MLP may not be great, but there are some genuinely fantastic animated series these days.
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MLP may not be great, but there are some genuinely fantastic animated series these days.
Perhaps. But there is a very specific counter culture which obviously identify themselves as Bronies. Maybe you are just being obtuse, maybe not, but I have a feeling you know what I mean.
You could say that about anything anyone has ever been a fan of, including Mario. It's not because they are fans of MLP, these types of people exist regardless of the content that is liked.
Remember, all fans are people.
Jawmuncher
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Nope, it's you picking out the most extrovert part of the fanbase, part of which may have fun in simply trolling the public. They are putting huge "bronie" signs up so YOU know who they are.
But as Kokonoe said, it's actually just a slang for adult male fan. Like US right wing Christians are not "the Christians", eventhough they act as if they are. *Europe is safe, thanks to Rainbow Dash*
Trent Strong
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So fans of Kurt Vonnegut novels buy Vonnegut figurines from Toys R Us, or buy 100 pies from McDonalds to build a fort for their Vonnegut action figure?
That's generalizing.
The fact that it is character-driven plays a large part in that, I think.
A simple gimmick (anything with ponies is instantly recognisable as MLP) and a story focus on social interactions probably help it in getting fan art, and gif-references on message boards respectively. Though, reasonably high animation quality was obviously a prerequisite for the latter.
watched the series just recently, its actually better than i remember.
he worked on the show, but Craig McCracken made PPG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_McCracken
he also made Fosters home for imaginary friends, and is married to Lauren Faust, the one who rebooted MLP.
in fact Craig helped design the S2 villain Discord.
Bitch please, Kurt wishes he could be that popular.
writer is no small role
Trent Strong
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What? You were the one who was generalizing when you said that fans of every kind of content have members as extreme as some of these Bronies are.
i just said he worked on the show.
Gennedy is amazing, im not saying he isnt.
Symbionic Titan is one of the best shows ive ever seen, and fuck CN for cancelling it, same goes for Samurai Jack.
bring back Titan and Samurai Jack CN, 2 of the best shows ever, they deserve a real ending.
I feel you have misread what was said. You just made a post essentially saying that all of the people who like the show My Little Pony do that.
I said that those types of people exist regardless, and you know why? Because it's not because you are a fan that you do something, it's because of whatever other desire you might have.
Let's say people are fighting game fans, you can't say every single person who plays fighting games will throw their arcade stick when they lose in a tournament.
KO Traveling Hobo
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Jawmuncher
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Seriously, mod needs to just lock it up.
was anything accomplished here.
usually when these threads happen we gain a few more fans lol.
Jawmuncher
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I don't know if he could continue his argument, it was pretty short. Maybe we should just lock this thread, everyone's just bitter now.
i was bitter long before i came to gaf.
Jack is beautiful to look at. The story itself is simple pulp.
Broder Salsa
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With bronies being exposed to do just the same as us, can we have back Victorious/iCarly GAF pls?
Sometimes a generalization is made with a large enough sample size to be completely accurate.
Trent Strong
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Erm...
Jawmuncher
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We should combine the two
That thing is over just give it up
I thought it was still around, what happened?
Broder Salsa
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xynBX40py0&t=0m2s
We could combine it with k-pop thread, that's kind of the same anyway.
Ploid 3.0
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Trent Strong
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I'd rather jerk off to Miranda Cosgrove without a bunch of pony pictures around making it weird.
Antiwhippy
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I would totally buy McDonald vonnegut figurines.
Because haters keep dragging it out.
Why them kpops still around? All they do is spam 50mb gifs of sexually explicit girls dances and Orange Caramel > SNSD
Ahahaha... so, math-bro, what exactly are your numbers? People who identified as bronies vs general fans? Percentage of bronies who would go out into the open with it? Percentage of actionists bronies vs "the silent" part?
Numbers, anything?
Oh man... *hahaha*
Because of your delicious hate. Us bronies use only a single thread for talk but hey, then we have people like you making a new "omg, wtf, look at those guys" thread and you keep posting in it too.
Reminds of of a quote from the Howard Stern movie (just from memory),
"His fans on average listen to him 40 minutes a day."
"Okay, but he has a lot of enemies too."
"Yeah, they spend an average of 60 minutes each day with his program."
"What???"
"They keep on listening to see what kind of stupid stuff he comes up next to hate on him."
And from this phenomenon, threads like this are born
A lot
Jawmuncher
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Excellent
I would fucking buy a 1000 pies from McDonalds to build a Vonnegut fort. And then I'd take pictures of my dog named Vonnegut inside the McDonalds Vonnegut fort and shell it with Vonnegut books.
I'm just saying, I like Vonnegut.
The Neogaf law of fanbases states that you cannot be a fan of something unless you want to have sex with it. So can I take this as a confession that you're a necrophile?
captainnapalm
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Ahahaha... so, math-bro, what exactly are your numbers? People who identified as bronies vs general fans? Percentage of bronies who would go out into the open with it? Percentage of actionists bronies vs "the silent" part?
Numbers, anything?
Oh man... *hahaha*
Because of your delicious hate. Us bronies use only a single thread for talk but hey, then we have people like you making a new "omg, wtf, look at those guys" thread and you keep posting in it too.
Reminds of of a quote from the Howard Stern movie (just from memory),
"His fans on average listen to him 40 minutes a day."
"Okay, but he has a lot of enemies too."
"Yeah, they spend an average of 60 minutes each day with his program."
"What???"
"They keep on listening to see what kind of stupid stuff he comes up next to hate on him."
And from this phenomenon, threads like this are born
Which reminds me. Howard and the gang discover Bronies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUcjKln4zhc
The Neogaf law of fanbases states that you cannot be a fan of something unless you want to have sex with it. So can I take this as a confession that you're a necrophile?
WHAT GOD NO FUCK MAN JESUS
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Vonnegut plushie though...
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