
In less than 3 days, the thread garnered more than 80 responses. On February 1st, a thread was created on The Round Stable Forum, featuring various "Thanks, Obama!" GIFs edited to include My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic writer M.A. Within five days, the post received 1,900 notes. On January 30th, Tumblr user bronychilensis-gwain published an animated GIF pointing out that 4chan's /mlp/ board was relatively calm regarding the Twilight Sparkle news in comparison to the websites DeviantArt, Equestria Daily, Ponychan and Reddit.


Following this, numerous fans changed their avatars to include the button to show their support for the show. Larson being the writer for the episode in which transformation occurs. On January 27th, DeviantART user PixelKitties created a badge reading "I Believe In M.A. An Equestria Daily poll was posted on January 20th, 2013, which indicated that a majority of voters were ambivalent toward to the transformation (shown below, right). Shortly after the announcement, the header of 4chan's /mlp/ (ponies) board was changed to "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW" (shown below, left) while playing the Metal Gear Solid 4 Love Theme in the background. On January 29th, 2013, the entertainment news site Entertainment Weekly published an interview with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic head writer Meghan McCarthy, who announced Twilight Sparkle's transformation into an alicorn, noting the character "was set up from the very beginning to be on an important journey." The same day, the announcement was reblogged on several brony news sites, including Equestria Daily and Derpy Hooves News. On November 1st, 2012, a poll was posted on the MLP Forums, to which over 43% said they did not approve of Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn (shown below). Many felt that changing Twilight Sparkle into an alicorn could severely damage the character by over-idealizing her, similar to the Mary Sue phenomenon in fanfiction. The news was met with a variety of responses from the brony fandom. The same day, Redditor Lusht submitted the photo to the /r/mylittlepony subreddit, where it received over 490 up votes and 200 comments within the next three months. On October 17th, the licensing convention Brand Licencing Europe shared a picture on their Twitter with a poster featuring Twilight Sparkle with a pair of wings (shown below, right). On September 30th, 2012, the plushie manufacturer Funrise posted a picture on their Facebook page with several My Little Pony plushies in an office, with one Twilight Sparkle plush toy wearing wings (shown below, left). Twilight Sparkle Alicorn Controversy refers to a plot twist in the animated television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in which the character Twilight Sparkle is transformed into an amalgamation of a pegasus and a unicorn known as an "alicorn." The character change sparked many discussions among those in the brony fandom after rumors began to spread online in September of 2012. She is also the adoptive aunt of Princess Cadance.My little pony, friendship is magic, twilight sparkle, season 3, twilicorn, /mlp/ Overview

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