>>5664 >Perhaps we are being too hard on them, perhaps not. It wasn't as if that was the only thing I saw but it just seemed like in everything I would search there be one or too images that give off utterly strange feels compared to shitposting creepypasta or amaturism. that might ruin the experience way more than it should. Maybe the site wouldn´t look so messed up if the system had proper tagging or filtered/organized the material with more work behind. However, you are certainly right that we could be too harsh towards them considering that these were the first years, there was inexperience and people were acting towards rule 34 as a taboo thing (so it lead to more NSFW material of it just to trigger normies around that time), or even OCs weren´t seen in a good light in comparison to this day (maybe Sonic´s edgy creations made the concept more infamous). The community didn´t have much idea where to go (see the petition of a forum after several complaints with the meta comments system) and we discussed last year that the anthro bodies were still an hybrid thing that lead to questionable results.
On the other hand, one cannot justify everything and there is material that looks quite "sterile" (I could use other adjectives though) that was meant to use it once and throw it. Even those written headcanons have managed to be more useful and relevant than the drawn images delivered in these posts.
>I have several times ran into channels that only had one MLP related work and then have nothing in a similar category or a project that is abandoned. Is there any pattern that forms when you view them together? Is there treads that did exist but go unseen by the majority of the fandom? Stuff like that. material of that kind is much harder to discover (much more when Youtube algorithm is meant to show up youtubers for one single things and not other videos that move away from the main role they have for the most part) and considering the amount of material archived around pony content, you would have to do wonders in order to discover everything kept in the underground, much more when those people have nothing to do with the community.
But yeah, sometimes the way to access to them looks quite weird as if you discovered a diamond once but then, there are more next to it all of a sudden.
>Creepypasta isn't the biggest thing now of course. Then? It is was suffocating.
>Even if it wasn't my fav video and I'm not the biggest into scary stuff I'll give the guy a little bit of props for using silence and eeriness over blood and jumpscares of the time. well, there is some merit in the presentation despite the results, so hey you can always find something to look up to even in the lowest tier league. Considering that creepypastas were meant to bait the viewer for a jumpscare, it has merit to be consistent and maintaining the eerie atmosphere from the very beginning, avoiding the clichés of its contemporaries.
>Still you are right in finding the art rather hard to look at.
