Good on Hasbro.

[nenena]

Hasbro edited that horrible, horrible scene from "The Last Roundup" and just made it a thousand percent better:

Of course the internet has been exploding today with bronies pissing themselves with rage over the fact that Hasbro "killed" Derpy. And sending death threats to Yamino and other fans who spoke out against the original version, etc.

Jesus pony-collecting Christ, the grossness of this fandom sometimes. If this had been the original scene in the first place you know the bronies would have been creaming themselves over how much they loved it. Does changing the voice and removing one mention of her fandom nickname from the scene really "ruin" it in any way?! The new voice is way cuter and who the fuck cares if your (arguably quite offensive) fandom nickname is mentioned in the show or not. This edit is probably the best possible way that Hasbro could have fixed the problem - it barely changes anything about the scene at all, but still makes it way more adorable and way less ableist, so hooray because EVERYBODY WINS - yet the bronies are really determined to throw an internet temper tantrum over this, aren't they.

Oh well. Hasbro is great, this show is pretty great, but the fandom has gotten horrible over the past year, news at eleven.

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[nenena]

Argh I'm sorry but I am so tired of people repeating this South Park thing because it's just not true. "Derpy" was NOT invented by South Park. It was around long, long before then. I remember hearing "herp derp" and "derpy" being used IRL when I was in middle school. That was several years before South Park ever started airing. And FYI in the South Park episode "Goobacks" where the word "derpy" was first used on the show, it was used specifically to make the people saying the word seem like they were "retarded." Literally, THAT WAS THE JOKE - it was definitely ableist, and I can't believe that people are claiming that particular use of the word isn't ableist in origin.

they went about it the wrong way aside from the voice change- why does she have to not be named Derpy anymore and have normal eyes?

I don't know why people keep saying that her eyes were changed, because they're still crossed in more frames than not.

As for the pony being "not named Derpy anymore" - well, no. It's not like they officially changed her name to something else. They just omitted saying her name altogether. So if the fandom wants to name her Derpy, she can still be Derpy to the fandom. Honestly, this is the best possible compromise that Hasbro could have made. They didn't take anything away from the fandom at all, not even the name of the pony in question. I don't understand why the Bronies are still complaining in that regard. It's not like Hasbro actually changed her official name to something else! The Bronies were perfectly happy when "Derpy" was just a fan name and now that we're back to that status quo, people are complaining?!

So in short, I think that Hasbro went about this in all the right ways. But the Brony fandom over the past year has been developing an extraordinary sense of entitlement, hence them throwing a gigantic temper tantrum when Hasbro actually changed the show to make it cuter and funnier while at the same time NOT actually taking the name "Derpy" away from the fandom.

It would be great if the world could still have a cross-eyed character who was not stereotyped AT ALL, rather than a "normal" pony filling the same ditz role.

So, if I'm reading this right: You think that a cross-eyed character who is named "Derpy" and is "an idiotic klutz" and who is acting in "the ditz role"... is NOT a stereotypical cross-eyed character?! 0.o