Everyone starts from somewhere. Everyone can get somewhere with hardwork and dedication.

This was posted on weeaboo stories and I’ve already given my 10 cents as valhallapunch but gosh… the amount of petty negativity is astounding. I guess it’s easy to forget that there’s a living, breathing, feeling person behind every vid, every creation, every story. I suppose people are inclined to look at the surface and laugh at the video’s faults without REALLY looking at it. What do I see? I see the work of very dedicated and passionate 15 year old girl who did this with her friends for fun. PEOPLE WHO CREATE STUFF LIKE THIS: not everyone is lucky enough to have them as friends and not everyone has what it takes to BE that kind of friend.

Does this mean the only people who have the right to critique it has to be an animator? No of course not! That is a genetic fallacy: appeal to accomplishment. But stomping on a kid’s fun like that with unhelpful one liners, rude comments and dislikes is a pretty dickish thing to do. I’m not saying that no one is allowed to be mean on the internet but this is why we can’t have nice things. If internet anonimity releases the hideous beast from within well then oh-dear-me. You are a hideous and cowardly beast who is inclined to doing dickish things to strangers when there is no consequence under the right circumstances. If that doesn’t concern you the slightest then and if that makes you proud then wow. Everyone’s got some ugliness within them, no exceptions. But the absolute worst qualities are not the ones securely bottled up within. No. The worst of the worst is the stuff that leaks out in their actions without their knowing and it is the stuff they allow themselves to do… on purpose. People commit the most terrible things when they think it’s within their right. Stew on that thought please.

By the way I also told the girl to google “The Animator’s Survival Kit pdf” and “Andrew Loomis” and she replied to me very politely and graciously that she would give them a look and she thanked me for my comments. There are a lot of people who deserve the shame and ridicule they recieve on weeaboo stories… people who glomp without permission and physically hurt others, people who are more parasite than human, people who are simply too vile to pity, people who take pride in all the wrong things and have no grasp of basic decency, people who enjoy rotting where they are, but the creator of this video really isn’t one of those people. Other than falling victim to extreme facial expressions and a generic style, the content of the video really hasn’t committed any serious weeaboo offences like proclaiming everything is inferior to Japan or using gratuitious Japanese.

I would also like to point people to Space Coyote’s Improvement Thingy. Is this girl going to be the next Space Coyote? No idea but who knows, she has the potential to become something great and I think it’s a damn shame that people aren’t encouraging budding artists like her with valid advice and critique. They’ve all got to start from somewhere and you never know. A few kind words might send them on their way. Why do ugly things when you can do nice things?

I’ll stop being serious and pissy now. Incidentally Rarity is my favourite pony. Bet no one saw that coming.

(via weaboostories)

PFFT. Oh scout.

No wonder you only have 125 hp.