User blog comment:Multiverseman/Seriously?/@comment-665531-20110620031615

The popularity of My Little Pony comes from a variety of sources, but one of them is reactionary. Generally speaking, animation in the 2000's has so far focused on parody and pop culture references. Family Guy, Fairly Odd Parents, Billy and Mandy, My Life As a Teenage Robot, South Park, Kids Next Door, everything by Dreamworks... some of it was good, some bad, but little of it was worth watching in of itself. It was a sign of the snarky, dirty, badass image that Generation X created.

Today, that image has been destroyed by reality. Snarkiness has become cliche, every Dreamworks movie poster has some guy raising an eyebrow, and potty humor just doesn't cut it. The animation fans of today are left looking for something less nasty, not because they're disgusted by the humor, but because they're disgusted by how deconstruction was all that was left.

The past year or two has featured a major reconstruction of animation. The creation of The Hub has led to old franchises returning. Bright, honest shows like My Little Pony, the latest incarnation of Batman, Adventure Time, and Phineas and Ferb, are hogging the spotlight nowadays. They give the latest generation of animation fans something the cynical generation couldn't: foundations and simple stories.

Creepypasta is the same. The ghost stories of yesteryear were parodied, spoofed, and mocked into obscurity. Then, just a coupled of years ago, people began reconstructing them as walls of text on the internet.

So yeah. Ponies=Creepypastas. Strange, but true.