Cap'n Jack
I will burn my dread!
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I haven't really noticed the My Little Pony fandom getting worse. Basically what's happened is the exact thing I thought would happen: the novelty of it is wearing off and now it's just a typically eccentric cult fan-base. When the whole "Bronies" thing was getting started what basically happened, in my eyes, was that people were all like "HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS LIKE MY LITTLE PONIES?!?!" and the fans were all like "FUCK YEAH WE DO, LET'S SHOW YOU HOW MUCH WE WATCH MY LITTLE PONIES!!! 11! 1! 1". Now that that whole initial deal is out of the way, the fans have kinda lost their reason to be so outgoing into the public eye. The My Little Pony fan-base has always just been the usually unusual cult fan-base that we as a popular culture have already experienced, it's just the show that happened to get that fan-base this time around is traditionally a pansy show for prissy little girls and stuff, and so people reacted a bit more strongly.
Really, I've never been that rampant of a fan of the show, and I've been a fan for about a year and a half now. I like the show, and I think it's a pretty good show, but the main thing that drew people to it was the idea that the latest incarnation of this prissy little girl's show actually wasn't a prissy little girl's show and was pretty good in its own right. Time will tell if this whole "Bronies" thing has been influential or important to the future of cartoons and all that jazz, but right now I think the fans have settled down into their cult fan status nicely. There are idiots and trolls and pricks and all that, but there always have been, and I think maybe they're easier to notice now that the fans have settled down and become a little more chill. I don't really even like calling myself a Brony, I just say that I like the show.
It's a lot like the Star Trek fan-base, really.
Really, I've never been that rampant of a fan of the show, and I've been a fan for about a year and a half now. I like the show, and I think it's a pretty good show, but the main thing that drew people to it was the idea that the latest incarnation of this prissy little girl's show actually wasn't a prissy little girl's show and was pretty good in its own right. Time will tell if this whole "Bronies" thing has been influential or important to the future of cartoons and all that jazz, but right now I think the fans have settled down into their cult fan status nicely. There are idiots and trolls and pricks and all that, but there always have been, and I think maybe they're easier to notice now that the fans have settled down and become a little more chill. I don't really even like calling myself a Brony, I just say that I like the show.
It's a lot like the Star Trek fan-base, really.