I had myself a good laugh at Dorothy getting suck up by the tornado

@Red-Supernova  
What “Diamond Tiara & Silver Spoon” comic?
 
@northern haste  
A bit ironic, sense certain other memes were met with applause.

@Beau Skunky  
It also didn’t help that for the Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon comic, DT & SS were still two of most disliked characters at the time. So it was clear that the artists were trying to butter us up with cameo ponies as a way to like the comic.

Dorothy needs to go back to Kansas

@Beau Skunky  
I started noticing this a couple of years ago that references of being judged based on what it is referencing and not how it’s referenced.  
I remember when the show referenced winter is coming I saw someone saying that internet references is an automatic no

@Red-Supernova  
I understand, (I’ll even admit some like the Mabel from “Gravity Falls” pony were too blatant) though still some fans freaked out even if there was only one cameo/reference in the comic/show, so even the backlash was overkill.  
So it’s a shame the comics/show are too afraid to reference hardly anything now. Though, maybe that’s changed with this.

@Beau Skunky  
We thought the cameo ponies in the Twilight & Shining Armor comic and the Diamond Tiara & Silver Spoon comic were overkill even for the fandom, that’s why they were met with backlash.
 
@Delta Brony  
NO. Let’s not. Let us not Bayblade. Let us not do such things.

@Background Pony #9E5F  
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/402506/the-taint-of-equestria-the-double-shadow

@Delta Brony  
Wrong, it’s:
 
“LET IT RIIIIP!!!”

LET’S BEYBLAAAAAAAAADE

@northern haste  
I loved the Blues Brothers ponies. lol

@Beau Skunky  
I remember one of the pages from the first issue was for the preferences.  
Also fans do you need to be careful what you wish for. Wishes do have grey areas

@northern haste  
Yeah, I remember the comics had more blatant references for a brief period, >>595685 >>1273169 which was met with backlash. Now the comics hardly reference anything, and now fans miss the references.
 
Fans are fickle.

@Beau Skunky  
And quite frankly even knowing the reference it’s not a distraction

@northern haste  
Which alot of people/kids do actually. Regardless, it’s a cute/funny reference, I say.
 
I wanna see more fanart of the Dorothy pony.

@Background Pony #0670  
This is only blatant if you know the Wizard of Oz

Ha

All we need is a biker turning into a witch

Wizard of Oz

Not agaaaaiiiinnnn!

I don’t know if I spelt his name right

Gordon Rasmey??

Hahaha! Fly my pretties!
 
@Background Pony #0670  
Oh, c’mon this is funny, and honestly the show hasn’t really done very many references in recent times.

I remember a time when these cameos were a lot less blatant.