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@cloudkicker108  
Yes that is what I mean.
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It seems like the trolls love Starlight. She manages to be the perfect drama bait.
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@Pagan  
If by that you mean the minorities of both the fans and the critics, then yes.
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@cloudkicker108  
Same goes for the other side.
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@Pagan  
Only for the over-zealous minority. For the majority of us, you couldn’t be more wrong.
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An accurate portrayal of many of Starlight’s/the show’s fans.
 
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An accurate portrayal of many of Starlight’s/the show’s critics.
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pc check for what? people ranting about X thing/character while hidding behind the “post anonymously” button? that they re hidding in your archives/codes?
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@Pagan  
Thank you. I copypasta from only the best.
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@Ciaran  
Very detailed.
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@team blueplant  
In tonight’s episode, meet Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who like his fellow Humans enjoys a popular institution; that of watching a children’s cartoon on TV. But in just a moment, Mr. Henry Corwin, ersatz cartoon fan, will enter a strange kind of broadcast, which is one part filled the wonderous spirit of fandom and one part the overwhelming drama that can only be found in the StarlightZone.
 
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you open a door, there is an interdimensional salt, a butthurt person, people hidding behind “post anonymously” button, a space traveling drama, despair, hate, broken dreams and lost hopes
 
welcome, to the starlight zone
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@Pagan  
That is true. Both sides played their part in escalating this.
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It’s like watching Jesus fish. With one piece of bait he catches enough to feed a small village. Though to be fair, he cheats; most people need a boat to fish in the middle of the lake.
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@cloudkicker108  
To which then people started defending their reasons and explaining them which then became a debate. Both sides are to blame not just one.
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@Pagan  
That’s not what I’m seeing. i looked through the earlier comments, and from what I can tell, the debate began when some users expressed their disappointment with yet another blatant drama bait post about Starlight and criticized some of the haters for not having meaningful reasons to dislike Starlight. People (at least those who weren’t over-zealous or part of a vocal minority) were upset at this not because it expressed a negative opinion about Starlight, but rather because posts like these (in a meme format, no less) add nothing of value to the discussion and only further fan the flames.
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@cloudkicker108  
It’s like I said.  
And yet how many times have you been proven wrong and conceded only to go right back to making crap up in a different thread like the other one never happened? Glass houses.
Seriously, this keeps happening, someone makes a pic of Starlight that isn’t praise people show up and scream “HATERS!” and make up false excuses about anyone they disagree with someone proves them wrong and explains why the criticism exists and why it’s valid and then it’s over. Until the next picture or random comment pops up and the cycle repeats itself, like the memory span of a goldfish.
 
And if you look through the comments here you can see the debate here got started because people said anyone who criticizes Starlight are wrong/liars. Funny how people complain about these debates and then proceed to incite them.
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@Alexlayer  
That would be true, if it weren’t for that fact that debates and arguments surrounding Starlight seem to occur practically ever other day.
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@cloudkicker108  
They could still stay aside from it, uninvolved, or ignore it completely by hiding the Starlight Drama tag. It’s their own choice to jump in and become involved, even if just by reading the people debating. Bottom line, the claim of “I don’t care” is as fake as it gets.
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@Pagan  
I can assure you that wasn’t my intention at all. I was trying to explain that in “Magic Duel”, Trixie, like many of the other villains in the series, had to have her enhanced magic forcibly removed before any resolution could be reached. As you’ve already mentioned, it wouldn’t make sense for her to apologize before she lost the Amulet. Apologies if my initial statement was unclear.
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@cloudkicker108  
When you said she only apologized after the fact sounds like you thought she should have done it before. Maybe I just read it wrong.
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@Pagan  
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. What I meant by that was Trixie apologized after Twilight took away the Alicorn Amulet from her and thus removed its control over her. (Twilight had to trick Trixie into handing over the Amulet because the artifact can only be removed by the current user.)