My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Memes/Part One



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General Memes

 * "WELCOME TO THE HERD"
 * "CONFOUND THESE PONIES, THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!"
 * "...in my hooves, on my head, in my saddlebags... in my mouth!"
 * SECRET BUTT FUN
 * Scary butt fun!
 * Gyro Bowls.
 * "SHOO BE DOO"
 * Not so much a meme about the show as about the fandom: It's become something of a tradition among male fans to advertise their gender, age, and (sometimes) occupation in the comments section of the episodes posted on Youtube, often immediately followed by stating the name of a favorite pony or a general, "... and I love this show!"
 * A common variation is to comment on one of the earlier, but not the first ten, episodes, stating something along the lines of "why am I still watching this?".
 * I am gonna LOVE and TOLERATE the SHIT outta you.
 * "Love and tolerance" my ass!
 * STOP FAPPING TO HORSES
 * I can/can't clop to this.
 * FiM is technically furry
 * Thanks to the infamous "I watch it for the plot" image macro, "plot" has become a popular euphemism for pony rump.
 * Pony variations of the DAT ASS meme include DAT PLOT, DAT FLANK, and DAT CUTIE MARK.
 * Less popular, but this also makes "plot hole" a valid and stealthy insult.
 * And of course, it tends to be combined with Twilight Sparkle's Unfortunate Name, leading to jokes about Twilight having well developed plot etc.
 * Fans have copied the Hold Your Hippogriffs instances from the show, and created more of their own. In particular, it is almost required for "anypony", "everypony" and variants to be used amongst fans, even when not referring to the characters.
 * "My Little [X]"
 * "Friendship Is [X]" / "[X] Is Magic".
 * "AND X MAKES IT ALL COMPLETE!"
 * Thank Celestia for Lauren Faust
 * "Can you do that? Can you explode twice?!"
 * And then nothing sexual happened at all. The end.
 * And then everything sexual happened. The end.
 * Truth Flower
 * In the same vein, there's also a YouTube video of Miles Edgeworth cross-examining Pinkie Pie's "testimony" from the episode in question.
 * "They know!"
 * "Bedroom eyes", taking a screenshot while a character is blinking their eyes and catching them half-lidded. The result is an expression that looks coy when taken out of context (as the Internet is often eager to do).
 * The phrase had become memetic waaay before ponies, mind, but the nature of Flash animation's keyframing makes it particularly easy to abuse in this show.
 * A metric ton of reaction images on the whole, but most notably by far the ponyshrug. Began with an innocent Pinkie Pie, and quickly exploded. Ponyshrugs may now be found of nearly the entire cast, as well as of original characters, and even ponified versions of characters from other works.
 * A fancomic that was made to look like an official German magazine comic has spawned a couple memes of its own:
 * Terry.
 * "Around the zebras, never relax!"
 * "All my friends are here. And Applejack is here too."
 * "[X] IS NOW CANON"
 * Tara Strong is best pony.
 * Pony hell.
 * "IT WAS CHANGELINGS!"
 * "Veggie55 brought me here": more of a Real Life Running Gag than anything. With the end of Season 2, the Deviant ART artist Veggie55 has taken to making short comic strips based of scenes from popular tv shows like Father Ted and Family Guy. In the comments section for each, he usually links to the video, which leads to his legion of fans watching it, liking it, and getting the top rated comments, most of them referencing the comic (something which non-bronies would not understand). Exempli gratia.

Crossover Memes

 * Crossing Friendship Is Magic with anything and everything has become a meme all of its own. Portal (Better Living Through Science and Ponies and plenty of other fics), Team Fortress 2 (endless Gmod works with both casts), Touhou (crossed with everything anyway), Doctor Who (thanks to the popularity of Doctor Whoof), The Slender Man Mythos, Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt (thanks to Twilight Sparkle and Stocking having similar haircuts and color schemes), Star Trek (thanks to John de Lancie aka Q voicing Discord), Metal Gear, and many more. And practically every character ever has been "ponified" at least once.
 * Speaking of TF2, the Scout has often been comically paired up/shipped with Rainbow Dash due to his infamous "Rainbows make me cry" meme.
 * Some madman went so far as to cross it over with Sins of a Solar Empire, of all things.
 * I will see your epic space strategy and raise you the Napoleonic Wars.
 * In regards to the ponies on Gmod, there's also EPPALJECK, the name given to the creepy beta version of the Applejack rag-doll. She is Nightmare Fuel incarnate, and pretty much the Friendship is Magic equivalent of Vagineer and Painis Cupcake.
 * Objection! Why didn't you testify to the fact that there's three parts of a four-part crossover with Phoenix Wright are currently available on YouTube?
 * MAGNETO.
 * In an "Evolution of a Scene", made by one of the animators on the show (for both season one and two), at the end there is an animation of pony Magneto at the gala, using the pony statue to take down the Wonderbolts while saying "WELCOME TO DIE!!!"
 * Magneighto has even become an official Canon Foreigner by appearing on The Merch, specifically the Magnet Pony shirt and formerly hoodie.
 * Spider-Man's a brony
 * So am I!
 * Congratulations! Your Twilight Sparkle has evolved into Rapidash!
 * Kamen Rider Fourze crossovers have begun to take hold, thanks to Gentaro's goal to befriend everyone in his school. LUNA, GRAB MY POMPADOUR!
 * It has become somewhat popular to mix "Lesson Zero" with Majoras Mask, due to how the sun moves.
 * Celestia Trolls Luna when she plays Mario, but Luna trolls her when Celestia plays Majora's Mask...
 * "What is this fun thou speakest of?" "F" is for friends who do stuff together...
 * IT'S NOT JUST A BOULDER, IT'S A ROCK!
 * In general, if the fandom can connect an FiM meme to one from SpongeBob, they will do so.
 * The Engineer is a Spy!
 * Going with the "Princess Cadence is X" meme below, there's
 * THIS is what happens when you BUCK a STRANGER in the FLANK!
 * Nopony bucks with the Jesus.
 * My Little Steampunk
 * Daft Pony
 * X Y is best Y
 * X Y is worst Y
 * Jedi ponies
 * Rainbow Dash is Daredevil
 * LIKE A FAUST!
 * A shot of Pinkie Pie waxing to Rainbow Dash about delicious cider looked uncannily like the "X, X Everywhere" meme. Fans pounced.

Website Specific Memes

 * Two of Equestria Daily's most well-known moderators, Cereal Velocity and Sethisto, have a serious thing for unicorns. Cereal firmly believes that "Rarity is the best pony!", while Sethisto firmly believes that "Trixie is the best pony"! The unicorn-love extends to their newest blogger Phoe, who runs the Artist Training Grounds and seems to have a serious crush on Lyra Heartstrings. Pretty much every ATG day has at least a few drawings referencing her obsession with Lyra using that day's theme. And now we have this.
 * *cue happy theme song*
 * Roboshi, Anchors, & yellowtdash are universal constants/fav'd this
 * They are typically considered the Ponibooru "mascots", as they are the three most known members of ponibooru.
 * They have a tumblr which can be found here.
 * Roboshi is credited with being the originator of faving whereas anchors is considered the fastest with a capped record of 2,000+ per day, Yellow is an artist who does the artwork behind the tumblr.
 * Faustpony loves her Subway sandwiches.
 * And on that note..."Subway -- eat flesh."
 * It's not just Lauren; many other canon ponies have been shopped into similar fashions, as well.
 * Ask Tumblrs / "Ask [X]" / "[X] Answers"
 * Chubbies/Blobs
 * Rainbow Dash Chubby Flyby
 * Now with its own TVTropes page!
 * "MAKE IT HAPPEN"
 * December 9th is National Child Violence Day!
 * Nazi Ponies
 * Speaking of Nazis, Rarity's line "I didn't know you could burn juice!" is frequently misheard as "I didn't know you could burn Jews!" (Which gets even more bizarre in light of the Jewish Rarity meme...)
 * Lilo~

Youtube Memes

 * Setting clips of MLP: FiM to audio of other things, the more Hot-Blooded or macho the better: Ponycraft 2, The Elder Scrolls VI: Equestria, Call Of Cutie: Blank Ops, Pony Effect 2, (surely inevitably) 300 Ponies, Friendship Is Magic At World's End, The Rainbow Knight, Lord of the Ponies, Van Sparkle, Inglourious Ponies, P for Pinketta, Pony Rangers Zeo, Space Marene, Twilight Sparkle is Still Alive, My Little Eve: Spaceships are Magic, Fallout: New Canterlot, Pony 2 Assasins of Kings, Fluttershy Island, Soar, KILL SPIKE Vol 1, Tengen Toppa Pony Lagann, Spike Fights The Power, Puella Magi PONY Magica (Complete with Wonderbolt-flavored Morning Rescue), Meet the Ponies, Clash of the Ponies, When the Ponies Cry...
 * ...Doctor Pony's Sing Along Blog, Inside Dungeons and Dragons, Pony Jenkins, Ima let you finish Twilight, Pinkie & the Brain, The Trixige, Batmare Begins, Spike Nukem Forever, My Little Serenity, The Hunt for Twilit October, A Clockwork Pink - Equestrian Invitation, Pinkijou, The Rainbow Knight Rises, Mortal Pony Kombat: The Movie... (We're still waiting for My Little Nanoha: Befriending Is Magic, though.)
 * On a related note, redoing the openings to other works with a more... equestrian touch. Examples include Pony Bebop, My Little Baccano!, Pony Champloo, Samurai Applejack, Ponysona 3, Ponysona 4, Peach (Bleach), My Little One Piece, Outlaw Pony, and Blaz Brony.
 * Edgar Wright, the director for the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World film, posted Spike Pilgrim vs. The World, Trot Fuzz and Attack the Stable on his blog, and on the official Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Film and Attack the Block Facebook pages.
 * The official Top Gear blog actually made note of My Little Top Gear: Friendship is Ambitious But Rubbish.
 * WeLoveFine is a T-shirt company with lots of Pony based shirts. It had a contest going on for more new pony designs and one of the big images was Lyrical Twilight
 * The Pony Polka.
 * Even The Hub themselves have parodied a song with Ponified lyrics. This is an advert that airs on TV.
 * The fans have had a lot of fun with YouTube's automatic close-captioning generator. Among other things, Spike refuses to convert to Christianity in "Boast Busters" ("I am not going to believe the lord Jesus"), the river serpent from episode 2 is now named "Steven Magnet", and in "The Show Stoppers" Scootaloo wants to "sex that steve guy yes".
 * For the second season, the closed captions are responsible for naming the huge rock Rarity is tricked into believing it's a diamond "Dan". When the second episode actually had Rarity name the rock "Tom", the fanon agreed the rock to be called Tom Dan.
 * Season 2 ep 2 featured the bizarre auto-caption "Applejack got fucked".
 * There's actually an entire Tumblr blog dedicated to capturing the strange and hilarious captions that pop up.
 * Applejack and Rarity making spooky noises in "Look Before You Sleep". "Oooooooo!" Now with a music video.
 * Dubbing over a character with the voice of a past role of their actors, for example Twilight Sparkle as Princess Clara, Spike as Near, Pinkie singing the Misa song, Chief Thunderhooves complaining about ponies in METAL BOXES, and of course Discord as Q. Checking the Trivia page, this has become a Running Gag in the Hey, It's That Voice! section.
 * There's A Pony For That.
 * "Are you a spy!?"
 * Watching the episodes, dubbed (official or fandubbed) in different languages, in part or in whole. Watch Rarity WHIIINING in Japanese! Or "Flutterguy" in French! How about "Cupcakes" in Russian? (the song, not the gore-tastic fanfic) Or the main theme in Greek? Or Lyra Heartstrings speaking in the official Italian dub. Or "Giggle at the Ghostie" in Polish.
 * Speaking of different languages, the Italian opening theme is now known as "the anime intro theme" because of its length (over two minutes) and an Ear Worm-tastic original song that seems to cross language barriers and is appreciated by a lot of non-italian speakers.
 * Seductive Ponies
 * aeiou
 * QUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINTQUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINTQUESTIONMARKEXCLAMATIONPOINT...
 * Seemingly random videos on Youtube will occasionally get a high-voted comment to the effect of "ponies brought me here". Presumably the ponies must have surprisingly varied taste.
 * These videos will often have the comment "This video is now about ponies."
 * Somewhat related, but pick a Hey Ocean music video. Any Hey Ocean music video. You'll find tons of comments that pretty much amount to "Oh my gosh, it's Applejack/Rainbow Dash!"
 * It's now practically routine for someone to shout "Lookout! Incoming Bronies!" whenever a video contains a reference that the latest episode just made.
 * *cut to credits*
 * My Little Pony with censor bleeps.
 * Even the WWE isn't safe. Or at the very least C.M.PUNK isn't.
 * And neither is John Cena.
 * Brony/Target audience observations
 * [Character Name].mp4. Interestingly, all of the Mane Six have at least one moment where their eyes roll around in a daze, usually in response to a sudden shock or blow to the head. For some reason, these scenes have been looped and then set to Parov Stelar's "Catgroove".
 * When I'm X
 * And somewhat related, X Sauce.
 * Hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips, hay bacon strips.
 * Apple Bloom's "Buy some apples!" or Fluttershy's Flat Joy "Yay."
 * As expected, the ponies get in on Youtube Poop Music Videos. And as is expected of this fandom, they can get pretty elaborate.
 * Recently, it's also become quite popular to create separate accounts with the names of the characters and comment on pony videos as they would. They have a tendency to get top comment and often respond in-character.
 * How Could This Happen to Ponies?

Character Memes

 * It seems that if anypony makes a goofy face on the show, fans will pounce on it. Aside from Derpy Hooves and her Fish Eyes in the first episode, "Applebuck Season" brings us Rainbow Dash's gushing kissy-face (along with the accompanying phrase "So awesome!" and the emoticon "/)^3^(\") and Applejack's various loopy sleep-deprived faces, along with her look of disgust when she mishears the "wheat germ" part of Pinkie Pie's muffin recipe as "wheat worms", and "The Best Night Ever" brings "Flutterage".
 * As of Season 2, there has been an abundance of Uncanny Valley-ish expressions whenever a pony's head is looking directly at the camera. Ponibooru calls it the FAIC.
 * [X] IS BEST PONY
 * "Silly anon, that's not how you spell 'Pinkie Pie!'"
 * Another response is "You misspelled Fluttershy."
 * A few image macros pop up with some of the characters looking at the viewer asking for 'hugs'. Sometimes it can work, when done right.
 * Ponies. In. Socks.
 * Sweaters are the new socks.
 * Minty liked socks before they were cool.
 * "Congratulations, X! You're the new Y!"
 * CELESTIA, YOU MAGNIFICENT MARE! YOU READ MY LETTERS!
 * Good morning, [X]!
 * "Lock it under a rock, I'm sure it won't get out."
 * Many fans exaggerate this by making it her go-to solution for anything she doesn't like.
 * [PONY] found a [VEHICLE]
 * Colt versions.
 * At least one Youtuber has taken it a step further, not only voice acting as the colts, but changing their dialog to be more male-specific (for example, Elusive designs suits instead of dresses and wants to find a princess rather than a prince charming, to which viewer reception varies). Think The Gender-Flip of Haruhi Suzumiya, only with ponies.
 * And this itself has spawned a VA project that seeks to voice the Genderswapped Mane Six to use as a live reading for the story "On A Cross And Arrow" which popularized the Male Cast. The casting call can be found here, the accepted voice list can be found here, a demo of the accepted voices can be heard here and the first episode here.
 * This has started slowly to spread to the other background ponies/characters. For example, Eris as a gender-bent Discord.
 * Spinning Turntable Ponies
 * The trend originated from a popular Vinyl Scratch gif that came from here (the links below the image provides a comic version, a template for the frames, the animated gif, a Youtube video, and a vectorized version).
 * [X] Cannon/Bazooka/Launcher
 * Party Cannon.
 * Wet manes.
 * Baby ponies.
 * Smooth Cheerilee / Spike Criminal
 * Fluffy ponies
 * Fluffle Puff
 * Fluffy pony drowns
 * Fluffy pony abuse
 * Now, let it be known that such stories has caused a bit of Creator Backlash from Mixermike662, the creator of Fluffle Puff and the man who popularized the Fluffy Ponies concept to begin with. And by "Creator Backlash", I mean they caused him to disown the fandom.
 * Beep beep. I'm a cloud.
 * "[CHARACTER NAME]licious"
 * Ponytails.

Twlight Sparkle
"(re: "Stare Master") "Dear Princess Celestia, I learned today that you do not f*ck with Fluttershy, ever. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.""
 * Parodies of letters to Princess Celestia, involving Accidental Aesops or snarky comments relevant to the episode or the characters.


 * Twilight's attack of Power Incontinence during her flashback in "Cutie Mark Chronicles" has been compared, by various fans, to Dr. Manhattan, Dark Phoenix, the Protoss Archon, the Avatar State, and/or the Quickening.
 * The image from "Winter Wrap Up" of Twilight Sparkle hiding in a tree from snakes led to photoshopping Twilight hanging onto... pretty much anything. It's adorable.
 * Twiworm.
 * Twilight is a lion.
 * Twilight's speech in "Applebuck Season" getting interrupted inspired a lot of comparisons to Kanye West at the Video Music Awards. "Yo, Twilight, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but Applejack is the best pony of all time!"
 * Oh God, Twilight's about to miss a deadline! RUN!
 * "Hi, giirrllss!"
 * The face she made immediately before also gave rise to a lot of exploitable images. Not that the episode isn't already full of weird faces otherwise.
 * Twilight Snapple/Twilight Psycho
 * Pedopony.
 * My Little Pet Twilight Sparkle
 * Twilight Benes.
 * Twilightlicious
 * The saga continues as the voice actress and her followers attempt to make "Twilightlicious" trending on Twitter.
 * Given the reactions (both ways) from her Twitters (typically, stating something along the lines of "Here's a picture of me naked", attached to a tasteful photo of one of the clothes-less characters she voices), Tara's even called out these acts as Twolling.
 * The Merch now includes an official Twilightlicious T-shirt.
 * The teaser clip for "It's About Time", which featured a time-traveling Twilight wearing a tattered jumpsuit and eyepatch with a disheveled mane, has inspired a LOT of crossovers with various After the End or Bad Future works such as Terminator and Escape From New York.
 * Also with Metal Gear Solid, as she looks uncannily similar to Naked Snake.
 * Recognition of Twilight Sparkle's voice actress in the video game Lollipop Chainsaw led to numerous people referencing her in Youtube comments and fanart such as this one depicting her as the main character.
 * Twilight is now a  inspired by this scene of   using Twilight   machine gun.
 * Sweatervest
 * The image of Filly Twilight looking up from a book to her brother from the "BBBFF" song has sparked alot of pictures such as this

Applejack

 * "Liarjack"
 * Who's a Silly Pony? Who is, you is, Applejack!
 * In The Return Of Harmony: Part II, the shot of a smug Applejack bringing up Rarity's brief fling with "Tom" has been used by fans for various clever one-liners in image macros for different ways to one-up Rarity.
 * A minor, but interesting one: fans asking, "What if she decided to embrace sophistication when staying with the Oranges in Manehattan?" The result: Orangejack.
 * Applejack's Episode.
 * And then the episode was remembered not for Applejack, but for a certain fan favorite background character appearing throughout the opener, and actually talking. At least the following episode mostly focused on AJ, though in the context of her family and, again, being partially upstaged by the characters of the week.
 * "Forget you, I can eat ALL these apples!"
 * Appletroll

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Continued in Part Two