![]() Remixing or reimagining a popular cultural item is part of our culture and a tenet of contemporary art. It's up to you too, Bronies, to figure out where to make these distinctions. Sometimes, this interpretation comes to us as something we find distasteful, but as derivative works, such fan art should not be conflated with what one perceives as the actual world of MLP that one sees on TV. One should not just jump ahead and say "good riddance, we're better off without the MisterDavies of the world", because you should know that art, fan art included, is supposed to be an artist's subjective interpretation of something. I will bet that fan artists who do NSFW or graphically violent content are well aware that there is a distinction between the world they create with their art and what is actually the original, bounded world of MLP. Yeah, MisterDavie's videos are bizarre artistic interpretations of situations most of us would never dream of, but we should not just revel when something that we don't care for is being censored.Īrt is provocative sometimes, and artists have full license to provoke and twist material according to their vision, so long as they know where the line lies between source and imitation. Is this neighsaying knee-jerk reaction to everything pony grimdark a little much? I think it is.
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