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| Anonymous #1368790 2 months ago |
I don't know about you, but I'm not buying a thing from Hasbro until they issue a formal apology and put Derpy's name and eyes back to normal. |
| Yurp #1368797 2 months ago |
am i the only one who is tired of hearing about this? |
| Anonymous #1368803 2 months ago |
Good sir, have you ever thought about making your home in a place called The Present? |
| ProfessorOfHoers #1368806 2 months ago |
Not gonna happen. Hasbro would rather piss off fans than create a seemingly bad/negative tint to a longstanding IP.
You'll never get that apology Anon. Ever. |
| Anonymous #1368807 2 months ago |
790.
No-one gives a shit. It's their show, they can do what they want. |
| Anonymous #1368823 2 months ago |
That doesn't make it unretarded. |
| Glaive #1368866 2 months ago |
I thought this was over and done with by now... |
| Anonymous #1368867 2 months ago |
I've got better things to worry about like a shitty tv spot than I do history. |
| Bolan #1368875 2 months ago |
Here we go digging up bones again. |
| Anonymous #1368876 2 months ago |
It won't be done with until they make amends. |
| Anonymous #1368893 2 months ago |
876.
For what? If you grow a garden, do grow it how the bugs want it or how you want it? |
| Anonymous #1368906 2 months ago |
Hasbro does not give one single fuck about bronies. GUND wanted to make brony plush and applied for licensing. Hasbro rejected the application. |
| Cgeta #1368921 2 months ago |
I'm doubly tired of hearing this. Not only of itself, but also of the people that are tired about hearing this. :P
This is not worth to even think about. It surely wasn't easy for them to make the changes. They would have kept it, but it looks like they are extra cautious when it comes to things that may even slightly cause any controversies. Like the 4th, or 5th meaning of the word "Derp" being "Retarded" which has turned into an insult, or something. |
| Anonymous #1368937 2 months ago |
But if we censor everything that could possibly offend anyone, we'd be left with nothing left. |
| Cgeta #1368976 2 months ago |
I guess it was also part reason that the word Derp comes from the internet, and they weren't completely sure about its meaning. Or if the meaning of it even changes, which some words from the internet do, I think.
And they went all "better save than sorry". It's also easier to make the name Derpy offensive than an already etablished one like Ditzy Doo. |
| BattleGT #1368989 2 months ago |
It is finished dude. Mostly everyone has moved on. I don't agree with all the changes and the course of action Hasbro took to address the issue. But I understand why Hasbro did make the change even though I'm not pleased with the voice of reason behind it.
On top of that it's May this was relevant in February not so much now. |
| Lomiej #1369054 2 months ago |
I never expected her to talk in the first place (although it was pretty awesome), so even though I love the character, I'm not going to be too disappointed if official material tends to shy away from it happening again. No executive or act of censorship can end the life of Derpy, the fans love her too much to forget her. |
| DaxRattler #1369092 2 months ago |
This topic again.
Hasbro is gunshy when it comes to controversy, as evidenced by the fact that it only took a few emails to get that episode modified. This policy has served them well as a business and I don't see them changing it anytime soon for little old us, You have to remember that their primary goal is profit; not appeasing the non target demographic of only one of their franchises. Find a way to make Derpy profitable, then you will have Hasbro's attention. |
| Anonymous #1369122 2 months ago |
Derpy, who isn't even disabled, was seen as offensive by people who also aren't disabled. That would be like me saying Mr. Cake is offensive to Mexicans, and then demanding he be removed from all the episodes. Do you know how hard it is to come up with something that doesn't offend at least ten people? It sends a terrible message to piss off hundreds of fans to please less than a dozen.
It sets a very, very bad precedent to do something like this, demonstrating that a handful of people with uneducated opinions can force Hasbro to retroactively edit an episode to make it conform to their closeminded worldview. What if some religious group finds "In the name of Celestia" or "Thank Celestia" to be blasphemous? I guarantee you they could find WAY more than ten people to email Hasbro. It is a monsterously bad move to go from having 4% of the fambase be mildly offended to shitting all over the relationship that was built between the fandom and the show. Derpy isn't just a wall-eyed mailmare; she represents the connection that the show runners developed with the brony community. |
| Anonymous #1369154 2 months ago |
*fanbase |
| Anonymous #1369194 2 months ago |
This whole "I don't like it so I must ruin it for everyone else" mentality should NOT be encouraged like this. Remember when Ms. Magazine said the show was racist, sexist, and so on? What if instead of Lauren writing a verbal smackdown of a response article, she had instead said "Oops, my bad" and made Rainbow Dash into Sky Dash, removed Celestia's horn, and made Twilight stay in Canterlot? |
| Anonymous #1369830 2 months ago |
People like Yamino need a stiff squirt of a spray bottle and a sharp "No!", not to have their backwards worldviews validated with reactionary censorship. |
| Anonymous #1369869 2 months ago |
I thought we just cared about Vinyl's eye color now. Derpy is old news. |
| packer_dash_52 #1369877 2 months ago |
jesus man how long ago was this? can we stop beating this dead horse now? |
| Anonymous #1369879 2 months ago |
Derpy is more important than Vinyl's eye color. |
| Anonymous #1369881 2 months ago |
Have they fixed Derpy? No? Then no. |
| bboifatz #1370082 2 months ago |
Honestly I don't give a shit about Derpy. She's overrated, and the massive shitstorm about her voice and eyes getting changed actually made me almost start hating her. She is no-wehre near important enough to deserve the amount of fuss people threw over the situation, and I am so sick of hearing about it that I'm just about sick of Derpy by extension. |
| Anonymous #1370370 2 months ago |
lol |
| zammullins #1371296 2 months ago |
Unless they
A.) Give us an unedited version of the episode on iTunes. or B.) Give Derpy lines in a future episode, with Tabitha St. Germain voicing her. I highly doubt people will ever give this a rest. Not that I can blame them. |
| bboifatz #1371410 2 months ago |
Tabitha St. Germain did her new voice, too, but that little tidbit of knowledge was hardly enough to satiate the rage of Derpy's fanbase.
What makes me mad is that "Derpygate" made the whole community look bad. Not everyone got worked up about the episode getting changed, but you'd hardly know it given how loud and obnoxious some of Derpy's fans were when it happened, and have been ever since. They didn't speak for all fans, and yet all fans were associated with the shitstorm over a joke character whether they wanted to be or not. |
| Vree #1372150 2 months ago |
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| Don #1372181 2 months ago |
@122
You said it. A few people being offended by something shouldn't have this kind of power. |
| Anonymous #1384078 2 months ago |
@bboifatz It wasn't the voice, but the straightening of her eyes and removal of her name, that bothered most bronies. |
| Anonymous #1411213 1 month ago |
@9194 Do we want MLP to go the way of The Letter People? |
| Anonymous #1411231 1 month ago |
Explanation:
"In 1990, Abrams & Co. Publishers Inc. of Austin, Texas bought the rights to The Letter People from the previous owner, Norwalk, Connecticut-based New Dimensions in Education, Inc. The company gave the program a major facelift, updating and revising it. … In 1996 the Abrams Company also made sweeping changes to over half of the Letter People themselves, most obviously equalizing the proportion of male to female characters (vowels are now distinguished by their ability to light up via "LetterLights," which appear as yellow suns on their right shoulders). The men also changed from "Mister" to "Mr.", the women also changed from "Miss" to "Ms.", and all references to "junk food" were deleted (Mr. D's "delicious donuts" were exchanged for "dazzling dance", for example). In addition, any Letter People that Abrams deemed as expressing negative images were changed to be more positive (Mr. H's horrible hair became happy instead, while Mr. X is no longer all wrong (mixed-up), he's "different")." |