>>3273
>or in my case rm -rf /
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>>3277
>Now top 15.
eeeyup, /horror/ is going after us closely but it seems that we have beaten /test/ at this point.

>but it was nowhere near as interesting as G4 would be.
gen 3 seems so far away these days one wonders if it didn´t have the MLP name put on it, one would believe that this is a separate franchise

>I don't know about the initial reasons behind G4 conception
I believe they showed signs of development in 2009 but Hasbro basically gave up the franchise to Faust to whatever she wanted with it....until there were creative discussions and fights for certain ideas between them. Even with those fights, one can get a pretty good idea at how Hasbro valued this franchise back then.

>The transition period probably ended around 2015, and ponies outlived that barrier.
gen 4, save for minor detours, can stay timeless (unless they fuck it up greatly this last episodes) and hold its own timeline. Fans have always stayed skeptical. In fact, if you check the first comment of its Knowyourmeme entry, fans celebrated the 10k image mark. Nowadays, that´s nothing for Derpi.