Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

how many of the guys pictured in this thread qualify as "grown men" tbh?

the amazing thing about fedora dude is that he manages to pull focus from the dude in the center wearing a Nightmare Before Christmas raver hat

I mean, just ponder that

I am considering becoming a brony

tbh i don't believe this is real.

after the whole d3@thdr0ne revelation I wouldn't count all of these guys as sexless

What was the "revelation"?

I haven't watched any of these, but Powerpuff Girls definitely had crossover appeal and in-jokes for adult audiences. There are also dudes who are really into animation stuff regardless so... this doesn't seem that odd considering the writer and context.

There has to be some sort of version of Rule 34 that also states that if there's an entertainment media, there is a group of men into it somewhere.

that he existed and occasionally had sex. sometimes even consensual.

xpost

thank (or blame) cankles for the bronies convention pic (he posted it on the OG my little ponies thread this summer).

dan OTM about fedora dude.

For all of your gift giving needs: http://bronymerch.tumblr.com/

I am seriously considering sewing plush my little ponies because the bronies are willing to fork over mad cash for them.

raver hat guy seems to be a bit of a media whore

http://media.oregonlive.com/ent_impact_home/photo/10010749-large.jpg

Just imagine how disgusting the inside of that hat must be after wearing it around all day at these awesome brony events.

he's just happy that he's not being upstaged by Fedora Dude. Fedora Dude just abides, man.

"yeah yeah, you have a wacky hat with ponies glued to it; could you tell us more about the dude with the tie and fedora?"

"Chewing on a pen" is my favorite brony in that picture.

I like so not gonna happen guy at the left end, in the green shirt.

is that j0rdan s. next to the pen-chewer?

Me too! There ought to be a poll. xp

"chewing on a pen" is the only one i'd guess has ever had some stank on his hang-low.

Some serious underestimating at what goes on at these kind of conferences. I guarantee a scary amount of those guys have gotten some play with their fellow enthusiasts.

"chewing on a pen" is the only one i'd guess has ever had some stank on his hang-low.

I think you mean "sex-related stank on his hang-low" because I may be prejudging but, based on this picture, I am pretty sure a good number of the people in that picture are familiar with stank all kinds of places on their bodies

uh you guys are mocking a bunch of high school students

god forbid

I feel like I've spent my entire life mocking high school students

"I get older, they stay the same age."

yup, sex-stank on the genitalia.

and they're kind of asking for the mockery, you know ... not that i was much better when i was in high school, mind.

I don't know what rad shit y'all were doing age 14-17
But I wasn't doing anything more honourable than this

IIRC pictures of what I was doing have been posted to ILE, which mostly involved stalking the halls dressed as an extra from Degrassi High and doing the cabbage patch in my friends' kitchens

(should note said cabbage patch was usually to "The Days of Swine and Roses" by TKK)

Most of those people look pretty normal to me, aside from wacky-hat guy. The only cue I could really take to suggest that they're all the risible nerdy virgins you think they are is the fact that they're at a brony meet-up.

fedora looks like he wandered into the wrong room and was too polite to leave before they took the picture; I imagine 30 seconds afterward he was all "so just to clarify, the Mad Men meetup is on the right"

I hope Degrassi does a brony ep

i was a risible nerdy virgin through the vast majority of time i was in high school ... game recognize game, yo.

fedora looks like he stepped offa a 1979 Specials EP cover.

is this just what furries do now? do furries still exist? is there some venn diagram overlap here? I still don't 'get' this.

Yeah, they all seem like they'll be ok in the long run. Fedora will grow out of his suit, even. Not sure why their sex lives have anything to do with it.

RIP Wheels ;_;

furries are eternal, man ... or at least since "the shining"

there's always a fedora guy, isn't there?

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, February 27, 2012 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

such a truth bomb

I think these are just nerdy fanboys who like a cartoon. xp

I owned a fedora as a teenager. yikes! never got the courage to wear it out though

I don't see a whole lot of difference between nerdy fanboys who like this cartoon and nerdy fanppl who like all manner of things and attend conventions about them. Right down to their penchant for silly hats.

xp I totally have a fedora pic of me from jr high.

I desperately wanted a porkpie hat in the days of third-wave ska. Thankfully e-commerce was a little less developed and I sure as fuck wasn't going to find one locally.

guys, I owned a fedora, a bicycle cap with the name of my German camp on it, a Dr Seuss raver hat and a green baseball cap with a cartoon mascot from a Japanese baseball team on it by the time I was TWENTY; I think I have put in my time in the bad hat trenches and am allowed to chuckle at those that came after me

oh, also a reversible skull cap

there are a lot of bronies who are not into like furry shit, but there are definitely furry bronies

I came pretty close to ordering a t-shirt with the japanese baseball player on it that the dude wore in the big lebowski

idg reversible skull cap - does it reverse into a normal looking baseball cap or something

like, 'oh shit some hot chicks are coming by - quick, before they see me!' *reverses skull cap*

one side was black with a partial headband around the front; the other side was a red striped pattern

i'm fascinated with just how much goggles girl looks like a videogame character http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/05/07/WorldEndsYou460x276.jpg

at any rate, nothing could really hide my non-perscription Dwayne Wayne sunglasses

http://i.imgur.com/9seGZ.jpg

http://67.media.tumblr.com/c1c7a4010dc63ffdf21c48ce6abd9d21/tumblr_mqm7uw8P4S1r62kifo1_1280.png

http://67.media.tumblr.com/52f626237253070da5cc2549cead08aa/tumblr_o73kfzEnJf1rmerh9o1_500.jpg

I predict great things for this kid

that profile was discussed upthread - it's a spoof, sadly

Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

This is it.
The screenshotted first use of brony.
The beginning of our sins. pic.twitter.com/Fct04u80j2

— Snoopledoops (@SnoozySnoozie) May 20, 2017

saw a dude in a brony T-shirt walking out of a Festival Foods with a handgun on his belt

Have we discussed that female bronies are called "pegasisters"?

oh dear

y’all

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/

"It's just cute, funny, sexy, art."

saw a dude in a brony T-shirt walking out of a Festival Foods with a handgun on his belt

the article about the reddit revolt linked in that piece is also a good read

This idea of what counts as political and what doesn’t is another thing the fandom took from 4chan—where racial slurs are just jokes but anti-racism makes you a “social justice warrior.”

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/04/the-indianapolis-fedex-shooter-was.html

"I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her. If there's no afterlife and she isn't real then my life never mattered anyway."

I have questions

i'm opting for not asking

i dont get it guys https://t.co/mgStiJtQKq

— hayley from Paramore 🥀 (@yelyahwilliams) August 3, 2021

(I had no idea she sang that song!!!)

This is amazing.

Federal agents in Moscow have raided and ended a My Little Pony convention on the grounds that it constituted "gay propaganda." Even painting the animal's mane in the Russian tricolor couldn't save this one. https://t.co/KIv00sKoeN pic.twitter.com/p68hiFCmWm

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) February 17, 2024

just to be clear a lot of those "grown men" who were into MLP did in fact turn out to be women because, you know, There Were No Signs. i guess when russia is raiding MLP conventions for spreading "gay propaganda" that's pretty obvious but i do want to say it for the record.

i got a friend who writes genuinely actually good MLP fanfiction. people shit-talk fan-fiction but i respect people who do it well. it's really hard to capture the voice of a character when it's not your character. it's also a good way of getting your writing actually read - people want to read stories about characters they're already invested in. i've tried to write fanfiction occasionally but i'm never really satisfied with the results. (yes i do hold my writing to an unreasonably high standard.)