Today's ep of ponies involved peer pressure and herd mentality. Next week's involves self-confidence, and shortly thereafter comes one confronting gossip.
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While these themes are ever-prevalent, they reach their caustic, cataclysmic xenith in junior-high, middle school, well...whatever you wish to call those melting pots of puberty, angst, and conflict that basically take all those sixth-year to eight-year students, isolate them, and try to keep complete and utter disaster from happening.
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I never thought pre-tween society would have a role model in the form of an adorkable, open-minded, mauve-colored unicorn that was historically part of a massive advertising gimmick to create a demand for otherwise undemanded girls' dolls. Now even men, that's right, MEN who have middle school as a flickering, faint, dying repressed memory in the back of their heads adore them without shame.
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So now that society's all listening, it's no suprise that they plan to start kicking many of the social issues which run unchecked in today's campuses, social circles, and general peer-to-peer relationships right in the haunches.
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After Derpygate, I doubted HUB, I questioned their success, and their pragmatics. Instead, they had to assure no controversy was swirling about them before their grander, broader plan came into fruition.
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Keep your eyes on the ponies, but your ear to the wire. The hatred and vitriol of cyberbullying and flaming, in the coming years, will begin to die down a little...
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