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During the Turn of the Millennium, Homestar Runner was the biggest thing on Internet media. Names such as Strong Bad and Trogdor were huge memes, it had a soundtrack, a video game, a crossover appearance, and bonus tracks on Guitar Hero, and the Brothers Chaps were able to make their livelihood on DVD sales, T-shirts, and other merchandise. Unfortunately, the site's content slowly trickled to a halt as the Brothers Chaps gained more responsibilities, such as having two daughters and taking on professional television work on shows such as Yo Gabba Gabba, The Aquabats! Super Show!, and Gravity Falls, eventually culminating in a three year Series Hiatus. At this time, web media evolved in a big way as things like YouTube and Channel Awesome took off, and the fan-base moved on to other things. When the website released its first major toon in years on April Fools' Day 2014, a small percentage of fans rejoiced, but it simply didn't make the waves that you'd expect something that came so close to mainstream would make. Nowadays, the site releases a handful of toons a year, and it seems as though Homestar Runner will be thought of as a thing of The Oughts rather than a staple of internet media like The Nostalgia Critic. The store's official description of the Trogdor T-shirt (once their best seller) lampshades this:
Nothing says "I was in college in the early-to-mid 2000's like a shirt with everyone's favorite beefy-armed dragon.
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Remember. Homestar Runner is old and dead. Unlike The Nostalgia Critic, which is forever timeless.
 
ZehnBoat said:
I might come across as spergy here but bare with me
the picture for "The forth wall wont save you" (dunno if it's title has been changed) use to be something that made sense, it's those fucking creepy ass angels from doctor who (and i say this as someone who thinks it's a meh show)
I remember it got changed to EDGY PONY OMG THE EDGE ITS GOT A KNIFE


why?
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It simply represents a shift in the site's userbase from sperging mostly over Dr. Who (remember when every single WMG page would have 'x character is a Time Lord' on it?) to sperging mostly over My Little Pony Friendship is Magic (as every page must have My Little Pony, or even a fucking My Little Pony fanfic as an example).
 
Uncanny Valley said:
Remember. Homestar Runner is old and dead. Unlike The Nostalgia Critic, which is forever timeless.
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The whole Deader Than Disco page is full of people who don't understand the difference between "something's not as popular as it used to be" and "something is no longer popular and no one will admit to ever liking it."
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
The whole Deader Than Disco page is full of people who don't understand the difference between "something's not as popular as it used to be" and "something is no longer popular and no one will admit to ever liking it."
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And even then, Disco's technically not dead, partially because I've seen it gain some appreciation in recent times, and partially because it's the forerunner to things like Electronica, House and, of course, Dubstep to varying degrees (at least, in my eyes).

In other words, at this point Disco isn't deader than Disco after all.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
And even then, Disco's technically not dead, partially because I've seen it gain some appreciation in recent times, and partially because it's the forerunner to things like Electronica, House and, of course, Dubstep to varying degrees (at least, in my eyes).

In other words, at this point Disco isn't deader than Disco after all.
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The specter of John Travolta in a leisure suit and the Village People in Can't Stop the Music still looms over disco. Disco has a long way to go before it can shake off those associations.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
The specter of John Travolta in a leisure suit and the Village People in Can't Stop the Music still looms over disco. Disco has a long way to go before it can shake off those associations.
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True as that may be, I still don't think it's as dead as everyone thinks, all things considered.
 
Abethedemon said:
http://www.herdcensus.com/2014 STATE OF THE HERD REPORT.pdf
From 2014, but only 56.7% of bronies are from the US of A. China, Taiwan Brazil, Russia and Mexico are all also large hubs for bronies. The amount of bronies living in Russia has increased.
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"Globeclopping
Though bronies are seemingly located mostly in the UK and in the United States, based on where the major conventions are held (BUCK and Bronycon respectively) the highest concentration of Pornhub bronies appear to be located in Belarus, in that MLP porn is 462% more likely to be searched for there than the rest of the world. Overall it appears that Central and Eastern Europe are where these types of searches are the most popular, with countries like Russia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic all proving to be 427%, 326% and 179% more likely to perform MLP searches than elsewhere in the world."

http://www.pornhub.com/insights/pornhub-my-little-pony
 
Uncanny Valley said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped/WesternAnimation

my favourite cartoon is so deep and mature, you guys
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Back in the old days when all media for that trope was under one page, I saw something that actually surprised me. Someone talked about how an episode of Law and Order about an abortion clinic shooter was "an anvil that needs to be dropped". People called bullshit and it got like 5 replies that abortion clinic shootings are a very low incidence, niche problem that only liberals, say the kind writing for television, would worry about. It's the only time I've seen multiple people on Tvtropes show any critical self awareness.
 
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