It’s because of the porn and the *looks at smudged hand* mahogany

“ALL OF TUMBLR’S HATE HAS ONLY EVER BEEN ON ME AND PEOPLE EXACTLY LIKE ME ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT FOREVER AND IT’S UNFAIR BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE ~*weird minority of toxic outliers*~ I SHOULDN”T BE CALLED OUT FOR MY CULTURE’S PROBLEMS EVER.  ONLY I CAN BLINDLY THROW ACCUSATIONS AT AN ENTIRE WEBSITE”

I just.

Jesus.

Bronies, man.  Fuckin bronies.

I know I said posting people’s blog descriptions was dumb but

>A description like this

>With the url “horse-fucking-neckbeards”

Could you BE any more childish?

Let me guess, you’re that anon who sent me that ask that made it clear your head was jammed so damn far up your own asshole your diet consists solely of your own excrement.

Nice strawman argument you got there, really love how you’ve blatantly shoved words into my mouth and tried to make it look like I said shit I obviously didn’t.

>Implying we don’t handle our toxic elements

>Implying we aren’t as disgusted by them as you are

>Implying “CALLING OUT CULTURE PROBELMS” is the same thing as “INSULT, RIDICULE, SLANDER AND JUST FLAT-OUT BULLY BRONIES INCLUDING SENDING THEM THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND RAPE, TELLING THEM TO KILL THEMSELVES, AND DOXXING THEM, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO MERCY AND COMPLETELY IGNORE WHEN THEY DO ANYTHING GOOD AT ALL.”

Then again what should I expect from some sociopathic, self-deluded, cherry-picking hypocrite who proudly associates themselves with a group dedicated solely to shitting all over a fandom and demonizing them?

What should I expect from an overgrown, oversensitive crybaby who is so goddamn assblasted over people they don’t like enjoying a cartoon that they proudly identify themselves with people who have who have (among other things):

-constantly bitched and moaned about pony porn yet completely ignored rule 34 in every single other fandom ever or making extremely half-assed and idiotic excuses to justify it, ignoring the fact that there are people in the fandom who don’t enjoy clop or outright ABHOR it as much as they do, ignoring the Safesearch Wrap-up which was started by bronies to make it so that people won’t find the porn so easily not just for MLP but for other fandoms as well, claiming that pony porn is “everywhere” when that’s not the case at all, or even make their ownpony porn and justify it with “we’re not men so it’s okay!”

-Lied about the CMC’s voice actresses being sexually harassed by bronies at a convention, and continued to circulate that lie even after said VAs publicly debunked them via twitter.

-Lied about an 11 year old girl being nearly abducted by a sexual predator solely to demonize us.

-Regularly used the characters from a show with the subtitle “FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC” as mouthpieces for everything from general out-of-character douchebaggery to advocation for the MASS MURDER OF A GROUP THAT CONSISTS OF BETWEEN 7-14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATESALONE OVER A FUCKING CARTOON SHOW.-Tried to have someone’s husband DEPORTED 

-somebody who’s not even a part of the pony fandom- because they disagreed with them over the internet.

-Encouraged the theft and destruction of other peoples’ property.-Harassed, threatened, and doxxed people who stand up to them.

-Laughed at a young boy’s suicide attempt WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF THE VERY BULLYING BEHAVIOR THEY EXHIBIT ON A DAILY BASIS. And in some cases, use it as an attempt to whore out attention for THEMSELVES. And in other cases, use it in some absolutely asinine attempt to claim that “bronies only care about themselves” when that’s not the case, at all.

-Started an entire crusade to take down a softcore porn blog on the basis of “promoting the (non-existent in America) rape culture!” because “rape jokes encouraging men to rape!” (just like how “violent video games cause people to murder!”). And instead of starting a calm, rational debate, they yelled at, whined, passive-agressively bitched at, and THREATENED everyone who disagreed with their methods INCLUDING ACTUAL RAPE VICTIMS and continued to do so despite it becoming more and more apparent over time that the person at the head of the movement is a hypocritical attention-whoring sociopath far worse than the people she fights against who completely turned a blind eye to the harassment and threats of violence (such as “rape your ass with a knife”) made by her followers (who STILL follow her like the stupid sheep they are even eafter every lie and shitty action has been exposed a million times over.)-Boasting how it should be legal to murder bronies in the streets or to trap them in fake conventions and let them be eaten by wolves and other such promotions ofMASS MURDER.

-Using Tumblr’s completely bastardized man-hating cult definition of “feminism” to do what amounts to act like spoiled children who won’t share their toys in the sandbox because EWW BOY COOTIES (really that’s what it’s actually about when you get down to it, we refused to be their personal army, so they turned on us instead because they actually think society hates female nerds more than male nerds when it’s the exact opposite of that).

-General misinformation and slander and stereotyping because tumblr users will swallow anything that makes a sizable group of men look bad (even when said group actually contains a bunch of women too),. blisssfully unaware that they’re doing the same shit that ACTUAL MRA fratboy dudebros and 12 year old youtube call of duty kids did five years ago.

Also, don’t forget the time the entire Steven universe fandom threw a huge baby tantrum over a JOKE and decided to start another harassment crusade because somebody from Equestria Daily wanted to make a fansite for Steven Universe. 

Or more recently, when they used a bad photoshop to blame bronies for the Charleston shooting. What’s next, are you fuckers going to blame us for 9/11 too?

You want to talk about “not policing your toxic elements?”

You anti-brony fucks are nothing BUT Toxic elements.

You have the sheer audacity to do shit like this to us CONSTANTLY, and yet claim WE are the ones who are poisonous.

You people are the most toxic, morally lacking, hypocritical, idiotic, blindly fanatical, and just flat out fucking DISGUSTING motherfuckers I have EVER had the displeasure of directly dealing with, and I hold absolutely no sympathy for any of you, you absolutely obsessive wastes of human resources.

My theory on why Feminists have such a massive irrational hatred of MLP:FIM and its fans.

Ever wondered why feminists hate bronies and MLP:FIM so much, even though it was written by a former feminist that specifically stated she wanted to create a rare good children’s cartoon for girls?

Simple, really.

Feminists wanted to latch on to this show and inject their ideology into it like a plague rat, like they ended up doing to Steven Universe. They can be all “Garnet is black-coded because she angry and punchy and has big lips and afro” and the groupthinking fans would be all “Yay black people!” and attack anyone whose headcanon was different from them or whose ships were different from them.

If they tried that with Steven Universe, “Rainbow Dash is black-coded because she fast and hates studying”, fans would be all “Lolwut? No, look closely at the architectural designs of Cloudsdale and the overall time period the show takes place in. Rainbow Dash would be Greek, Roman, or Spartan. Also, do you realize how racist the concept of a character being ‘coded’ into a race because they fit a few stereotypes is?”.

It’s a missed opportunity to them. They can’t join and say they’re better people and wiser people for loving a kids cartoon in their special feminist way because it has too many real fans for them to get away with the SU shit.

And on a deeper level… The brony fandom was a bastion of love and tolerance in its prime, and most of it still is today, and despite the circlejerk on the MLP subreddit and the clusterfuck that is MLPforums staff, a lot of Discord groups are still going strong. You could ship something stupid, like Pinkie Pie and Applejack, and everyone would be ok with it. Even the people that didn’t ship that, even the people that didn’t like that ship, even the people that hated that ship because “Aren’t they sorta potentially related?”, even the people that shipped Pinkie Pie and Twilight. Most fandoms have ship wars. Even the Avatar fandom had ship wars. The Naruto fandom’s ship wars got so bad, Narusaku idiots tried to get the manga banned in the US when they find out Naruto ends up with Hinata. (As he bloody well should.)

Every time feminists see the brony fandom, they cry a little on the inside, because it’s a kind and tolerant fandom that’s done tons of charity stuff, it doesn’t hate anyone, it welcomes people from all walks of life, it has fun, and it’s just so much better than them. They ask themselves in a jealous rage, why can’t feminism be that good?! Why can’t feminism be that pure?! How dare these men enjoy something they can’t enjoy?! So their broken, propagandized minds fall back on the old “They are all fat men, so it doesn’t matter. Men are The Enemy!” lie.

For a feminist to remain a feminist despite everything feminism has done and everything prominent feminist leaders have been caught saying, that feminist must be an ignorant propagandized fool in denial. And there is no hate on this planet more violent and irrational than a confused animal lashing out in a jealous rage.

Yes. A group of men (that also has a number of women, but that's not convenient for their narrative) who are enjoying something and doing good themed around it is incredibly threatening to feminists. It goes against their narrative, so they have to continue to invent fake stories to sway public perception.

A missed opportunity to inject their hate ideology is a big part of it, I'm sure, but it isn't fully free of it.

Remember the problem with Derpy. The parents didn't long the idea that a female character was being a destructive buffoon. The voice actor thought she was voicing a buffoon male character. There was no outcry when Snips and Snails, two characters who are basically retarded, and part of the rare male cast of the show, actively bring a city smashing threat to the town.

Remember that Faust is still a feminist. She supports shirtgate and the #giveyourmoneytowomen hashtag, staying that you should give money to the shitty ghostbusters movie purely because it had women in it, even if it wasn't any good. I can reblog with sources for the Twitter stuff when I'm on mobile anymore. She may have written that one feminist fatale episode of PPG, but she's no egalitarian, and the depictions of characters in her shows isn't what I'd call gender neutral.

The balanced version of a show like Power Rangers, which might have three or four male characters for every two female characters on the main hero squad that gets shit done is not an entirely female cast of heroes with male characters either being subservient slaves (spike), mute workhorses (big Mac), or random high class fucks who we only know are good because they're exceptionally kind to the female main characters (the fashion pony (hoity toity?) who gave rarity an extra chance to make a first impression, and fancy pants who goes out of his way to prop up rarity's foray into high society).

Every female villain save chrysalis (who I'm convinced they're just trying to pretend never existed) has sympathetic backstories, and has gotten redeemed in an overly kind way. The male villains, however, have no sympathetic backstories. One is kinda sorta redeemed (discord), one was locked in hell for eternity (tirek, if memory serves), and one was just straight up exploded to death (sombra).

Basically all the superpowered female characters (again, save chrysalis) are good, or are shown to be sympathetic and reformed. All the superpowered male characters are villains, except starswirl the bearded, who is never shown on-screen, and is stated to be a failed version of twilight in the episode where they turn her into an immortal demigod who is also royalty.

That's not even mentioning the pattern of them swapping out the writers with idiots who don't know the show's established lore, and only want to write the shit kids show plots that this show was specifically made to get away from. These new writers (let alone the comic writers) also tend to want to insert their own personal politics into the show, leading to an increasingly sjw-themed flavour.

Current MLP is like the later seasons of X-Files. It hurts to see a show that was once legitimately great most of the time turn into this. The production values are better, but it's lost it's soul.

While I still have no interest in watching the show itself (sorry, but it’s just not my kind of humor), the wiki made for some fascinating reading.  It is clear that a lot of creativity and originality is present in the show.  Being that I’m a fan of gemstones, I especially like the idea of fusion creating other kinds of gems.  Also I like the one with the rotating arms, the one that shoots arrows, and the one with a creepy second mouth.  Those are pretty cool.

It’s just unfortunate that this genuinely innovative show has attracted some of the most awful people I’ve ever seen into a dense mass of stupid the likes of which no light of reason can penetrate.

SU fans claim to be better than bronies but they’re exactly the same. they love a show that’s about love, friendship and tolerance but they’re the worst people you can come by lmao

Dude, bronies mainly get a bad rep and a lot of bullshit spread about them just because people can’t get over the fact that a bunch of guys actually ended up liking something they initially watched in the hopes of being able to mock the shit out of (due to being a reboot, and being animated in Flash for a fledgling network that, at the time, had zero reputation).  Instead, they realized it wasn’t half bad, and promoted it to others in spite of how they knew people would treat them.  Nowadays, there are a great many women that are part of the fandom, myself included.

Bronies have actually donated tens of thousands of dollars to charties worldwide, created a movement to clean up Google’s “Safe Search” in order to keep kids from stumbling upon porn, and saved a little boy’s life when he tried to kill himself over being bullied for liking the show.  The SU fans that have given the fandom such a poor reputation tried to get teenagers to kill themselves over fan art at least twice, and actually CELEBRATED when they thought one of them had gone through with it.  While they don’t at all represent the majority of SU fans, they are worse than anything I have ever seen in ANY fandom, and I’ve been using the internet for roughly 19 years now.

It is a trope now that people who scream to the heavens about their own piety while clinging onto anything resembling innocence tend to be the most despicable monsters under the surface, while those who embrace eccentricity and aren’t wrapped up in others’ perceptions of them tend to be more compassionate and well-rounded.  I’d rather chill with gorehounds and bronies over tumblr’s brand of perpetually offended, pastel-coated psychopaths any day of the week.  In my experience, they’re some of the warmest, friendliest people I know.

You could almost say that the SU fandom is the polar opposite of the Brony fandom.

At least as far as characteristic behaviour goes.

overcompensating homophobe op i already hate myself but not for that reason 

First bronies are gay, now they’re homophobes?

Yeah, didn’t you know? Just like how gamers hate women and want there to be no female characters but also play games just to ogle the women in them. Tumblr said so, it must be true. :V

Bronies rejoice — Horses really do know how we feel. Read about the equine capacity to read a human facial expressions and emotions in The Guardian.

You know that by directing this at ‘bronies’ - a term that you obviously and understandably assumed meant ‘bros that love ponies’ - you’ve inadvertently directed a headline about horses understanding human feelings specifically towards people that want to fuck horses. Effectively, that caption reads; “People that want to fuck horses rejoice - Horses understand your feelings for them”. When they misinterpret this as a major news publication endorsing bestiality on the grounds of a scientific discovery, it will be entirely your fault for not googling a word. 

That is a huge reach.

Bronies don’t all want to fuck ponies or horses; “brony” and “attracted to real life horses” aren’t even close to being synonyms.  Even bronies that are into bestiality would have to reach for your interpretation, because it doesn’t say “horses really do know how you feel about them”, it says “horses really do know how we feel” - as in “what general people feel”, not “your romantic or sexual feelings”.  Any brony who interprets this the way you say has issues with confirmation bias, not because the Guardian decided to reference popular culture in their post.

Your issue with this is nothing but a series of hypotheticals you’ve invented on the flawed premise you have that all bronies are both into bestiality and somewhat delusional.

Or maybe, just maybe, it’s a fucking joke? Did anyone ever consider that?

With a name like marxisforbros, I’m not sure what to think.

See what happened here kids is a blogger that used to identify as a gamer gater saw this ridiculous joke post* of mine, thought ‘maybe it’s a joke’, scrolled down one post on my blog to get a read on me only to find a post about female character design in video games and immediately thought ‘no I was right! this is some SJW piece of shit talking out of their ass! I’m going to tear their ridiculous argument to shreds!’, and now it’s going to bounce back and forth all the way into internet hell.

*The post they’re dissecting seriously is about the Guardian being responsible for people fucking horses.

Nah, I’m not sure what to think thanks to Poe’s Law being prevalent on here. Besides I think Mr. Hands types are morons. Even if centaur is best waifu.

It’s like some unholy combination of this:

and this: 

@horsenews

go on….

Well, for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that that was a serious post, both because of the significant hate and prejudice demonstrated against bronies, and the prejudice and either idiocy or deliberate misunderstanding (or just believing the lies and smear campaign against it) of gamergate in the explanation. "I'm not racist, I just think all [insert group subject to unreasonable hate campaign based on lies here] are awful, disgusting people. I checked, and saw that you were a [insert other group also subject to a hate campaign based on lies here]." At no point was any attempt to actually communicate or explain things made. They just tried to smear the other person by making up a story that has no proof or reason to believe it anywhere in this thread. As long as we're spreading rumours, I wonder what OP would find most insulting? What do you think, @lawfully-good?

bronies: feminism is stupid bronies: *watches a show where almost every single character is a girl wherein the ruling power is a matriarchy, the show is also made by women about a toy line made by women*

bronies: *willingly watch one of the few shows that are like that, and then complain about the lack of male characters*

bronies: don’t try to push your social justice agenda onto a cartoon!!

bronies: *sees a positive pony drawing* “don’t turn the ponies into your SJW mouth pieces!!!!! the characters would NEVER say stuff like that!!!!”

bronies: *sees porn of the characters* lol :) twilight would totally suck on three dicks at once :p

bronies: *also draw ponies as Nazis*

So much straw

@takashi0 check this shit out

And yes, every last bit of this is true.

Bronies: Raised a shit ton of cash to send me to two Brony cons for three years straight (Trotcon twice and Canterlot Gardens once) As well as CMC once.

Bronies: Raised even more money to get me an Artist VIP badge and listed as a donor for every single Brony Con I’ve been to.

Bronies: A bunch of artists, including the amazing @pixelkitties donated customized art and other things to give to me on stage at Trotcon two years ago.

Bronies: Made me feel like I was apart of something at a time in my life when I was constantly confined to a single room for weeks at a time when I wasn’t in the hospital.

Bronies: Kept me entertained and involved when I could easily lay in a bed drifting in and out of dreamless sleep. I may not have been entirely coherent, but I was there and was happy.

Bronies: Raised awareness for the cancer I have, and Kiki had (RIP), Neuroblastoma. 

Bronies: Made me an honorary guest at a dinner held and sort of hosted by Peter New (the voice actor for Big Macintosh), who sat right next to me and talked to me for most of the night. Him saying schmoopy-do is part of my voicemail.

Bronies: Have been a big part of my life since I was diagnosed, and they’ve been my family for 5 years.

Bronies: Have made THOUSANDS of dollars a year for various charities and individuals, and Bronies For Good have done even more than that.

Bronies: For an entire month, have a contest between Brony Fanclubs to see who can do the most charitable and kind acts as a community. This includes lawn care and daily chores for the incapacitated and elderly, raising money, throwing parties and rallies and charity events for children and other people who need help or can’t afford to give their child a good birthday party. 

Bronies: Are some of the nicest, most needlessly generous and giving people I have ever met.

Bronies: Will call out other Bronies on their bullshit if they’re doing something stupid.

Bronies: Are extremely diverse in all aspects.

Bronies: Are not all good, granted, but there are far less euphoric neckbeards claiming to be Bronies than you think. And when these Brony-Beards come out and try to interact, they quickly go back to 4-Chan in a huff because after so much sexist, racist, and all-around disgusting/perverted chatter about how Pinkie would like it up her ass in a non-clopping discussion, the other Bronies would tell them politely but bluntly that they aren’t going to talk about that, and they should either stick to the topic at hand or GTFO.

Bronies: Helped me meet all the voice actors and then some, and even got me into an impromptu VIP meet and greet with just myself and the panel of VAs. I had a delightful conversation about cats and my favorite Barbie movie with Barbie, munched on apples with Ryuk and Babs Seed (Brian Drummond is actually her father, which is super cool), and talked about my favorite line from MLP with the incredibly entertaining M. A. Larson, who seemed to take a shine to me and frequently hung out with me for the rest of the con. (AppleJack cries on the inside!)

In short, the majority of the Brony Community are the best people you will ever meet, and you need to stop holding up the assholes like they’re the only ones there.

Sincerely-

            A sick kid who has been helped out countless times by Bronies

I'll second most of the last two posts, but also say that it isn't right to throw the 4chan /mlp/ population under the bus.

They've had their own share of starting up charity fundraisers and food drives, and they're honestly nowhere near as asshole-ish or porn-when-its-off-topic as you're implying.

You know about Horse News? That was an /mlp/ project. What was their very first article that they put up? Was it about something pornographic? Was it lies intended to stir up hate? No. It was a tribute to all the bronies who weren't considered important enough or marketable enough to get their own charities. Maybe they died in a car accident, maybe they had cancer, maybe they're just permanently disabled, or maybe they committed suicide. Whatever the case, these are human beings who would not have gotten any kind of recognized semi-public memorial if it weren't for the community here.

How large is the fandom? Pretty enormously large, even after these years. What proportion of jerks exist in there general, overall population? Not "the people you're friends with", not even "everyone at my old high school ", but " everyone in the general population". I can all but guarantee that members of the fandom have a smaller proportion of jackasses in their ranks.

Add in the reputation the fandom had with being very welcoming and encouraging, and you might find a higher proportion of very socially awkward people, including those with mobility issues, autism, and speech impediments. These are people who would have had a very hard time getting social interaction like this any other way.

Of the things you don't like, that you have seen or experienced yourself, and have a reasonable belief that it was not a provocateur trying to stir up shit and false flag, how much of it is due to malevolence, awkwardness, or honest mistake, like accidentally sending a porn reblog to the wrong blog on this site?

[First, what is the thing? Then, did it really happen? Then, who was it that did the thing? Then, are you absolutely sure that it wasn't some asshole trying to start up shit so that they could bully a socially acceptable target by proxy?]

I think the psychopathy and absurd animosity from anti-bronies is a very large contributing factor that cannot be ignored and overlooked.

The excesses of these people go from threats and wishes of violence and death on random forums and comment sections of MLP related content, up to and including cheering at news of the real life deaths of bronies. There was even someone who cheered at that girl who had cancer, but want able to fight it off even with the Brony derived fundraising. They later apologized after learning that the cadaver was a child and not a Brony herself, but went out of their way to reaffirm his hate for all bronies everywhere.

Not to mention the constant invention of wholesale lies and bullshit stories that are being made to demonize bronies.

This hostility and hate is absurd, seldom has even the most remote connection to the truth, and when it does, it's either standard expected behavior for any fandom since time immemorial, or applies to bronies much less than it does with comparative groups of people.

yanno by all means get what you want outta whatever you want but when the creator of a cartoon explicitly aimed at college-aged guys (check the timestamps–when a show airs at bleary-eyed-o'clock it is not a show for children but for people who’ve refused to grow up & been allowed to persist in doing so) says he wrote it ‘cause he got paid to write a story about little girls dying violently & then he calls those little girls “self-righteous, like terrorists” when asked why he wrote it the way he did, i’m just saying you can get something meaningful out of that story, if you feel you can or you must, but perhaps defending it as anything like a feminist narrative is barking up the wrong fucking tree

let’s not mince words here. a show like puella magi madoka magica only exists because in the world of japanese cartoons the bronies won; their ability to waste money–owing to their antisocial behavior–is immense, their disposable income is desired enough by marketers and makers, many of whom exhibit the same problems that riddle supercomix (when the machinery of corporate entertainment allows aggressive control freaks to meet people who never learned how to love anything but a particular type of story, perversion of all kinds is practically inevitable), and they are aggressively reactionary enough to muscle out everyone else. including, you’ll notice, the audience grouping that just so happens to be who these stories are about. they may exist in the narrative but the narrative isn’t allowed to be for them. these guys won’t let it.

if you think the cultural narrative this creates does not end horribly you are wrong.

i mean you can like whatever you want but if you’re actually going to argue your appreciation makes this context irrelevant or nonexistent as a shaping influence on the narrative you’re liking, if you think “because [character] i am allowed to ignore the ethical conceits that informed the craft that went into it”, your behavior choices are dangerously short-sighted.

the single worst critical stance to take is “why can’t i just enjoy something thoughtlessly” or “it’s just a story”. stories have structure. structures have weight. structures play off embedded perceptions and what’s commonly referred to as “willing suspension of disbelief”: that mistaken choice on a consumer’s part to forget that what they are consuming was made by someone else’s hands, and that those hands are not their own.

if you let yourself forget that you’re a fool.

Ran across this in my likes and since @nostalgebraist brought PMMM up a while back, thought I’d reblog it. I’m not sure this post has any information not available on the other posts he reblogged but the comparison to bronyism is interesting. Though presumably the demographic factors disfavouring a younger audience are more severe in Japan.

Thanks.  I remember someone making a similar brony comparison to help illuminate Hayao Miyazaki’s negative remarks about the anime industry – it went something like “to understand what the anime industry is actually like, imagine a world where bronies (otaku, in this analogy) took over the animation industry to the point that almost all animated TV shows were like sexualized, grimdark versions of MLP: FIM aimed at college-age viewers.”

And when you put it that way, it makes it look like the whole way we engage with anime in the west is missing a lot of context (cf. Japanese people who find it weird how many western fans cheerfully identify as “otaku,” when in Japan it’s [apparently?] much more of a negative term, and self-identifying as it is a much more extreme / anti-social gesture, like proudly calling yourself a “creep” or something).  The whole idea does make me kind of want to disengage from anime culture entirely.

OTOH I’m not sure I understand why Madoka is an unusually bad example of this?  If we’re looking at people who watch and enjoy lots of anime – stuff that is, to a greater or lesser extent, transmissions from the world where bronies won – should they have to avoid Madoka in particular?  After all, someone who has seen Madoka has probably seen a lot of other anime as well.  (I can see the point about Madoka being worse than “ordinary” magical girl shows but most western fans don’t just watch ordinary magical girl shows)

From their blog it seems like OP knows a lot about the Japanese anime industry so I imagine there is a distinction they know about that I am missing

Media being produced by and for social outcasts? Absolutely fucking disgusting. Sign me off immediately. I’m gonna go take a shower to wash all this unpopular off of me.

For the record, the “self-righteous, like terrorists” comment was about a character who rebelled against the literal embodiment of hope, threatening to upset the balance in the universe, all because she was mad about not getting the specific happy ending that she wanted. (Contra the OP, she was also the only character who didn’t die.) I am personally a big fan of the series, but at this point I am fairly convinced that Urobuchi had no idea what he was doing, and that it was only good by accident.

Lots of media is created by enthusiasts and nerds, though. You can argue that Hideaki Anno is like a big Miyazaki fan (though it kinda goes beyond that since the two are friends and have worked together), the people of FASA Corporation who made BattleTech and Shadowrun were fans of mecha anime for the former and William Gibson and fantasy RPGs for the latter, and STRAFE is made as a love letter to violent 90′s FPS games. Hell, Pacific Rim exists partly because Guillermo del Toro likes Kaiju movies and he has some familiarity with mecha (Cherno Alpha was apparently based on the Zaku II of Gundam fame).

Speaking of Gundam, Gundam is a franchise generally aimed at kids and youth, though, at least by more Western standards, it almost runs the gamut of age-appropriate-ness. I have no idea about the Sunrise staff and their general fannishness, but Sunrise and “Hajime Yatate” generally tend to distinguish the franchise from more “mature” stuff like Geass, Valvrave, or Cross Ange. 

Stuff like the original show and G Gundam are more aimed at small kids, while some series like SEED and Victory are probably just a touch too mature for the little ones (probably mostly SEED; a scene implying that two characters had sex caused outrage in Japan).

Perhaps this is most easily demonstrated in the franchise’s last decade: SEED and Destiny were almost breakaway for what they chose to show and depict on TV, 00 toned things down a bit but still carried an odd air of maturity, Unicorn got a bit more risque (though probably toned down from the novels: Marida’s backstory is given in a non-explicit montage and implied/revealed through exposition, and Angelo’s whole backstory is never explored, probably for the better), and these three series are not afraid to show spilled blood and sometimes gore.

Then Build Fighters came along, aimed most directly at small kids, but containing fanservice for the die-hards and longtime fans. BF Try’s staff even included at least one person who worked on 00. Reconguista in G is also more kid-oriented, with a few things that keep it a bit heavy. The Origin, I can’t really say. And now we have Iron-Blooded Orphans, which is probably teen-rated at least.

>people are seriously comparing the bronies to NEETS.

Haven’t you narcissistic gatekeeping brats beaten that horse to death ages ago?

I see this as just a resurgence of the general “hate the nerdy guys and everything they like” thing that died down briefly after the nerds starting making obscene amounts of money, and after the Xbox and Halo (the first one) became super popular and made being a fake “nerd” fashionable.

There’s always been a hate for people into more technical hobbies. It just seems like they’ll #bringbackbullying all over again.

I’m sure it has something to do with the nerds being one of the only bastions of resistance that didn’t just roll over immediately for the sjw authoritarians in the culture war that’s going on right now.

@takashi0 Cringe channel fans threaten to shoot up bronycon.

I imagine that they’re just pissing around trying to act tough, but if something does happen I can’t imagine I’ll be too surprised.

Horrified, but not surprised.

Holy shit I’m jaded.

For real, this is why anti-fandoms will always, ALWAYS be worse than whatever fandom they’re against.

And it’s also another reason why “cringe culture” is nothing but a petty, cancerous circlejerk.

OKAY IM STILL TERRIFIED No seriously I’ve been a Bronycon many times and I would not want to hear about anything like that last year they had boosted the security and I was wondering why now I understand

@takashi0 Cringe channel fans threaten to shoot up bronycon.

I imagine that they’re just pissing around trying to act tough, but if something does happen I can’t imagine I’ll be too surprised.

Horrified, but not surprised.

Holy shit I’m jaded.

For real, this is why anti-fandoms will always, ALWAYS be worse than whatever fandom they’re against.

And it’s also another reason why “cringe culture” is nothing but a petty, cancerous circlejerk.

better take special  care this year

I hope someone reported these people.

Say wasn’t dudebro supposed to be an insult towards the Madden-Cawkadoodie fanboys who made your average movie college frat jock look enlightened and intelligent?

Yeah.

And for some reason people started attaching it to the Fat Fedora Neckbeard guy image because they’re morons, as I said.

my “what the hell” attitude towards sex came to a halt today when i realized i was considering fucking a brony. i’ve hit a low point in my life, and i’m glad to say i have standards. However low they may be, i have found them.

You considered having sex with a guy that likes watching a show that teaches good morals. Those are low standards. That was your low point. What…the fuck…are you on?

It’s 2015 and people still keep beating that “le fat fedora neckbeard” horse.

The stereotype in itself isn’t half as embarrassing or offensive as the fact that you people have been telling that same “joke” for about 5 years now and still think it’s somehow comedy gold.

bruh if he was hot who cares what he watches get on that dick or gimme his number ‘cause I’ll get on it for you

Look at all this thirst on my dash.

Oh boy, DragonDimwit made another starwman comic.

I’m sure this is her once again completely missing the point, this time of all the comparisons between Starlight Glimmer and SJWs like her.

Sure, let’s ignore how the whole point of fedora pony from “Rarity takes Manhattan” was to show off how Generosity like Rarity’s can make a friend out of somebody who at first seems like an asshole.

Let’s ignore all the horrible and stupid shit she and her fellow anti-brony cultists have done and continue to do to this day, and pretend she’s trustworthy in any possible way.

You know what I find absolutely amazing about this stupid “hurr durr misogynerd neckbeard fedora” stereotype that these idiots STILL keep pushing after all these years? It’s not the fact that anyone who’s taken a less shallow look at this fandom knows it’s not even true for 99% of us.

It’s not the fact that it’s the one brony related joke that’s even more worn out than “le waifu thief” Flash Sentry, which was funny for about a week but has long since out-stayed it’s welcome.

It’s something that I can’t believe I realized just recently.

If we’re so damn misogynist, then why would we be fans of a series with SIX FEMALE LEADS WITH INCREDIBLY DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES?

If we hated women so damn much, then why are there so many of us who claim to adore and identify with these female characters and their traits despite the (supposed) gender differences?

Why is (last I checked at least) RARITY - a Mare who’s well-known for being incredibly feminine and runs her own successful business- THE most popular character of the mane six (and my own personal favorite)?

And I think Fluttershy (the one with strong maternal instincts) is a close second.

If we’re so damn sexist, then why is it basically fandom heresy to shit-talk Lauren Faust in any way? Why is the ground she walks on practically WORSHIPED by so many of us?

Why is roughly 25% of the fandom composed of women who proudly call themselves bronies?

Why are there so many FEMALE clop artists?

Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure Faust’s ideal of “there’s no wrong way to be a girl” is part of what made FiM such a success.

Because maybe some of us AGREE that there was more needed female representation, and that FiM did/does an amazing job of it. 

And part of why, as usual, DD’s a fucking moron.

Because once again she fails to understand the reason nobody likes social justice warriors because everyone knows they don’t give a shit about equality.

They just want an excuse to be assholes and emotionally guilt trip people into getting away with it.

And then silence everyone who stands up to them by twisting all facts and reasoning thrown in their faces into straw men to wage witch hunts against.

DWM being a perfect example of such.

Because they honestly cannot comprehend that they’re being judged by their own stupidity and horrible words and actions instead of their gender/race/sexuality/whatever.

DD, we don’t have a problem with women.

We have a problem with YOU.

We don’t hate you because you’re a woman

We hate you because you’re an egotistical, childish asshole and you just refuse to leave us the fuck alone.

>inb4 my inbox gets flooded with anons.

Wow, I’m… I’m stunned. 

How do you miss the point of a message so fucking hard?! Anyone with a brain that isn’t flooded by sociopath-influenced stupidity saw that the episode had nothing to do with ‘attacking special snowflakes’, it was about forcing one person’s idea of equality and conformity under the guise of doing something right. 

Tumblr, I get it; you’re a website that wants to do away with the mandatory reading lists that schools have. But *picks up a notepad* I’m going to prescribe you some things to read/watch:

Animal Farm

The Crucible

The Butter Battle Book (and this one’s a Dr. Suess story, so it should be at your comprehension level)

1984

And, for good measure, go look up an LP of Papers, Please. 

… I know this website hates mirrors but, fuck me sideways, it needs to look into it from time to time!

While we’re at it, play Metal Gear Solid 1-4

It builds up to one huge author tract about how we shouldn’t try to control people (both control of information via censorship and propaganda, as well as primitive thought-control in the form of regulating the bodies chemical reactions play a role) and ends with the world set free and a speech about how finding true freedom is like a kind of rebirth.

Assassin’s Creed is also all about protecting the natural progression of humanity and fighting against the Templars (who wish to create an artificial peace through complete mind control) 

this isn’t even a SJW thing anymore, it’s just an idiot thing. 

And people wonder why some of us weren’t looking forward to the new MLP season

THIS IS WHY.  We can’t enjoy our fucking show without stupidity like this. 

I’ve learned to say screw it and not morons ruin things for me.

^ I’ve pretty much hit that point now too..

Looking at the comic she made just makes me sad that her abilities are wasted by pumping out pointless hate…

I really don’t care that much about her, or her ilk anymore. 99% of the time I just find that they’re the same old tired, boring arguments that they’ve been spouting for years and it’s just not worth the energy anymore.

It’s dragondicks, of course the message from a show based around friendship eludes her. I don’t even know wtf that comic even is, given it’s so far from the episode’s message or its interpretation by anyone. Either she’s finally lost it and actually believes her own bullshit or she’s just trolling like someone from /pol/.

It wasn't even a softcore porn blog. It was a gag strip about sex puns that didn't show any nudity.

Softcore porn implies explicit nudity, but no actual sex.

Family guy went further than this did.

I only have two complaints about it: the focus on sex puns was too much one note humour to keep me interested for long, and they started shopping Luna and Derpy, and I strongly dislike shipping in general.