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>I cannot speak about the entire site because I don´t lurk around the site that much
Neither do I. But some site-wide trends are pretty noticeable once you leave the enclave of /mlp/ (though the do still manage to seep in there, but with lesser force).
>They have stayed mostly the same I guess?
Getting all philosophical, nothing ever stays static and unchanged. So they've changed. In reality, I don't know either. In truthfulness, so many things have changed, yet so many have stayed the same.

>I will say however, that a couple of faggots considered me once a Rarifag during mid 2017 because I had its general as one of my central threads to visit. Although that could be said for Twilight´s, Star Light´s and Fluttershy´s.
There is nothing wrong with having favourite pony/ponies.

>Maybe they rejected circlejerkers of certain animes. I could imagine /a/ getting a contrarian behavior because of namefags that would keep mentioning Naruto or I don´t know, DBZ.
I don't know anything more than simple "/a/ hates trip/namefags with passion. Period.", so I can't help You on that one.

>Ad for the rest, they cannot physically hold up to those standards for different matters
Well if they could they wouldn't be called heroes but mary sues
>But then, you wouldn´t put the hero tag but more as a normal person that had its problems and hits
"normal people" if those exist can be heroes too, yes.