Brian Griffin
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If you find them creepy that's your issue not theirs.
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Explain to me this pony thing
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Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Whatever you say, I know most people would agree.
DrForester
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It is already in effect. MLP existed before this current incarnation. It was and is utterly wretched and shlock targeted at little girls exclusively.
SonicMegaDrive
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I'm not a fan of 'Adventure Time', but my impression of it was that it was aimed mostly towards the high school/college crowd.
Is it very popular with little kids as well?
Is it very popular with little kids as well?
RedNumberFive
Banned
It seems to be an issue with most well adjusted adults.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I think that when any part of your identity becomes seriously wrapped up in a fictional media property then something is odd, and I think that the MLP community has an anomalously high number of people for whom that's true.
jim-jam bongs
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I dunno. On the one hand I feel like it's pretty harmless for the most part. For example, I love watching squirrels because they're cute little critters. In point of fact I'm watching one right now. There's a lot of messed up shit in the world and sometimes it's easier to retreat to a gentler place where there's no rape, murder, paedophilia etc; I guess a lot of these pony lovers just want a little respite.
On the other hand, once it gets as extreme as the guy described in the OP it becomes a cause for concern like any other obsession. I don't think it's fair to judge everyone who watches the show by the same standard as one would apply to someone like that, though that's obviously human nature. I'd still say that a lot of guys who watch the show are demonstrating a pretty disproportionate response to the scarier aspects of everyday life but even that feels a little judgemental.
On the other hand, once it gets as extreme as the guy described in the OP it becomes a cause for concern like any other obsession. I don't think it's fair to judge everyone who watches the show by the same standard as one would apply to someone like that, though that's obviously human nature. I'd still say that a lot of guys who watch the show are demonstrating a pretty disproportionate response to the scarier aspects of everyday life but even that feels a little judgemental.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I really think that's because Adventure Time, popular though it may be, doesn't seem to have the same sense of community and personal investiture that MLP often seems to have. The level of meta-media doesn't seem comprable, nor does the amount of self-association. If "Adventurers" or something really became a thing you might see a similar response.
Brian Griffin
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You're right but I'm just gonna say that letting the majority determine society's moral compass has produced bad results in the past and at the very least slowed progress towards true equality for everyone.
You are also right. Some of these people might have serious issues that they are dealing with and using the brony identity to help them through it.
Your mind is too weak. Get on my level.
i dont get this part. ofcourse its targeted at little girls. its a show about ponies with magic powers (at least i think it is)
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
No thanks. I'm fine on my level.
Amibguous Cad
Member
Chicken or egg, though? It seems to me that the sense of community and personal investiture is the result of the ridicule people heap on older people enjoying the show, rather than a cause.
Link
The Autumn Wind
Way to completely diminish the struggles of blacks and gays.
And if you really think it's the same situation, you're much further gone than you know.
Chet Rippo
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SonicMegaDrive
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I used to know this girl who was really into My Little Ponies, even way into her late 20's. The original show, of course. I used to think she was a bit odd, being a grown woman so obsessed with a cartoon she enjoyed as a small child. She had literally hundreds of these colorful plastic ponies all over her bedroom.
Of course, this new thing is on a whole different level than that. I've always wondered what she thinks of this new phenomenon.
Of course, this new thing is on a whole different level than that. I've always wondered what she thinks of this new phenomenon.
You can't keep pulling that bat out.
People are allowed to make indirect comparisons to history when unfair presuppositions are made and followed by unfair treatment and assumptions and statements made about their persons.
Funny thing is, as someone who didn't grow up with Western culture, I had no idea ponies and horses are associated with girls until I started watching the show.
Brian Griffin
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I'm not diminishing anything. Of course they are not the same but they all fall in the category of one group thinking they are better than another group based on something that hurts no one. I'm sure there are bronies who would say their "struggle for acceptance" is akin to that of gays and non-whites. Fuck those people.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Because fans of a show about ponies aimed at little girls that have perverted it by sexualizing it, are the same thing as the things black people, women and us gays have been through. Equality is for social segments, this is not.
Give me a fucking break.
I wonder what will happen to these folks when the show is over. It reminds me of that twilight girl, clearly she wasn't creepy.
SonicMegaDrive
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Maybe there's a Glo-Friends reboot waiting in the wings, eh?
Or Moon Dreamers or Potato-Head Kids perhaps?
RawkHawk2010
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It is, but it isn't laser focused on that. Topics are far broader than relationship stuff for example which is conflated with girl demographics.
Regardless of whether you do or don't understand why it's happening, it IS happening.
Devolution
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Struggle for acceptance? There would only be such a thing because they're letting a show be their identity. People who are women, a particular race, transgender and or gay is simply not comparable to someone who appropriates a show as an identity marker.
Brian Griffin
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I should have put this in quotes since I don't see it that way but based on some of the videos I've seen that show how seriously these guys take it I imagine they would use such a phrase.
cool but how can one (other than little girls) get into this show to experience this broader stuff if the whole layout of the show is offputting for young males or adults
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
It's really odd how they all tend to have higher pitched voices and various other identical traits.
I think it's a chemical imbalance.
I think it's a chemical imbalance.
a bowl of lasagna
DrForester
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An airplane propeller.
So what are we all doing here? Discussing fans of the show, or people with potentially excessive associations with My Little Pony? Because so far, I don't think fucking a sextoy is really the 'equality issue' being posed here.
I do think it's getting undue focus as if it was.
Leatherface
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Whelp. Thanks again GAF.
I could have done without knowing what "clopping" is, but stupid me and my curiosity got the best of me. Just when I think I've seen it all the world gets even more bizarre. :'(
I could have done without knowing what "clopping" is, but stupid me and my curiosity got the best of me. Just when I think I've seen it all the world gets even more bizarre. :'(
You assume the show offends the senses of every male. Everyone likes different things, some like God of War, others like Mario platformers and some even like both.
Sailor Moon also has a huge male following and that's about magical highschool girls.
SonicMegaDrive
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that Muhammad-bomb head.
I don't know what's creepier, dudes with MLP avatars or this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=464686
I like how all bronies are perverts, all asians have small toy women to jerk off to, all metal heads are satanists, everyone listening to emo music cut themselves, all ICP fans are all out drug addicts, people listening to EBM are nazis, people listening to rap are criminals, danish people are alcoholics, women owning a lot of cats are always single, people interested in old cars have low intelligence, cosplayers are either whores, virgins and/or insane, which of course goes for all re-enactors, people interested in sci-fi, as well as gamers (unless you own a 360, bro), Mexicans are illegal immigrants, everyone that listened to Elvis in the beginning ended up in hell due to those naughty hip moves of his, punk rockers are all violent anarchists, everyone wearing a fedora is a loser as are people hanging out in gaming forums (they are often the same person), trainspotters all have aspergers (which in turn of course makes them murderers, just wait you'll see). And oh, everyone from the american south is a gun toting bigot dating their own sister.
As a side note, I live in the world of Equilibrium.
As a side note, I live in the world of Equilibrium.
No, I am not a brony 
Threads don't make posts, people do. I'd say the former are creepier.
Except you're not? Did you not see people in this thread saying that all bronies are pedophiles and masturbate to the show?
People interested in sci-fi as well as gamers?? huh?
Edit: Had to read that a few times to understand. I think I get it now... Please use sentences next time.
Bonus points for the fresh "please continue". It never goes out of style! I'll continue down this road, if you permit. There is a slight chance that I was referring to the ones that are using a broader generalization, as well as a tiny chance that I might have exaggerated to drive it home.
Dark Ninja
Member
Was gonna post this but glad to see people already have
Vermillion
Banned
Adventure Time is fucking awesome, and it's not merely about watching it. The person whom the OP describes certainly has issues. Judgment withheld for other bronies.
Yes but the fans of those things are no where near as vocal or creepy.
And the ones that are, are looked down upon just as much.
The pony thing is creepy. Its an alright show, but c'mon. If you're sitting there at work wanting to be called your pony persona name, there is something fucking wrong with you. Same with anyone who subscribes to clopclop.
Freaks.
So a lot of that stuff IS marketed to males while MLP was\is marketed to little girls.
EDIT: If your life revolves around any of those and you go into creepy fan mode I'm still going to find it weird but accept it.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Holy shit. 4000 tickets sold? Sick fucks.
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