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Posted by: divine thunder14
Also, the hypocrisy behind this "love and tolerance" is pretty bs since they don't tolerate the opinions of others.

And that is why I hate Bronies.
While I do understand the first bit of your post this, for me, is undeniably true. I saw it for a while, but I was blissfully ignorant. It is now, and probably forever was, an ideal out of reach. Unusual as though it may be, it's a nice ideal to search for.

  • 12.30.2012 11:00 AM PDT
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  • 12.30.2012 11:02 AM PDT

No, it's not a 'sick fetish'. It's enjoying a TV show that the creator has explicitly stated is not just for little girls. The show has a lot of adult humor and adult themes (racism, for example). The main reason I watch My Little Pony and other cartoons such as Adventure Time and The Regular Show is because I enjoy the writing, the art style and the stories behind them. I'm going to assume you haven't watched more than five minutes of an episode because you're judging it solely on it's child-like art style, but if you have, then I do not understand your hate. It's perfectly fine to not like the show. That's a valid opinion. You can't, however, hate someone just because they enjoy something that you don't like or understand. I agree that there are a lot of bronies that are annoying, but that's because of the person, not the show. You'll always get annoying fan boys/girls with any fandom, but that's not reflective of the actual show. I myself hate the majority of the fandom because of how they behave towards people that don't like the show, but I personally enjoy the show. It doesn't change me in a negative way. It's just something I like to watch and it hasn't changed me in any negative way. Just let people like what they want to like. Honestly, this wave of haters for the show is getting ridiculous.

  • 12.30.2012 11:05 AM PDT

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Posted by: divine thunder14
At first, I hated them mainly because I thought it was stupid to watch a little girls show. While I do think it is still stupid, it is no longer my predominant reason for my hate. It lies with the community. Annoyingly posting pictures of ponies everywhere (random searches for images somehow lead me to MLP), bringing it up where it does not belong, and getting extremely defensive by any amount of criticism. Hell, it is even worse when they ponify everything, even themselves like the Sonic fanbase with its unoriginality.

People say it is a vocal minority, but I think that is really just BS. Two people I know in real life that are indeed Bronies are very annoying and fit the generalizations of Bronies. One of them even shoved a stupid drawing he made of a pony right into my face, and I'm being literal with the shoving. Also, I've been on TF2 and there are so many Bronies with pony sprays and even rule 34 pony sprays everywhere. Heck, a couple of them were screaming in the mic like a bunch of little kids.

All of this has irritated me to no end as it seems like anywhere I go, MLP is there. Bronies don't know when they cross the line, which is constantly being crossed. Also, the hypocrisy behind this "love and tolerance" is pretty bs since they don't tolerate the opinions of others.

And that is why I hate Bronies.


Fair enough.

I just don't understand the presumption that I'm like that, or anybody else is like that.

Take a stroll across the local mall, or down a busy street and know that one or more of them could go home and enjoy MLP.

Just seems a weak base to generally hate anyone who would call themselves a brony.

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  • 12.30.2012 11:12 AM PDT

Well guys OP's got his hot topic. No point in stopping now.

Look they aren't that horrible. They definitely do have horribly vocal idiots in them (thankfully I don't play PC Minecraft and TF2, so I probably don't see them as much), but most of them aren't that bad. Hell, I know one in real life and I never would've known he liked it if he didn't say it. I know you see it everywhere, but honestly if you don't let it annoy you, it won't. I'm a part of the Pokemon fanbase, and I know damn well we aren't perfect. It's nothing with MLP itself, just a flaw of every fanbase that got altered a bit by the sheer size of MLP.

(As for the ones that spam it, I honestly think that the reason they do it is that for some reason, they think it makes them better than the rest of cyberspace, and the pushing of it is actually an indirect form of bragging that they're in some sort of "higher race." I don't know; I've just got that feeling.)

  • 12.30.2012 11:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: divine thunder14
At first, I hated them mainly because I thought it was stupid to watch a little girls show. While I do think it is still stupid, it is no longer my predominant reason for my hate. It lies with the community. Annoyingly posting pictures of ponies everywhere (random searches for images somehow lead me to MLP), bringing it up where it does not belong, and getting extremely defensive by any amount of criticism. Hell, it is even worse when they ponify everything, even themselves like the Sonic fanbase with its unoriginality.

People say it is a vocal minority, but I think that is really just BS. Two people I know in real life that are indeed Bronies are very annoying and fit the generalizations of Bronies. One of them even shoved a stupid drawing he made of a pony right into my face, and I'm being literal with the shoving. Also, I've been on TF2 and there are so many Bronies with pony sprays and even rule 34 pony sprays everywhere. Heck, a couple of them were screaming in the mic like a bunch of little kids.

All of this has irritated me to no end as it seems like anywhere I go, MLP is there. Bronies don't know when they cross the line, which is constantly being crossed. Also, the hypocrisy behind this "love and tolerance" is pretty bs since they don't tolerate the opinions of others.

And that is why I hate Bronies.


Fair enough.

I just don't understand the presumption that I'm like that, or anybody else is like that.

Take a stroll across the local mall, or down a busy street and know that one or more of them could go home and enjoy MLP.

Just seems a weak base to generally hate anyone who would call themselves a brony.
But there's a difference between someone who enjoys the show, and a brony. Hell, I could enjoy watching the show, but that doesn't make me brony. Bronies are fans of the show. They collect the toys, they make fan art and stories, they go to conventions.

  • 12.30.2012 11:14 AM PDT

BAN ALL BRONIES

How do bronies expect "love and tolerance" when they arent exactly the sanest kind of people one would find? You bronies are pathetic. Your obsession is border line pedophilic. Man up and grow up you fruits!

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:19 AM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 11:17 AM PDT

I'm glad someone sees it the way I do. With every fandom, you'll get the ones that are insistent that their thing is "the penultimate thing". It's ridiculous. I enjoy the show, but I watch it for entertainment. I don't ram it in peoples faces. There's no need to.

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Posted by: StatusZ3RO
With every fandom, you'll get the ones that are insistent that their thing is "the penultimate thing".

You're aware that "penultimate" means "second to last", right?

Like, Pierce Brosnan was the penultimate Bond.

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Posted by: StatusZ3RO
I don't ram it in peoples faces. There's no need to.
This is funny, because I see people bashing bronies more than I see actual bronies.

  • 12.30.2012 11:20 AM PDT

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You're aware that "penultimate" means "second to last", right?

Now I feel stupid. *crawls into hole*

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:27 AM PST]

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Posted by: MadMax888
But there's a difference between someone who enjoys the show, and a brony. Hell, I could enjoy watching the show, but that doesn't make me brony. Bronies are fans of the show. They collect the toys, they make fan art and stories, they go to conventions.
The implication here is that all fans of the show actually do as you stated or that people who simply "enjoy the show" can't be loud about it. When encountered online in the manner that Thunder brought up it is next to impossible to differentiate whether the accused are Bronies or just people who enjoy the show unless it is directly addressed in some manner.
If what you are saying were true, how do you know it is one and not the other? Why with such little evidence do you presume it to be one and fight so full heartedly for that assumption?

Objectively, the only necessary thing for someone to be in your face about something is to have knowledge that it is there; then for it to be effective a little background knowledge is required. Under neither of those specifications absolutely have to fall "Brony" or "just someone who enjoys the show."

What say you?

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:24 AM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 11:22 AM PDT

Posted by: CrazyT
This is funny, because I see people bashing bronies more than I see actual bronies.

Yeah. Now the situation is starting to switch. There are far more haters (at least from what I can observe) than there are bronies.

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:28 AM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 11:22 AM PDT

BAN ALL BRONIES


Posted by: StatusZ3RO
I'm glad someone sees it the way I do. With every fandom, you'll get the ones that are insistent that their thing is "the penultimate thing". It's ridiculous. I enjoy the show, but I watch it for entertainment. I don't ram it in peoples faces. There's no need to.

But do u not realize that some fandoms are just weird? I know a brony, he seems like a nice guy, great, but the kid watches a little girl tv show, he has,mlp dolls glued behind his rear wind shield for everyone to see. Once again, hes actuallh been a,niceguy so far. But i still find it weird that he has an obsession with something like that. Of all things?

  • 12.30.2012 11:23 AM PDT


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  • 12.30.2012 11:23 AM PDT

Posted by: Hunter S7
How do bronies expect "love and tolerance" when they arent exactly the sanest kind of people one would find? You bronies are pathetic. Your obsession is border line pedophilic.

Firstly, it's not an 'obsession' with a lot of bronies, it's just something they enjoy. It's the annoying fans that are recognized more, thus giving the fandom a bad reputation. This is the case for a lot of fandoms. Secondly, how is it in any way 'borderline paedophilic'? -blam!- is the -blam!- attraction to children. Watching My Little Pony is watching a cartoon. There's literally no similarities between the two.

EDIT: Bungie censored those two words? Seriously? WHAT?!

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:42 AM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 11:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: divine thunder14
At first, I hated them mainly because I thought it was stupid to watch a little girls show. While I do think it is still stupid, it is no longer my predominant reason for my hate. It lies with the community. Annoyingly posting pictures of ponies everywhere (random searches for images somehow lead me to MLP), bringing it up where it does not belong, and getting extremely defensive by any amount of criticism. Hell, it is even worse when they ponify everything, even themselves like the Sonic fanbase with its unoriginality.

People say it is a vocal minority, but I think that is really just BS. Two people I know in real life that are indeed Bronies are very annoying and fit the generalizations of Bronies. One of them even shoved a stupid drawing he made of a pony right into my face, and I'm being literal with the shoving. Also, I've been on TF2 and there are so many Bronies with pony sprays and even rule 34 pony sprays everywhere. Heck, a couple of them were screaming in the mic like a bunch of little kids.

All of this has irritated me to no end as it seems like anywhere I go, MLP is there. Bronies don't know when they cross the line, which is constantly being crossed. Also, the hypocrisy behind this "love and tolerance" is pretty bs since they don't tolerate the opinions of others.

And that is why I hate Bronies.


Fair enough.

I just don't understand the presumption that I'm like that, or anybody else is like that.

Take a stroll across the local mall, or down a busy street and know that one or more of them could go home and enjoy MLP.

Just seems a weak base to generally hate anyone who would call themselves a brony.
But there's a difference between someone who enjoys the show, and a brony. Hell, I could enjoy watching the show, but that doesn't make me brony. Bronies are fans of the show. They collect the toys, they make fan art and stories, they go to conventions.


There isn't though.

A brony is a male (Or female, whatever.) who enjoys the show My Little Pony.

Plain.

The problem is that the term "Brony" has become an insult. It seems as if nowadays it comes along with the negative meaning. Saying you're a brony to most people means that you go on the internet and post ponies everywhere and spam the music and draw the pictures and everything else. There is no difference between the guy who watches MLP and a Brony.

We aren't all like that.

Rainbow's got it down too.

[Edited on 12.30.2012 11:26 AM PST]

  • 12.30.2012 11:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: StatusZ3RO
I'm glad someone sees it the way I do. With every fandom, you'll get the ones that are insistent that their thing is "the penultimate thing". It's ridiculous. I enjoy the show, but I watch it for entertainment. I don't ram it in peoples faces. There's no need to.

But do u not realize that some fandoms are just weird? I know a brony, he seems like a nice guy, great, but the kid watches a little girl tv show, he has,mlp dolls glued behind his rear wind shield for everyone to see. Once again, hes actuallh been a,niceguy so far. But i still find it weird that he has an obsession with something like that. Of all things?
Why is it the objects in that man's possession tend to affect your opinion on the personal character of that man?

  • 12.30.2012 11:25 AM PDT

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  • 12.30.2012 11:27 AM PDT

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  • 12.30.2012 11:29 AM PDT

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  • 12.30.2012 11:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: Hunter S7
How do bronies expect "love and tolerance" when they arent exactly the sanest kind of people one would find? You bronies are pathetic. Your obsession is border line pedophilic. Man up and grow up you fruits!
It's always gonna be the vocal minority. I don't blame you for your assumptions, but they ain't accurate.

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My only conclusion is that bronies who are males are insecure, gai, or pervs

  • 12.30.2012 5:40 PM PDT

BAN ALL BRONIES

I guess everyone (or at least bronies themselves, the ones who claim theyre good bronies) forgot that its weird for an adult male to watch a show meant for little girls on a regular basis.

  • 12.30.2012 5:53 PM PDT