@GaruuSpike  
So the opposite of G4 AJ

Considering G5 AJ is a city slicker…
 
Think for a second.
 
What if
 
she was basically
 
a Jet Set Radio protagonist?
 
Complete with music
 
:D
 
She carries around a can of spray paint in her tail and tags building walls when ponies aren’t looking.
 
She also has a pair of shutter shades in her mane.
 
She talks street, she’s a total punk, and she’ll disrespect you as hard as she disrespects the law.
 
Imagine, when she first meets Rainbow Dash, she talks some trash before, uh, decorating her. And then laughs at Dash, saying something about how she’s already so colorful, she shouldn’t mind a little extra.
 
The character they’re thinking about for AJ can be cool if they embrace that sort of urban culture for it.

@Background Pony #104C  
Good point, the only way we could get any use out of there brains is if we removed them hooked them up to a computer controller for use as a processor, now that’s what I call Human Resources

@Prometheus labs CEO  
Oh, please, that wouldn’t provide the cheap and easy ego boost they’re looking for.

@Tepass  
The scary part is these people dedicate massive amounts of thought to finding insane points of view from which completely benign things seem horrifically offensive, can you imagine what could get done if they dedicated that mental processing power to something that actually MATTERED

@Background Pony #E353  
I agree with that, everything could be tagged as offensive or anything-fobic

@Prometheus labs CEO  
Totally.  
And I don’t think it would get better in the near future.

@Background Pony #E353  
Our progress as a species has started to go backwards hasn’t it

@Prometheus labs CEO  
That sums up the last three years of humankind.

@Background Pony #E353  
Random Normal Person: exists  
Snowflake: TRIGGERED!!!!!

@PonyPon  
Same here, but I’ve been told that several times over.
 
Much like the time my so-very-Democratic-party department manager (her brother was county dogcatcher and her mom was local city council secretary so we were talking a major political dynasty here; and yes, she really believed that) used to rant about blacks and gays and Hispanics and whoever else. Whenever I dared say something about it she told me that I needed ‘to get a sense of humor’.
 
There are times I’m not sorry I lost that position.

@Ardashir  
Hard to think of a context where “I’m glad they died” is a joke.

@PonyPon  
I’ve heard similar comments where I am, but when I said something about it I was told to ‘get a sense of humor’.

@Communist Starlight No, because I feel the same.

Would I get instantaneous hate from our fandom if I said G5 was actually looking pretty good?

@Background Pony #104C  
Not maliciously, and especially not like that.

@PonyPon  
But isn’t it okay to offend those people?
 
I’m sitting here in a public library and I just heard the staff having a good hearty laugh over the Midwest flooding ‘because it’s only killing rednecks’.

@Background Pony #E353  
Because she’s country.

@Nightmare Fuel  

 
I completely agree, I’d say she has more identity than the rest of the M6.  
How a cute, brave and hard working character can be somehow offensive?  
It seems in the US everythng is offensive by just existing.

not bad

@Red Pill Man  
Wow, really?

@Background Pony #A6F3  
And I don’t think it was the typical kind of offensive.

@Nightmare Fuel  
“it wasnt even her countryisms that didnt made her unpopular”  
RIP. you get my point tho

@Vinyl Fluff
 
Also some people, including those from DHX, said in the emails that they considered Applejack to be an offensive stereotype.