The fact she genuinely cares about her fans and has stepped up to defend them.
The fact that she's donated pony art to charity auctions. The ponies rake in a lot of money.
The very premise of "Friendship is Magic", in the sense that it was made to show various personalty types. Often in cartoons, female characters get ignored in favour of male characters. There seems to be a belief that boys won't watch cartoons with a lot of female characters in it, so that there's no point in making it. Lauren Faust shows that she at least will not ignore girls.
