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I am not kidding when I say this show is HISTORICAL. Even at this point I'd put at the top 50 most important TV shows of all time. Why? Because it proved quality makes demographics irrelevant. As well as proving fans can communicate with show creators, flash animation can be great, and Internet can boost a fandom more than hurt it.

JDLJDL wrote:

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That's not true. Quality has been making demographics irrelevant for a long time, look at Pixar. My Little Pony proves nothing, it's just a good case of all that.

But not with the same power. Pixar didn't have a fandom with the dedication of Pokemon's with both a different gender and a different age group being the MAJORITY of the fanbase.

JDLJDL wrote:

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I really don't like the concept of "Bronies". It's seems everyone has to make an "organization" for anything possible, just to be part of something.
So you like watching this cartoon. Hooray, you're so important now. Better have a whole group of people under the same name and same importance promoting a so-called "culture". You like a children's cartoon show, who the hell cares.
It's like the whole "ANONYMOUS IS LEGION" thing. Liking My Little Pony is not important enough to have a culture, it's not important enough to be revolutionary, it's not important enough to actually have "Coming out of the closet as a brony" as an actual thing. My Little Pony was not first at anything, nor it is the strongest at anything. My Little Pony is no more than a well-done cartoon whose only reason for being so popular on the internet is because of goddamn Pony threads on /b/ and even half of those were driven by trolls or rule34.
Most of the "how you became a BRONY" stories are uninteresting, too. They may seem interesting at first, but they all boil down to "I had skeptical thoughts at first, then I watched some and I liked it". And then you should continue liking it, not build a whole undeserving cult around it.

I agree with you, Zero. There would've been Bronies without the hate, but not as we know them. The Haters made us unify, brought attention to us, and increased our numbers. The Hate makes us grow.

JDLJDL wrote:

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Gelatop, you really didn't understand my post, did you. It's not like Pokémon. We don't call ourselves "Pokébros". We call ourselves the generic term of "Pokémon fans". We don't announce to come "out of the closet as a Pokémon fan", we don't tell stories about "how we became Pokémon fans". This all, for a franchise a decade old that is truly "HISTORICAL", in contrast to a cartoon that only for two years became well known to only really the internet.
Nor did haters make you grow. /b/ grew more and more to ponies because everyone hates the mods. When the mods banned pony threads, of course the users would go out of the way to disobey the mods. It's not because of the "haters" that they "unified", they just tried to troll the mods on independent occasions. Somehow, the pony thing spread to sites like Reddit and the whole thing blew out of proportion.
Again, the cartoon is no where great or important enough to warrant cult-like phrases like "the Hate makes us grow". You're attributing too much importance to the whole series, putting it in too much grandeur. It can be a community, and it can be a community of cooperation, that's fine, but it's gotten to a point where it's looking like worship. Which is, again, fine if it were applied to something truly "HISTORICAL", such as Mario or Pokémon. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is not the first My Little Pony, nor is it the first cartoon to appeal to a wider audience, nor is it the first cartoon to have a fan following on the internet, and nor is it the best at any of those. It is a good show, but always remember that it's a 20-minute long advertisement for Hasbro.

There has never been a fandom for a girls show of this magnitude where the majority of the fanbase is the opposite demographic. Maybe I am blowing this out of proportion. Or maybe I'm not. The PBS Idea Channel did a video on how our fandom may possibly come to change ideas of masculinity. It started as a joke. Now it's a fanbase. You know why we have a whole term for ourselves? Because this is different from everything else. Because this is something that challenges conventions and what is considered normal. The hate does make us grow. It certainly hasn't made us shrink. I agree with Zero on this. You do know Pokemon and Mario were new once too? Usually we need to give time for something to be historical. But with MLP, there's no way this was just a coincidence. I'm honest when I feel this is not the end of this. There is no way this fandom will just happen and vanish. This is the start of something BIG. I know you may think I am overrating this, but I seriously think this will cause us to question kids media in a new light, and make us realize how sexist it has been this whole time.  Who cares if MLP: FiM is not the first one? It's hundreds of times better than the other ones. The other cartoons to appeal to wider audiences tended to appeal more on age. This one kicked down the door to the other gender, which is a WAY bigger door to kick down than age groups. It wasn't the first to have a following on the Internet. But its has formed an Internet subculture that is enormous. Who cares if it's a 20-minute long advertisement? Guess what? It's quality. It's the best girls show I've ever seen. I see where you're coming from JDL. But personally, I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. And over the next couple years, that iceberg is going to emerge.

ZeroChill wrote:

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Guys this is getting crazy. Bronies aren't worshipping MLP as MLP isn't worth worshipping. If they did that would elevate their rank from Bronies to insane fanatics. This is exactly what blew Bronies out of proportion. People couldn't handle the fact that boys liked a girls show. Big whoop it's not like it's apocalypse. Just get on with your own business. Like I said people don't mind when girls make fanbases for shows like Power Rangers which are aimed at boys, but when boys make a fanbase for a girl show people can't handle it. I'm not taking any sides, but people should ignore these little things and get on with their lives. Like I said what you don't know can't hurt you.

This.