Why does it seem like the fanbase for this died before the finale aired?

Why does it seem like the fanbase for this died before the finale aired?

Meanwhile MLP fans seem too stubborn to die.

Weirdmageddon part 2 was just that bad.

I thought it was pretty nice, maybe binge watching helped?

>This thread again

A lot of people hated it, including me.

Again?
I never saw a thread like this.

Wasn't that bad. Just kind of disappointing.

GF really suffered from not having a regular schedule. That said people here soured early realizing that the show wasnt going to properly pay off what it set up.

>Journal notes refer to everything as "weird", as if there's a bunch missing and it doesn't make sense
>It turns out they are actually 100% accurate and have nothing to expand upon

But part 3 was one of the greatest series finale's I have ever seen.

It was okay.

Why are you even comparing them? MLP is still ongoing with seasons and movies while Gravity Falls suffered from hiatus hell before the finale.

What's that mean?

Gravity falls is over, and MLP is bout to start their 7th season AND have a full length movie on the way.
MLP is also a much better show.

MLP had a year long hiatus.

This is some massive bait.

Because you can't kill pure autism

Because Gravity Falls fans didn't need to justify why they liked it.

I've watched a few MLP episodes, and while it is a cute, well made show and I get why people like it, I don't understand the massive, obsessive adult fanbase.

Escapism

The show puts a huge emphasis on friendship, which is something most of the fanbase can't get in real life. Also the R34 game is insane.

No one does. Most people would tell you to avoid it, but I think the best resource is that first documentary. You may be embarrassed by the people you see, but it does a good job explaining why people got so into it, and I think it was a good thing overall. I like it because it's a thoughtful show, so I'm dedicated, but I wouldn't group myself with them, not that it's necessarily a bad thing. I generally don't care much for fandom communities, anyway; they don't have the types of discussions I like.

Because S2B was horrible.

Waifus. Not even kidding.

This thread essentially needs more Pacifica.

Its because Hasbro is less subtle then Disney then openly tell you the shows they make are designed to appeal exclusively to manchildren

>7th

Everyone on /mlp/ has gone on record how 2/3 of the board don't even watch the show they're extensively there for the pornographic imagry

Pacifica is best waifu

Pacifica marks still seething their 1-dimensional waifu got cucked by pinecest

I think I'm literally the only person alive who thought Gravity Falls was terrible.

I wouldn't call it HORRIBLE, but it's obvious that they were dropping things.

First of all
>going to /mlp/ after 2013
Secondly
>Everyone
>2/3 of the board
Nice conjecture.

While it's still going pretty strong outside of Sup Forums, the fanbase likely died here because of the general shitposting itself to death, hiatuses and season 2B being pretty rushed/not fully living up to its potential. The show and its popularity here essentially peaked with NWHS.

When your show is all about enforcing a narrative that doesn't even help drive the plot along it just exists to exist you have a shit show but Hasbro doesn't give a shit because Manchildren wanna fuck effeminate looking horses

Denial is the more operative word

Yeah the last quarter of the show really dropped the ball. There were a few good episodes but there was too much wasted potential and disappointment. I wish Alex could have just done a 3rd season instead of mashing it all into half a season.

Some aspects of it especially the over abundance of forced ships and abandoned plotlines

Steven's Universe and Star Vs have the same problems

Say that again, Drumpfkin. Say it one more time.

No its because Alex got lazy or he legit forgot about storylines that lead to nothing

People should have figured this out with how poorly they handled the Blind Eye Society

And even still Steven's Universe holds the record for a non anime show to suffer more unessessary hiatuses then any other show in history

Gravity Falls tend to exaggerate the periods of time stretched between the episodes they finished and the episodes they wanna finish.

At least with SU there at least seems to be a consistent narrative. With GF the story was all over the place. Half the story lines were dropped and never mentioned again and the over half had a crammed in forced finale. And yes, the romance in the show was HORRIBLE. If I knew the show was going to a romantic cringe comedy I would not have watched it.

>consistent narrative

You mean it being that the writing is garbage and its literally a waifu show for fags who don't care about plot in their shows.

Its been talked about to death.
Between the multiple hiatuses and the episodes centered around Mabel and her cuntiness, fans just stopped giving a fuck about the show.

Remember when people were excited for Steven to start taking things seriously

Me neither we need to spend that time discussing why Amethyst is best Gem when she is Obese and Disgusting

Mabel's character went to shit in S2 and served no purpose other than being in Dipper's way at every turn, Apocalypse was implied to be high-stakes as fuck but it was just frat bro shit.

>TRANSFAGGOT

I don't get this meme. There are no trans characters in SU outside of arguably stevonnie and they're a fusion.

Most SU episodes are boring slice of life stories about the residents of the town.

Why bother giving this whole alien war then throwing it out the window to give such heavy focus on what Steven does on a normal day?

>Gravity Falls trying to talk shit about other show's hiatuses
>Took them four years to do two seasons

Canonically Gems are Genderless but for some reason they look Effeminate

You really wanna argue it Pacifica's character development went from 1-Dimensional Heel Bitch to Sudden Tweener Face Turn and that was because of Fan Whining.

The show completely lost its direction after Ford was introduced.

Even afterwards FOrd was never really a character, just a plot device.

Not to mention Mabel's horrendous characterization towards the end of the show.

>Wanting to be like the horsefuckers
What is wrong with you
Gravity Falls was a mediocre show, and its not coming back. I don't understand why it got the hype it did in the first place, or why people waifu-fag children. Lolis a shit

You are not alone

How did they handle that episode poorly?

What the show needed was more development

For Dipper, Wendy, Pacifica, and Ford specifically

Sup Forums secretly likes /mlp/ to the degree that Sup Forums likes /r9k/

Hiatuses. Nothing kills hype for a show more than 6 month gaps between episodes.

Introducing a brand new intimidating presence to have him job to Big Match Mabel who ends up doing it again.

It probably didn't help that the "apocalypse" was confined to a single town.

Unless its Steven's Universe because the fags who love that series have enough porn and shitposing to wait those hiatuses out.

Mabel became poorly characterized as soon as Alex started "dating" his new beard Dana, who inserted her own feminist beliefs into the show. Matt Chapman and Joe Pitt were driven away with pitchforks for daring to suggest hetero-normative plots like actually having WenDip progress somewhere. The show stopped being about mystery and started being about Dipper bending over to take it up the ass from his sister harder than Alex takes it from Justin.

Then there is the whole thing with the creepy gay cops relationship, along with that ambiguously gay dream Stan had of spending months on end on a sailboat with his twin. The only straight relationship that even came into fruition on the show was the hambeast getting with some ladyboy.

Because of the Deus Ex Machina Bubble that conveniently encompassed the town for no other foreshadowing outside of building more forced drama narratives

Alex is the Vince McMahon of Disney

He wants to keep Pushing Mabel to continue doing it again.

I do remember that the society was pretty easily defeated for a threat that had been built up as this whole intimidating thing. Same with the goverment agents. In fact, they were pretty much defeated the same way.

This. The only way a series survives hiatuses like that is if their fanbase is SUPER autistic like the SUGfags

Not only that its laughably half assed why some people were even in the Blind Eye

The biggest what the fuck being Gideon's Father

basically the first few episodes and to a lesser extent the first two seasons.. they were legitimately good, and it felt good to be able to indulge in that with people who agree. reminded us of powerpuff girls. we havent had a show like that in a long time. something cute and pink but still enjoyable instead of brain-dead

Did Chapman suggest that something happen with WenDip?

This is normally what happens when you only join a fandom specifically for the purpose of tenderizing your wiener.

It felt like it was building up to the barrier being broken and Weirdmageddon going global to show how real shit was getting, but that never happened.

Fuck Alex and FUCK the last half of Season 2

Also the Aliens

and the Dinosaurs which were never brought up again until Alex said "Lets fuse them with the shitty Eva unit" and use them to battle the Comically Exaggerated Demons from Hell

Also Time Baby

Fuck Alex for namely ruining Wendy, Gipphany, and Pacifica

Fuck Brian and Mike for ruining Asami.

The Blind Eye episode went nowhere. The whole purpose of it was to give the twins access to the Fairly OddParents memory wipe gun so that they could more easily clean up plot inconveniences like the government agents being onto Stan.

Not sure, that was more Joe Pitt's baby I think. After Alex's bullshit sent Joe into a Roberto from Futurama stabbing rage, he was fired and WenDip was placed on the backburner again (Alex would've killed it outright, but he was probably too afraid of fan backlash).

Chapman leaving more coincides with the humor becoming outright terrible in Season 2B.

The first season is... i can't put it into words, season 2 onwards is... a lot more tolerable and funny.

so many you saw the wrong episodes.

Season 4 is best season.

Season 3 worse, just because of the final. And 'Bats'.

Blame Terrible Writing on that regard.

Fuck Drumpf, Fuck White People, and FUCK your non-existent cartoon

Also, the whole bit with Mabel technically being responsible for causing the apocalypse.

Memory wiping magic/technology always seems overly convenient in any show.

>Why the massive adult fanbase
I know that can kind of be explained, but it can never truly be replicated. At least not intentionally.

It got as popular as it did because the damn thing snowballed with art/music/animations/porn. As for its initial spark, I'd bet a lot of money on the fact Sup Forums, to this fucking day, STILL loses its shit to talking pastel horses. I think the fact that people found the one thing that actually pisses Sup Forumstards off, is what gave the show its initial spark of popularity.

>And even still Steven's Universe holds the record for a non anime show to suffer more unessessary hiatuses then any other show in history

It took over eight years for Disney Channel to air all four seasons of Phineas and Ferb and roughly a third of that was the last season.

Horse show stopped being relevant in 2013 and you know it.

At least it isn't another AU thread

Those are just downright pathetic

Reverse Falls, am I right?

Well mlp is still going for one thing. I lost count of how many movies and seasons its had but it is certainly still going and even has a comic series.

And why would you want the fandom to keep going? A fandom that goes on beyond its focus for too long starts to smell bad.

I really wish their were more mysterious/whimsical cartoons like Season of Gravity Falls, and this magnificent gem of a cartoon.

Strange happenings in small-wooded-town settings are my cartoon equivalent of heroin.

This.

Terrible release schedule.

This show was good the whole way despite what people here say now.

Some things could have been handled better, but it never got bad.

I'm pretty sure you don't know what half of those words mean, but you speak the truth.

Show was never good, people just waifu'd Mabel and distracted people with MUH LORE.

Pacifica's massive breasts.

kay.

>Meanwhile MLP fans seem too stubborn to die.

It's because it's a meme and the current "fans" are too ignorant or stubborn to admit it. They're all too invested at this point.

I don't know shit about gravity falls so I can't comment on that but it doesn't seem to me meme'd into a thing like MLP was/is.

You are correct, sir

Hiyo

Ignore that post, he's full of shit.

S1 has the funniest episodes. S2 is the overall best season. S3 is almost completely bad 'cept for 2 episodes. S4 has more good episodes than S3 but you can tell the writers don't care as much as they did before and it has stayed like that since then.

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>Sup Forums
>C

>going to Sup Forums after 2013

You're going have to elaborate on that first paragraph, because I understood nothing, but my interest was piqued.

> stabbing rage

What? Sauce pls? I have never heard of this happening

>can't make up a good retort
GFcucks I swear.

>This show was good the whole way despite what people here say now.
here is the (you) you craved so badly for, now go away

MLP was actually good though, Gravity Falls is just another tumblrtoon

A crossover would be pretty cool. Maybe by the time GF takes place Wirt is a park ranger or something? He's good at helping kids lost in the woods.

>Gravity Falls is basically loli-incest
>MLP is every kind of porn under the sun
It's not difficult to figure out.

But the last half of season two had four of the best episodes of the show.

Because the finale is probably one of the worst piece of media I've ever seen, and I am not joking or exaggerating. Every single possible flaw or mistake is in those few episode, condensed together.
Let's just name a few:
>Pacifica doesn't get anymore character development. She should have remained a bratty kid or have evolved completely, not this half assed shit
>Stanley is a Mary Sue character, that was known since the start, but this reaches obnoxious levels in the finale
>A fuckton of plot points are dropped.
>Mabel does NOT learn to leave her brother some space, on the opposite, she gets scared like the little child she is (which is understandable) and proceeds to ruin her brother's life (not understandable) by forcing him to live a dull, mediocre life with her. Obviously, when presented with the option of having her own little paradise, her first thought was "fuck everybody, this is fine by me".
> The magic circle that has been teased forever turns out being useless
> Stan becomes an obnoxious jealous prick for no particular reason other than making Stanley look like the better uncle. He singlehandedly refuses to defeat bill because he's jealous of Stanley. Now, Stan was never the most well-balanced adult, but he was a good guy and general badass, so it's extremely OOC for him to act like a child.
> One of the worst examples of Disney psuedo-death to date - Stan loses and regains his memory in less of 2 minutes.

Also let's not forget that the finale was completely rushed, but the episode just before it was a filler episode about Dungeons & Dragons and How-Stanley-Is-The-Better-Uncle-Because-He's-A-Geek-Just-Like-Dipper. I can just imagine Alex just stroking his ego "omg my fans will love this I'm such a geek :)"