ITT: Lauren doesn't get the appeal. From my point of view, I got hooked with MLP because of its potential for cult following, in a sense that, on top of the quality and heart put in the making of the show even though it's not the most flabbergasting cartoon ever, Lauren and her crew never tried to fill the blanks. For me, FiM somehow managed to let the gates of its followers' creativity wide open. It's a little like when you were a kid, watched some seemingly forgettable show, but still when the show ended and you were in your parents' car going somewhere and you were bored, you killed time by imagining sequels to the show you were watching... Lauren's show, or at least how she conceived it, can relate to this, and you can feel she also was a kid back in the day and dreamed about the shows she watched... Better cartoons were made (and she acknowledge it), but many of them are so picking on the details that they kinda locked your imagination: you are a spectator more than an actor of what you see... Before FiM, I never was interested in making art myself, as much as I do today. It's difficult to explain, but I think this is all about how you, as a viewer, can expand what you are actually watching. The fanart, the porn, the shitty fanfics, the drama, they're not the show, but an expansion of it, they exist because the show made them possible.