[YTP] Friendship is Fabulous Forever

It's been a while.

I don't think I've written a serious description on any of these YTPs, or any of my videos really, so I appreciate you taking your time to read this one.

Excepting the 2 second video I put out recently, the last pony video I put out was 5 years ago in 2014. Coincidentally, it was FiF 3.

I'm sorry I've been gone from the community. I don't know how personal to make this. I've never been good at making friends and I didn't feel like I'd managed to make real friends during my time in the community. In 2014 I graduated and felt kinda done with MLP. The magic was gone and I didn't feel like I was leaving anyone in particular. FiF 3 kinda put the final nail in the coffin, as it received much less attention than the first 2, so I think I felt that even as a content creator, which I guess was my identity, my ship had sailed. I think if I could actually connect with people then it would be a very different story, but unfortunately, given my experience then and since, it's part of personality. I felt disconnected from the community, and my 'peers', and I let go.

The time after I left the community was the hardest year of my life. Thankfully I pulled through and eventually at the start of 2018 I found a new community in VRChat. I was able to find companionship and a place among others and once again express creativity. My name in VRChat is BIue-kun.

I've at times unlisted my pony videos, changed my name... there's a big stigma with MLP. However, I've come to terms what it is and how important it was to me. The years I was part of the community were wonderful and special to me. I will never forget my time at BUCK 2013.

The reason I've 'come back' is due to a confluence of events, one of which being the end of the show. I feel very lucky to have been able to share the experience of watching the end of this show with everyone else on cytube. I might not have been around for much of the show's life, but I was here at the start and was able to 'say goodbye' to it at the end. Having left on such a flat and negative note, it makes me happy to be able to change that last flavor.

This community is truly special. While I understand why I left, I regret that I wasn't a part of it for all these years, to be along side you all for the whole ride.

So, what now? Ultimately, I look ahead to Gen 5. I'm fully aware that I don't share the perspective of all of you who have been here the whole unbroken 8 years. But we're all still here. Even those who left, like me, are still around. Even if there's no new episodes of this canon, everything from the show and the fandom still exists and we can continue to create and share.

Gen 5 will feature the same core characters that we love. I think it could be the start of a new beginning.

Thank you for reading my thoughts - they may be a bit convoluted and messy but thank you. Thank you for letting me share this special community with you.

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Thanks to GreenScreenPonies as ever for helping me be lazy with a couple of jokes.

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