Sooo true Poetic. Those RP'ers on FB .. pretending they are ponies, they are so many and they are everywhere and some are just so rude... :/ It also doesn't help when non-bronies & haters see those Cloppers... and hate ME for being a brony and call ME a clopper because other bronies are cloppers... ew.. Cloppers actually do give me & my other brony friends bad names because we are NOT cloppers and don't want to be called that... even though a laarge group of people ... do that.
this quite sucks. But there's really nothing we can do. The only person you can truly control is you, and I pray that those *squee!*s decide to change there attitude. Freedom of speech and freedom of opinion, its free fellows.
So, I am coming in a little late. I did NOT read any replys other than the OP's post. I find that 4chan in and upon it's self is and are a bunch of trolls a lot of the time. So I am not surprised about that. However, it was a tweet that initially caused all of this? I would love to see what he/she actually posted. It's sad but people will judge what is written and take it upon themselves to judge the person and their entirety because of one thing. You can't hear tone when it's typed. You can't see their expression or even feel the vibe that they are trying to portray. Sadly I have found that there are a lot of trolls in our community. I seen it first hand. So I can understand the dislike/hate towards us. It's even saddererer because the show in and upon itself is about friendship and love. Something I want to point out, that less and less people seem to have.
I think one of the biggest things that makes our fandom disliked is that so many people in it take it all way too seriously. Some of the big names in the fandom are definitely guilty of this. There's video proof of DustyKatt having a major overreaction to a harmless joke on YouTube. Some guys wanted a picture with him, then removed packages of spaghetti from their pockets and dropped them on the ground. He picked one up, slammed it into one of the guys chests, and cussed them out while telling them to leave. I couldn't believe that dropping a package of spaghetti on the ground would cause such a major blowup. He definitely lost some respect from me for that. Just an example there. Yeah, the taking ourselves too seriously is one of the major contributors in my opinion.
There's a tumblr called Brony Horror Stories that almost makes you ashamed to be Brony. There are some seriously messed up stories, mainly by guys who get way to clingy. The Brony community, I think, is disliked because we're mostly an older audience, perceived mostly as males (I don't know the actual ratio) that shows a typical level of fandom for a cartoon that is aimed at children, primarily little girls. People just aren't use to us. We challenge the expectations of our culture and as the internet has all taught us, change is bad. I think this happens all the time, no matter what the thing being liked is and as time goes on it's eventually accepted as just another sub-culture. The clingy, rude, over-enthusiastic members of our community that give Bronies a bad name, they're in every fandom. I've gone to anime cons and have to deal with random people telling me about their yaoi ship-fics when I'm just trying to buy some merchandise. Go onto any gaming forum and say that X game isn't the best game ever. One of my friends wrote (a surprisingly accurate) prediction of how the PS Vita was going to sell poorly and it got nothing but sheer hatred because he dared to not have faith in the Sony overlord. There are lots of people out there who are jerks, it's just a fact of life.
I read something on tumblr that put my thoughts on the matter quite well. I can't quote it verbatim, so I'll try to paraphrase. Basically, it was a comparison between two fandoms that are both considered weird and sometimes creepy: the Startrek Fandom and the Brony Fandom. Essentially, the Startrek fandom has been around much longer and has always had this sort of weird connotation to it, sort of like the Brony fandom. However, the main difference here is in how they react to it. The Startrek fandom just sort of shrugs it off and goes on their merry way without a care in the world, while the Brony Fandom has a serious problem with trying to justify it even in the weirder of cases.
That's probably because the Star Trek fandom has been around so long as a lot of trekkies today have been trekkies there whole life. I would guess that when the fandom first started off, it was a lot like how the Brony fandom is now just without widespread communication that the internet grants us. I know for a fact that Star Trek fans fight about the dumbest things in their fandom, much like Bronies.
Am I the only one that thinks this is fake? I highly doubt that Faust and Theissen would be offended by this, and likely didn't even see it (unless Mccarthy retweeted or replied to it, or the two were following this guy, which, again, I doubt) Also, to get his phone number and address, he'd have to give his full name on a site that he had with the same account name, and likely his state. The entire thing reeks with absurdity so much that I really don't believe that the image is true. And isn't it convenient that we can't see his username to look him up on twitter to see if he actually did tweet that?
Am i the only one who has no idea what this thread is about or what OP is even saying? I'm being serious, why is everyone angry? what are we all angry about? The screenshot in the first post seems to be in response to something else that happened... what happened? what is this tweet being mentioned... I read thru the posts in this thread and I'm still absolutely lost as to what this thread is about or what is going on.
yes i read the entire thing... twice... and no it doesn't explain at all what is happening. All i got from the post is a person being harassed... but it's never mentioned what he did or said or why people are attacking him, or who is attacking him for what reason. thanks, ...but does anyone know what he actually posted in the first place that everyones giving him hate for?
Yeah definitely, it was so trivial I didn't even understand what the issue was... it also didn't help that I had no idea who McCarthy was until literally just now when I looked it up.
It actually said right in the middle that he tweeted Meghan McCarthy and said he preferred her work over Faust's...
Just for the record, I think "Equestria Girls" was crap, yet I won't do stuff like issue death threats or anything crazy like that. After all, I belong to several other fandoms, and I had similar dissapointments: "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation", Cartoon Network not airing the Bubblegum/Marceline episode, Michael Bay's Transformers movies, Shyamalan's Avatar movie, the Eleventh Doctor, the Star Wars prequels, "Star Trek: Into Darkness", the Season 9 Buffy comics...
Love is tricky.When people have an emotional attachment to something or even someone, they can lose themselves and think they are acting righteously (trust me, I myself have done this) or "defending" what they love. The most important thing to never forget is to think about how your actions will have an impact
I did some research on this, and I actually did find the person's Twitter account. I even saw the tweets he mentioned.
