Even though the fandom is pretty dead. I wanted to see what a brony thread on here would look like since I’m a newbie
What does /leftypol/ think about this franchise and the online subculture it spawned? I feel like now that the little girls who made up the target audience are young adults I’ve been seeing more zoomers tell stories about how they were “traumatized” by the adult fandom and it’s becoming more in vogue to decry the whole “brony” phenomenon as “problematic”.
On the other hand though what’s the sociological explanation for millions of grown men becoming obsessed with a little girls cartoon in spite of hegemonic Western gender norms? I’ve read a lot of conflicting theories from academics and culture critics regarding this. Is it autism? Post-Irony? Or is there something about it that just makes it genuinely appealing?
223 posts and 138 image replies omitted.>>43595The voice sounds kinda AI to me, obviously at least some human intervention would be needed for the visuals, honestly I got bored and stopped watching after like 30 seconds though.
I don't think they can ever get the original magic (if you will) back
>>44221I wish to emigrate to Equestria
The only part I feel bad about/oppose is turning Earth and all its other life and creatures into computing substrate. Well ok I oppose some of the rest too but still much better than current reality
So I wanna ask if anypony has been through this, I wanna preface with context
I’ve only been around earth ponies ever since I was born, my town was a 20k population town near Maretime Bay with 99.99% earth pony population, I have only seen unicorns two or three times a year, I had one unicorn friend but I never wanted to try and force a friendship ofc
But now I moved to Bridlewood that’s mostly unicorns, like 80% or so I’ve heard. But now my heart races when I’m trotting on the sidewalk and a unicorn is walking my way and like, Im not racist intentionally or anything, I watch and read a lot about unicorn struggles especially in Zephyr Heights and I know there isn’t a reason for me to freak out, but I literally haven’t been around enough unicorns to normalize it in my head I think.
How do I stop myself from acting like a liberal and offer a 5 bit hoof app in reparations (I’m kidding ofc what I mean is how do I stop being overly nice) or thinking “shit am I galloping racist” when a unicorn is near me and shit, I just wanna be normal.
Do I need to wait and just chill out for a while while I get used to it, or do I have some studying or soul searching to do?
This also extends to pegasi too, for some reason I catch myself thinking “it’d be cool to have a pegasus friend” and shit. I feel like a horrible pony.
>>46195>>46204 Ah, yes!! A fellow Tamers fan!!!
The latest movie was absolute cinema!
One of my favorite, maybe somewhat morose, pastimes is doing fandom archaeology. I missed the original golden age of pony but visiting old sites and forums gives me a taste of what I missed out on. One in particular that's always stuck with me is this one. Something about it is so earnest and optimistic I can't imagine this type of site existing on today's dead web:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141001001853/http://bronyaerospace.net/about-us/I love revisiting the team's bios. It's just a bunch of dudes rocking. They're offbeat but they aren't hurting anybody. I'll never get over how social media pretty much bullied this kind of harmless nerdy and/or awkward Guy™ out of existence on the premise that hotter, cooler, and more socially attractive posters would fill the void and instead the internet just got taken over by the most cynical and self-absorbed natsoys, techbros, girlbosses and boomers. Unsanctioned "loser" fandoms and subcultures like bronies did more for giving people creative fulfillment and social acceptance than any corporate-sponsored influencer astroturf campaign or red vs. blue culture war brainrot since. We didn't know how good we had it back then, and we'll never get it back again.
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