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

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

I would guess the chances that a 50 y/o 'brony' is a sick pervert at heart is like 95% whereas a 15 y/o brony it's prob more like 20%

do furries still even exist? that was more or less the same thing just w/ a higher pervert factor I think

I would guess the chances that a 50 y/o 'brony' is a sick pervert at heart is like 95% whereas a 15 y/o brony it's prob more like 20%

these are the sorts of claims that would get the mods angry at you back in the heyday of rolling teenpop

haha I think there actually is a lot in common w/ those two cultures

bronies and teen pop fans not bronies and mods

maybe bronies and mods too

do furries still even exist? that was more or less the same thing just w/ a higher pervert factor I think

― iatee, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:41 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol at the hopeful and naive suggestion that furries could be some kind of passing fad

http://i.imgur.com/45Ov82Q.jpg

the sgt. pepper cover from some furry-dominated alternate universe.

omg

i see LBJ

that megafurry.gif is all time

haha I think there actually is a lot in common w/ those two cultures

― iatee, Thursday, June 6, 2013 2:51 AM (4 hours ago)

Pretty convinced these are polar opposites.

This is going to make some bronies very, uh, happy:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zIbO0HVmCrg/UZA6zaT9MoI/AAAAAAAALDE/7PovWB03Spo/s1600/13hasbro-articleLarge.jpg

holy shit i bet the marketing research for that was a circle of hell reserved for people who hit their dogs

Pretty convinced these are polar opposites.

― abcfsk, Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'look at me I like this trashy pop culture object that was intended for little girls, let's talk about it together online'. early ilm is total broniville.

The former has connections to hipsterdom, the latter anti-hipster pride and anti-authority authenticity fetishizing, ie they're old man rockists (often literally - "I only listen to metal but this pony song touches me to the core".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4H8_4EhKRU

Is it bronystep?

fedora + gas mask combo just kills me

what's with the dude wearing the gasmask? And the furrys? are they in the wrong convention?

man I cant get over the laptop dude falling over in the first ten seconds

OMG missed that first time watching. Needs to be gif

It is, will link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BO2Zd_4CUAAOU5C.png

LOL so awesome

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18ti9bt9ovkq2gif/ku-xlarge.gif

Vermeer would be proud of the precise detail throughout that frame.

love the "check" thumb gesture as dude goes down

'high ranking pony member' o_O

That last jpg and gif are the best things I've seen all week. My friend Lisa is working sdcc and I am going to offer her 20 USD to attend that pony meet.

that gif really has it all, doesn't it?

video is perfect in almost every way.

"I love you guys too, I really do... we're having a bit of a liab-uh-liability issue with the glow sticks though: y'all are throwing them and y'all have pegged some little kids"

see, i thought i'd misheard that. what does he mean by 'pegged'?

Bonked them on their beans.

gasmask + fedora looking on with an eerie calm as his m8 falls into a soft focus abyss, a profound metaphor for

so, my friend has a temp coworker who is a brony

I've been around this guy a few times now. He's a kind of awkward lanky dude who has a temp job helping with computer hardware.

I feel like the articles saying that dudes are into this brony thing because it emphasizes socialization are on to something. This guy is kind of obnoxious in that if you relate a story, he'll try to relate a similar story. But sometimes conversations are just like a laundry list of stuff he's read, or insisting that something is better due to opinions he's read elsewhere.

He began a sentence one time with, "I'm sure we're all aware of the well-known Skyrim meme..."

I met his wife, and she was kind of awkward in the same way. Also, when they finished lunch, they were holding hands, on top of the table, with the rest of us kind of sitting there making conversation.

also I think this dude wants to fuck cartoon horses

why do you think he wants to fuck cartoon horses?

he's a brony