We’re going to see about putting up a downloadable archive in the near future.” “The blog got reported and taken down by someone and instead of fighting for it to go up again since we were close to closing it anyway, we decided the last strip worked surprisingly well as a goodbye. The blog was rumored to have brought in about $1,000/month for its creator, and was popular enough to warrant a team of blog moderators, one of whom told Horse News that they chose not to fight for the blog’s reinstatement because they were ready for it to go: On Thanksgiving, one of the voice actresses for the show, Nicole Oliver, tweeted fanart from the blog, not realizing that it was a blatant sexual innuendo. Yet for all the attention on pinkiepony, Hasbro could easily have been alerted to Molestia’s existence in other ways. Also, to answer your question,, (And your parents’ names are and …).” “Look, I don’t condone harrassment, a few pizza pranks are funny, rape/death threats are not. “I’d reccomend you don’t take selfies with your phone,” Tumblr user Gigametallix wrote in response to Pinkie sharing the receipt for the neighbors’ pizza. Offline, however, their tactics have proven a bit creepier: After using GPS coordinates from pinkiepony’s Twitter account, one brony allegedly had pizza delivered to her neighbor’s house. ![]() They’ve mocked her extensively in posts compiling examples of her alleged hypocrisy for drawing suggestive pony art, and attacked her on parody and tribute blogs to Molestia, like inmemoryofmolly and ask-princess-mole-stia: Online, they’ve claimed-with no evidence-that she’s lying about her age and that she is also a member of the white supremacist group Stormfront. Among the forums spearheading the harassment campaigns is 4chan’s My Little Pony board, /mlp/, which has drenched her deviantArt account with criticism and allegedly flooded her inbox on Tumblr. When angry bronies sought someone to blame for Molestia’s deletion, pinkiepony was an easy target.īronies have launched an intense harassment campaign against her. When pinkiepony’s campaign broadened to include “Ponies Against Rape Culture,” Mens’ Rights Activist bronies called her a “nazi.” ![]() She quickly garnered her own entry at noted troll site Encyclopedia Dramatica, which included her full name and other personal information. The anti-Molestia movement had already made Pinkie a target for mockery within the brony fandom. She noted that Hasbro never replied to her or acknowledged receiving the email in any way, but that it was possible that the email had an impact on Hasbro’s response and Tumblr’s decision. 9, Pinkie emailed Hasbro about the Molestia blog. “I don’t like a fandom for a little girl’s toys to be overrun by men who don’t respect women and think they run this town,” she wrote. ![]() That’s not actually so unusual in the brony community, but Molestia’s penchant for throwing herself at anything with hooves (and sometimes without), combined with her name, made her a highly contentious topic within the fandom.Įspecially vocal was a Tumblr user named pinkiepony, an alleged 17-year-old and lifelong pony fan who claims to have started the long-running brony movement called “Down With Molestia” after her 12-year-old sister ran across the blog while looking for harmless My Little Pony-related material. The contents of her blog, which-like most Tumblr roleplays-took the form of an “ask” blog with fanart responses, were highly pornographic. “An alternate version of Princess Celestia, differentiated from her canon counterpart by her pure lilac mane and her raging nymphomania,” reads the description for Princess Molestia on a wiki made for cataloging My Little Pony roleplay blogs on Tumblr. The sharply divided reaction on and off of Tumblr illustrates the massive ideological divide that has formed between various types of bronies, and the odd way in which this children’s show has managed to bring liberal, feminist “social justice warriors” and fedora-wearing “men’s rights activists” (MRAs) together under one rickety fandom roof. Molestia’s creator, John Joseco, is claiming that Tumblr itself deleted the blog thanks to a copyright complaint from Hasbro-known for vigorously defending itself against anything that would tarnish the image of its popular ponies as kid-friendly. Molestia was so popular she had her own TV tropes page, her own wiki page, and her own mini-fandom with spinoff parody blogs.īut last week, after a cryptic final comment in which another character urged the main character to “press the big red button,” the blog vanished. Tumblr, 4chan, and the bronies-fans of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic-are facing off over a deleted pony blog and a flood of harassment directed toward a 17-year-old girl who may have influenced the takedown.įor three years, the brony roleplay blog Ask Princess Molestia existed on Tumblr as a parody of the My Little Pony character Princess Celestia.
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