While doing my research to uncover the creation of the fluffy pony fandom on 4chan’s /co/ and /mlp/, I decided to hunt down the name of Hasbio. I vaguely remembered that the name Hasbio had been used before the whole fluffy pony thing was created, and sough to prove this claim of mine. Sadly, desuarchive’s of threads only goes up to 2012.
However, I came across something else:
Thank you for shopping with Hassenfeld Brothers Bio-Engineering Specialists!
Congratulations! Your new My Little Pony© is sure to bring you years of joy!
This was the beginning of the Hassenfeld meme on 4chan’s /mlp/. The name, taken from the original name of Hasbro - Hassenfeld Brothers - was then applied to the subject matter. Although not intended to be “fluffy pony 2.0”, the theme of a genetically engineered pet developed by Hasbio (short for Hassenfeld Brothers Bio*-Engineering)* definitely raised a few eyebrows. The threads died out after a while, but one can still mention or talk about Hassenfelds on 4chan’s /mlp/, whereas anything about fluffy ponies on /mlp/ WILL be deleted.
Thus, I have decided to use the name “Hassenfeld” to describe a genetically engineered pet that is a 1:1 recreation of any character from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Hassenfelds thus should have the following requirements:
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look as much as MLP characters as possible(i.e., down to how the hooves and snouts look on the show)
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speak like their MLP counterparts as much as possible (i.e., without the infamous fluffspeak lisp)
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behave like their MLP counterparts as much as possible (i.e., I’m not going to do the spiel, go watch an episode of MLP to figure out how they act)
The purpose of this post, which I had also posted on the reddit, is to give context to a later write-up that I will do regarding how different fluffy ponies have become from the ponies of the MLP fandom.
Or basically, how an intelligent fluffy is NOT an MLP.