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I love debating over such stuff even if it's little like if Rainbow is an alcoholic or not. I'm very happy that the show writers left many things open so everyone can be satisfied with their asnwers. But some are just cacon like Lyra x BonBon or Lil' Cheese is the child of Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich. On ships I even have multiple answers while having a mane couple I like. I ship Rarijack but I like to imagine that Aj and Rainbow were in a relationship at some point.

The terms "arguing in good faith" and "...in bad faith" were not coined by Sartre. Karl Marx already accused Max Stirner of arguing in bad faith about a century earlier.

>"a design choice usually reserved for stallions" >immediately shows a shot of a stallion with two reflection spots

Imagine these hypersensitive ponies just casually taking a dump in public while walking, not even stopping in place to "aim". You mean to tell me that the "Oh, no! I hurt my best friend's feelings!" ponies would do something so grotesque and animal like? You mean to tell me the world of "hugs, compliments and forgiveness" is also littered with mountain piles of stinking residue scattered all over the corners?

IMO the sonic rainboom is a special variant of a sonic boom, with the latter not depending on mane color

A couple things to improve on, constructive criticism if you will: • Multiple disclaimers on something that was brought up again and again, is not necessary. It comes off very annoying • Just ignore the clearly stupid, dumb, ignorant, etc. people out there commenting stuff on your videos that aren’t helpful. You are wasting your time adding them in. A opinion is a opinion until it’s not one • Why censor names? You aren’t protecting that persons piracy at all. All you are doing is making it annoying to the viewers who would like to see the name That’s basically it, not a big deal right? I’m simply helping out any way I can, other than that, your videos are pretty great and enjoyable.

16:44 I'm in this fandom for fun, and it's more fun to assume everything explositly mentioned and shown is cannon. It's more difficult to prove anything that way. I like the challenge

19:27 friendship and love go hand in hand, you can’t have friendship without love, you can’t have love without friendship But if you mean like lust or something, then idk I’m aroace

wait cause i always thought rainbows whole thing was cause of her mane colors too lol. also, havent other pegasi flown fast enough to have their own trail things and theirs were based off their colors, or am i mixing up fan stuff with canon? i mean, i assume other pegasi could also achieve a rainboom/sonic boom thing too if they could also fly that fast, but dash is literally the rainbow pony yknow

I think death of the author is a super important aspect for these kinds of questions and fandom in general. I believe after a work is complete it 100% belongs to the viewer/reader to do with or interpret however they want. As a result I think every single person's version of a piece of media is uniquely their own, and as such any idea or theory not explicitly contradicting the text is valid. And honestly even if you want to explicitly contradict the text you can do that too and call it an alternate universe. So basically imo the true canon is whatever you like the best and should be open to change, the rules are made up and we're just here to have fun. Also I like that you end the video on some open ended questions extrapolated from the survey, those kinds of questions are where the fun is at.

SUCH a refreshing, mature and nuanced discussion, top quality content as usual Gator 👌

I can see where the Rainboom connection to haircolor argument holds water. The majority of flight effects end up tied to coat and hair color (see lightning dust). So it may be that any pegasus could perform what is in function a rainboom, but they may have a different coloration besides a rainbow. So Dash could still probably do a rainboom even if her mane was different, it just wouldnt be called a rainboom.

my theory about the sonic rainboom is that it got it's name from the rainbow mane color, but we have seen twilight perform a similar action that had a different color and the explosion was shaped like her cutiemark.

It seems like there is a 10% buffer of respondents that do either do not remember the relevant information or did not understand the form.

Hot take I think they should’ve have made the new My Little Pony show about Lester Don because she was already set up as like twilight student so why not do a show with this whole new character you introduced

Clear Evidence above assumptions cause it can be misleading

6:08 i did some digging and apparently flutter shy and discord were supposed to get married but the episode ended up being cut and they couldn't find a way to make it work so it's possible it happened of screen and there are many times where flutter core was mentioned in passing that you missed but it's kinda a thing where you can't really decide either way so you just have to make your own theory based on witch opinion you like more personally i think they both wanted to get into a serious relationship but since discords practically immortal they decided against it but are still very close and have feelings for each other

This was a fun video that showed me a lot and gave me an interesting look into the fandom. It was fun taking the survey and seeing how it was used, i can't wait to see a part two for the Fan theories video. Thanks for this video!

Wow 6:46 is really surprising to me, same reason for what you had mentioned. I had joined the fandom fairly early on in S2 and saw SO MUCH fan art, be it music animations fanfic and just drawings, of these two being shipped together. I wonder what might have caused that to shift, general passage of time and less shared screen time perhaps?

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that theory of the sonic rainboom is the stupidest thing I've ever heard

A lot of moments in this show strike a cord with me to be fair or make me emotional but the one I think about a ton that hits me like a truck no matter what is the moment at the end of the Parental Glideance episode. Scootaloo admitting that she wished she had as much support like Rainbow Dash had for sure killed me, but what really got me after that re-watching and catching up with this series was that soon after Rainbow finds this out about Scoots, she and her parents storm the school via the window and cheer her on and give her support after she showed off her project. Scootaloo’s expression during the cheering said it all and kind of hit me hard in a place where I didn’t really expect it. And the fact that zoom in really emphasize her expression before going to credits made me feel like you’re getting more from the scene. Without her saying a thing, I could just tell how happy she was especially with her finally getting the support she really wanted in her life and in this moment she realizes she finally has it. She knows she really does have a support base that’s there for and cares about her. And as someone who’s had most of her life moved around, just trying to find people who care about you, family, friend, or otherwise I really connected to that one moment. I don’t know I love that scene/shot and it pulls up my heartstrings every time. Honestly, a lot of things in MLP are super relatable to me but weirdly enough some of Scoots random moments throughout the show specifically have many chords and part of my life as I’ve grown up and experience things. We are strangely more alike in a few ways than I ever thought in my lifetime of being a fan of MLP. Like through re-watching the show over the past year or so going over some of the things I missed in the later seasons and the entire show was a whole has really made me think that.

Where do you host your surveys? Because I haven't been fortunate enough to contribute to these conversations outside of the comments.

The weird part about Luster Dawn's parentage is that, if you look into the behind the scenes info, the head showrunner & the writer of the episode just kinda... disagree on whether or not she's a Starburst kid?

Like. :)

So full disclosure that I absolutely do believe AJ and RD got together at the end if the show. But what I'm about to say is not at all why; I wasn't even aware of that picture shown in the video. But I also thought of a much stronger argument before being confronted with a flimsy one and want to steelman on principle. Ashleigh Ball may or may not have been close with the writers, but she doesn't need to have overheard the writers talking for her information to be valid. In animation, a character is a collaboration between writer and voice actor. It's true the writer has a big picture view of the story, but the VA has to get in a character's headspace to portray them. The best argument for the picture is not that Ashleigh had inside information, it's that she understands both character's emotional landscape and feels romantic tension between them, using the picture to express it. The picture would thus not be literally canon as if it were in the show, but gives us a better understanding of the characters as only someone so deeply in their head could provide, which then gives greater context to the scene in The Last Problem.

I will not die on this hill, but since twilight has her own version of the sonic rainboom in the shape of her cutiemark for some reason. I wouldn't say its impossible that the rainbow color comes from the performer's mane, magic, ect. causing variation. That would end up turning the sonic rainboom into the sonic maneboom or something else ruining the intended pun for the sake of accuracy. Nomatter what at the end of the day its going to be a pony breaking the sound barrier and creating a spectacle.

I really appreciate the way you present your information and opinions. You're good at this. This might be a weird compliment, but I feel like you understand what stories are for more than the vast majority of people do. You'd make a good Pixar Theorist.

I headcanoned Twilight as Aroace with no absolute interest in romance, and I remember some of fandom attacking me for it lol

There’s a reason the show very rarely does toilet humor, cause it reminds us that these characters are naked

I think I’m a little bit of column A and a bit of column B on the sonic rainboom being because of RD’s mane. Like, I think she was able to achieve it because she worked so hard on her skill at flying, but it looked the way it did was because of her mane. I think any very skilled flyer could do something similar, but I doubt that it’s a coincidence that the pony with a rainbow motif was the only one able to create a rainbow visual affect by flying.

I'm personally just not a fan of shipping the Mane Six with each other, since the whole point of the show is that they're friends. Also I'm homophobic.

Tbh I would say that Rainbooms are a rainbow dash exclusive move. In the Sonic Rainboom episode during the library scene, Pinkie says "when a pegasus like Rainbow dash gets going so fast...... BOOM! A sonic boom and rainbow can happen all at once!" And while whenever Rainbow flies fast she has a trail that looks similar to a short version that happens with the rainboom, twilight and lightning dust also have unique trails at fast speeds. So I think while any flying creature capable of the sonic boom part, I think the rainbow version is exclusive to the flyer having a rainbow color scheme.

I'm kinda convinced Flim and Flam are estranged Apple Family members. They have similar coat/mane/eye colours to the Apples, plus their apple cutie marks. It just makes sense to me.

I would put a fan theory but if I had any when I first watched the show I forgot about them. I would need to jog my memory by randomly seeing what it may have been again if any.

This is a great video :)

Vinyl and Octavia is one I never saw as a thing, especially with Fandom bits added to things like Vinyl *maybe* being interested in Neon Lights. As far as the episode showing them living together to me only shows they're roommates and have very little on screen chemistry. Head canons are fun though, and I don't think there's an actual wrong answer for anything in a video like this

"and we all get spared the possibility of a Citizen Kane remake starring Diamond Tiara" that's going on the list of sentences I didn't know I needed to hear

While the majority of my reasoning for not believing Luster Dawn is the daughter of StarBurst is because there just isn't enough solid evidence available, there is a small part of me that actually dislikes that idea. As a straight woman who's had mostly male friends her whole life, it bothers me to no end when people always try to push the idea that if two members of the opposite sex are friendly with each other, they have to start dating. As if platonic feelings between friends with compatible sexualities and genders can't exist. I love Starlight and Sunburst for being a great example in popular media of such a friendship.

I generally found this topic to be really interesting. Especially the part about how we sometimes let our biases affect our opinions on media. Great video, keep up the amazing work.

this video was super fun and interesting to watch personally and id love to see more

i agree with the last point but i also dont think theres anything wrong with theorizing about more "obvious" or surface level questions. I think theyre fun to theorize and talk about as long as you dont take them overly serious. The more deep questions are fun too but theyre a different thing that is enjoyed and discussed for different reasons i feel

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THESE THEORIES ARE CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY

Do you think Marble ever got over Big mac and found her own very special somepony, after that CRUSHING💔 blink and you'll miss it moment in "Best Gift Ever"?

From least canon to most canon, my degrees of canonicity go; 13)Toy packaging 12)Fanon 11)Headcanon 10)Spin-off media material created under a different team or individual 9) The first few episodes of a long-runner 8)Word of the creative voices with indirect input 7)In-text mention once 6)Spin-off media material created main team 5)Word of the Creative voices with direct input 4)Intended Subtext 3)Subtext (audience consensus) 2)Consistently In-Text 1)Whatever Is Funniest

id love a video for each of those deeper questions. do u have a discord for ppl to discuss this kinda thing?

6:08 everyone mentions the Angel line but I think Spike saying “you don’t have tea with Fluttershy every week because you like tea” in the episode “the breakup break down” is much more compelling evidence ESPECIALLY since the context is Hearts and Hooves day

i feel like another character made a boom in their own colour… i cant recall when or who… could be very wrong

On a general note, it's been a bit odd seeing the term 'headcanon' penetrate wider nerd cultute and be met with a degree of backlash. There's always been a degree of friction between what I've seen termed "transformative" fandom and "curative" fandom, but in the past I saw more animosity from the former while the latter seemed oblivious. Now to be honest I'm skeptical of the idea of a hard division in the first place, but seeing this backlash does make me pause. Unsurprisingly I've seen the most arguing over the subject of queerness, but I always existed in a space where saying "X is gay" is usually understood to be a reading of a character over a hard, in-text confirmation, due to the supressed nature of queer representation in media for the last however many 100 years. Seeing people get upset under the apparently sincere impression that people are arguing their readings and headcanons are textual and that they have to see it that way too, is a reminder of how there's a language to fandom informed by context, that's not immediately obvious if you've not spent time immersed in it. I admit I wouldn't be sure that they where sincere, if I hadn't seen some fans have the same reactions to encountering less "topical" headcanons, like a character's hobby or some miniscual facet of their skills. It's easy to dismiss those fans as Stick In The Mud's or Pedantic, but a lot of useful fan resources like fan wiki'd and databases are held together by people with that mindset. I guess this is where the academia and the English lit classes do come in useful in spreading knowledge on theories of literature and media analysis. That aspects of a work can exist in different levels of textuality, subtext, authorial intent, social context, copyright etc. Which is funny because I have s real bugbear with the phrase "media literacy" these days. Not the phrase itself but seeing it become used to mean 'a person's take on a narrative that I don't like'.