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Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
August 10 2012 07:37 GMT
#21
On August 10 2012 12:58 Mr.Bimbles wrote:
Could some of you fellow bronies explain to me what is up with this show.

The niece of the guy who created Meatboy and Binding of Isaac got asked why grown up men watch this show. And she said it's because they want to be little girls. Then it all made sense, question answered.
ridethecatbus
Profile Joined February 2012
United States64 Posts
August 10 2012 08:13 GMT
#22
It's just one of those quirky things that, if you watch it on your own, is totally awesome. But the moment you start hyping it to other people and after months they finally watch it, they just look at you and ask what the big deal is. So, it's not for everyone.

I think a lot of guys are too insecure about their masculinity to actually give it a fair shot. They won't even watch it in private. For myself, my junk is all the man-cred I need. And I think those little ponies are so cute! And dat Ashleigh Ball, rawr.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
August 10 2012 10:01 GMT
#23
a bunch of guys realised that they have emotions, since their all similar, the show is more of a means to bridge like minded people
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
SUSUGAM
Profile Joined November 2007
United States177 Posts
October 11 2012 02:44 GMT
#24
I hit my TL.net bookmark today, and pretty much as usual, I saw the MLP thread bumped into the top 5 list on the main page. It got me thinking, and rather than posting this in the MLP thread, where I'd likely get banned (again) for being honest or remotely negative about the show, I figured I'd bump this thread instead.

If every modern cartoon developed a subculture equal to it's quality (like the MLP subculture claims to be) then every post on every website on the internet would be spammed with nonstop discussion about cartoons.

I wish that fans of this show could understand that no one cares how ironic it is that your show is 'actually really good,' because there are dozens of shows seemingly targeted at children that actually appeal to adults.

Spongebob Squarepants is the only show with a remotely similar sensation, except it doesn't have a homoerotic stigma about it, so it isn't nearly as ironic to like it. Thus, its young-adult fanbase didn't become psychotically obsessed with posting about how much they like it, and why everyone else should too.

Ren & Stimpy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rocko's Modern Life, The Misadventures of Flapjack, Cow & Chicken, Ed, Edd, & Eddy, etc are all examples of the same type of cartoons that give adults a way to sit with their children and actually enjoy what they are watching, rather than having to suffer through something like Dora the Explorer. I would claim that every one of these shows I mentioned is better than MLP, which isn't meant to sway anyone away from their favorite pony show, but rather to show that fans of these other shows simply do not act so retardedly as the fans of MLP seem to insist on acting.

This isn't about hating the show, or even just hating the people. It's about the cultural invasion that these people seem bring to all other areas of the internet. It's about how they jump all over that little bait and switch about how they aren't homosexuals (no one cares about your sexual orientation, nor are they even usually referring to it, when they call you a faggot online), and that you'd like the show too if you watched it, but they seem to think that those facts somehow justify their behavior. As if everyone who liked a show is going to start molding their online identity around it, and posting about it habitually for months or even years now.

I just hate so much about the way they choose to be, and don't care at all about the cartoon they like.
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