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

probably the urge to define oneself via cultural consumption is the real issue here, and it is the main problem these bronies are suffering from. they need to know where they "fit in"; it's not enough to just be a person in the world. as far as those guys overlap with the fedora/PUA/MRA community, the pigeonholing thinking relates to the gross, darwinian language they use when describing status: alpha, beta, etc. if they just cut that shit out of their thinking, and considered their identity fundamentally in terms of themselves as individuals, they would be better off i think.

i think kurt vonnegut discussed this fallacy in cat's cradle; he called these false identites/communities "granfalloons."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon

The more pertinent question would be what conditions creates "bronies" in the first place.

Society fails young men by indoctrinating them into a patriarchal thought process that defines masculinity by sexual prowess and social facility. With the increasing atomization of human interaction under late capitalism (and especially the niche consumer culture of the internet), more and more young males are failing to live up to these patriarchal ideals. But instead of this creating an opportunity for young men to redefine gender roles for themselves, it leads them to embrace reactionary impulses born from self-hatred and sexual frustration, which is projected outward as misogyny and homophobia.

The solution is to seize the internet and put it under the control of those who understand how to properly utilize it.

Also Christmas should be banned.

banaka otm

yeah more or less what I was getting at, latebloomer, excluding of course that obligatory post-human totalitarian thing at the end

i agree with chris agreeing with banaka with a caveat

thread was crying out for banaka

I don't think I understood or had much awareness of the banaka project before but now I'm totally on board with it now

wait banaka is latebloomer?!

Banaka are an idea not an individual.

xp yep

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/washington-perfects-the-art-of-illusion-keep-america-focused-on-boston-bombing-while-they-strip-us-of-rights-and-prepare-for-war-04172013

brob dylan

joke rocker

4chans mlp tolerance board isn't having it yet, banaka

really tasteless to refer to banaka as latebloomer. you think thats gonna get you 'cool' points, pal? you think you're 'in' now? think again, fucko. you're on the shitlist, Chris S.

I remember the reveal to be pretty out-in-the open, and had seen a jokes/references made about it since...? had no idea anyone didn't know honestly. eh, apologies if that was that rude but... it's a sock

as to your second question, no, that wasn't on my mind. shitlist? relax

best response i have read yet to banaka's spiel:
I'm a Marine, and you're a faggot

take screenshots

https://boards.4chan.org/mlp/res/10173302#p10174336
run with it if you feel inspired

i can kind of see being into a nostalgic cartoon

When are you saying they're nostalgic for, the same morning?

presumably the original run of "my little pony." but i think most mlp fans were probably just being born around the time of its airing, so i doubt nostalgia plays a huge role

iirc bronies are mostly pretty strident/outspoken about their distaste for pre-FIM mlp

people who believe friendship is magic don't deserve friends

j/k

wait, banaka is a sock?

iirc bronies are mostly pretty strident/outspoken about their distaste for pre-FIM mlp

just disinterest I would think? make sense that anyone into FIM would get into Powerpuff Girls but not necessarily '80s MLP (unless they actively want to seek ersatz nostalgia)

i dunno about powerpuff girls, either, though. bronyism seems awfully dedicated to this particular instance of the beloved thing. it's not about "cute cartoon featuring magical little girls", it's about PONIES.

Those 'kinds' of guys either end up as bronies or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6cF1uc4c

i dunno about powerpuff girls, either, though.

Lauren Faust

oh i know, but my mental image of the brony depends on total abject worship of PONIES, with no other gods before them

http://bronieswithfedoras.tumblr.com/image/42911932177

http://www.lolriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Fedora-What-you-think-you-look-like-570x303.jpg

do the bronies wear fedoras or do they wear equestrian attire?

wow that youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0WgsuFdHw

http://i40.tinypic.com/2yyuydt.png

Why...

Beautiful, just beautiful. Keep making these edits.

what a beautiful world

http://i.imgur.com/CEgvTKi.png

nice

http://www.sbs.com.au/thefeed/blog/bronies-friendship-magic

"Any music... it can be electronic, dubstep, acoustic... as long as it references ponies".

the three kinds of music

we play both kinds of music: country and ponies

I remember sitting down with my little girl cousin to watch the old incarnation of MLP in about 2006? and thinking, "damn, this is pretty entertaining."

I've not seen Friendship is Magic, but damn, these guys are...odd. Has anyone come up with a theory as to why so many badly socialized young men are transfixed by this show for young girls?

Is this the hikikomori phenomenon arriving in the West at last?

I have not studied this in depth or anything but my guess is most of them just like being in some community and having something to talk about, sorta dig that they get to be absurdist in a 'look at me' way, don't actually enjoy the cartoons that much or I mean maybe it's moderately entertaining, who knows. and then a few are probably just perverts.

yeah, I guess so. also, this really doesn't bear much in common with hikikomori either, more of an odd interest blown up a few degrees. I should stop posting while sleep deprived.

dudes be nerdy