This is depressing for the reasons others have listed. Applejack is what sets FiM above other cartoons for me. Bookish characters, prim characters, bouncy characters, shy characters, confident characters, etc., are everywhere (there are even special Japanese terms for them, for goodness' sake!), but the hard-working, honest, wholesome country girl has largely disappeared from entertainment, especially cartoons. You can really sense who was the biggest threat to corruptive modernism. It's so rare these days to find a positive portrayal of a Southern farmer.
>>96379>>96760>>96470These are our three options. I would love to hear additional ideas.
1) The polite way: we raise awareness among the brony fandom by presenting the best aspects of current Applejack, showing how she's wholesome and loveable, and how a complete alteration of character is equivalent to a lobotomy. The goal is to start an entreaty of compassion on the level of #SaveDerpy.
Strengths: no bad press; most likely to influence Tumblrites and the women at DHX who probably donate to "muhfeels" campaigns
Weaknesses: as neutered as your average picket-rally, real-life or internet; brony community is smaller, more ambivalent, and more infected by social justice: not likely to muster the same outcry for a main character as it could for a background character 6 years ago
2) The shocking way: showing everyone how "bad" (literally and 90's way) Applejack will be in G5. Will be a contrast to bronies who favor good character design and an outrage to parents. Whereas option #1 is an outreach of compassion, #2 is a fit of anger.
Strengths: will leave a stronger impression on the bulk of bronies; we could get the target audience (or at least their parents) on our side; could lead to a "compromise" solution where Applejack is not completely changed or at least is removed (better to lose a character than to see her ruined)
Weaknesses: DHX will not understand or may even label the movement as "racist;" unlikely to reach parents without any major media connections; Tumblr may actually like "urban AJ"
3) SHUT IT DOWN: We initiate Operation: Winter Wrap Up with full memetic warfare against Hasbro. We infiltrate Plebbit, Derpibooru, and other brony websites, enough that "fascistic art" and memes won't be traced back to us. Then, we, "concerned friends and relatives" contact a handful of reporters (not all at once, but spread out over weeks) over how the brony community harbors Nazis and how the show itself is fascistic (with how CNN went after Thomas the Tank Engine and Paw Patrol, I'm surprised they haven't reported on it already). Don't be spergs or over-the-top, make it believable. Then when fake news gets rolling, spam out memes that will really rise them up; make us look to be the majority or very large minority of bronies. After bronies start to notice the full-scale attack on MLP by MSM, they'll rise up to defend it. Prime-time to recruit, but don't try to make them completely alt-right immediately: if you send them here telling them we're "ironic" and just stand against the social justice attacking our cartoons, by staying here long enough they'll take the red-pill naturally. By then this post and all others related to WWU will go down the memory-hole. Hasbro will at first try to ignore the issue, but if SJWs keep screeching about how fascist MLP is they'll either take it down entirely (unlikely, given the franchise value) or change it completely (diving into the deep end of social justice, as opposed to wading there). Either will hurt them enormously.
Strengths: Dividing and conquering our enemies; free press about the issue; red-pilling the brony community; potentially thousands of recruits for /mlpol/; MSM media's reputation dragged further in the mud; will serve as a warning call to other fandoms; more kekworthy memes than all of Equestria could dream up; Aryanne and Leslie Faire become meme legends alongside Pepe and Pinochet
Weaknesses: Complicated and scheduled plan; could expose /mlpol/ to shills and media attacks; some bronies will virtue-signal and disavow us; MLP may be destroyed utterly (though there is a slim chance a new Lauren Faust could appear in 12 years and turn Gen6 around), so we'll need to find or make new cutesie and moralizing cartoons to clop over
By the by, I hate you goldfish for having the attention span of an average voter! You let the Winter Wrap-Up thread DIE. Someone had better saved it, because it is, in my view, the best chance for our community. I had come up with a neat e-mail layout to send to a reporter but was waiting for exams to end, but, NUH-UH, you neglected that thread once it fell past the first page. You want to be like old /pol/ but you'll never achieve the things they did with your casual attitude toward community projects.