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

all those things you mention lack the infantilism of mlp. MLP reminds me of people who dress up like a pirate on "talk like a pirate day" or were in a "ninja" club in college. Scifi nerd-dom or even comic nerd-dom aren't this weird childish thing, they're just things than teenage nerds like as well.

infantilism and wish-fulfilment fantasies

given everything I know about bronyism, dude, it is NOT just about the ponies

Ultimately I think there are a ton of people out there in well-off countries who have strong logical skills but aren't very intelligent otherwise. And all of those people find their way onto the internet. And we've all been through high school, I would guess most of them are outcasts who cynically disregard everything they're supposed to learn and look for like-minded people on SomethingAwful or Reddit to teach them the "true way"; in other words the emotionally stunted teaching the emotionally stunted. You know, the three A's: Ayn Rand, Atheism, and ron pAul. I was the same way for a while when it came to poker; I like to think of it as more useful than watching pony cartoons because I was at least able to put myself through school that way. But the 2+2 boards were like, 10% well-adjusted, intelligent individuals (and many of them were successful) and 90% were your typical goon/brony/Reddit "men's rights" enthusiast, and I doubled down on this by posting a lot on the sports/sports betting forums which were more like 100% these people. You know, people who would screencap girls they show in the crowd on TV, then other idiots who would say things like "her nose is lolhueg, 5/10, I bang chicks hotter than that every week" And you get a thrill out of it, being able to talk in terms that your average person (you know, the people who rejected you in high school or think you're strange) would never understand, about something they probably wouldn't be any good at. Yes I know this is a distorted view of the world. And I know that plenty of people here with frogbs.txt saved on their HD probably think "dude, you ARE that guy". But I always had good friends and people to drink with, and in all honesty that kind of saved my life in a manner of speaking. I was never really an outcast. I stopped being bullied in 4th grade. I always was kind of on the fringe. Like, I've always had good friends on both sides of the spectrum. I look at my stepbrother now and wonder about his future - he's 18, drives a Mustang his Dad bought for him, and spends his life on Reddit and Facebook posting about how much he hates Christians, how he hates his sister talking to her newborn baby "like a retard" while he plays Call of Duty, how his Dad (who has cancer!!) is an idiot, how the whole world is wrong and how people like him are the only ones with any real values. I don't know if he has a single friend that he knows in real life. It's just so much easier to dismiss other points of view than it is to try to learn something from them. Plus, it's good for your ego, and you've got dozens of online friends who will back you up. Like, this guy NEEDS to be a brony right now. Okay, what he really needs is to get wasted and get out of his shell and actually have fun interacting with live people, but in his mind, this is a big ass deal. If my brony-littered FB feed told me anything, it's that they do fetishize poor socialization because apparently to interact with them on a normal (or illogical) level is to sell out part of what makes you better than anyone else. If you do speak, speak only in memes that nobody understands, because that only reinforces how much more advanced you are. And so on.

who have strong logical skills but aren't very intelligent otherwise

???

it happens

idk but this is a nerd culture based specifically around the idea of socialization? it's right there in the show title: "friendship is magic."

it's a community thing

i'd love that general nerd thread

i work in a videogame studio

i got opinions

idk but this is a nerd culture based specifically around the idea of socialization?

socialization with other bronies, sure

I think we mean not "socializing" but "make (someone) behave in a way that is acceptable to their society" (New Ox. Am. Dict. via OS X)

tl:dr

you should r, it was intersting

As a huge computer nerd during my teenage years I really didn't give any thought to how i was perceived by society at large and really didn't give a shit, so long as i could go home from school and make Doom II levels and browse some BBSes then i was totally fine with it.

In a way, maybe i was living in a golden era, before the internet, before i could be friends with other people that shared my interests. Complete isolation and complete immersion in whatever minutiae i was obsessed with.

BBSes are internet!

Um no they aren't.

oh hm

now I'm curious about the networking protocols used by pre-TCP/IP BBS software

It isn't just about connection software though. The internet obviously is WAY more acceptable, more people use it, and it has so many social applications that BBSes just didn't have. I think the only person I ever talked to via a BBS was a SYSOP.

we had message boards on bbs, that's maybe why i like ILX, it's almost a bbs throwback

PRODIGY MSG BOARDS 4 LYFE

WWIV 4 LYFE

spent so much time on this in HS

http://www.iscabbs.com/index.php?doc=about

But yeah the world is pretty safe for nerds now. Even Bronies can go on FB right now and find tens of thousands of people just like them. It took more than a decade for me to find someone who had read that one txt file that tells you how to hack a Coca Cola machine or something.

brown boxing

ew

I was part of a weird community myself when I was like, 14 years old. I wanted to be a cartoonist but I was way better at drawing animals than humans. So I looked up a bunch of "anthro" art to help me with my own drawings and eventually joined an IRC community to get some pointers. Anyways one of them was a colorist and she offered to color in this strip I made and it was really good! Then I looked at her other work. Man, I wish you could have seen my face. Nowadays I don't think any of us would bat an eye at it because the internet has desensitized us all but the whole shock of "whoa, someone actually drew this, and you're one of them!" was tough to reconsile. Like, I thought some of the other art I had seen was really cool, but to realize that the end result of this whole thing was basically pornography? Like I said, I was 14. I didn't know any better. But there was really a sadness among everything there, nobody seemed overtly proud of this, and most of the chat steered towards stuff like clinical depression. Kind of a far ways away from the racism/rageface/sexism/"deal with it" culture of today. Actually, they seemed like pretty decent people. Nobody thought my cartoons were any good though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7h2F1gTpcE

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING SHITTING ME L:AKSDFHJI OUDHSF*(O&ITENW)FMO IDHSFNOUILJKS FPOISUDHFBNO:SDIHFGIKUSDHJLKF GJ SGUYSDNF

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hwyfX0W81qaecjjo1_500.jpg

haha man chill that's upthread already. probably a hoax.

ok good i don't even know anymore goole...you just can't tell

if it floate it be a brownie

no sweat bro. it got me too until somebody pasted the whole profile

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

saw a 14-ish year old kid in the neighborhood with a "Keep Calm and Brony On" shirt the other day, sort of made me feel like "this generation coming up ain't so bad"

The bit at the end where he admits he doesn't work but is getting SS checks from the gov't was funny.

watched some ponies yesterday. still p good. rainbow dash refused a hooficure.

I wonder if "Pinke Pie Pony" from STrawberry Shortcake" counts for bronys?

http://i.imgur.com/ZlkJS.jpg

The worst thing about this picture is that these ponies are the little girl ponies on the show that the pedos are into.

plz tell me that is a real thing zoo-pedophilia

Andrew WK pony panel livestreaming here at 1 PM PST, 4 PM EST (52 minutes from now)! http://www.everfreeradio.com/cg/

Live blogged the panel on my twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/JeffTreppel

Now I wish had seen what the Andrew WK pony had looked like.

It was a white unicorn with long black hair, blood running down its face, and a slice of pizza as its cutie mark.

I want that bedspread!

BRONYLOG//031530Z OCT 12//WHITE MALE APPROX 30 YO//COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT SEA - ORD//RMKS: SUBJ SEATED IN FIRST CLASS SECTION. BRONYHOOD CONFIRMED BY "RAINBOW DASH" TEE-SHIRT. SECONDARY CHARACTERISTICS OF SWEATPANTS, NECKBEARD OBSERVED. FEDORA NOT OBSERVED. FEMALE TRAVELING COMPANION OF APPROX SAME AGE ASSESSED TO BE SIBLING.

Andrew WK is selling "Pinkie Hard" t-shirts on his website now.

http://images-cdn.ecwid.com/images/81059/43335882.jpg

I guess the brony community is now at war with Neil Cicierega for pointing out how these guys were taking something marketed at young girls and turning it into this horrific rape culture thing. If you feel the need to go to war with Neil Cicierega something's clearly wrong with you.

link to the juicy parts?