ArrJaySketch 
@Kiryu2012
I kinda think G2 (which had no cartoon), G3, and G3.5 (ugh) needed to happen first. I think Hasbro wouldn’t have been as interested in getting a fire going for MLP had it not sunk so low.
My Little Pony Tales aired in 1992, just 5 years after the first My Little Pony cartoon just finished airing in 1987.
I have a hard time picturing it, but I think it’s because I know too much about how MLP history actually unfolded. I think even with good writing it may have struggled. I really do think the Internet had a huge influence on advertising the show for Hasbro; I have to wonder if enough people would have been convinced to watch the show. I mean, I can’t tell you how many people came into Pony really, really skeptical. Would people have been convinced with clever advertising in the early 90s? In the early age of dial-up, especially after AOL offered a flat-rate plan in 1996, online video consisted of deliberately seeking out poor-quality video files that took a VERY long time to download. Social media consisted of LiveJournal, which was typically text-heavy. Posting pictures was a bit of a pain, and thus a very deliberate process.
YouTube, 4chan, Twitter, MySpace, and FaceBook didn’t exist until the 2000s.
…musing a bit more, I remember being a part of Invader Zim fandom in the early 2000s. YouTube hadn’t been invented yet, and I was still on dial-up. I remember hunting down weekly episodes and downloading them so I could play them on RealPlayer. I think I only knew about Invader Zim because a friend got me into the show, not because of anything I saw online.
It is interesting to think about.
I kinda think G2 (which had no cartoon), G3, and G3.5 (ugh) needed to happen first. I think Hasbro wouldn’t have been as interested in getting a fire going for MLP had it not sunk so low.
My Little Pony Tales aired in 1992, just 5 years after the first My Little Pony cartoon just finished airing in 1987.
I have a hard time picturing it, but I think it’s because I know too much about how MLP history actually unfolded. I think even with good writing it may have struggled. I really do think the Internet had a huge influence on advertising the show for Hasbro; I have to wonder if enough people would have been convinced to watch the show. I mean, I can’t tell you how many people came into Pony really, really skeptical. Would people have been convinced with clever advertising in the early 90s? In the early age of dial-up, especially after AOL offered a flat-rate plan in 1996, online video consisted of deliberately seeking out poor-quality video files that took a VERY long time to download. Social media consisted of LiveJournal, which was typically text-heavy. Posting pictures was a bit of a pain, and thus a very deliberate process.
YouTube, 4chan, Twitter, MySpace, and FaceBook didn’t exist until the 2000s.
…musing a bit more, I remember being a part of Invader Zim fandom in the early 2000s. YouTube hadn’t been invented yet, and I was still on dial-up. I remember hunting down weekly episodes and downloading them so I could play them on RealPlayer. I think I only knew about Invader Zim because a friend got me into the show, not because of anything I saw online.
It is interesting to think about.
