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I heard you guys were doing an collage of sorts. I may be new here but I just want to put this here.

First Post AND Page get on here? Me like!

Nice. Page get, OC, and first post.

>inb4 Gigatoast rage

At least isn't not from PonyCreator.

I KNEW IT! YOU ARE A BRONY!

Also, congrats on first page get!

Oh and Synchtube is going on for some reason. Im just watching stuff:
CLICK TO GET IN ROOM

Would ya looky there.

Y u no give negakarma!?

Yes, there's an OC compilation floating around here. I'm using it to make Pony General family portraits.

I can add you to it if you like.

So you are they guy Rinsan was talking about? We've heard much about you

I constantly see people complaining because someone gave them neg. This way I can never be blamed for being "that a**hole who negged them".

Plus I simply don't want to be a person who negs everyone. Friendship and Cuddles, blablabla.

What in the name of s**t is going on in the SynchTube.

Who the buck is the mod?

I guess you could say that. It's been kinda slow lately and I felt done being a lurker around here.

I would really like to know who fhghfhgh is the Synctube.

But if Verbose trusts him…

hey a new person hello!

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I need to go to bed now see you all later

Hello pers- and you're asleep…

So, hi. I'm not a brony, but one of my best friends IRL is a Pega-Sis.
Could you please explain to me the appeal of MLP?
"Just Because It's Awesome" Is not allowed.

:closeenough:

I'll let someone else TL;DR.

@Itiz

I don't really want to give you a TL;DR response despite what everyone is hoping for.

So, the simple and short answer is that the appeal is really what had been built around it.

At the core of the Brony fandom is just an ordinary kids show. Surrounding it is a fanbase that is actually more attractive than the show itself

We're all in this to have fun. And the show has given us plenty of material to make fun out of it. It's what we make out of it that causes the attraction. When you think about it, the same applies to the Sonic, Pokemon and Furry fandoms. We are no different really.

Well. For me, its something different. You from the violence, sexuality, etc etc. On TV. Finally something to watch. Where any age can watch it. Im 20 myself. If anything, since people who are Bronies are usually nicer, its easier to talk about stuff. I stated drawing, showed Bronies my pics first and then continued drawing, now I can actually draw good. All because of this show.
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It provides us with a common interest to talk about, joke, etc. Watch a couple of episodes and u will see.

Ah. I started watching MLP, but never got around to more. I didn't mean to sound patronizing or anything, though. I'm just curious about fandoms and why people like them.

The animation is cute, the characters are enjoyable, its genuinely funny, and It has Pinkie Pie.
But just like everything else, if the person asking doesn't like it( not saying that you said you didn't like it), its hard to understand what makes it good. Its like explaining soccer to a football fan or NASCAR to an F1 fan.

EDIT: as others stated, the Fandom is probably the most entertaining thing about it.

Just one thing, though- Any of you guys that really only post in here, don't do that! There's an entire forum to explore with mostly awesome people! Play a forum game! Make a thread about dildos! Make fun of warcraftnerd! I'd really appreciate more people in the forums. The community is awesome, and you should be a bigger part of it.
/inspiringspeech

I'll watch more MLP, and ON MY WORD I WILL RETURN

I've been trying to tell people that, trust me.

And if you want to watch more MLP, well there's a synctube going on right now

I do Not recommend u start with Season 1 Episode 1 or 2. Start from like 3 and stuff. Its just better. My opinion

synctube?

@Itiz:

The appeal of the show is very complex and is in no way the same from fan to fan. There's no satisfactory short answer that I can give, but I'll try to be succinct.

One of the most commonly-cited appeals of the show is the animation style. While it's by no means groundbreaking, it does effectively use Flash in a situation where Flash has failed miserably in the past.

A better explanation in my opinion has to do more with the themes presented in the show, which tend to be heartwarming, although not quite as saccharin as the previous incarnations of the show. This, and the humour is slightly less juvenile than the previous versions. The creator stated her intent to make the show enjoyable for children and parents.

But, there's another aspect to the thematic appeal of the show that I find more interesting, and I think it accounts for the brony phenomenon more accurately. One of the most common aspects of contemporary internet culture is the heavy influence of dark and violent movies and video games, and the show represents an antithesis to this. The show provides a warmth that is needed in life, but can't be found in most modern media.

A further aspect is that many internet users are, let's face it, pretty lonely people who may lack real-life social interactions. The show deals with a character who is the same way, but gains friendship and becomes much happier for it. So in some ways, the show is used to vicariously experience some of those lacking emotions.

Another appealing aspect of the show is the fanbase itself; as you may know, bronies generate tons of art and fanfics, many of them amazing. The fanbase is also really community-oriented and supportive, again providing some emotions that may be lacking in real life.

Well, that's my idea of what happens. Like I said, it varies wildly from person to person.

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P.S. If you didn't know, I am one of the thread's resident overanalysts.

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Hey there Itiz. That question has come up a lot from different people visiting this thread. The appeal of the show is different for many people. Many of us agree on some of the finer points but we all like it for our own reasons. The animation isn't the best but it's pretty good. The humor is pretty funny. The characters are enjoyable, each in their own way. The fact that they're magical talking horses makes no difference to me. And for many people the show has a nostalgic feel to it. It reminds them of cartoons from the 90's era. That's the best I can think of.

Oh boy, this is gonna result in a sh*tload of tl;dr. But allow me to explain as good as possible.

First of all. Liking the show itself isn't directly needed. It will help you in getting to know the characters and their personalities. But it's not a must. Plenty of bronies didn't started watching far after they became a brony.

As for liking it, this of course depends on the person. You have to be open-minded for things like this and be able to give it a second shot if it doesn't directly appeal. The first impression is of course important, so it's better to not get your impressions from 4chan. Bronies can be found nearly everywhere, just look for a good start. This sometimes creates tension amongst non-bronies, but it has far improved since the beginning.

So why does it appeal to people? Well first of all this fandom has something for everyone. Art, fanfics, vids, YTP, MAD, overanalyzing a children's cartoon, you name it. No matter what you're into, the fandom has it somewhere. Like I said before, you don't even have to watch the show. Some people are bronies just because of the fun and sheer randomness it creates online. And with the popularity and spread of this fandom, you'll be assured of finding something fresh and new every day.

Second is the fans themselves. The fans try to stay true to the show's message of "Kindness and Friendship". Of course they don't always succeed in this, it's still the internet. Sometimes trolls cause tension, sometimes it's amongst the fans themselves. But you'll hear plenty of stories from people how the MLP fandom is the nicest fandom they've ever been into. Very forgiving and always helping are some of the many reasons. This appeals to people.

Last are the bit more overanalyzing reasons. So if you're not into that, just stop reading. I commonly compare it with Pokémon. Pokémon is still enjoyed by many ages, even though it's a show/game for kids. Likewise with MLP. But even after all these years of fun with Pokémon, it starts to get boring eventually. So people look for a replacement. Something that's popular, not for their age group, and makes them feel young again. Which brings us to MLP, a giant fandom with something for everyone.

So basically. Good show, great fandom, something for everyone, everyone's nice, always something new and unique, etc.

I will be going to bed now.

Damn it's windy.

Hey you!

Yes you!

JOIN THE MAFIA GAME!

That was amazing.
Post on my wall next time another one comes up, please.

Stupid "Body must be between 4 and 5000 characters" rule. https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/general/topics/12575-kym-pony-general-iv-electric-scootaloo?page=79 It's the huge post in the middle of the page.

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Lost Generation, that's the term I was looking for. And Occam's Razor (what are you, a psychologist) is no fun. You have to look into things to discover the true workings behind it all. Like how there were 2 guys who killed JFK, and how the moon landing was faked.

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@Blue Screen (of death): Ummm… if I say yes, will you be happy? I just felt like the need to write an unnecessarily long TL;DR, and that fit the bill. I did not imply a complete male extinction. Stallions still existed on other lands (Equestria isn't the entire pony world, just most of it), and luckily they found some just in time. No, two mares can't have a foal, although that tumblr sounds interesting. The pony population slowly died out, at least until they found those males. And the population of Equestria is much lower that back then because simply so many ponies died.

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Speaking of rambling, what the devil, twins?!

To be fair, I hadn't posted anything over a few sentences in a week or so, and I just couldn't stand the withdrawal. So I exploded everything I could think of into that.

Yay blockquotes are fun.

EDIT: How do you get block quotes to cite?

Hm.

I can't speak to everyone, but I could speak for myself. Somewhere in the yarn is why I'm attracted to the show.

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Pony.

I'm in school away from my friends and family. It was a sucky semester, I had a lot of other serious stuff going on. And I kinda just wanted to laugh and forget about it all for a while.

After hunting down some webcomics to catch up on, I remember my account on KYM and decided to go there. I generally find good images when I go there, and I've always liked internet memes.

The first thing I see is a gif of the pink pony, Pinkie Pie. I ask, why My Little Pony. Silly irony lovin' Anons…

Nope. Legit love for the show.
It intrigued me.
I watched.
I smiled.
…I felt good.
After watching ponies.

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But yeah, I think it's simply the fact that I find the humor funny, I find the colors to be pretty, and I don't feel guilty about watching it. There's not much else to it, I'm sorry to say.
 
 
Now, how I came to find out about FiM isn't irrelevant, so stay with me. I didn't want to post online before with strangers, because I read other forums where people were just stupid, geek jerks to be honest. I didn't want much to do with them. But I was reading the comments in the KYM Pony article, and the people sounded pretty interesting. So I decided to jump in.

And then immediately change my real name to a username.

And then I eventually changed it to something I never used before online.

…And that's how Verbose was made!
 
 
I am active in the community, because of the hook of ponies and because of the Internet phenomenon, but the show itself is just OK. But I do like it like I enjoy a lot of other cartoons.

The interesting people I've met (pretty much everyone in the Late Night Debate Club…we overanalyze the show and the community) along with people outside of the thread on KYM keep me active. To be honest, I think most of you are much more interesting than people I'd meet IRL at this point in life.

The show is just something I can get excited about with other people. The art is really good (and really bad,) the other fanmade content can be interesting…
 
 
But I think I simply enjoy watching the show because it's innocent fun that isn't insulting my intellect and because the community is fun.

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Oh, here is something from Anon on the matter. He does a pretty good job of explaining it himself.

I actually have a friend who is sort of an amateur psychologist, and I showed him some episodes and told him they just sort of make me smile. He says it's sort of sending unconscious signals that make you feel welcome and as if you're part of the family. Also, the fandom is amazing. They take that subconscious message and expand on it, it's like we're all just one big family. If you see a random person with anything having to do with MLP, they are insta-friends and they always seem to be able to relate, even with things not having to do with MLP at all. Personally, the show makes me laugh and I always feel like the lessons at the end are worth teaching to all of society. People need to be reminded of basic courtesy sometimes.

Twins: <blockquote></blockquote>

I cracked the 5000 limit back on page 26, and I was annoyed.

And like Verbose said, you should join the debate club. It's fun and unnecessarily nit-picky.

I'll put it more simply.

There seem to be a lot of restrictions on what males can like. A girl wearing guys' clothes? How cute (yes I do this sometimes). A guy wearing girl clothes? WTF transvestite repressed gay person social isolation.

In MLP: FiM, men can let out their girly side (which is in all of us) without fear of judgement. It's a guilty pleasure that doesn't have to be guilty. And that's why everyone is all over it.

Of course, the well developed characters, humour, general cuteness, and Pinkie Pie help as well.

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opspe wrote: (amidoinitrite)

I cracked the 5000 limit back on page 26, and I was annoyed.
And like Verbose said, you should join the debate club. It’s fun and unnecessarily nit-picky.

Sign me up.

A guy wearing guys clothes?

Eddy Izzard anyone?

@twins

There seem to be a lot of restrictions on what males can like. A girl wearing guys’ clothes? How cute (yes I do this sometimes). A guy wearing girl clothes? WTF transvestite repressed gay person social isolation.
In MLP: FiM, men can let out their girly side (which is in all of us) without fear of judgement. It’s a guilty pleasure that doesn’t have to be guilty. And that’s why everyone is all over it.

Some psychologists are saying that is the reason the fandom exists. We are using it for a chance to release ourselves from our own gender roles.

I suppose that could be true for some but I feel this does not really apply to me.

I don't feel like I'm letting out the Girly side of me from watching the show. I'm just watching another cartoon. One of many that I am not afraid to watch simply because I don't believe you can be too old for them. That's all it is to me.

It's not like I have any fascination for the things that Girls generally are interested in. I'm just being part of a group.

Then again, I suppose I am a bit effeminate for a guy in terms of stature and things like that. Even my OC looks a bit effeminate

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Welcome aboard!

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how the moon landing was faked.

ಠ_ಠ

I should warn you that as a fan of astronomy and space travel, I am very sensitive about that subject. Please don't bring it up

Guess what?
Equestria Daily GET!

Well soooarr-ee. The Mythbusters proved the landings were real, and have they ever lied to me?

I was just kidding. I don't see why you can't, as long as you don't go to far. Same for religion and stupid. You can joke about how things don't make sense, but when you start putting down everyone and insisting that there is no possible way that God exists, and that you are 100% right, then you become a atheist nazi.

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Ponies aren't actually (surprise) my entire life. I just checked them out for a while, and thought, "hey, this is pretty cool." I watch the episodes, check out Equestria Daily for maybe 10-30 minutes a day, perhaps make a few pony references at my non-pony loving buddies, but really, I'm not the kind of person who spends hours a day on this type of thing. That honor goes to Skyrim for me.

I'm trying to post here more though, because, KYM, or at least this thread, has some pretty awesome people; the best I've seen in any forum. If I didn't find this thread, I probably wouldn't even go to Equestria Daily, and just leave it as one of those shows.

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Connor the 20% Cooler wrote:

yay equestria daily get it's applebloooooom OMFG

Nice. Your fanfic is definitely many multiples of 20% cooler than most of the fanfics I read the first few sentences of.

But wait… chapter… 1? There's going to be more?
*insert pic of sweetie belle doing something with the caption "can't wait!"

This has gotta be one of the most interesting Pinkie stories I've come across.

I don't like where this story is headed, but I wanna keep reading anyway.

So far, this looks to be wonderfully miserable and heart-wrenchingly tragic. I'm going to love keeping up with this and trying to hold onto hope for Pinkie! I can't wait!

Yes, good fic

oooohhh that guy being a dick inspired me to try a fic that I usually wouldn't like and I'm not even halfway in and I like it…

Wow I just finished it and it is a very good setup for being very sad. I can't wait for the next update. If you like sad this is for you.

It's a good story even though I for one am not into the sad fanfics.

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Critcally acclaimed fanfic writer Connor the Brony debut smash, Who Am I?

Rated NMS for Needs Moar Scootaloo.

Congrats. Like I've said, I don't really read fanfics, but I do enjoy a good sad one. And you already have my other remarks on it.

@Twins

Well soooarr-ee. The Mythbusters proved the landings were real, and have they ever lied to me?
I was just kidding. I don’t see why you can’t, as long as you don’t go to far. Same for religion and stupid. You can joke about how things don’t make sense, but when you start putting down everyone and insisting that there is no possible way that God exists, and that you are 100% right, then you become a atheist nazi.

It's OK. We're all good.

Sorry for sounding so uptight. The reason I got a bit uppity is because my friends in NZ all legitimately starting believing the conspiracy and a whole bunch of America-hate came with it (remember I may be in NZ but I'm a US citizen too). I had to deal with them personally, even ended up writing an enormous lecture up on Facebook for them to see that proved the landings were real. The experience left me very bitter and sensitive over the subject.

But I can handle a joke over other subjects like religion, I joke about mine all the time. Its just moon landings where I become dead serious

Arguing with conspiracy believers is like trying to wipe after explosive diarrhea with just on sheet. Nothing will change and you'll feel a stupid for trying. They really are a lost cause. Same thing with 9/11.
"I mean, you must be a complete lunatic if you see two commercial jets full of fuel and going hundreds of miles per hour smash into to buildings on live TV igniting a fire that burned for 2 hours and think " Well If you think that was cause…" ( Bill Maher)

twins wrote:

I’ll put it more simply.
There seem to be a lot of restrictions on what males can like. A girl wearing guys’ clothes? How cute (yes I do this sometimes). A guy wearing girl clothes? WTF transvestite repressed gay person social isolation.
In MLP: FiM, men can let out their girly side (which is in all of us) without fear of judgement. It’s a guilty pleasure that doesn’t have to be guilty. And that’s why everyone is all over it.
Of course, the well developed characters, humour, general cuteness, and Pinkie Pie help as well.

There's nothing girly about My Little Pony! < /quoteoftheday >

But srsly though, it's a double standard in itself to assume a man embracing things like kindness, innocents and cuteness constitutes "letting out his girly side". It's just as sexist to imply that those are strictly female traits and embracing them somehow depletes a person's masculinity.

More then half the crew working on the show are men, including arguably the best writer on staff. The toy line and the previous renditions of the series may have been strictly targeted towards girls, but the show as it is now is completely gender neutral, the way Faust does all her shows. (which, incidentally where all a collaborative effort between her and her husband)

For every makeover scene and girly outfit there's at least one action scene and giant monster, so no, I don't think it's a little girls cartoon, it's just a cartoon, a damn good one.

I made this cause I've been waiting like 2 weeks man!

Wow. Tyrranux has done it again. He did a remake of the Cupcakes parody comic and added story, depth, and emotion to it. I still think the comic with Bambi in it is better due to the humor at the end. I uploaded both comics on the Cupcakes page instead of the main MLP: FiM page due to the violence portrayed in the comics.

Click on the links to read the comics.

Part 1.
Part 2.

@Yoshi

Well that's officially the most messed up thing I have read today

And it is brilliant!

I missed another SynchTube last night?! Sonuva…

I really hope I didn't miss anything interesting (who am I kidding, SynchTubes are always interesting…)

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So I see Connor survived the EqD pre-readers. Congrats, dude. I swear I'll get around to reading it sometime today.

Also, lol @ the tags: Not Cupcakes

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@dac

I know that feel bro. I had to wait about a month for Transcendence (AKA best Scootaloo fic evar) to update, and it seems like the writer's gone on vacation again. Also, what's with the delay on the sequel to On a Cross and Arrow? We were promised one months ago, and we're yet to see a single chapter.

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For me, the most attractive aspect of MLP was the fandom rather than the show itself. I'd been wanting to get involved in some sort of internet community for ages, but none of them appealed to me. I'd considered getting involved in the Halo fandom for a while, but all I saw on the Bungie.net forums was a bunch of whiny teenagers and trolls. This seemed to be true of all fandoms and subcultures, so I never dedicated myself to any of them.

Just before my exams at the end of last year I stumbled across the MLP article on this site, and more importantly I saw the discussions going on in the comments. I started watching the episodes, and found them enjoyable for their light-hearted humour and likable characters. While the show is good, the primary reason that I'm still here is that the fandom was so welcoming and friendly. After a fairly awkward introduction to the small community here, I found it really easy to join in with conversations, and everyone was very accepting of my views. I've been here for months, and in that time I've never had a single serious argument with another brony.

Another thing that makes the fandom is so appealing is the quality and amount of fanworks being produced. Every day there's a shitload of new content getting posted on EqD, and you'll find even more if you dig a little deeper in the fandom. It's easily the most active community on the internet right now.