I'll assume the TC was being tongue-in-cheek, and just give him a golden star.
I went to the BroNYCon held in September/October of last week, held in the NYC. It was awesome; food and drinks for cheap, merchandise, fan project demo's, bands (didn't care for the bands), they even had a Texas Hold 'Em tournament (came in third for my round, boo.) And Jayson Thiessen was nice enough to stop by and show the season 2 premiere episode (it was premiering the same day, people were likely going to miss the episode since they were spending time traveling from different parts of the country.) Only frustrating thing about the one I went to was that it was fairly small considering the unexpected high turnout and was thus pretty hot.
I won't deny that some bronies are over the top and can get in your face about it. And yes, there are some really awkward people. But I don't see what that means.
Apparently BroNYCon underwent some major management changes and now it's being held in New Jersey. The conventions became a much bigger deal than I would've thought.