Bronies vs. Andrew Beibart's people

[ironbite]

Ready.....FIGHT!

The easiest way to say it is just to say it: There are grown men out there who devote themselves to the rainbow-unicorn-sparkly-pastel fantasy world of the children’s TV show “My Little Pony.” And, more appallingly, it’s not done ironically – they are proud of it.

They call themselves “bronies,” a terrifying hybrid of “bros” and “ponies.”  The show’s producers and the network honchos are delighted by this unexpected turn of events:

“We heard during the first season that guys were chatting about it online, and it just snowballed so quickly,” said showrunner Meghan McCarthy. “No one saw this coming.”

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[Hub Network President Margaret] Loesch, noting that the show remains targeted at young girls and their parents, said the network’s been reaching out to the bronies with subtle hat tips in marketing and promotions. It’s been a measured approach, though.

 “We haven’t driven this movement, the fans have, and we don’t want to get ahead of that,” Loesch said. “We want to nourish this phenomenon, not manipulate it.”

But should Hollywood really be enabling this phenomenon?

Hell no. It’s a freaking embarrassment.

And the most amazing thing is, the worst insult he can come up with is that they're all virgins who won't go out into the battlefield with the true heroes they should be worshiping, American soldiers.  Ignoring the fact that some in our Armed Forces are in fact....bronies.

Ironbite-what a cock.

[Art Vandelay]

Is it too much to hope that they'll kill each other? I must say that would be nice.

[VirtualStranger]

Pictured here: Kurt Schlichter

[nickiknack]

Man, Breibart's goons are really deperate, starting fights with fandoms...

[Cataclysm]

Kurt Schlichter is totally not a closet Brony! Yep!



And for laughs...

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Or troll... I honestly can't tell.

Well there's only one cure for brony-haters and closet bronies

[Her3tiK]

Is it too much to hope that they'll kill each other? I must say that would be nice.

[syaoranvee]

The bronies would probably extend an olive branch in the form of clopart.

Lols will be had.

[Saturn500]

Wow. Prick. I'm not a brony, and refuse to ever be associated with MLP. But that does not give me the right to call bronies "unmanly". Hell, this guy needs to get a life (Also, water is wet).

[gyeonghwa]

"Manliness" is subjective even within our own culture.

[Smurfette Principle]

Popping in to say that boyfriend and at least one of his friends are bronies, as is my roommate though boyfriend says the proper term is pegasister. Boyfriend and boyfriend's friend are Boy Scouts who kick serious ass.

[nickiknack]

Lauren Faust(*fyre-flye on DA) the person who revamped the MLP series on the subject:

[Fpqxz]

I really, really don't understand the whole "Bronies vs. Anti-Bronies" conflict on the internet.  Sure, I guess it may seem weird for grown men to watch a cartoon whose intended audience is little kids, but it wouldn't be the first time that has happened.  Part of the success of the Warner Bros. animation studios in the 1940s and 50s was the fact that the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons had broad appeal well beyond the child and teenage demographics.  Animators and TV executives aren't stupid--they want to maximize their viewing audiences, and they know where the money is.

As far as MLP:FiM itself, I think it's...okay, as far as modern Western animation is concerned.  It's a well-produced and reasonably well-written show.  It's not really my thing, but I'm sure that some people here would consider me a weirdo for still liking Animaniacs and Regular Show at age 32.  Liking cartoons as an adult does not preclude one from being a functional, educated, productive member of society.

Honestly, the only negative thing that I could say about Bronies is that some of them tend to be a bit too enthusiastic, bordering on obsessive, about their fandom.  But every fandom has those types of people, so it seems pointless to single out Bronies for criticism on that front.

On a final note, let me just say that anyone, past or present, associated with Andrew Brietbart is a fucking tool, and is deserving of nothing but scorn and mockery.

[Captain Jack Harkness]

You know, pissing off Brietbart's goons just makes me happier/prouder to be a brony.  I revel in his hatred.  I laugh at it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3VJ9LTj5r8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3VJ9LTj5r8</a>

[VirtualStranger]

I really, really don't understand the whole "Bronies vs. Anti-Bronies" conflict on the internet.  Sure, I guess it may seem weird for grown men to watch a cartoon whose intended audience is little kids, but it wouldn't be the first time that has happened.

Honestly, the only negative thing that I could say about Bronies is that some of them tend to be a bit too enthusiastic, bordering on obsessive, about their fandom.  But every fandom has those types of people, so it seems pointless to single out Bronies for criticism on that front.

Long story short: They lack restraint and don't know when to stop.

The "Brony" phenomenon originated on /b/ and /co/ on 4chan. The word "brony" itself was coined there. Everything was fine in the beginning, and sometimes it was even fun, but the fandom exploded in the early summer of 2011, which brought in ton of new people to the boards. That's when the fandom started getting really creepy and obsessive, posting pony porn everywhere even though /co/ is a worksafe board. On top of that, they would spam the board with pony threads at every available opportunity and they would spam pony macros in completely unrelated threads. It wasn't limited to just /co/ either. They would spam them everywhere across the entire site. It got so bad that the mods had to ban people from creating more than one pony thread at a time, and ban people who posted ponies outside of the pony thread. The bronies promply proceeded to ignore these new rules and spammed even more out of spite. Then after much begging from just about everyone, moot created /mlp/ to wall them off in their own ghetto.

This is only the story of how it happened on one site, but similar events replicated themselves on a lot of different sites. Something Awful had to ban any and all pony threads and the TVTropes page for MLP is rapidly shaping up to be the world's longest novel.

That's not even getting into "clopping" and "clopart". When your fandom has invented it's own words for masturbation and porn, then something is very wrong. A lot of people see it as "defiling" an innocent show intended for little girls.

[Captain Jack Harkness]

I really, really don't understand the whole "Bronies vs. Anti-Bronies" conflict on the internet.  Sure, I guess it may seem weird for grown men to watch a cartoon whose intended audience is little kids, but it wouldn't be the first time that has happened.

Honestly, the only negative thing that I could say about Bronies is that some of them tend to be a bit too enthusiastic, bordering on obsessive, about their fandom.  But every fandom has those types of people, so it seems pointless to single out Bronies for criticism on that front.

Long story short: They lack restraint and don't know when to stop.

The "Brony" phenomenon originated on /b/ and /co/ on 4chan. The word "brony" itself was coined there. Everything was fine in the beginning, and sometimes it was even fun, but the fandom exploded in the early summer of 2011, which brought in ton of new people to the boards. That's when the fandom started getting really creepy and obsessive, posting pony porn everywhere even though /co/ is a worksafe board. On top of that, they would spam the board with pony threads at every available opportunity and they would spam pony macros in completely unrelated threads. It wasn't limited to just /co/ either. They would spam them everywhere across the entire site. It got so bad that the mods had to ban people from creating more than one pony thread at a time, and ban people who posted ponies outside of the pony thread. They promply proceeded to ignore these new rules and spammed even more out of spite. Then after much begging from just about everyone, moot created /mlp/ to wall them off in their own ghetto.

This is only the story of how it happened on one site, who similar events replicated themselves on lot's of different sites. Something Awful had to ban any and all pony threads and the TVTropes page for MLP is rapidly shaping up to be the world's longest novel.

That's not even getting into "clopping" and "clopart". When your fandom has invented it's own words for masturbation and porn, then something is very wrong. A lot of people see it as "defiling" an innocent show intended for little girls.

To be fair, I heard those threads were filled with people trying to put them down with porn and gore.  I'm not sure how many of those comments are legit and how many of those responses are trolls.  Then again, the fanbase is pretty broad and bronies have done some nasty things.  Yes, there is also porn (not exclusive to bronies).


Not to get off topic, I do find how insecure the OP link comes off as.  Lol @ defending Kirk.  After reading that part, I just lol'd (again).  This article is so sad that I have a hard time taking it seriously.  Shit like this is why Poe's law exists.