About

“But I didn’t listen!”, or alternately “They told me X, but I didn’t listen!” is a phrase said by character Party Favor in the second part of the Season 5 premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The phrase is commonly associated with an exploitable image of said character’s face. The phrase and picture is often used as a reaction image.

Origin

Both the phrase and image originates from a scene in My Little Pony episode “The Cutie Map – Part 2”^[1]. In the scene, a pony named Party Favor tells that the main cast of the series tried to convince him “cutie marks” were good, but that he didn’t listen.

Spread

Right after the airing of the episode, the unusual face and accompanied quote became posted on several sites, including a large popularity on the /mlp/ board on 4chan, various posts on other pony related sites, including derpibooru^[2] and the My Little Pony Forums^[3].

Very shortly after the airing of the episode, Deviantart user dennybutt posted a fanmade artwork of the original scene, which was just the beginning of a large mass of fanart using the same facial expression.^[4] Both on Deviantart and Derpibooru a large mass of art and edits of the original image can be found.

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