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Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on October 2!

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:13 pm
by Fizzbuzz
Pony conventions are getting canceled left and right and we're having to move all sorts of business onto the Internet, so why not do the same with a convention? PonyFest Online is rapidly coming this Saturday, March 28! It'll mostly take place on our Discord server, with streamed panels, an Octagonal Pasture-type video hangout, gaming servers, channels for vendors with merchandise they would've brought to a con in person, and VIP guests soon to come!

Dexanth, I, and a couple dozen other pony convention veterans are rapidly working to make this a reality. We'll have a link to the Discord server soon and updates coming hot and fast on our Twitter feed!

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:44 pm
by Fizzbuzz

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:02 pm
by ToastGhost
Nice! :awesomedash:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:55 am
by Skipper
Cool!

Probably not able to attend though. :fluttersmith:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:04 am
by ToastGhost
Fizzbuzz wrote:
Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:13 pm
Pony conventions are getting canceled left and right
But enough about the death of Bronycon, this seems fantastic! Unlike the death of Bronycon. :smirk:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:19 pm
by Dong Strongly
I will host a panel on how to photoshop ponies into photos of historical events. So we can finally feel again.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:19 am
by Fizzbuzz
We're going to have VIPs appearing!

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:01 pm
by Fizzbuzz


Perry also drew some art for the con.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:15 pm
by Fizzbuzz
PonyFest Online's Discord server is now open. Most of the con's events will be happening there.

https://discord.gg/nSDGJCg

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:17 am
by ToastGhost
Well I've followed my other standard of attending while under the influence. :cutealoo:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:36 am
by Skipper
ToastGhost wrote:
Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:17 am
Well I've followed my other standard of attending while under the influence. :cutealoo:
So this pothead went to see PonyFest Online

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 4:57 am
by ToastGhost
I didn't say under the influence of what! :rainbert:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:02 am
by Fizzbuzz
Bumping this thread because it's beginning in about an hour. You don't have to join the Discord server for the main panels; they'll be streamed on https://ponyfest.horse/mane-events.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:34 am
by Fizzbuzz
Best. Online con. EVER. And we're doing it again in four weeks! :pinkietoot:

Now excuse me while I pass out.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:17 am
by Aracat
I'm legitimately impressed at how well this worked. Bravo and well done to everyone involved in setting it up and running it.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:41 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
wanna just say the con's mascot is a cutie

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:02 am
by Fizzbuzz
I'd say she's generated an insane amount of art, but this con has gotten far more attention than I ever expected in general. Like, when I drew those two pictures of Bit Rate last week, as far as I know those were only the second and third pictures of her to exist, ever. And even then I was working off of a design which wasn't finalized, so there is one little difference (aside from my style vs. everyone else's) that you might be able to spot!

But really though, a week ago I thought this event might get 500 people if we promoted the hell out of it and had some good luck. That's why those became the first pictures I've ever published more publicly than here or on Discord, since I thought we'd need all the PR material we could get just to reach that number. Perhaps everyone else involved had that same mindset and that's exactly why this all worked in the end.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:57 pm
by Fizzbuzz
After only a few hours of sleep before dawn on Sunday and feeling :insomnia: the rest of the day, I slept for somewhere between 10 and 11 hours last night. I can't even do that at a real con since all the walking I'd do up and down the BCC, for example, exhausted me too much to stay up much past midnight any night.

I've updated the thread title for our next event. We had over 4000 people this time, going by Discord server members, and I wonder if we'll get more.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:45 pm
by Fizzbuzz
We just announced our first VIP for the second event:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:37 am
by Fizzbuzz

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:28 pm
by Fizzbuzz
Three more guests announced! Mitch Larson, Bill Newton, and Amy Keating Rogers will be there tomorrow.

I also did another drawing promoting the con.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:27 pm
by Fizzbuzz
Vincent Tong and Gillian M. Berrow are also going to appear at PonyFest Online. She even got announced with art from Perrydotto!

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on April 25!

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 11:35 am
by Dexanth
Hi frenz! We're live lol

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 3:33 am
by Fizzbuzz
We're done with this one, but guess what: we're doing it again! The next event will be on May 30. Stay tuned for some possibly interesting new stuff, perhaps to be determined once we've all recovered from staying up this late for multiple days in a row.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:50 am
by PonyHag714
My birthday, cool. Image

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 10:30 pm
by Fizzbuzz
Our schedule's out! Now including an early-morning, Europe-friendly programming block that puts us at 23 straight hours of content! https://ponyfest.horse/schedule/

Also, here's a 7-page comic about our mascots that Dexanth wrote and Kefka lettered.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 8:27 am
by Fizzbuzz
PonyFest 3's on now! https://ponyfest.horse/

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 8:37 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
but are there idiots

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 11:55 am
by Fizzbuzz
No, as it's my job to ban regular idiots.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 12:37 pm
by Skipper
Good thing I only post here irregularly :twiright:

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on May 30!

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 6:02 pm
by Fizzbuzz
PonyFest 4 is coming on September 19th! That's International Talk Like A Pirate Day, too.


As always, we'll be conducting the majority of our events via Discord.

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on September 19!

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:49 am
by Fizzbuzz
The schedule's up.

Our VIPs this time are Devyn Dalton (Ocellus), Giles Panton (Flash Magnus), Ian Hanlin (Sunburst), and the return of Big Jim Miller. Something new we're doing this time is virtual autograph sessions with the first three of them!

We have another pile of vendors from around the fandom, including for the first time Factory Factory's wife!



Click here to join! It's free!

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on September 19!

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 5:17 pm
by Factory Factory

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on October 2!

Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:21 pm
by Fizzbuzz
We're back at it again! :ohboy:


The fifth full-fledged PonyFest event is coming this October. Why so far out? Because hopefully the movie will have dropped by then and the fandom will be at maximum hype!

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on October 2!

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:37 am
by DaikatunaRevengeance
horse not dead, it seems

Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con on October 2!

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:38 am
by Fizzbuzz
This is on today! Click here for the schedule.

Of particular note, IMO, is that Dexanth will be interviewing Imalou at noon today (EDT; the schedule automatically updates to your time zone). Imalou was one of the character designers on the G5 movie, so we're bound to get some cool info.