turnbuckle
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Please don't be white, please don't be white, please don't be
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Video: Bronies (grown men) invade little girls' section of Toys R Us
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OriginofHysteria
Banned
It's okay if they enjoy them but when they start infesting threads or places with MLP shit where they don't belong then it gets annoying.
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Romanes Eunt Domus
This explains a lot about your post history.
Acerac
Banned
Well I hadn't yet identified him as somebody to ignore like I have done for you.
Lumpy Onion
Member
You really need to think about where these "uncomfortable" feelings you are getting are coming from. This strikes me as the same kind of insecurities that force males in movie theaters to sit apart from eachother so people don't get the wrong ideas. It's rather immature, while it comes in a guise of maturity.
Oh god what
Fucking weird... to each their own, I suppose.
I feel awkward enough as it is hanging out in the Lego aisle when I get all nostalgic.
People do this?
I feel awkward enough as it is hanging out in the Lego aisle when I get all nostalgic.
People do this?
NekoToshiro
Member
I admit I liked Sailor Moon as a child. Still nostalgic to watch it on Toonami Aftermath.
I don't see it. But I am hurt by that comparison though.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Okay guys, be honest, what do you think is worse? Anime fans or bronies?
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Wuthering_Heights
Banned
Yep.
Lumpy Onion
Member
They look pretty damn happy to me. I agree that they make me rather uncomfortable, but if this makes them happy all the more power to them.
Dreams-Visions
Member
I fear this is what PonyGAF looks like IRL.
LowParry
Member
Bronies are extremely tame compared to anime fans.
the persecution complex is the worst aspect of the brony community
everyone is so touchy
you chose something obscure to be an outward fan of, and react like you're surprised that people question it? alright
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Do Bronies know that real horses exist? Like you can go a farm and pay a couple of bucks to ride an ACTUAL horse. I'm serious, were they just never taught that? It's not some unobtainable fantasy like being a superhero or something. It's actually pretty goddamn mundane. Everybody around here has them. One time I was driving down the road at 6 AM and almost ran my car into a horse that had gotten out it's pin. Horses aren't even really smart or charming, or anything really. They're only interesting because it's acceptable to use them for transportation and they make stupid faces. But it seems like if you liked a cartoon about horses, seeing a real horse would make you lose your mind.
One time a horse bit me. Fuck horses.
One time a horse bit me. Fuck horses.
I don't get the immature comment at all. Like, is going into a toy store to buy toys for oneself mature?
And I think two males sitting together at a movie theater is different than going into a toy store to buy girls toys, unless you're watching the latest Barbie movie or something. I have no problem going with a couple of buddies to watch the latest superhero movie in a theater. I even go clothes shopping with guy friends at like Zumiez or Tilly's or whatever.
If there's a mass shooting or something really weird and creepy on the internet, you can be sure our people are involved.
turnbuckle
Member
Legos are awesome. One of the things I miss most about my past relationship was building lego sets with my ex girlfriend's son. Don't feel awkward. This, this is different. Nothing against people who like the show, but the bronie culture is one of the most disturbing trends I've seen in just about ever.
Acerac
Banned
I get annoyed when people say that my boyfriend doesn't love me and would be better off dead.
Sorry if that's too PC for you.
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Sorry, nobody would care if he died, he didn't actually say better off dead, my bad.
BattleMonkey
Member
Eh anime fans can get real bad too. But theres a much broader spectrum of anime fans out there.
Lumpy Onion
Member
No, going into a toy store to buy MLP toys is hardly mature as a grown man. I am referring to you saying that there is something wrong with buying videogames at a toy store. Like you would have to be ashamed to do something like that. Just strikes me as silly. Is someone going to follow you around the store giggling at you or something?
The movie theater example was just an example of how people (sometimes irrationally) let what society thinks of us dictate our decisions. And yeah, I wouldn't be caught dead in the section of the store in the OP's vid.
Now you're just taking his statement too personally, it wasn't directly aimed at you.
Grow some thicker skin.
There's many different flavors of anime fans, ranging from batshit insane to slightly eccentric.
Bronies are all one the crazy side of the spectrum. Socially inept, awkward as fuck man-children. I genuinely wonder what will become of them when MLP fades from existence.
Nerds are a catty, cannibalistic bunch.
LowParry
Member
Oh I know. Anime's been around for a good while. But if you had to compare the extremes of the two, I'd put in favor anime.
Souldriver
Member
I don't really get it either though.
I've asked the fanbase if it is a bit like say, Adventure Time, or Spongebob Squarepants, ... cartoons aimed at kids but that obviously and intentionally have a level of adult humor in them. But apparently it's not. So all you're left with is, at best, a well written kids show.
There's nothing wrong with liking kids shows. But that it is specifically My Little Ponies that explodes in popularity, and that it is mainly by adult males, is really....well, peculiar. It implies that there is indeed a certain quality to the show that attracts this demographic, but I still don't know what that quality might be.
I've asked the fanbase if it is a bit like say, Adventure Time, or Spongebob Squarepants, ... cartoons aimed at kids but that obviously and intentionally have a level of adult humor in them. But apparently it's not. So all you're left with is, at best, a well written kids show.
There's nothing wrong with liking kids shows. But that it is specifically My Little Ponies that explodes in popularity, and that it is mainly by adult males, is really....well, peculiar. It implies that there is indeed a certain quality to the show that attracts this demographic, but I still don't know what that quality might be.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
i dont even...
Macmanus
Member
Mustache thing is weird.
radioheadrule83
Banned
Andrew WK is a brony and he's chimed in on haters before.. check this out, epic inception music in play:
Andrew wk - epic speech about bronies
Andrew wk - epic speech about bronies
This isn't true and you know.
Brian Griffin
Member
What's honestly so different about it? You say you liked playing with Legos (a toy) so what's wrong with them playing with MLP toys? If you are seriously disturbed by nothing more than the toys people play with I'd say you have a problem. Why do you care?
LowParry
Member
Adventure Time is certainly not aimed for kids. It's the same with Regular Show or The Amazing World of Gumball. Sure kids could sit and watch and maybe get a kick off of it but they certainly don't seem like they are aimed for kids.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Nobody sells Tom Selleck toys anymore. You can find a few Magnum PI toys on eBay, but that's it. It's really sad that My Little Pony is more popular among adult men than Tom Selleck.
Bel Marduk
Banned
Its embarrassing to dress like a diabetic, pregnant woman who just got out of bed. Flip flops are ok if you're really ugly or morbidly obese.
While this isn't the only thing I take issue with, I think some of you need to abandon your ideals of whats for one gender but isn't for the other. It's time to abandon that idea. MLP can be for anyone. Barbie can be for anyone. Monster Trucks and GI Joes can be for anyone.
I like the depth it provides.
Tom Selleck isn't even that good of an actor and Hawaii Five-O was a better show.
I like the depth it provides.
Tom Selleck isn't even that good of an actor and Hawaii Five-O was a better show.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
oh god, my sides!
Dreams-Visions
Member
! I can't handle this shit.
Phobophile
A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
I wonder how many of these guys are cat owners.
I wonder too about the sincerity of the brony fans. Surely these guys can't be completely serious, and there must be some level of irony or something to it. Like, there must be some level of ridicule towards mass consumerism that they are taking part in. Anyway, there's a guy in one of my computer science classes that is a brony. The first day of class he was drawing those ponies all over his notebook. I've talked to him a bit and he seems otherwise normal, if not a little socially awkward. He definitely looks like what you would expect a grown-up man who watches a kid's cartoon would look like - bizarre little mustache, consistently wet hair.
Brian Griffin
Member
This is pretty awesome. The whole idea of gendering toys is dumb.
Or, you know, they could just really like the show.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Wow, are flip-flops something people can't wear nowadays without ridicule? It's hard to keep track of what people are hating on nowadays lol I hate wearing them, but why should anyone care if someone else does?
Macmanus
Member
Oh, thank god. That makes me feel a lot better about myself.
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