CountAntonius
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh stable as in horse stable cause of bronies....took me awhile..
BronyCon Draws 4,000 to NJ To Celebrate Everything My Little Pony
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Who knows? In time, we may well be.
... though I could never see this franchise being run into the ground THAT hard
Stern's fairly out of touch with most pop culture/social trends and comes off ignorant and clueless most of the time. But I couldn't really fault him on his view point on this or, at least feeling the way he does, it really is just odd and almost embarrassing in a way.
Maybe the fringe clopper stuff pushed it over the edge, but fuck! this is my generation, people I might very well know day to day. but for the life of me I just can't wrap my head around this brony thing, the appeal is so far beyond me no matter how many 'this why is mlp is so awesome'' youtube vids people throw in my face. idungetit.
Hot Coldman
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Don't suppose you ever check out the Sonic thread in Community? It's fucking weird how sane we all are in there. :lol
Article is from July 2nd.
Escape Goat
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The storyline and the plot.
Says the man with the furry avatar.
OriginofHysteria
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Some people like to rag on the dudes that like MLP...but I've seen some of the girls...hayooo.
JeTmAn81
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That one went way over my mane.
Oh, whoops! Never mind then.
Magnificent.
Funnily enough, the same can generally be said about the Pony thread in Community.
Hot Coldman
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Well, you lot do have Hitokage to keep an eye on you.
Wuthering_Heights
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Probable virgin creates thread title about virgins.
Inception?
Though seriously, good on them for getting together to share enjoyment in something that they like. Everyone's different, we all like different things. I can't hate on them.
Inception?
Though seriously, good on them for getting together to share enjoyment in something that they like. Everyone's different, we all like different things. I can't hate on them.
... at certain hours.
Hell, it's about as sane as most all of the Community Threads.
A forgotten, forsaken realm, Community is.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
They go in virgins, but they come out... virgins.
In all seriousness I support bronys, proud to like what they like despite it going against social norms. People mocking them are no better than children calling someone gay because they like the colour pink.
and the show is alright.
In all seriousness I support bronys, proud to like what they like despite it going against social norms. People mocking them are no better than children calling someone gay because they like the colour pink.
and the show is alright.
I just think its being different, weird, and objecting to society for the purpose of being different, weird, and objecting to society.
It's like they get off to saying IM DIFFERENT LOOK AT ME I DONT GIVE A FUCK FOR GENDER IDENTITIES IM SO PROGRESSIVE.
I've seen the first 3 episodes. The animation is cool. But its hardly some legendary tv show that deserves the attention its getting. There are a lot better shows to have an obsessive fandom over.
It's like they get off to saying IM DIFFERENT LOOK AT ME I DONT GIVE A FUCK FOR GENDER IDENTITIES IM SO PROGRESSIVE.
I've seen the first 3 episodes. The animation is cool. But its hardly some legendary tv show that deserves the attention its getting. There are a lot better shows to have an obsessive fandom over.
Delusibeta
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Ultimately, my opinion on bronies is pretty much the same as my opinion on anime and manga otaku: I don't particularly give a shit until you start waving your nerdom in my face and claiming what you watch is superior to what I watch. Until then, I don't care if you get three pillowcases and a pile of R-18s, just as long as you STFU about it.
OriginofHysteria
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Acerac
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Who is doing this? We went to the con because there were a bunch of people there with similar interests and it seemed like it'd be fun. Turned out it was.
You're thinking WAY too much in to this... or possibly way too little.
For reference, classic Simpsons and Adventure Time are way better than ponies... but there weren't any conventions going for the two at the time.
Technosteve
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I almost went to this thing
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
In a year or so this will all die down and another little girl's cartoon will rush onto the scene.
Acerac
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This fad'll die soon, just like pokemon!
SonicMegaDrive
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Come ooonnnn, JEM.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I predict a Rainbow Bright reboot.
Trickster
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Who is doing this? We went to the con because there were a bunch of people there with similar interests and it seemed like it'd be fun. Turned out it was.
You're thinking WAY too much in to this... or possibly way too little.
For reference, classic Simpsons and Adventure Time are way better than ponies... but there weren't any conventions going for the two at the time.
You've never seen the users on neogaf that post a lot of pony stuff outside of the MLP topic? I know it's pretty common in the starcraft 2 community topic ( or at least was when I visited daily ).
Just gets annoying to see mlp stuff in topics that's not about mlp after a while.
People will get bored with random encounters any day now.
SonicMegaDrive
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Or better yet, She-Ra! I might actually watch that one.
cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
I wish there was an Archer convention.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
This is weird, because a lot of "Brony" stuff I've seen is pretty misogynistic...most of them don't say "Oh, we enjoy a show made for girls", rather they try and claim that its story-lines (basic morality lessons), animation (flash-based animation that tons of modern cartoons utilize), and characters (easily-identifiable archetypes) are all top-of-the-line mature and that the show was made for them. The whole "Derpy" incident pretty much reflects that mindset, and even the name for the group itself, "Brony", is gender-inclusive. Sure, you've got "Pegasisters", but the wording and usage of that word, only referencing the female fans, whereas Brony is an umbrella term for the entire community, shows that most Brony's see the female fans as "others", and they themselves as the central fan-base.
There's a popular Brony "Sociological Chart" I've seen posted before, and it pretty much sums up what I just said perfectly: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/309/c/4/bronie_sociological_analysis_flowchart_by_broniepologist-d4f95jq.jpg
It's not simply enjoying a show made for girls that bothers me (and to be fair, people DO have a point when they mention how fans of MLP due receive a fair bit of grief compared to fans of similar shows like Adventure Time or Spongebob, probably due to gender roles being shaken up), but rather that most Bronies go to great lengths in order to try and convince people that the show is really for them, often ignoring the fact it was made to be a strong show for girls, which, in animation, doesn't come around as often.
Also, out of the fandoms out there, I have to say Bronies really feels like a cult to me...sure, you've got crazy Pokemon and Sonic fans, but most of those popped up a few years after the original games, and the craziness is usually kept within Pokemon and Sonic communities specifically. NeoGAF and Something Awful BOTH had to literally ban pony discussion to one thread because how rampant it spread, and I still see people on other forums randomly bringing ponies into unrelated topics, usually people doing the whole "somepony" thing. The fact all this has happened while the show has only been on the air for 2 or 3 years is just weird....the Brony fandom has such a crazy speed in which it took off, it's no wonder people are a bit exhausted and weirded out by it.
Acerac
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Honestly I don't, though I hear the complaint thrown around constantly. From everything I've seen us pony fans are the ones that get most annoyed when ponies get spammed, we understand people don't want to deal with it and we don't feel like dealing with the blowback.
Granted, I don't frequent the sc2 thread, but I've seen WAY more people bitching about inappropriately placed ponies than the ponies themselves. I totally agree that seeing them everywhere could be grating, but I just don't see it. Feel free to shut me up with some links, but I'd guess you'd have to dig to find anything more than a popcorn gif that just happened to be ponies instead of MJ or something like that.
maybe brony conventions are like the evolutionary advantage nature is trying to give loser nerd virgins in order to get laid
HAS to be some equivalent broads there looking for their greasy foreheaded counterparts, romeos in pink and fuchsia and rainbows, prancing on with their blue blush painted generously over the peaks and valleys of their cratered, eternally pimpled faces, squeeing about their fluttershy's and pinkie pie's, bending down on their AC&Moore cheaply woven Applejack knee socks ready to just knock her off her proverbial blubbery cloven hooves.
HAS to be some equivalent broads there looking for their greasy foreheaded counterparts, romeos in pink and fuchsia and rainbows, prancing on with their blue blush painted generously over the peaks and valleys of their cratered, eternally pimpled faces, squeeing about their fluttershy's and pinkie pie's, bending down on their AC&Moore cheaply woven Applejack knee socks ready to just knock her off her proverbial blubbery cloven hooves.
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Beyond that (I agree with your sentiment, based on the handful of episodes I watched to see what the excitement was about), what's surprising about this to me is that some of the people who are in to it are soin to it that they self-identify as "bronies." I have trouble understanding how someone can enjoy an individual show so much that it becomes an identity.
To hopefully better express my thoughts on this, I'll contrast the brony mentality with my experience with The Simpsons. I really, really like The Simpsons. With over a decade of watching reruns, I've probably seen some of the older episodes 10+ times. I started laughing spontaneously while visiting Hollywood yesterday when I saw the star for Lee Majors and remembered a specific fantasy that Marge had. In less words, the show helped shape my sense of humor, personality, and general world-view as I grew up, and I still watch reruns today.
Despite all of this, I would never think of myself as a "Simpson," or "Bro-son," or whatever the artificial label would be. I really appreciate the show, but it's not my identity. I don't go out of my way to associate only with people that are really into it, I don't feel compelled to go to Simpsons fan conventions, I don't cosplay as Simpsons characters and I'm definitely not into Simpsons porn. I think it's annoying enough when people feel the need to call themselves "gamers," but that label at least implies they they identify with an entire medium instead of only one show.
Am I just reading too much into this? Do the majority of people who call themselves "Brony" only do that in context of discussion threads for fun or something?
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