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<p>There is a small but very outspoken group of them at my school and they all seem to hate me because I constantly ask “why do you like the show?” I don’t mean anything offensive I seriously want to know. So if you are one why are you?</p>
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<p>Why would you advertise the fact that you watch My Little Pony? You wouldn’t be looking for social acceptance, would you?</p>
<p>^Exactly my thinking! One of them was wearing a my little pony shirt after school and another one had a key chain type thing he was wearing out his pocket all day. And every time I asked him about it he got all mad. I’m so confused by them someone anyone please explain</p>
<p>Bronies think that they are able to enjoy the loving femininity of MLP because they are secure in their masculinity. I don’t buy into the bs, and I would simply respond by asking why they need to secure their masculinity by watching a show made for 8 year old girls, unless they’re insecure about their masculinity in the first place.</p>
<p>An argument with a brony is not a fun one. A true brony will ■■■■■ you to time’s end by using non-confrontational language and spouting “Haters gonna hate” time and time again. I find that now days there are many poser bronies, who think they’re cool because they watch something outside the mainstream (kind of like hipsters…).</p>
<p>I suggest we start a campaign to wipe them off the face of the planet.</p>
<p>My Little Ponies???</p>
<p>I absolutely detest those things. I can’t help but try not to grimace whenever I see those things. To each their own but there’s something about those things I don’t like. I dislike them more than Jersey Shore and Sixteen and Pregnant. I’m really not trying to ■■■■■ but there’s something about those ponies I just don’t like.</p>
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<p>Deja vu.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1281432-bronies-unite.html?highlight=bronies[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1281432-bronies-unite.html?highlight=bronies</a></p>
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<p>Well the first thing you have to realize is that the term “brony” is an all encompassing term used to refer to fans of the show about the fourth generation of My Little Pony dolls called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. You probably already know that, but I just thought I’d get very basic for other people who read this. When you say brony, do you mean someone who watched the show through once and enjoyed it or someone who has watched it through 8 times deciphering it and writing fan fics and buying merchandise? Just like football, there is a spectrum of fans all under the same name. I can’t tell you about the people at your school because I’ve never met them, but if they are acting hostile towards you it is most likely because you offended them or maybe have bad experiences at your school. Did you ask them, “Why do you like the show?” or do you ask them, “Why do you like that show for little girls?”. If they perceive you as hostile, they have no reason to explain themselves when there is a chance you may just use that information to belittle them. </p>
<p>Now on to the show itself, I’m not going to go into too much detail, as I feel like these points have been stressed thousands of times before better than I can right now. If you want a brief overview, go to Knowyourmeme’s cover of bronydom(although I wouldn’t consider MLP a meme). Basically people enjoy the show because it is good. The audience that enjoys it is typically males 14-25, the age group that remembers the 90’s cartoon era. MLP resonates with their nostalgia because it is a very well animated show with good characters and decent story arcs. Now this isn’t Breaking Bad by any stretch of the imagination, but for children it’s very well done. Now for the other reasons why the show is popular, because even I find it hard to believe that a better than average kids show was so instantly popular. The obvious one is irony. Many bronies would disagree with me on this, but the main reason people started watching the show was the feeling that they shouldn’t be. Especially with the rise of the internet, people get a sense of satisfaction when they go against what society dictates, and that’s why people started watching the show. But after the endorphins fade, what are you left with? This is where my previous point about the quality of the show comes in. You watch one, then a few more and before you know it, you’re finished with the show. It would be easy enough to leave and remember it just as a memory, but what causes people to produce content about this show? That’s when the community comes into play. The brony community is the self sustaining life support unit of the fandom. The content that is produced brings in new members through viral videos and memes distributed throughout popular sites. It also gives members something to do in between videos and seasons, and allows the great content to come through. Before I got into MLP I thought that fan-fics were something that nerds wrote about Harry Potter, but now I see them for what they truly are, great literature written by dedicated fans with a whole lot of talent. </p>
<p>I’m not saying that MLP is for everyone, or even for most people, but to the fans it’s a sense of community centered around a great show that produces great content. So by all means, if you haven’t already, watch the videos and give the series a shot. Hundreds of thousands of people have to have some reason to watch it.</p>
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<p>This is a very uneducated statement, and I’m sure you’ve heard it been refuted or supported ad nauseum, so I’m just gonna make it simple and say you’re overgeneralizing.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately there’s some truth to your claim on this part. While I think you’re misusing both the words true and ■■■■■, there are countless stories of this exact encounter, so I wouldn’t doubt something similar happened to you. There’s not much I can say other than bronies are diverse, and while both of the kind of people you referenced exist, I don’t feel they’re an accurate projection of the brony culture.</p>
<p>I had never hear of bronies until this thread. (or maybe it was the other thread quacoh mentioned)</p>
<p>Quacoh (because I don’t feel like quoting your entire response): I have only dealt with a certain community of bronies, so my response was mostly the result of what I’ve seen first hand. It is entirely possible that the small sample size I’ve seen doesn’t represent bronies as a whole.</p>
<p>I actually tried watching MLP once, but I couldn’t get through the first episode. I’m all for nostalgic 90s cartoons, but MLP just didn’t appeal to me.</p>
<p>the why question isn’t a friendly question. we all know there are only a small number of reasons why people watch anything on tv at all - addiction, excitement, escape, connection, relaxation, humor (maybe i’m missing a few). </p>
<p>quacoh’s defense of broniesm seems like a good example of how trying to justify why you do something makes you less convinced of why you do it. he basically puts the emptiness of bronies on a silver platter there for me. after doing that, the innocence of the interest is sort of ruined forever. </p>
<p>I could only watch mlp on the condition that i satisfyingly, superficially answered the why question, or skipped it all together. but it’s kind of hard to come up with a superficial satisfying answer. and harder than that is being satisfied by not answering the question at all.</p>
<p>I’ve liked MLP since I was a little girl, so I’m not a brony. I do feel that some bronies give pony fans a bad name. The same goes for any fandom; you’re going to have the crazies that tarnish the name.</p>
<p>That being said, the new Pony show is pretty good. The creator, Lauren Faust, was the creator of the Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s, and she was clearly invested in making a good show. The show isn’t too girly; the main characters fight villians, go on adventures, and strengthen their friendship without the tea parties and glitter you’d expect from a show about colorful ponies. The music is catchy in a good way. The ponies are surprisingly strong characters for a “kid’s show”. It’s close to par with the eighties and nineties cartoons we all loved. Granted, it’s not for everyone, but I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the best animated kid’s shows that have been made in a while.</p>
<p>Anyway, just ingore the people who take their likes too far.</p>
<p>Well I have to spend a whole day with one tomorrow so eh :/</p>
<p>Well, I’m not sure if you’ve seen my “location.” I’ve been one since March 11th, 2011. Feels good.</p>
<p>^So why are you a brony?</p>
<p>I’m a brony and just started watching a month ago, but iluvbooks has essentially said what I like about the show.</p>
<p>(Also, Fluttershy is adorable. <3)</p>
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<p>No, you don’t, but he asked you a question with the intent of learning more about bronies, and you are the only person who can answer that question. There’s no reason for you to not respond, unless you are either to lazy to type out a response or ashamed of your brony status.</p>
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I heard that so many times, I don’t get why you guys say that. It seems like you guys either think that I am accusing you of something or you just don’t have a good reason at all.</p>
<p>Actually I have learn something from this thread and the brony in my school: everyone who is a brony is a person who just likes to defy society (esp their social norms). Its just like they are just doing to to be different and to feel like there are other likes them out there. I don’t get them like at all. It’s so sad.</p>
<p>I’ve always considered the brony movement to be a step towards breaking social stereotyping. For the bronies that aren’t trolls, it shows that both genders of any age can enjoy a show that’s supposed to be for “little girls”. But then you get the obsessive and/or crazy fans who make pony porn and take it all too far. You get that with anything. So really, brony doesn’t have one definition, because it can apply to a wide range of fans that express their pony likes in really diverse ways.</p>