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> ven on smaller sites you can find those to an extent. 
every standard has been set pretty fast and it feels like we are moving at a really fast pace in general. This might explain why everything on the internet gets old after a short period of time. 

> I have giving long thought on my long term net presence plans and it be a hard road to walk without joining up in at least some of the things in social media that I despise. 
there is always something that you can learn or extract out of them. Don´t take them as the ultimate poison but analyze but it´s worth getting from there. In the end, you are the only one who decides to be selective with them. 
 
> Even if I avoid the larger sites if I took a name I'd be prone to end up getting caught up in some circlejerk or group with in group out group dynamics that could lead to stupid drama.
well, but it´s kind of a private drama that only a few notice it. Unless it jumps onto the new (pretty difficult by the way), there are dramas happening everywhere. They may not happen on the street but instead, keyboards cannot catch a break these days.
 
> And if I failed to pertispate by it's rules I could be shunned, unless I tried to really my own group around my displeasure of social media, which would just be a repeat of the problems with me at the helm. Not saying it would happen, but that it always would be a possibility, even with a small online presence. 
you will find out. Like you felt about Ponychan, you will discover where you see yourself comfortable or fit in without problems.

> I might as well set up a derpibooru account. Yeah, that's why I never linked one, because I have never bothered to... 
do it. I have had one for 2 years and it serves me to click like and the fav buttons in order to ask for more content that I like. Instead of shitposting all the time on 4chan, I prefer creating a belief to those content creators that X type of content is well regarded and encourage them to keep going very subtly.

What I have described sounds masonic as hell and it certainly is but it works and what´s even more amazing, it´s that it becomes true after the quality content drops.

So yeah, go for it if you want.

> Few things that have hype usually are relevant more than a few years. 
in the internet age, definitely. 

> I mean, one could name Star Wars as an example, or even this franchise considering how it exploded but still has a much larger than average core fandom. But most things that are popular are just that, trends.
what´s even funnier is that MLP exploded in 2011 and after that, it has gained the unironic cult over time. 

> I'd rather slowly gain vitality and build to a point of larger cult following with a just under mainstream recognition (Touhou, independent animator Don Hertzfeldt for a more strange example) that is sustaining and growing over a hype bobble that pops. 
yeah, it´s definitely the most consistent method to thrive and those two examples are pretty on point to that statement. In fact, I have checked Don Hetzfeldt and he says:

< You never want to lie to your audience... you can trick them, you can disturb them, you can annoy them, but you can never lie to them. To me commercials are nothing but lies.
I like this guy. 

> I guess we should start calling it PONYmon eh? I could say the same for a good bit of the deisgns now that I think about it.
yeah, we are talking about the most profitable franchise ever and one cannot deny the subtle influence it has had around the globe, especially now with the mobile app. I wonder what other designs are similar or recall you something out of MLP. I can imagine the OCs of IDW or the changeling but it´s harder for me to tell how other characters are similar.

> I'm looking at you kirin 
I cannot match nor correlate their designs to any mon in particular. I suppose their designs come from taking the Twilight ponyta mode way too seriously and apply it for an entire race. I suppose the nirik mode would remind me of something but I don´t see it. Do you have in mind anything in particular?