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Have we discussed BRONIES yet? Somehow I thing that the BRONIE phenomenom has escaped the attention of the Org.
Check this out;
My Little Pony Corrals Unlikely Fanboys Known as ‘Bronies’
Each day, out-of-work computer programmer Luke Allen self-medicates by watching animated ponies have magical adventures.
The 32-year-old, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, loves his daily fix of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, and he’s not alone. He’s part of a growing group of “bronies” (“bro ponies”) — men who are fans of a TV show largely intended for a much younger audience. “First we can’t believe this show is so good, then we can’t believe we’ve become fans for life, then we can’t believe we’re walking down the pink aisle at Toys R Us or asking for the girl’s toy in our Happy Meal,” Allen said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Then we can’t believe our friends haven’t seen it yet, then we can’t believe they’re becoming bronies too.”
Every nerd has a favorite TV show they watch religiously and know inside and out. But My Little Pony seems like an unlikely object of fanboy love. Since the show debuted last fall on cable channel Hub TV, it’s attracted a growing number of male fanatics. Their love of the show is internet neo-sincerity at its best: In addition to watching the show, these teenage, twenty- and thirtysomething guys are creating pony art, posting fan videos on YouTube and feeding threads on 4chan (and their own chan, Ponychan).
They also risk life, limb and being trolled to death on the /co/ board to fawn over a small gaggle of ponies with names like Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.
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So, why the breathless adoration? Some fans say the show’s appeal lies in good illustration, excellent characters or, as Allen put it, a “perfect storm of ’80s nostalgia and cultural irony.” But nearly every fan Wired.com contacted can be far more specific about the source of the show’s genius: Lauren Faust.
Faust, a 36-year-old who manned the latest reboot of the My Little Pony franchise for Hub TV at the request of Hasbro Studios, has a bit of a history handling shows with crossover appeal. Prior to her tenure on My Little Pony, Faust was a writer and storyboard artist on The Powerpuff Girls, another show that had appeal way beyond its intended demographic.
While Faust acknowledges that her work on The Powerpuff Girls influenced her creative process and that she intentionally looked to create a show that could be enjoyed by adults, she said she’s genuinely surprised about the large number of dedicated bronies, whom she clearly adores.
Embracing the brony audience could be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow for Hasbro because, as Shaun notes, some bronies would like better merch, adding “the current toys are good for the originally intended target audience of 7-year-old girls … but Lauren Faust and the team behind the actual cartoon did an amazing job of accidentally targeting us instead.”
Faust, however, left the show after the first season aired its final episode early last month. Discussing her departure ...rt journal, she said of her colleagues: “Together I think we helped prove that ‘for girls’ does not have to automatically equal ‘lame.’” She also thanked “the kids, the parents and all you bronies” for supporting the show, adding: “The array of people this show has touched has completely exceeded my wildest expectations!”
“This weird alchemy that Lauren Faust tapped into when she set out to make the show accessible to kids and their parents hooks into the male geek’s reptilian hindbrain and removes a lifetime’s behavioral indoctrination against pink,” said New Mexico brony Allen. “As a person with Asperger syndrome, I learned more about theory of mind, friendships and social interactions from this season than I had in the previous 31 years of life.”
So, what’s a brony to do while he waits for the show to return next fall? It’s possible that several months without new episodes to power the pony posse will cause the buzz to die down. It seems far more likely, though, that the show’s absence will only make the bronies’ hearts grow fonder. “Season 1 is over,” said Shaun from Equestria Daily, “and I honestly expected everything to die down a bit (mainly so I could finally get a break!), but it seems like the fans are more ravenous than ever for more content.” By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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U call them BRONIES....we call them Paedophiles!!!! | |
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This caught my attention earlier (resulting in this thread);
Walmart Sells ‘I Love Bronies’ T-Shirt, ‘My Little Pony’ Fans Aren’t ImpressedWalmart recently started selling “I Love Bronies” T-shirts in hopes of generating some cash off the popularity of the My Little Pony franchise. Although the idea of peddling shirts to Brony-lovers is certainly intriguing, designers ultimately failed to do a any research when it came time to incorporate an image onto their apparel. Instead of using the version of characters that countless adult males have fallen in love with, the shirt features the colorful animals from the 80s version of the show.
While using the wrong version of the My Little Pony characters may not seem like a very big deal to most, Bronies, on the other hand, aren’t too pleased with the mistake. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is drastically different than the original 80s television show, something the T-shirt’s designers probably should have researched beforehand.
The Daily Dot reports that angry and irritated Bronies have taken to the internet to express their displeasure with this attempt to capitalize on the subculture. After all, the last thing you want to do is confuse Generation 1 My Little Pony with Generation 4.
“This is like a “I Love Trekkies” T-shirt with C-3PO and R2-D2 giving each other a high five over the smoldering body of a Cylon,” one Reddit user commented. Like it or not, Walmart intends to roll out these “I Love Bronies” shirts with the offending My Little Pony imagery across the country within the coming months. Make sure to avoid any area locations when you’re out and about with your Brony friends.
I wonder what an angry mob of Bronies looks like?  ?"...if rainbows could kill...." By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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MLP is the shit. I am telling y'all.
Don't knock it until ya tried it.
I'mma go on and continue watching this MLP marathon.
See y'all sunday. | |
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Yeah.. A few of them bothered me and my date *who's not a fan* to join there social gatherings. We cosplayed two characters from the show to a anime con. It REALLY pissed me off. I'm not THAT into the fandom [Edited 10/11/12 14:05pm] | |
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Bronies are old news in the Stern world.
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I'm not going to rag on this dude because I suspect that he has some sort of learning disability or something.
If not, then he just needs to discover titties. ( . Y . ) By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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I think thats the problem with all of them.
Either they've got an issue, I think that dudes got Aspergers. But I think a lot of them are social outcasts who thrive more in their little world and go deeper into it rather than stepping outside.
They see the show as a manner of repression release, if that makes sense. | |
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I suppose.
So then, My Little Pony is the Dungeons & Dragons of this generation??? By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! |
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as a grown man, whenever I find myself constantly playing with my "little pony", | |
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This has been big in Portland Oregon-probably the mecca of this world. So, when are you going bro? 'Cuz you know you our a Bronie. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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Not long after they played the Brony stuff, Howard was riffing on attack ads. One of them went like this:
[SOLEMN VOICE] "Mitt Romney is a Brony."
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most important question here is..... how many orgers r bronies??????
i am sure we have atleast 1 amongst us
but whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Well...there IS a Brony convention going on right now...and Imago is curiously absent from the Org...
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maybe he went 4 the cookies thinking it was a brownie convention mailto:www.iDon'tThinkSo.com.Uranus | |
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Who's good with photoshop???
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My daughter is 15 and a sophomore in high school.
About six months ago, she told me that several of the "cool boys" in her high school are My Little Pony fans. I hadn't heard about the Brony phenomenon yet. I asked her if it seemed to her that they were playing with irony, being tongue-in-cheek about it? She said, "No, Mom, they're, like, FANS. They know the different ponies' names, and one guy even brings the ponies in."
I like the gender-role subversion aspect, especially when the dudes are unapologetic about liking MLP on its own merits as opposed to some heterosexist, pseudo-ironic "I'm so manly I can even be faggy LOL" garbage - you know? | |
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See...this is the first I'm hearing of it. They have freaking CONVENTIONS!
In my mind, I'm picturing dweebs & geeks (the same "Dungeons & Dragons" crowd from our youth). Before you say anything, bear in ming that I AM one of those dweebs (just never got into D&D). Still & all...I can't picture the appeal of MLP.
SO, to think that the COOL kids are into this?
...besides...MLP ain't all that...everyone knows the Care Bears rule!
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Wow really?
I perfected my Care Bear Stare in the 80s!
Yep, at least at our kid's school, this is a "cool kids" thing. Weird. | |
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I couldn't STAND the Care Bears when I was young. | |
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I'm here to tell you it's an international phenomenon!
There is an entire community of My Little Pony fans at my daughter's grade school, and many of the "popular" kids -- including, yes, many of the popular boys -- are a devoted part of it. They refer to the show in its understood shorthand, "MLP." And I've witnessed full-on critical playground discussions on the merits of the characters, the social commentary in the episodes, even the political implications of certain characters and their species' contributions to the show's make-believe world of Equestria.
For a while there was some speculation that the show would be canceled after Season 2, and these kids were considering a concerted email campaign to the show's producers. They were thrilled to learn the show was picked up for an upcoming third season, and the lastest buzz is that Season 3 may be the show's last, but that there may be a feature-length animated movie in the works!
These kids are invested! [Edited 10/12/12 13:41pm] Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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