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

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?

this is his tumblr which links to reddit (obv) which you can read

http://neilcicierega.tumblr.com/post/23011361892

I've practically idolized this guy since I was 10 years old. I feel like an old friend just punched me in the face and started laughing. Seriously. What the fuck. This guy had all of the respect and admiration that I can possibly give a person and then turned out to be a total imbecile

Neil Cicierega: So what is the deal with Princess Molestia? Did the bronies take a show designed for little girls and turn it into another awful internet rape culture thing?

Me: No, they didn't, but I admire your ability to make assumptions.
Did you know that a community as large as the brony fanbase has multiple subsections? Why, I dare say it's as though multiple people enjoy the show.

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Neil Cicierega: Yeah, I know it's the stuff of the internet. I just think it's particularly cruel of them to import that shit into something meant for young girls... 1 in 6 of whom will grow up to be victims of the thing these bros are lulzing it up over. It really illustrates how thoughtlessly men will reappropriate anything and everything.

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Some guy: But not all bronies are like that.

Neil Cicierega: you gotta call each other out on this kind of thing more often. That goes for all groups. Don't let your friends be dipshits!

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Neil Cicierega: The show's designed to be a better alternative to the crap little girls are usually fed. So of course, grown men, who already have plenty of media marketed to them, come in and completely overshadow the intended audience, and litter it with the same tired humor and loutishness as every other male-oriented community. Something meant as an antidote to girls' usual gender normative entertainment has been turned into yet another sausage party.

Me: Yes, because the little girls who watch the show are effected by the actions of 4chan. Which is surprising, since even the majority of the adult brony fanbase isn't effected by the actions of 4chan.

Some brony: Most bronies (sadly not all) generally do try to warn you what you might see on their tumblr or something. So they really aren't doing anything to people who don't want to look at what they post. If you were offended by rape you most likely won't click on a link that goes to somewhere called Princess Molestia. I understand why you would find it weird that something Princess Molestia exists. She is, in her entirety, a rape joke.
I apologize for being such a dick.

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Neil Cicierega: I didn't mention fetishes. Actually, I was talking about rape jokes. For a show about love and tolerance, you'd think Bronies would do more to speak out against fellow Bronies who engage in brazen rejections of sensitivity.

don't click the reddit thing, it's like 5000000 replies long

never heard of this guy

he did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM

so he's the more awful something awful huh

thats one of my favorite things he's done. his online fame is pretty impressive; he was considered an "internet celebrity" way back in 2001 and now has a real hit song and a youtube vid with over 100 million views. can't think of anyone else like him in that respect.

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/14/A-Professional-Assessment-of-Twilight-Sparkle-as-a-Librarian

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

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5-TDRyCcAEIkse.jpg

looks great.

go hawks

WHAT WILL THIS MEAN FOR THE BRONIES?

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haha Disney would then own Magic: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons

oh no the makers of the worlds greatest children's movies are taking over a franchise made for and marketed to children

has this been shared yet?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/sad-bronies-make-themselves-photoshopped-pony-girl

I had to tap out when I got to "I got Princess Molestia looking at my butt"

then you missed this
http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2012/11/7/17/enhanced-buzz-30090-1352326613-4.jpg

remember when these guys just snuck in the farms late at night and tried to fuck the chickens? ah, the good old days

Just lol and smdh at bronies pretending that wanting to fuck underaged cartoon ponies is the same level of harmless as, like, 40 year-olds really into Star Trek or whatever.

Last weekend I had to explain to my mother in law what a brony is, because my nephews now have a brony stepbrother that they are constantly fighting with. She was so bewildered and wanted me to explain why a teenage boy would love ponies. There is no good explanation.

To be fair to the stepbrother those kids are such rotten little brats that I could see how they could drive someone to madness/bronydom.

She was so bewildered and wanted me to explain why a teenage boy would love ponies.

this is just the greatest sentence

http://kotaku.com/5964739/the-herd-outsiders-guide-to-the-brony-phenomenon