Read this So I saw this on Facebook and no wonder so many people hate bronies. I'm sorry but this makes me pissed off. Who the hell would even do something like that. I know the internet is well...the internet, but this crosses some lines.
This pisses me off that anyone on the internet can be a fan of Ninja Turtles, Doctor Who, Pokemon, Legend of Korra, Video Games, and Dragon Ball Z (all nerdy internet stuff) without receiving any extreme judgement or hate from the internet community, but if it's My Little Pony we're suddenly a group of fat, unemployed, homosexual pedophiles. The fact that strangers off the internet would go to so much trouble to **** with a guy who stated his own opinion (which he's allowed to do) and receive such a tremendous backlash of cyber-bullying and hacking tells me that if anyone is unemployed and has no life, it's the people on 4chan. Who the hell wastes their time learning to how to hack people's online accounts just to order a pizza? Like, "HAHA! NOW HE HAS TO PAY FOR A PIZZA HE DIDN'T ORDER!" sounds like an evil plan that a 6 year old would come up with. We are hated because we're teenage or adult males (and females) that watch a cartoon that's targeted primarily towards young females, and other people uninvolved think this affects them somehow and must dedicate their lives to making our own lives difficult. Not only that, but other bronies tend to get extremely defensive over the show and at times spread the show around when it isn't necessary. (MLP Threads on unrelated message boards, etc). I really think those people above aren't bronies, but a bunch of trolls just trying to show how much they have no life, as well as give our fandom a bad name.
I don't see your stance on this issue, Rada. You were kinda nonspecific, but I'm assuming that you're angry at the people attacking the person. I'm pissed off that people get so possessive of their opinions that they start ruining someone's life for something barely important. Personally, I could have cared less about who's better. One thing about bronies, as a generalization, is that many seem to act like extremist activists willing to push our opinion on others. Love and Toleration is ideology baloney. I wish that people would try and follow it even a little bit, but no, people want their way, and their way is right in their eyes. A torch gets lifted up, and thousands of pitchforks follow, like violence is always the answer. How ignorant. I think that the trolls are bronies, and they get too tied up in their opinions. The number one reason people hate bronies is because too many bronies shove their ponies and opinions down other people's throats. I've witnessed it too much.
I don't like the army-like attitude. I'm not a kid, and I like ponies. So? That doesn't make me a brony, but countless people say it does. I buy the merch, watch the show, and dabble in the fandom, yes, but there's so much more to me and my life than being a "brony". I am not one label, I have a mix and match of interests. That's why I don't understand people who "come out" as a brony, like...come on....it's not like you're coming out in terms of your sexual preference, which depending on the people you talk to can go super badly. You don't have to tell people you like ponies, nor do you have to tell anyone about any of your "guilty pleasure" interests, whereas with sexual orientation, keeping that in day after day would be much much harder I'd imagine. If someone came out to me as a brony as serious as a homosexual/transexual etc etc would want to come out to their close ones, I'd facedesk. I just don't dedicate my life solely around ponies, whereas it seems a lot of people do in the "brony" fandom. For example, WoodenToaster/Glaze makes pony music from time to time correct? And people get upset when their "pony musician" makes stuff that isn't pony related. That's insane. That's why the musicians are less motivated to make pony music, because they don't want it to define them. Pony music is not the way to being a professional musician at all, they won't nor shouldn't do it forever. And then there's the whole, "we will ponify the internet!" thing. Like, wat. You can't force what you like onto others, the word "hater" gets thrown around a lot amongst bronies as an excuse for people who don't follow what they believe in. And some people take those beliefs way too far. The criticism bronies give to their own show is also horrible. It's a little girls show, people are lucky it attracted the audience it did in the first place. Don't complain when it's not up to the standards of you, a much older age range than the target audience. Yes kids aren't stupid, but there'll be a lot they can't understand that we can, and they need princesses and knights and fantasy in their lives much like we did when we were young. The backlash from Equestria Girls and alicorn Twilight disgusted me to no end. This went so far as death threats and mobbing the studio for god's sake. Everyone shunned it before they tried it. Gee, sounds familiar? Oh yeah, that's what bronies say haters to the show do. So yes, I'm not a brony actually, I'd rather not be called a brony, because the meaning of brony has changed. It's changed from simple ordinary fans to almost a mob attitude of over-serious, immensely strong believers. And this is coming from seeing a lot of "bronies" in lots of different places on the web. This is the general consensus I've come to from the evidence. If a fandom can tear itself apart from the inside, no wonder it gets so much external hate too. It's become more common now that bronies are hated more for their attitude than watching a little girls show. People might have noticed I disappeared for a while from this site, which is because I needed a break from any fans of the show after the finale and movie. That's my two cents, coming from a fan of MLP, not a brony.
Well, of course that's the main reason, but seeing things like this...no wonder. People just giving the guy's damn number away for a small comment he made, and Lauren saying she was hurt and Jayson saying haw dare he insult Faust. It's quite sad...really. And to clear things up a bit about why I posted this (I was working on something else and not really thinking at the time), I just wanted to discuss the rationality and idiocy behind the events (I haven't been around for a good heated discussion in a while, anyhow). I couldn't think of a better thing to name the thread because like I said my mind wasn't as focused on writing a long drawn out monologue on this. Well said
Read his post! All of this! Just enjoy the show and chill out people. Have fun. That's what it's for!
What Poetic said. I still consider myself a brony, but in my own way. In response to the OP, I find it hard to believe that Jason Thiessen and Lauren Faust actually felt insulted. Like, really? All the flak they get for everything everyone doesn't like even a little bit, and they got upset at a guy that said, "Yeah, Lauren was great, but I personally prefer Meghan's way of doing things"?
Yeah it is strange that they'd feel insulted over an opinion like that. She doesn't even work on the show anymore why should we need to continue to force all credit to Faust? If Jason and Lauren really did feel that way they lose some respect of mine. I can almost guarantee the "hurt" they felt is what drove these *squee!*s to attack this guy. Disgusting. And Poetic hits the nail on the head again. Couldn't have said it better. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 4
I find it so hard to believe, in fact, that I have the sneaking suspicion the person in the OP pic is exaggerating at the least, if not trolling outright.
Maybe poke around respective twitters if anything confirming comes up since it is pretty odd. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 4
Off topic, but I just had a convo with my friend today about why I'll never use Twitter, and I'll go on their respective Twitters a bit later when I'm done working on this essay
When I see something like this, I keep thinking of this thing from Movie Bob's The Big Picture entitled 'With Great Responsibility'. It was this idea that a lot of us were picked on in school or that geek culture as a whole was looked down on as pathetic and largely ignored except just to be mocked and such. But there was always that unspoken promise if we were in charge, we'd do better than the idiots and jocks that have tried to put us down. And then he went on to explain that we pretty much are in the hot seat now and that we ought to be the ones to fulfil that promise that we would be the most accepting and wise. It was a general message but powerful and sticks with me as I refuse to be dragged down with what I suspect was a petty minority. It's important to take solace in the fact that you find these actions deplorable. It makes you the better person for it.
That is why my view of a Brony is a whiney kid who throws a tantrum for looking at him the wrong way. lolwut
basically what he said. Well, for me, brony is anyone that just watches the show. But that's not only thing person does. Or at least what he/she should do. I mean seriously, it's just a cartoon. I'm afraid what would happen if something even bigger than Twilight Alicorn happens in the show (like, in latest episode of Adventure Time, producers, basically killed one of most important characters (she's not literally dead, but by the story, it's unlikely that we won't see her ever again)). Yes, I do wear pony t-shirts, and hope that I'd find brony somewhere in the town, but same goes when I wear Adventure Time t-shirts, or Gumball t-shirts. It's still just a cartoon. Still, being brony should be just a hobby (except for those who directly work on the show or for hasbro), and well, everyone should have other interests as well. As for people that wait all day on twitter/4chan/tumblr/wherever just to pick on someone and troll him/her, I don't understand them. I mean, go play a game, go for a walk, if you like programing or stuff like that, make some program that you can actually earn money from, if you want to spend time on ponies, make fan made game or something, not make people's lives a living hell just because they think that McCarthy's episodes are better than Faust's.
I didn't feel like reading anymore of the OP when it mentioned 4chan. That place is the dark abyss of internet forums, where most of the posts are made by people who criticise others for not having a life, failing to see the irony in said posts. I love Twitter, but I avoid following FiM accounts or tweeting my opinion of the show, too many loony birds who will come across it and be an absolute pain in the **** because they don't agree with you. And that's just the haters...
