In the new /go/ it was mentioned "this isn't archived"
Which put me in mind of other songs that could exist as a PMV. The song I had in my head because of unrelated nonsense was How Bizarre
But searching for that led me here:

https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=TB8VwKm1a0g

Neither TMBG nor 4everfreebrony are all that bizarre, and I don't expect they traded songs at a bazaar with each other either.

Although, maybe they did. In which case OMC and Dashie will have to dance and sing about the pair,
> How bazaar, how bazaar

//No I'm not switching to decaf
<//why would you ask?

But what is "culture"? Definitions are important. From !wt:
>1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
>2. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
>3. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.

From https://lukesmith.neocities.org/about
>Culture is the set of peculiar and irrational practices that any given group of people practice. For the Sambia tribe of Africa, culture may be fellatio of an older tribesman as a rite of passage for boys, while here, culture is neurotically listening to "local" bands and mutilating male genitals upon birth. Culture was formerly known as the "pursuit of the best of what is thought and said in the world," but now we're to the point where we have to flagellate ourselves in penance for daring to think that any cultural trait could be "better" than any other.
>
>Now there's nothing I could say here about religion that hasn't already been said too many times in YouTube comments, but loosely, religion is the set of cultural beliefs that are most recalcitrant and immune to diffusion. Religion widely entails anthropic consciousnesses governing the universe and afterlifes where everyone's supposed to get what's comin' for them.
>
>The word "politics" describes the social interchanges that are the direct heirs of the simian alpha-male contest. Along with sports and religion, politics is a special place where anyone can come and feel free to abandon reason and orgiastically give into all of their most primal and otherwise derisible tendencies and irrationalities. Here I pretend not to like to write about it.

Here's a cultural artifact (attached): Darth Maul about to behead Twilight Sparkle. Description from webpage:
>[...]"Just hand over the holocrons hoarded in your library, and no one gets hurt."

>>11233
Gives me strong uncanny valley, but hey, it does look better than the nightmare horrors from previous. I can at least see somepony liking that.

>>11233
Hey, I remember you CB anon? talking about this last time I drifted through here. Thanks!

>>11237
The only thing that looks creepy to me is the centaur and even then, I imagine that can be fixed with prompting. Point is he found something that can handle these requests and not spit out bizarre trash.

>>10356
As for this thread, I would suggest a more slow apporach and handle the threads the topics that were pushed out by archive anon. No offense to that old chap. He is doing a lot of a good but I also think the criticism of his process being a disorganized mess is founded even if I think he should be allowed to continue full speed if not him, who else?

Do you know about Rooster Teeth? I think of it as an important YouTube channel from years ago. I think they still continue to this day. Unfortunate, but I bet a lot of their media or videos got deleted (speculation). Anyways, I didn't know they made comics.

Rooster Teeth webcomic about My Little Pony - can't post the image now, but here's links to it:
>ipfs://bafkreicq7x766ju4w2qb6fo5562u7vlmrtgokavz2p4chrslztdalfwzuy
>https://arweave.developerdao.com/2_x1lxWV9fLY0CxdYvpKPTRhpVbHU2fT3eFJoTRjMdw ( https://archive.is/2024.08.16-191952/https://web.archive.org/web/20240625124737/https://api.arns.app/v1/contract/bLAgYxAdX2Ry-nt6aH2ixgvJXbpsEYm28NgJgyqfs-U/read/gateways )

>>11266
>Rooster Teeth
I remember that they had a rage quit series and some other things. They made "Red vs. Blue" IIRC.

>image link
attached

Catalog of /pone/:
https://endchan.org/pone/catalog.html
https://endchan.org/pone/catalog.json - threads: " | jq .[].threadId"

>>11283 (cross-thread)
>pic

I just wanted to comment somewhere that Rainbow Blitz as the MC of the ponified form of the Count of Monte Cristo was surprisingly on-point in addition to being well animated -- or, animatic'd I guess.

If I am to catalog this thing at all I think it'll be keeping tabs on some of the discussion and maybe trying to give some armchair analysis of certain discourse and trends. Though I am making no promises of completely keeping track of everything and if I go at it alone will probably focus on certain things that interest me over a unified whole ...and the fact that I have a hard time with unspoiled free for alls that some boards are. Pictured above is the first thread on /nhnb/ on 4chan after it went down. Note that it was made during a previous incident in 2023 that I had forgotten about. This images are large, clunky and uneven. I would like to automate this process but was having problems getting selenium up and running. Spend half a day tinkering with it but I might just go back to puppeteer on nodejs (which I have minor experience with though it's been YEARS). Let's see if this images are too large in scale.

>>12062
AND... yes they are. Well, let's go back to the drawing board with that one. At least 4 made it!

Stuff like pic related is always a haunting interest to me.
https://twibooru.org/3502605
>This is what the Hasbro My Little Pony website looked like around mid-January 2012; I couldn't find a Wayback Machine archive of it as I only have a screenshot taken from my old iPod. I've been meaning to upload it and the others for quite some time though I haven't logged onto Derpibooru for about five years.

>>12063
>>12062
Still working on this but have had hardly time to test things so I don't make any promises! Thinking of trying Pyppeteer (python port of puppeteer which I have some experience as I mentioned. Probably a bit late to the party though, lol, at this point, but the idea still interests me.

Anyone have any archives or backups of the friendshipismagic.org forums? I saw a Facebook post where an admin brought it back in 2023 after it died in 2017 or whatever, but it didn't seem like anyone backed it up. I was one of the first ten or so users, became a mod there, and eventually got to be an admin at FiM.org for a time since I was longtime online friends with Leighton Ward, the creator/owner of FiM. We came up with FiM.org while we were all shitposting on the RSBuddy and Powerbot runescape botting forums back in 2010-2011. We were all spamming 4shit with ponies after the first episodes of FiM were released, and we were also simultaneously posting ponies on the RSBuddy forums, until the admins started threatening to ban us. So Leighton Ward asked if we'd be down to have our own website to shitpost on. I forgot most of the other original members except DDrgn, Ian, and AnonKun or something like that. Leighton checked and said "holy shit friendshipismagic.org is available" and we all chipped in and he bought the domain ASAP. I think I resigned after leighton became way less active in like 2013-2014 and managing all that shit was ass. The forums notoriously had constant downtime because leighton was the only one with the access and payment info for the domain and forum software subscription. Also, there were founding users like 7x from rsbuddy, with the same username on FiM.org, who randomly ragequit the fandom and started spamming all the boards with porn and gore nonstop with his faggot online friends. Now that I look back, he likely was one of the earliest members of the utubeTrollPolice underage trolling group that is now notorious for spamming CSAM and gore, with some members abusing children irl. There was also some other cringe drama with early members who weren't part of our rsbuddy shitposting Skype clique like this one guy named Jason/Jace, who split off after 6-12 months and started either everypony or some other MLP FiM forum I can't remember the name of. He took the Brony Fandom way too seriously and took a big chunk of FiM users with him, causing a big dent in ad revenue that was all going to paying for the forum's expenses and the dedicated Google play store app we were developing. Anyway, I'd be glad to recover any sort of info, forum posts, user profile pages, etc. My old laptop took a hammer to it and I lost all screenshots and history from FiM.org

>>12366
I don't have full backups, but I do have something mildly odd I noticed from that domain a couple of years ago (or more). I'll see if I can find the screencaps I took. Not that it's very useful. I'll also check and see if any torrents were made and are still online.

Something adjacent history wise:
https://eqmegathreads.blogspot.com/2015/03/friendshipismagicorg.html
This was an independent news website that I struggled to find for years and only recently rediscovered, remembering erroneously as "Discord Daily". Unfortunately a lot of the comments were lost but it did have it's own community. Only relevance here was that it merged with the Friendship is Magic Forums and the topic is a personal interest to me as well.

I forget, do we have a horror thread? That would be a good place for AI art...

Having said that, the face is surprisingly good for being an attempt at hyperrealistic. Though I recall BridgeFag not liking lips on ponies, but RaRaRa would wear makeup for occasions, including "occasions" like an evening with a coltfriend.

The chest looks just a little over-muscled, but the movements seem on-model.

>You will live to see horrors beyond your wildest imaginations.

Happy 15th Anniversary everypony!

>>12374
On the surface, there's not much activity in endpone...

...until you truly get to dive into it...

...for 8 years of its track record and 15 since the point of no return for the franchise.

...oh,the sweetness of irony... its beauty still mesmerises me, intriguing me to no /end/ and will never cease to do so...

I forgot it was today. Goodness time flies.

>>12374
Happy and...
>>12375
...haunting anniversary.

Gosh, I never thought this place would still be around either.

As a 2011(at least when I started to get invovled)oldish fag it feels very weird to be still connected. Too be honest, I've always felt like a second hand smoker or someone who never quite belonged, yet here I am.

>>12372
>I forget, do we have a horror thread? That would be a good place for AI art...
I don't think we have a thread dedicated to horror. Closest I guess would be /night/ and dormant pony thread. More than welcome to make one if you wish (though the imagedump thread also may fit that purpose).

>Though I recall BridgeFag not liking lips on ponies, but RaRaRa would wear makeup for occasions, including "occasions" like an evening with a coltfriend.
A lot of attempts anthropomorphize (or sexualize for that matter) just have an uncanny valley for me. Don't know why it is so strong. Some of is distaste but there is something else there. Not always consistent either. Still, my taste is not any rule and you may post your freakishly lipped horses freely.

>>12373
The roblox pony drawing actually ain't too bad considering the caliber I usually see kids things like that and pony fanart.

Speaking of horror, found my old edits folder from 2018 and 2019. Pic related.

Goodness, with all the outages happening recently it feels like one really needs to be prepared for a major internet disruption soon or something.Not to have an air of conspiracy and ominousness. Need to be prepared for it though.

Surveillance of this and it's impact I consider something under /go/ and here, at least in sense of it affecting the fandom.

>>12372
#PonyMadeHorrorsBeyondYourComprehension
now with sound!

>>12440
At some points it almost looks good, but still has an uncanny quality with that mouth. LOL.

>>12440
>final frame

>>12443
Lips I'm okay with, but AI doesn't, can't understand that a horse has "back teeth" and "front teeth" -- and a gap between them.

And no sharp molars, for Luna's sake!

>owner was toying with starting a fan forum for Hazbin Hotel and abandoned
Hahaha fuck that sounds like Leighton alright. Thanks for your efforts. Wayback machine does have a decent amount of newer snapshots but it's missing most of the old stuff. Wish I saved all of it myself but I erroneously assumed it would either go on forever or get a C&D letter from Hasbro for the domain name when I quit. I was too busy with college at the time anyway

>>12455
No problem! Bleh, I suppose the best hope is somebody turning up with a lot of personal screencaps. Better, but rarer, an actual crawl/offline WARC or similar software.

I can completely relate to wishing to save more of the past. I recently got lucky in finding an old bug test I had spent years trying to find a bug test for a forgotten MLP RPG that I had already saved back in 2014 on my own freaking hard drive. As an update, I have NOT found anything related to it thus far. Though, my personal archives are scattered, so there is always the chance I may find something and if I find anything I'll post it.

Another icon fell, as AStateOfSugar has published their last album.

I think I've said before, that when I read the blurb, and listened to the songs of RestOfOurLives, I understood the 'pony' thing had crested, and we were all watching the last slide down into ... legend? Oblivion? A historical note, at the very least; like the swinging '20s or the drug infused haze of the '60s we can tell our grandchildren of the pony '10s.

https://astateofsugar.bandcamp.com/album/its-not-a-phase-mom-2

As with a few other emotional powerhouses of the musical momentum pony brought to the scene, someone died (Nicolaus Dominique in this case) and like the directory in charge of the Wasteland Wailers, or Cii from Pinkamena Party
https://pinkamenaparty.bandcamp.com/album/cii-you-later-mate
the youthful bronies become once-youthful. While this is the way of things, I'm old enough to be crotchety about it.

I've also said, I only listen to pony music anymore. It means I listen to weird experimental stuff (anything under the NoiseHorse label) and classical and electronica-classical, but there's something raw, real, natural-sounding about non-artists making music.

And writing stories. I have a torrent saved of FiMfiction, and though I will probably never read it all, I am so, SO thankful for the creative energies released by the not-really-shared world of Equestria.

The real one, not Hasbro's monetary vision.

So long Skyshard Melody, and in your unhappy adulting never forget the joy pony music brought you.
I'll still listen to it; it still brings joy to me.