…How about both?

@orbsah  
That the people who upvoted and faved really like the character, or thought that the image macro was funny? :D

what does this picture’s upvotes and favorites say about it?

@Depressed Knoll  
Hate just causes more hate.
 
That’s why Friendship is magic! :)

@Beau Skunky  
Funny how that works.

To be honest, I see more of the opposite, Sunset fans who bash Glimmer, (it was especially bad back when the Season 5 finale first aired with Glimmer’s controversial reformation, or when Glimmer appeared in an EqG short) but regardless I wish fans on both sides would chill.
 
They aren’t making their disliked character more hated, they’re making their favorite character, and especially the fans of their favorite character look worse. So their hatred backfires ironically.

It’s because I love you Glimmy!! :D

Both.

I like almost all the ponies, asside from Fluttershy. Most, if not all, of her episodes this season were boring. At least in my, and all my friend’s eyes.

The first one.

naw starlight I genuinely like you for you. one episode made the case for me

@Background Pony #856D  
You know the sad thing is that dragon Ball, a series that doesn’t focus on character development as much as mlp has done far better redemption arcs. Aka piccolo and vegeta.

She is a character that has been handled horribly.  
S6 should have been her having an episode dedicated to her and one of the mane6 at a time.  
Instead, we got the mindrape episode.  
There was no integration between her and the mane6, she’s just… there.  
They call her a friend, but we have hardly seen her actually interact with them.  
In whatever episodes she is in, she’s carried through it by the character that is stapled to her.
 
She was the one who would remind herself of her screw ups, then she’d feel sorry for herself, trying to get pity from the audience.  
No one in Ponyville knows what she did, she literally got a fresh start.  
It’s a “woe is me, I need you to feel sorry for me” thing and that doesn’t work.  
A good redemption arc has the character reminded of their screw ups from other characters, not from themselves all the time.  
They work with those they screwed over and do things to prove that they have changed.  
Starlight moved away from “our town” and has only shown up there twice.  
In both cases, she’s instantly forgiven and the second time she goes, she was put in charge of the festival there.  
She hasn’t proven to them that she actually changed.  
Discord and Sunset were ridiculed by everyone around them many times, made mistakes and proved to all that they have changed for the better, forging actual friendships with the mane6 (and EqG6).
 
Starlight has a very long ways to go before I’ll even consider her a decent character (she was “meh” in Mirror Magic).  
Right now, she sticks out like a sore thumb and (to me) too much time has passed for them to really be able to fix her.  
All we know about her in 2.5 seasons is that her friend moved away (turning her into a villain), she can mix magic spells and likes kites.

@Background Pony #ABE5  
Well, yes and no. I would say it was easier to like Sunset at first because by the time Glimmer showed up Sunny had already had her redemption arc. But then, Sunny’s crime was minor by comparison, she caused some damage, she tried to enslave her school, and she saved the day in the very next movie. Small crime makes for easy redemption.
 
Starlight’s crimes were more numerous, and more successful. Her villainy lasted a season, and her redemption is still ongoing two seasons later. To be frank… a cold shoulder wouldn’t have worked on Starlight. She’d literally brainwashed towns and tried to destroy the lives of the mane six because of cold shoulders. The only way to possibly help her reform was to embrace her wholeheartedly, and essentially give her carte blanche with guidance from Twilight to help her learn how a friend acts. Because of this, many felt she was given something she didn’t deserve, and they are completely right. Starlight by rights should have been punished, she was dangerous, and more than a little unhinged (still is, in many ways), but… that would have been giving up on her. Twilight is far too noble to ever do that.
 
Besides, Starlight has been punishing herself far more effectively than a few cold shoulders ever could. Luna should take notes.

@Background Pony #ABE5
 
Yes, because a lot of them explicitly say as much.

@Background Pony #ABE5  
If so, it doesn’t really reflect positively on those bronies. I don’t think the Magic of Friendship covers punishment for punishment’s sake, or for the satisfaction of those watching, and a lot of non-loathed reformed villains didn’t get much karma either.

Going off on a tangent here, but does anyone else get the impression that one significant reason a lot of bronies view Sunny positively and GlimGlam negatively is the perception that Sunset, in being given the cold shoulder by most of CHS in Rainbow Rocks, has paid a price for her transgressions in a way that Starlight hasn’t?

I like both Glimmer and Sunny

If anything, the impression I’ve been getting is the opposite; die-hard Sunset fans hating Starlight because they think she took something from Sunset.

I like both of them, actually. They’ve both had their dark moments, they’ve both come to realize their mistake, they’ve both represented different aspects of the redemption process, and they’ve both (in their own way) had a chance to offer someone else the chance someone first gave them. They’re each interesting characters, and I find myself looking forward to seeing more of what lies ahead for them.

I like both!

I really like you AND I dislike Sunset Shimmer.

I begin to like Starlight because Twilight did.

I like you both

I like the ShimSham AND the GlimGlam!! They have distinct personalities. Shims is a lot more mellow, but still driven. She acts a lot like the unofficial mom of the group. Glims is more adorkable and snarky. Like Twi+Trixie, if I had to describe it.