... my life...

Joey Wonton said...

I hate how their picture has absolutely 0 G4 Ponies. There's one that looks like Scootaloo, but that's a G3 I think.

Ikusa GT said...

I can see the crapstorm looming now...

NDupree93 said...

"Q: The ponies' most powerful enemy is which of these? A) Krastos the Glue Maker B) the evil pony Nightmare Moon or C) the cynical grown-up Chester"... the answer being C.

Not sure if Joke, or bad editing.

Star Pony said...

Well, at least it's a positive light, eh? Even if he did say it stars "the unicorns Twilight Sparkle and Rarity, as well as their pony friends," and the first villain of the show was most certainly not C: Chester the cynical human.

wackyteen said...

Ikusa, what crapstorm?


It's not like we were featured on =3 or something.

Lazulic said...

BILL CLINTON IS A BRONY?!?

Ikusa GT said...

@wackyteen It's almost inevitable when EQD posts a story talking about the show or the community. First the "Brony storms" As I call them happen, then the crapstorm happens once everyone else catches wind of it.

NDupree93 said...

@Lazulic
Not really, but on NPR they asked him some extremely obvious questions about the show as a joke, and he got all 3 right.

kwj said...

there's some hate in the comments but the article is pretty nice and short

Lazulic said...

@NDupree93 Oh well. still cool that he aced it at all

snowfi6916 said...

Stephen Colbert mentioned us?

I must find this clip!

Nice shoutout about EQD also.

NDupree93 said...

@snowfi6916
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8WrKIvSEWI

Aiyana said...

@wackyteen

Its the nasty comments you are seeing there. When ever someone says something nice about MLP the haters crawl out of the woodwork :(

BagOfChips said...

"healthy smattering of irony"

WHO WATCHES IT IRONICALLY?

NDupree93 said...

@BagOfChips
I used to not watch it for the irony in order to be more ironic, but then everybody else started watching it unironically, so I went full circle and re-embraced the irony.

And that is the eternal circle of torment that defines hipsterism.

Big Love said...

Hold the heck up! Bill Clinton is a brony?! My mind is now blown and my eyes are now derped.

HMtMayor said...

"follows the adventures of unicorns Twilight Sparkle and Rarity - along with their pony friends"
its good to know they're aware of who the true talent is

Afro Nyokki said...

I liked this article, even if Chester is most certainly not the villain, and Rarity is not on Twilight's level of main characterness. It's all good.

Bistorak said...

"...Clinton was asked just three multiple-choice questions, two of which had answer choices that were comically incorrect, e.g. "Q: The ponies' most powerful enemy is which of these? A) Krastos the Glue Maker B) the evil pony Nightmare Moon or C) the cynical grown-up Chester"... [u]the answer being C.[/u]"

wat

namelesspony said...

"Q: The ponies' most powerful enemy is which of these? A) Krastos the Glue Maker B) the evil pony Nightmare Moon or C) the cynical grown-up Chester"... the answer being C.

Oh you

dwarfyz said...

"Q: The ponies' most powerful enemy is which of these? A) Krastos the Glue Maker B) the evil pony Nightmare Moon or C) the cynical grown-up Chester"... the answer being C."
I AGREE
;D
BTW, i liek articles which talk postitively about us. So i liek this one.

wackyteen said...

I never watched it cause it was ironic to. I fell in love immediately.

Now, I did go through denial, but that's long past. I've since stickered my monitor with Pony stickers.

ToonNinja said...

...Did they even bother putting up any visual depiction of G4? The only real images are a main picture swarming with early gen toys (and no G4s) and a video about the physics of isolated scenes from the show.

Forderz said...

That's right Rarity finally gets top billing.

NDupree93 said...

@Forderz
I'm calling it for season 3 to be renamed "My Little Rarity: Friendship is Fabulous, Darling"

TearofFriendship said...

And now CNN links to Equstria Daily.

Yay.

Steve said...

A decent writeup, though one thing stood out to me:

"A handful of bronies went so far as to track down my e-mail address and office number and leave me messages."

See this? This is the exact opposite of being 20% cooler. In fact, this is downright creepy. Please, for the love of god, don't do this.

Bombedrumbum said...

Was Seth spelling it Katey Perry intentionally?

Also, this news is amazing

B-Man said...

That's a cool article.

And as par for the course, there are even a few trolls making unnecessarily perverted comments on it.

PonyPonyPonyBrony said...

The answer is C, bwahaha!

Still, thanks for the shoutout. =D

Octavia said...

Seems some people missed that Bill Clinton thing a while back. lol

This is cool. Yay CNN. You aren't nearly as bad as a certain... other news network.

What The Hay said...

"The latest incarnation of Hasbro's "My Little Pony" franchise follows the adventures of unicorns Twilight Sparkle and Rarity - along with their pony friends Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy"
What? Are they implying Rarity is more of a mane character than Pinkie, AJ, Dashie or Fluttershy?

James Corck said...

Your description is pretty spot on. Light indeed.

Rainbow Dash said...

I bet that by April, if you put on CNN News, all that'll be there is ponies. :D

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