I know this is something people probably say a lot regarding all sorts of media, but ehh, this is lemmy and I wanted to express my gratitude to this community.
For a little unnecessary background, I was one day just browsing derpibooru (an imageboard) and saw the 'random' button. I thought "ehh, why not press this button and see where it leads?" I got the jackpot. It sent me to a youtube link from a decade ago, to a video called Snowdrop. I thought "oh, great, fanfiction..." since, by that time I was led to believe by people on-line that most communities do bad fanfiction (bad in the sense of NSFW. This kind of gross stuff). And yes, I know this community is infamous by its bad side, but I ain't talking about the bad side in this post. Anyway, I saw the view count and was baffled: "22 million? WTF?" Since I was already there, I thought "ehh? Why not?" and started the video. In the end I was crying. How? How can a video based on a kids show be this good and thought-provoking?
Fast-forward to yesterday when anon in 4chan posts this masterpiece on an Applejack-related thread. After seeing this and other masterpieces by the same person, this other masterpiece gets recommended to me by youtube (I cried with this as well btw).
My only question is how? How can a KIDS SHOW have this much care and attention by its community? I'm never seeing fan-made content the same way again. Absolutely insane high-quality stuff right here
I did not want to imply it was written by children at all, just to say it was written primarily for children. Thought provoking stuff can be had in anything, sorry if you misunderstood the post.
In "bad", I meant the things that got the community to be seen in a bad way by outsiders, I was generalizing when I wrote NSFW. I probably shouldn't but I didn't know what else to put. Either way, regardless of how this post is perceived, I am still amazed by the capabilities of this community
No misunderstandings here, just corrections.
And I agree that this content and it's community can be pretty damn amazing when it wants to be. :)