Wooooah boiii! I’ve been waiting for a story like this ever since I started this blog. Bronies are usually a peaceful bunch and things have been pretty calm since the great Derpy debacle, so I had to manufacture drama out of absolutely mundane stuff in order to keep things running. But hold on to your hooves, and put some popcorn in your microwave…

There have been rumors for some time that two popular MLP parody groups, SherclopPones (who make Friendship is Witchcraft) and FiMFlamFilosophy (who make The Mentally Advanced Series) don’t really like each other very much. This stemmed mostly from various sarcastic quips they used to direct at each other, but most people thought they were just ‘trolling the audience’, as internet jokester people are wont to do.

Well, apparently the great Sherclop vs FiMFlam feud is REAL! It did start out as a joke, but at some point things came to a pickle (by which I mean, turned very sour).

In a tumblr post by Jenny of SherclopPones, she really tells it like it is! Apparently FiMFlam is a jerk and a woman-hater, so they refused to make a collab with him. He did not take the rejection well. In fact it seems there’s a pattern of FiMFlam being rejected by female collaborators… Make of that what you will!

Anyway, in the interest of being impartial, I also have to examine FiMFlam’s side of the story. He made several posts on the subject. In the first one he claims that Jenny just didn’t get his brilliant, multi-layered joke about choking on dicks. This is the joke, by the way:

There is an interesting thing about being of the female gender. It’s that if you don’t choke on a dick at least once, then odds are you either aren’t trying very hard or you need a new boyfriend.

Now, I’m just a little filly, so maybe I don’t understand the subtlety and intricacies of this kind of humor, but it doesn’t seem like something you tell a lady! You can’t just say it’s ‘just a joke’, it’s pretty damn offensive and hardly even funny. What would Lauren Faust say?

In the second response he accuses Sherclop of being ‘not cereal’ via not deleting their emails, which is presumably a ‘cereal’ way of doing things. To which I say: what? Unless it’s spam, or some nerdy kid is stalking you, why would you ever delete an email? Grasping at straws here, mister!

And finally, he posted a long-winded explanation re: how his joke is actually not sexist.

(beat)

I mean… really? Do I even need to start?

Anyway, this was PONY RUNOFF coverage of the first big PONY BEEF of the summer. There is no doubt we will see more of these, as the fanbase becomes more and more unhinged, with no ponies to guide us via the ‘spirit of friendship’. So, stay tuned and subscribe!

Is FiMFlamFilosophy a big fat jerk? (Yes)

Is he jelly that FiW is more popular and has better jokes?

Does ponyless summer provide a fertile field for some quality drama?

#SweetieBot or #SweetieNOT?

FiMFlamFilosophy

Youtuber

Some dude who makes MLP parody called The Mentally Advanced Series and hates women.

Lists: jerks

Jenny Nicholson

VA, Singer

Jenny Nicholson is the voice actress for Friendship is Witchcraft.

Lists: pegasisters, QTs, FiW

SherclopPones

Horse Detective

SherclopPones is a horse who is a detective.

Lists: horses, detectives, FiW

Anybody who dares to explore the creative output of My Little Pony fandom eventually stumbles upon Friendship is Witchcraft by SherclopPones, which is some sort of video fanfic where all ponies are totally OOC. Friendship is Witchcraft became enormously popular after dark and corrupt #EqD overlord Sethisto openly embraced it and started heavily promoting it on his hell-spawn blog. Recently the 6th episode of the series, Lunar Slander was voted #1 pony video of March beating such masterpieces as… uh… Well, anyway, the fact that a ‘simple voiceover’ won over a bunch of fully original animations is testament to the intensity of Friendship is Witchcraft fanbase.

Not many people know that SherclopPones is actually a nom-de-plume for two different people. One of them is Jenny Nicholson, an OG MLP collector. The other is Griffinilla, who is some sort of half-sheep half-human hybrid who also moonlights as a DJ and chillwave pony music producer, which makes him highly relevant to PONY RUNOFF, I guess.

Anyway, the big news is that SherclopPones is going to BroNYcon, the biggest My Little Pony fan convention this summer. Other confirmed guests include Lauren Faust, John de Lancie, the guy who voices Snails, and Amy Keating Rogers (yes, you saw it here first!).

But it seems they need a little… pegassistance.

Jenny Nicholson, who enjoys her status as the #1 pegasister in the fandom, didn’t have much success booking a single room in New York City for a reasonable price. And due to shortage of female My Little Pony fans, she has trouble finding a roommate. So, if you’re a fellow pegasister BroNYcon goer, drop her a line.

Is the rent ‘too damn high’ in New York City? (via that crazy beard dude)

Do u think Friendship is Witchcraft is ‘funnie’?

Is SweetieBot your favorite character ever?

Why there are so few female fans of My Little Pony?

Jenny Nicholson

VA, Singer

Jenny Nicholson is the voice actress for Friendship is Witchcraft.

Lists: pegasisters, QTs, FiW

Griffinilla

Musician

Griffinilla is the self-proclaimed ‘king of chillwave’. Also somehow involved in Friendship is Witchcraft.

Lists: indie hunks, chillwave, DJs, sheep, FiW

SherclopPones

Horse Detective

SherclopPones is a horse who is a detective.

Lists: horses, detectives, FiW