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> Now top 15.
eeeyup, /horror/ is going after us closely but it seems that we have beaten /test/ at this point.

> but it was nowhere near as interesting as G4 would be.
gen 3 seems so far away these days one wonders if it didn´t have the MLP name put on it, one would believe that this is a separate franchise

> I don't know about the initial reasons behind G4 conception
I believe they showed signs of  development in 2009 but Hasbro basically gave up the franchise to Faust to whatever she wanted with it....until there were creative discussions and fights for certain ideas between them. Even with those fights, one can get a pretty good idea at how Hasbro valued this franchise back then.

> The transition period probably ended around 2015, and ponies outlived that barrier. 
gen 4, save for minor detours, can stay timeless (unless they fuck it up greatly this last episodes) and hold its own timeline. Fans have always stayed skeptical. In fact, if you check the first comment of its Knowyourmeme entry, fans celebrated the 10k image mark. Nowadays, that´s nothing for Derpi.


> precisely that scarcity, reduced availability and the increased creativity required to work around that and the true wild west is paradoxically what I would want to see out of the whole ordeal.
it´s like the punk scene or similar spontaneous movements, that liberty appears once in a lifetime or sets the mark of a certain era that you cannot define its beginning nor ending with much precision (at the time in it) yet you start to appreciate it when it´s over. Will that happen again? I highly doubt it happens again but as you say, status quo for whatever event that occurs in the present.

> It's unsurprising that when things go well, one does not want change. But should things go south, that point of view takes a 180 degree turn.
erm...yep. I prefer that nothing bad happens to my family or have health problems. I complained about life being monotonous as a sign of feeling stagnant and get existential questions like "why am I here if nothing ever happens?".

Now, stability in the long term, is a pretty good sign for many things as well: economy,fanbase´s popularity (staying in a volatile state could lead it into a simple dated trend), solid structures, etc.
It mostly comes out because of nonconformist thoughts and doing something in this timeline, feeling achieved.

> Inertia is a concept that I think applies not only to physical things objects, but also to psychological aspects of our life.
I cannot deny that. 

> wishing someone to live in "interesting times" was that those times in question were wartimes. 
holy shit, the origins of that phrase sure are not the way I intended to use it. When you see that kids like war and things like that, being a soldier is 95% of the time, waiting and 5% of it, the tense part comes (and when it happens, it doesn´t happen as happily as one may think).

> but /mlp/ was a containment board first and foremost, and maybe outside of much narrower scope of 4CC, it didn't have all that big of an impact on the rest of the site everr since I think
but the fact that ponies still trigger the boards and the 15th global rule still applies, it makes you think that there is a mark embed to the site. 

A containment board, yes ,but a very popular one when it comes to discussing the meta of 4chan on /qa/.