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!
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.
Re: Hey, horse idiots! Come join an online pony con this Saturday!
Well I've followed my other standard of attending while under the influence.
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!
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!
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 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!
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.
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.
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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!
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!
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.