Not really fond of Spike being a pufferfish like that..

@Background Pony #80C5
 
Never tell her about Horse News. They might want to have her there.

@Background Pony #80C5  
That sounds cute. :3

I found this image on my 11 year old sisters iPad and asked why she saved it. I eventually found out she’s the one who made it, yet she thinks the puffer fish Spike design was cute. xD  
So I asked why she made it…she straight up told me she wanted to be the one that created a post bronies would freak out on.  
She acted as if it was her duty or something and I just…
 
 
Us kids know what’s up.  
We love the show and the fandom but there’s no denying some people out there would get mega triggered just from a picture of all the fandom drama ( Alicorn Twi, Eqg, Starlight etc. )mixed together. Is that a thing yet?

I’m not gonna cry bloody murder or anything, but a pufferfish does strike me as an odd choice too.

@Beau Skunky  
If he were someone else, I wouldn’t respond, but he’s complaining about people complaining about controversial aspects of the show when he himself constantly complains about equestria girls. Regardless, I do see your point, and I will stop now.

@Ihhh  
What’s the point? He’s not causing any trouble in this thread. Please don’t start something here.

@Beau Skunky  
I know I’m not making much of a difference, but someone needs to call him out.

@Jarkes  
Most people I saw were fine with the “Hearts & Hooves” episode. (Especially, considering it was the first episode accidentally leaked early.)
 
Only drama I saw for it back then was one li’l crazy girl on DeviantArt started drawing hate-art of Cheerilee, because she was afraid the episode was going to canonize “CheeriMac,” and she was a die-hard obsessive “FlutterMac” ’shipper.  
Reminds me of the “Sally Acorn VS Amy Rose” drama.
 
@Ihhh  
@Ihhh  
Can you stop trying to start a fight with him?

@northern haste  
I see. My point still stands though. Given Hasbro’s track record with the toys, chances are Spike in his puffer fish form will look a lot more appealing in the actual movie.

@cloudkicker108  
It wasn’t a rhetorical question.  
I just thought there was a chance that he would look different in the actual movie

@northern haste  
I know this is probably a rhetorical question, but the answer is no more often than not. Just one more reason to not get all worked up over this.

Do the toys always look like what we get in the show?

@CMC Scootaloo  
And you don’t even attempt to justify your hypocrisy.

@northern haste
 
…Of course it was. But even then, it wasn’t nearly as crazy as some of the other drama in this franchise.

@Jarkes
 
Nevermind. Northern Haste is right.

@Jarkes  
The drama was from people who ship flutterMac

@RIG
 
There was drama over the Hearts and Hooves Day episode? The most I remember from that was people feeling that it wasn’t one of Meghan McCarthy’s better stand-alone episodes, but I don’t remember any outright drama over it…

@RIG
 
I only count My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic drama here. And yeah, I forgot “How can they do this to Rainbow Dash? How can they dare to teach her a valuable lesson, they are supposed to be her best friends! ;_;”, although, I don’t think there was a big drama about the “Hearts and Hooves Day” episode. Maybe some small fights between shippers, but other than that, I don’t think there was something big about that episode. I’m sure I would have heard of it by now.  
And Derpygate? That was the only justified drama, where something was REALLY at stake, and one of the few positive examples for how this fandom can stick together and move something.  
If the outcry and protests wouldn’t have happened five years ago, Hasbro would have probably removed Derpy from the show.

@Beau Skunky  
Worst possible thing so far. Hell, we still got 8 months until it hits the theaters and a lot can happens in that amount of time.

@CMC Scootaloo  
Stop being hypocritical.

@CMC Scootaloo  
You forgot equestria crap, derpy gate, heart and hooves episode fiasco, mare do well, maybe others i can’t think right now…

@Beau Skunky
 
 
“Oh my god, Twilight has a brother, impossible!”
 
“Not another toy princess!”
 
“King Sombra looks like a red and black alicorn OC, who thought of that shit?!”
 
“Discord getting reformed, what the….. YOU CAN’T REFORM THE LORD OF CHAOS! That doesn’t make sense!”
 
“You turned Twilight into an alicorn and changed her personality by giving her wings, thank you Larson!!!!”
 
“Starlight Glimmer got reformed in three seconds, that’s impossible, that doesn’t happen so quickly!!!!”
 
“FUCK STARLIGHT, keep her out of Season 6!”
 
“The Mane Six got defeated by Chrysalis, WOOT?! They mistreated my favourite characters! ;_;”
 
“The movie has a FUCKING CAT?! DHX wants to turn us into furries!”
 
“Spike’s a puffer fish?! FUCK THAT, how can you humiliate him even more!!!”
 

 
I think I got it all. Fascinating, but also scary, how the fandom can create drama over so many things in 6+ years…..  
Also, faved.

@LunaLover20  

 
 
(Sorry, couldn’t resist such a cute pic.)
 
“Major divide,” you say? So in other words, just the usual normal drama the brony fanbase has been doing for years now. It’s nothing new, we’re already more divided then Sonic fandom is at this point. (Green eyez!) Many people here even say they don’t even like to watch the newer episodes anymore. If this fanbase can survive “Derpygate,” the Twilicorn drama, and all those other dividing “issues” it’ll be fine.
 
Heck, people were freaking out much worse over the first “Equestria Girls” movie, just making them human, pissed off some fans. If Fish Spike is the “worst possible thing” about the movie, then we might be in for something nice.

@Beau Skunky  
And as long as it’s only for 10 to 15 minutes, maybe I can learn to tolerate it. But don’t expect me to learn to love it.