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D'Art's way too confrontational to be Fluttershy, I think.
This is a guy who managed to get into 3 duels to the death on his first day in the major city where most of the story takes place.
Umm. . .no. If it is one thing that the creator's can't look at it is fan fiction, so I doubt that most of the creative team will make a reference to that.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:17:47 PM by Mio
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:17:14 PM by JapaneseTeeth
Are they even aware of Cupcakes? (or have they shown any kind of indication that they are)
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:17:07 PM by gingerninja666
If they pay enough attention to fanart to be familiar with Derpy, they're probably aware that it exists, although they probably wouldn't read it.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:17:55 PM by JapaneseTeeth
She'd probably either find it offensive or boring
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:18:22 PM by gingerninja666
They would really only have this vague concept of "Psycho Pinkie" if they saw the fan art. Unless, some brony out their explained it to them I doubt they could make a direct reference.
I would personally not want any more fandom references, especially after Derpy.
Their was nothing wrong with it in and of itself.
I just thought it was a very blatant piece of necessary fandom pandering, pandering that could come back to bite Hasbro/Studio B/The Hub in their collective asses by increasing the fandom's sense of entitlement.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:28:55 PM by Mio
What could making the fandom more entitled lead to?
Look at what it did to the Glee fandom.
I can't stand that show (no offense) so obviously I haven't been paying that much attention to the fandom ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
What happened exactly?
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:36:13 PM by gingerninja666
Typically a fandom's sense of entitlement is directly proportional to the size and scope of its Fan Dumb. Basically the fandom starts wanting things it can't have and then throws a fit when it doesn't get it.
Probably the biggest example of that is the Sonic fandom.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:45:02 PM by Mio
Not offended at all, I get why some pepole can't stand Glee, probably for the same reasons I love it.
Anywho, season 2 of glee pandered a lot to the base (which I didn't mind as much since RL bitch slapepd me out of all fandom for awhile), which only made the base whine more and more when things where not up to their "standards". When a show stops being about what the writer want sit to be and about what reaction the writers want from the fans, then neither count is going to end up well.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:51:16 PM by LMage
How does pandering too little cause that?
Yeah, I remember a few days after Sonic 4 came out, Sonic Retro actually had to shut down because the thread for the game was cluttered with rants and arguments and the like.
Sometimes, fandoms go too far to get what they want.
edited 22nd Jan '12 3:51:07 PM by LightPhaser
