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Blue, Jen A. (2016-01-20). My Little Po-Mo: Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season Three and Derivative Works. pp. 141–147.

"Begun in the fall of 2012, the “ask blog” Ask Jappleack is a fairly typical example of this particular genre of fanwork: readers would submit questions using Tumblr’s “ask” feature, and the writer/artist of the blog would respond with a brief comic in which the title character responds to the question. In this case, that character is Jappleack, a foul-mouthed parody of Applejack, who embodies negative stereotypes of Southerners such as bigotry and support for the Confederacy, abuses Apple Bloom, and gluttonously devours vast quantities of apples, drawn in a style that hybridizes Friendship Is Magic with Ren and Stimpy. Visually and in terms of behavior, this is an Applejack exaggerated to a repulsive degree, but still close enough to Applejack to be recognizable. Familiar yet unfamiliar, a known image rendered disharmonious and disproportionate: this is textbook grotesque art. The result—and this is particularly apparent in Ask Jappleack writer/artist Max Gilardi’s spinoff series of animations, Pony.mov—is an inversion of the values of Friendship Is Magic, a celebration of crudity, cruelty, and violence in which friendship varies from the useless to the actively harmful. While Ask Jappleack shows us little of the world in which Jappleack lives, Pony.mov reveals it to be a true and full carnivalization of Equestria, a place where Twilight dabbles in black magic and arcane science to raise the dead, Fluttershy is a serial killer, Rainbow Dash is verbally and physically abusive to her friends, Rarity runs a sweatshop, and Pinkie Pie is a washed-out junkie. Key here is that all of these are truly grotesque versions of the characters—they are monstrous, yes, but they come to that monstrosity through exaggeration. Twilight is very curious and tends toward tunnel vision when she’s focused on a goal; Fluttershy does have a tendency to suddenly snap and become aggressive; Rainbow Dash’s pranks do reveal a bit of a sadistic streak; and so on. These are distorted versions of the characters we know, not new characters with similar names and appearances. The result is that, unlike works such as “Rainbow Factory” and, to an extent, Friendship Is Witchcraft, Pony.mov and the earlier portions of Ask Jappleack work as parodies of Friendship Is Magic itself. Like any true carnivalization, they call into question the fundamental values of Friendship Is Magic: from the second video, Dress.mov, on, a gigantic Discord rampages through Ponyville, destroying and violating everything he sees."

Woerner, Meredith (2012-06-26). "Incredibly messed-up short gives My Little Ponys's Pinkie Pie a sex tape". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2025-05-29.

"This might be the absolute sickest of the ultra-disturbing hot diggedy demon My Little Pony shorts. Drawn in the style of John Kricfalusi’s Ren & Stimpy, this webseries has gone low before — we’ve seen FlutteryShy skin and hang all her woodland friends — but nothing, nothing is as disturbing as this Behind the Music meets Intervention style short. Pinkie Pie has bottomed out, and it’s disgusting… and most certainly NSFW. What is going on with this series? YIKES."

Lee, Natasha (2017-07-09). "Disturbing videos masked as kid's cartoons on YouTube". Yahoo! Lifestyle. Retrieved 2025-05-29.

"While in a video entitled ‘PONY.MOV’ one of the character’s sufferers a psychedelic hallucination after eating too many apples before choking to death. Later, in the same video, a message appears on screen for a split second with the words: “This is so f***ing retarded I can’t believe I’m animating this” Both Peppa Pig and PONY are popular among very young children. It’s not the first time disturbing videos disguised as children’s cartoons have emerged on the free video website. Earlier this year the site came under fire for hosting videos which were made to look like popular cartoon characters such as Elsa from Disney’s Frozen, but showed them in violent and sometimes even sexual situations. [...] This scene from a video purporting to be of the children's cartoon 'PONY' shows a character choking to death on apples. [...] The videos are marketed towards children and have amassed thousands of views. [...] This disturbing message flashes up in a scene from the 'PONY' video."

GregariousMadness (talk to me!) 09:05, 29 May 2025 (UTC)