- Alternative Character Interpretation:
- Does Molestia truly care about her friends and is she really a nice pony despite her over-the-top and silly pervertedness of almost everything or does she pretend to care and act kind to score and couldn't any care less about them? Depending on the writing, either interpretation can be valid.
- Also, some posts show that Molly is afraid of her mother, and that she sometimes dislikes being alone. Is Molestia just a shameless over-the-top sexual predator, or is it her only way of wanting to be truly loved by everypony?
- Base-Breaking Character: Princess Molestia herself in the following two plus years since the blog started. She's either a hilarious parody of hypersexual, sex addict female who's turned on by almost everything or an annoying Flat Character character who jokes of her over-the-top pervertedness and molestation fallen flat rather quickly. When it comes to Molestia's Hidden Depths, fans think they're either touching and insightful, or cliché with no real effect on the character.
- Broken Base: The entire blog was the subject of numerous arguments on Tumblr as of 2013. Some see it as a funny comedy blog involving Celestia as a pervert who playfully fondles other adult ponies while others see it as a disgusting endorsement of rape, sexual harassment and sexual assault with its humour and saucy depiction that trivializes sexual assault and the attitude that comes with it. And there are those who found the blog to be average with subpar characterization and humour but with fantastic artwork.
- Character Perception Evolution: The titular Princess Molestia, a Memetic Molester variation on Princess Celestia was once a very popular character in the brony community, thanks in part to the sexually charged humor and the artwork provided by John Joseco at the high of his popularity, which led to the blog becoming the longest running and most popular out of all the Ask a Pony blogs. However, increasingly prominent arguments that Black Comedy Rape desensitized people towards, if not outright encouraged, real life acts of sexual violence, along growing concerns towards younger fans coming across unsafe consent online, turned the character's habit of molesting her fellow ponies from hilarious to horrifying for many. This sparked an entire online movement, "Down With Molestia", that was founded to oppose rape jokes in the fandom, and the debates about whether or not the character had went too far would come to overshadow all discussion of the blog from then on. In 2014, John Joseco announced that he would be cancelling the comic and taking it down, which was widely attributed to DWM bringing the comic to the attention of Hasbro. Because of this, Molestia is regarded as a Discredited Meme at best, and is usually only discussed as an example of the worst excesses of the Brony community.
- Condemned by History: At the time of its introduction around 2011, the blog became very popular (reaching ~ 68,600 followers by its closure in 2014) for its artwork, regular updates, absurd premise, and saucy comedy (Vulgar Humor in general was more popular during the late 2000s and the early 2010s). By 2013, growing backlash against the Ron the Death Eater treatment of Princess Celestia and works that were seen as normalizing sexual harassment, molestation, and assault by treating it as a joke led to the "Down With Molestia" movement where so many turned against the blog that it abruptly shut down a year later. Nowadays, the blog itself and the jokes within are seen as forgettable and crass at best, and downright vile at worst. The blog's only saving graces was the character of Gamer Luna and the artwork quality.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Gamer Luna. Eventually it led to her getting a much-increased role in the blog and her own blog as well.
- Genius Bonus: Well, a bit more like Geekiness Bonus. At one point
◊, we see Luna playing SCP:Containment Breach. Due to Deep-Immersion Gaming, the monster looks like Molestia's flank, but instead of a sun its cutie mark is the number 1004. On the actual SCP Foundation site, SCP-1004
is a pornographic computer program. - Hilarious in Hindsight: One poster asked as to why Molestia (read: Celestia) didn't have a musical number, cue "Magical Mystery Cure" a week or so later, where the canon Princess Celestia sings her ballad to Twilight Sparkle before ascending her as a princess.
- Ho Yay: Luna
◊ and
◊ Derpy
◊. - Squick: Molestia primarily features crude sexual comedy involving molestation and in some cases rape.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Princess Molestia's molestations were ment to be excusable as played comedically and counterbalanced by moments showing she genuinely cared about them and had some remorse for her actions believing she failed her promise to her mother to be a good pony. But most saw these as not enough and too few and far in-between to excuse her actions, which aired when real life started to see such as inexcusable flaws, and how often she acts insincere and selfish making her supposed good traits ring hollow.
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