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There is actually more precedent for My Little Pony than just what the fans want.

History bears out that the fandom didn't begin from any one starting point. It started from the coming together of different ideas, one of which was the literary aspect, which at the time was predominantly focused on books like Watership Down that were about intelligent ferals.

Another was the Funny Animal aspect which encompasses all animal related cartoons and comics. Yet another was the sci-fi aspect of animal related ALFs and animals "Uplifted" by science.

Furry is the fandom for all those things united. And there's no way of getting around My Little Pony being included due to its Funny Animal classification, as well as its connection to the type of talking ferals that are a staple of Furry literature.

You can't get away from it. Any definition you come up with that excludes My Little Pony must, of consequence, exclude Watership Down, Bambi, Lady & The Tramp, along with 2 tons of other material, among which are some of the main items that support Furry's claim to being a culturally significant art form.

Ok, how does one determine if an MLP is the object of our fandom strictly by its character attributes? First of all, it's a pony. That means it has the animal aspect covered. But does it have human attributes?

Well, it talks, and in doing so, demonstrates human reasoning. But it doesn't stop there. Look at the way its face is designed. Is that a pony face, or is that a face designed to communicate emotions and character to humans?

Where does the pony live? In a house. Does the pony have aspirations above and beyond what could be expected from a real world pony? Indeed it does. In fact, there's very little pony about this My Little Pony.

But you can go even further. What happens when this pony needs to dance or otherwise needs to do something only a bipedal creature can do? Is it handicapped in the manner of a real world pony? Or does it just stand up on its hind legs and do things?

In other words, this pony is so anthropomorphic it's not even a pure feral. It's a toon, a Funny Animal. And the former name of Furry Fandom was Funny Animal Fandom.

So, really, the fact that the revival of My Little Pony was overwhelmingly embraced by Furry Fandom is incidental to the question of whether MLP is Furry or not, but quite significant in determining the kinds of anthropomorphics that have overwhelming appeal and support in the fandom.

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