Topic: Hi! I'm Jello!

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JelloPonies

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xch3l said:
Oh, you like ponies? Name all of them

inb4 wall of text, so I'll preemptively say post #443869

*EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY*
Pony 1, pony 2, pony 3, pony 4, I like all the little ponies and then I like some more. I got Twilight with the books and Pinkie with the cake, Rainbow Dash is leaving sonic rainbooms in her wake. Fluttershy is quiet, Rarity is divine, Applejack is honest and she’s working all the time. You want the whole list? Are you ready for the test? I’m 20% cooler than all of the rest!

dba afish

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fuzzy_kobold said:
If a plot is a pony butt; Would a pony weight gain story be a good place to say 'the plot thickens'? :3

why would "plot" be specific to pony butt?

Fuzzy Kobold

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dba_afish said:
why would "plot" be specific to pony butt?

I never said it was specific to pony butt. Only that I have heard pony butts called 'plots'.

dba afish

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fuzzy_kobold said:
I never said it was specific to pony butt. Only that I have heard pony butts called 'plots'.

I believe that joke originates from the anime community, watching something "for the plot" was sort of a tongue-in-cheek excuse, implying the speaker was embarrassed about watching something that contains overly sexualised characters and/or lots of gratuitous fan service. so eventually "good plot" came to sort of mean that kind of stuff.

so, the joke got brought over to the MLP community presumably through 4Chan... or maybe it was sort of a parody of it, since it'd be less embarrassing to imply you're attracted to cartoon horses than say you enjoyed a show for little girls.

ColinTheLucario

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dba_afish said:
I believe that joke originates from the anime community, watching something "for the plot" was sort of a tongue-in-cheek excuse, implying the speaker was embarrassed about watching something that contains lots of gratuitous fan service.

so, the joke got brought over to the MLP community, or sort of a parody of it, since it'd be less embarrassing to imply you're attracted to cartoon horses than say you enjoyed a show for little girls.

In that case, you're watching it for the friendship

dba afish

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iseekstowin said:
Funnily enough, it actually originates from the MLP community.

no it dosn't. don't say stuff unless you're sure it's true.

here's a anime blog post which contains an image which uses the joke: http://www.templeofmick.com/?p=989, it was posted October 5th of 2010. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's first episode came out on October 10th. therefore your statement cannot be true, unless you want to try to prove that the community was using the joke in reference to pre-G4 content, which I'd be _very_ surprised to see.

the MLP community may have helped popularize the phrase, but also remember that the place that helped popularize MLP was an anime imageboard.

EDIT: by the way, it's a fucking miracle that blog existed, and that the post was so perfectly timed. I'm pretty sure that is the oldest instance of the meme that still exists on the internet, or at least on the easily-searchable internet. I'm scouring the Google search: "for the plot" anime before:2011 and that is literally the only thing I'm finding that uses the phrase in this way.

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Fuzzy Kobold

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dba_afish said:
I believe that joke originates from the anime community, watching something "for the plot" was sort of a tongue-in-cheek excuse, implying the speaker was embarrassed about watching something that contains overly sexualised characters and/or lots of gratuitous fan service. so eventually "good plot" came to sort of mean that kind of stuff.

so, the joke got brought over to the MLP community presumably through 4Chan... or maybe it was sort of a parody of it, since it'd be less embarrassing to imply you're attracted to cartoon horses than say you enjoyed a show for little girls.

Dude. I was just making a bad pun.
I heard pony butts called 'plots' in the furry/MLP community. So I made a joke.
Also 'the plot thickens' is an old, old phrase.
And 'I watch it for the plot' predates both the MLP AND the anime fandoms.

It was a long-running internet joke in the 2000s, and probably earlier, where:
“Plot” = the actual story
But it was used sarcastically to mean fanservice (usually sexualized characters)

The joke structure was:
“I’m only watching this for the plot.”
Meaning:
“I’m pretending I care about the story, but I’m actually here for the attractive characters.”

It was not unique to anime, but anime culture helped popularize it online.

MkLXIV

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notkastar said:
What are your thoughts on Gen Ai, Dood?
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Send it back to Hell where it came from, and then nuke Hell twice ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/'̿̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿ ̿

ISeeksToWin

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dba_afish said:
no it dosn't. don't say stuff unless you're sure it's true.

here's a anime blog post which contains an image which uses the joke: http://www.templeofmick.com/?p=989, it was posted October 5th of 2010. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic's first episode came out on October 10th. therefore your statement cannot be true, unless you want to try to prove that the community was using the joke in reference to pre-G4 content, which I'd be _very_ surprised to see.

the MLP community may have helped popularize the phrase, but also remember that the place that helped popularize MLP was an anime imageboard.

Yeah, sorry, I misinterpreted my sources.

don't say stuff unless you're sure it's true.

How else am I gonna get nerds on the internet to correct me with the right answer?

MkLXIV

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iseekstowin said:
Yeah, sorry, I misinterpreted my sources.
How else am I gonna get nerds on the internet to correct me with the right answer?

For reference I swear hearing people say it in like 2009-2010 in regards to anime. The whole joke goes back even before the Internet, with people reading Playboy Magazine "for the articles."

dba afish

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iseekstowin said:
How else am I gonna get nerds on the internet to correct me with the right answer?

you can just say "prove it", assuming you don't want to do the internet archeology yourself. this time I was extremely lucky to have found a perfect example, but in the past I've come up dry quite often when trying to prove a theory about something.

either way don't say anything confidently unless you're at least 90% certain of its factuality. because failing to do that is how we get the proliferation of misinformation, both the mostly harmless Tumblr "fun fact"-types and the actually harmful stuff.

Watsit

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dba_afish said:
I believe that joke originates from the anime community, watching something "for the plot" was sort of a tongue-in-cheek excuse, implying the speaker was embarrassed about watching something that contains overly sexualised characters and/or lots of gratuitous fan service. so eventually "good plot" came to sort of mean that kind of stuff.

Which itself came from a joke about looking at Playboy Magazine "for the articles".