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May other metal bands be posted as well?

Spambot, not a troll. Just a Spambot spamming "Have some free anime at www.anime4fun.com" obviously a website filled to the brim with computer destroying viruses and some fat guy sitting there waiting for you to show up so he can take over your computer. That's all ya missed.

@Metallicolt thread. Fuck that, Metallicolt is the most overrated Metal band that in comparison to a lot of other Thrash Metal bands are pretty weak compared to them.
Instead I propose Megapony thread

On the subject of rock bands, can we all just take a moment to appreciate just how hilariously bad some early Kiss album covers were:

And also just how much better that band looks when you make al of them into ponies:

Bro, you can mock Rock and Roll over considering they were all drunk as hell (except for Gene) but you NEVER insult the cover for Destroyer. THAT'S when I get offended.

What, you mean the example of MS Paint art that I have posted above? I'm not allowed to insult that? You make Applejack sad.

Here's the full collection.

I personally like the St. Anger parody.

Damn character limits… the section will be finished on the next page.

@ Rock Bands

Luna and Bat Ponies are best rock band.

Album covers? I believe I've posted a couple of these a while back. They still make me as happy as when I first found them…

@Level4
Dat Jane Doe cover. Easily one of my favourite albums of all time, though, to be honest, Pinkie doesn't really fit the theme of it.

Found this cover when looking at the image gallery

Alright, let me tell a story. A story about a faggot.

So, I checked /dA/ for art when I stumble across an underage kid's work. Basically, what he's posting is pictures of his red and black OC and Vinyl. Simple enough. But I haven't gotten to the best part. He makes them in Pony Creator, makes a shitty background on MS Paint, and then proceeds to claim he drew the ponies by himself, DESPITE THEM CLEARLY BEING MADE IN PONY CREATOR. Now, I use Pony Creator. But at least I acknowledge I do and even make fun of my own work. I mean, have you seen the cutie marks I added to some of those? They're horrible!

Anyway, after going through a few pictures of this crap, I finally decide to check the comments. Somebody makes a "messing with my headcanon" joke, the kid asks what that means, and the guy explains headcanon and says he believes Vinyl is with Octavia. This is the response that follows by the kid:

bitch this is my way, she is not a fucking lesbian, you goddamn pesdastrian!!

so this is my way, now shut the fuck and go jump on a cliff!!

Pretty faggy, right? Left with no other option, I did what I had to do. I fucking buried him like Triple H.

That's him – XxBLOODSH3DxX. Frickin' brutal name, amirite? So, to bring this story to a close, underage kid who rages at others about their opinions is buried by me, now known as the "Shovel Man of /dA/."

@Jimbo
I understand that this guy annoyed you, and that his comment was immature. But aren't you a bit overreacting here? Also, calling him a 10 year old faggot , then later saying he's homophobic, is a bit contradictioning.

Btw:
Do you perhaps have a link to his stuff?

Kewln00b The Master of Unlocking said:

Spambot, not a troll. Just a Spambot spamming “Have some free anime at www.anime4fun.com”

>implying I don't use justdub.tv, watchcartoonsonline.com, and pokemonepisode.org for my anime needs

These spambots need to get with the program.

@Rock music stuff
I hate rock music--well metal music. I don't mind the old fashioned "gonna corrupt our kids" rock music from the 60's, but all that screaming and hair banging, uck.

@Jimmy Lethel

>DeviantART
>Faggot

This surprises you because?

For those of you offended by the use of the word "faggot", have Scootaloo contemplating whether or not to pick up a faggot (well, technically, a piece of a faggot).

Mike said:

Also, calling him a 10 year old faggot , then later saying he’s homophobic, is a bit contradictioning.

The internet's use of the word "faggot" is different from the general populace's. I wrote an entire essay on how the internet and certain groups of blacks are trying to redefine hateful slurs ("faggot" and "nigger") so that they lose their meaning. Unfortunately, the two black students in my English class didn't agree and nearly ragequit.

@Metal ponies

I generally use "faggot" as a standard insult rather than a homophobic slur. As for a link, be warned.

Oh, and looky here, he responded to me.

I believe the most glaring statement is "oh by the way, i am 15 years old, EXTRA SHITHEAD POINTS FOR YOU!!!". Ahem, I'm fifteen. He's just acting like an autistic child on meth. Another spot would have to be "jimmy lethal, seriously, ha! that is far the worst username i have ever seen in deviant art!!!". So my username sucks. Good, I've always wanted it to join Primus. Seriously, Jimmy Lethal has to be one of the most stoke-loaded usernames on the internet. Oh, and that big space on the first comment? It was a shitty Muro drawing of a middle finger. Here, I'll even put it up for you:

I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of fun with this.

@Jimmy
Okay. 
"I hope your OC's are shitty" Wut. This guy just screams Badass over here.

@metal ponies

@Mike: Damn, Scratch looks tight in camo.

Let's make it a trilogy, shall we?

Fun Fact: The opening line to this post is a reference to a promo cut by Shawn Michaels.

You have made a dangerous enemy my friend. Now apologize or I'll tell my mom on you. Owned.

@Jimmy I don't associate with Deviantartists mainly because of how easily they get butthurt. They ask for constructive criticism (aka not calling them Faggots) and when you give them constructive criticism you get…….that. If it makes you feel better you made him quite butthurt. I'm proud of you because at least you didn't insult the cover of KISS Destroyer.

Also "You goddamn Pedestrian" I think he was trying to say 'Plebian'……….I don't like this guy at all.

Jimmy, Jimmy, listen, I have to tell you this, because it's something you need to know – you are feeding a troll. Isn't, like, rule number one of not being harassed on the internet "thou shalt not feed the trolls"? Because it's a seriously bad idea. Just walk away man, you will never win this.

@Jimmy Lethal

Just throwing this out there, but I think you might have been trolled. Either that, or maybe I just have too much respect for the human race to even consider the possibility that someone might genuinely be that stupid.

Personally, I wouldn't have gotten involved in that argument. People like that never seem worth the time to me. There's no possible way for it to end well.

Also, no matter how many times the internet tells me that the word 'faggot' means something different here to what it means IRL, or even that it's supposed to be a term of endearment, I still find it offensive. Even disregarding that, its use in any argument is bound to make your own points look weaker, so I'd advise against using it wherever possible.

[Edit: Yeah, what Platus said]

I don't think a troll can possibly be that stupid. If anything, it's making me laugh. Besides that, though, there's something I have to tell you. I don't date guys…

pulls a Rule 63 Ray Gun on Platus

…unless they're chicks.

@Jimmy
Ehh, it's not uncommon finding your usual user that claims he drew something from pony creator. If you're up to it, just lurk around there. I used pony creator before I realized that I can somewhat draw cartoon ponies. Anyways, I think he is a troll, I'd just ignore whatever he posts and I say this from personal experience.

@The word Faggot.
I don't find the word offensive anymore, it's just so commonly used that I could care less if I'm called one.

@Jimmy
I have only this to say.

…if you learned something…

@Trolling and Related Insanity.

I Think I stopped caring what others thought round about the Time I started Passive Aggressively Flirting with my Raging Antagonists.

It's like, they say some stupid little Hate filled thing, and I realize how absolutely ridiculous what they say is out loud, and that its actually kind of Cute the way they make hate filled outbursts over nothing.

And then I'm like Internally Monologuing "I wonder if that's a Girl on the Other end, I find Agression Attractive in Girls."

And then Suddenly I'm all up in thier face all "Daww, how cute, you actually think I give a Hoot. Want to go out some time? I've got reservations for a Candlelit Hate Date for Two."

And Suddenly I have no idea what the Heck I'm saying and suddenly I feel like a Troll. A Legitimately Good One.

…

Its either that or I'm so Desperate for attention I'm willing to Flirt with anonymous Antagonists over the Internet. Which is Quite Sad in Comparison Really.

There is Legitimately No Acceptable Way to Link this Back to Ponies so have a Random Cute Pony Image.

…Daww…

He did eventually calm down and ask me for help with his OC. I did, but I will forever keep the screencaps as memories of the lulz that went down. August 7th, 2013: a glorious day in Jimmy Lethal history.

R63 gun?

And here I am, not even mad.

(Also, one should never underestimate the stupidity of trolls. They are, after all, a cowardly and fucking braindead lot.)

Also, because your raygun reminded me of El Goonish Shive (aka best webcomic), have an EGS pony:

OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU GUISE
ponibooru.org

we are now Eva

@Jimmy's "PROUD MOMENT IN HIS HISTORY"

Dude, just…oh god I don't even know what to say…

Dude…

…Sigh, where do I begin with this.

Look, that guys a classic troll. I'm talking about the kind of people who don't even know they are a troll. He's not trolling per se, instead he's just a troll because of who he is. He's a misguided little kid who's even more inexperienced with the internet than you are (Which is actually how trolls formed)

Be glad you've got more sense than he does. You're already ahead of other kids your age. Keep it that way.

Yea, he's an internet tough guy and a melodramatic poser who can't handle his jimmies, but that's all the more reason to give people like that guidance and not egg them on. If you can't level with people like that, it's better to not talk to them at all.

@Algernon

Also, no matter how many times the internet tells me that the word ‘faggot’ means something different here to what it means IRL, or even that it’s supposed to be a term of endearment, I still find it offensive.

This is true. My friends are quite internet savvy, but being gay: that word still stings them a bit. Even though they might be used to hearing it online, they don't want to hear it IRL, ever. I said "fag" in their presence once and they stabbed me with their eyes

Context matters. 4chan is able to use the world liberally. But that's just 4chan. On 4chan, the meaning of the word is drastically different but only 4channers understand this. South Park altered the meaning of the word so it has nothing to do with homosexuals anymore and I concur with this as I rarely ever see the word used in the context of gays anymore but again, only South Parks fans understand this.

Anywhere else, the word is still inappropriate and uttering it is usually a quick way to tell people that you are uncultured trash

MOAR

so let's talk pony memes

Have any of you seen the "Thanks M.A. Larson" meme? It's starting to gain in popularity and may need an entry soon. Any thoughts?






and that's just a few

I would consider it the brony version of Thanks Obama. I wouldn't consider it meme worthy yet as the spread is insufficient. I only recall seeing it during the Twilicorn shitstorm.

It was all over the image board during the Twilicorn shitstorm. So yeah we've all seen it lol. It was an amusing little fad for a while. But then like the way of Gak Word that'll get you banned from most Brony Streams it just vanished and only shows up due to nostalgic oldfags.

I'm going to have to second this – it's clearly a spinoff of the Obama meme.

So the question is whether it's worth it to add an MA Larson section to the Obama page, and for that to be the case then we would need to know whether the meme has any legs beyond the Twicorn brouhaha.

We ran into a similar problem back when the show was first getting huge. I remember when me, RandomMan, and a few other users would try to catalog every new meme or offshoot that the show created, but eventually just got too big. MLP is kind of a cannibal: it devours and absorbs every other kind of pop culture it touches, releasing it again as a pony version. The only way we could cover everything is if every page came with a label that said "also, there's a pony version of this somewhere – just to let you know." That's why we really need to be careful about what sub-memes we catalog, and why we might have to reject MLP submemes that might normally appear good enough for a page. The subculture is simply too big, and would saturate the site if we let it.

Sorry man.

Heavy Metal and Ponies. Nothing can beat Pantera.

Personally when it comes to metal my favorite happens to be Judas Priest. Obviously not a lot of bronies think the same way (Probably because they're like "No, we can't like that band. The lead singer is gay! We have to prove we're manly!") as I can't find too many parody album covers and can only find Painkiller album parodies and I don't feel like posting Painkiller album parodies right now so instead I found this.

That was a great concert……I wonder if this guy planned this picture that day or was just like "Hey, I've got my lucky Fluttershy toy with me, don't see any better reason to whip her out."

@Platus and THAT'S why the MLP page on KYM has the most content.

so you dont think it has spread?

The Round Stable

DeviantArt

I Am Brony

My Little Brony

derpybooru

Reddit

Any pony sites I missed?

@Kewln00b

The lead singer of Judas Priest is gay? I did not know that. Perhaps I should give them a listen.

And yes, one of the solutions we came up with is to just have a really robust main entry that could cover whatever happened in the future. That's why, for example, we have a section on Pony Tumblrs (which is the part I actually wrote) instead of a page. The alternative would be for us to just be constantly updating the site with pony stuff, which would be impractical and would piss off a hell of a lot of people (especially back then – you don't want to know some of the epic shitstorms that we had to go through before hitting on a pony equilibrium).

Yep, first openly gay heavy metal musician. Give them a listen, I drove 7 hours to go see these guys back in 2011, totally worth it. Here, watch this video, I'm actually in it. I'm the guy with the shaved head in the lower right corner, yes you may insult my enthusiasm, I had spent the last 7 hours driving to the concert in a car with no heater.

Back to the pony, how many other pages on KYM have a table of contents? There has to be at least ONE other page right? Right? There isn't is there? Well shit.

>tfw Jazz and Swing will never be popular on the fandom
and now for something NSFW

Off the top of my head, I know Slender Man has a table of contents, and a similarly long list of editors.

Interesting bit of history: the first pony general thread spent several months as a pretty dormant place, without much activity. At the time, almost all of the discussion was conducted in the comments section of the entry, which meant that the page was always on the trending bar. At the time there was also no "top image galleries" list on the front page, so if you wanted to get your pony fix off KYM you had to go to the page and scroll all the way down. People got so frustrated about the site staying on the trending bar all the time that a mod who shall remain nameless actually blocked image uploads and comments, rendering the page totally dormant for several hours. The compromise that was reached was that the bronies would migrate to the general thread and be basically left alone, while the page comments would be used sparingly, and not for long-winded discussions.

Sadly, I haven't got much to say about the behind-the-scenes stuff during this period – I was only a regular user at the time. But the presence of the bronies seemed (to me at the time, anyway) to have benefited the site in the long run – by creating a contingent of users who were constantly posting and talking, the fandom created a reason for the site to become more sophisticated, and by spinning off sub-memes so quickly it pressured the mods to come up with better protocols for how to deal with them. Heck, when they created page categories MLP was the first page to be named a "subculture," a category that I have a hunch was created just to deal with it.

So yah, the bronies are actually a pretty huge part of the site's history.

Well yeah it's a spinoff of thanks Obama but it would be out of place as a mention there. If anything a link to thanks Obama page.

I was one of the users you are talking about. My first ever entry was Tom Dan. I had no help from anyone writing it. No mods offered any help. I got shit comments from just about every brony and non brony. And in the end it was deadpooled and yet I still to this day see new Tom macros. If a mod doesn't approve or help out then most likely any new pony meme will be deadpooled. I thought this was a site that studied and cataloged memes, not bowing down to subculture opinions.

@Metal
Not my favorite genre (though far from my least favorite) so I don't have much knowledge of albums, but I'll post this one simply because it has a particularly 'MLP' level of pun to it:

@Kewl
Since when were bronies overly concerned about being 'manly,' especially to the point of hating gays?
Just about any machismo I've come across in this fandom is intended to be at least partially tongue-in-cheek since we realize that guys loving rainbow ponies is such a stereotypically un-manly thing to see.
But almost no one takes that stuff seriously.
(Hi, Poe's Law!)

I vaguely remember hearing that the front-man for Judas Priest was gay, but I guess I never registered that as such an outlandish thing.
Despite their outward appearance sometimes, I've noticed that a lot of metalheads tend to be pretty cool and levelheaded.
(Ever heard Marilyn Manson have a serious discussion? I don't want to say that he's 'surprisingly' articulate, but it certainly wasn't what i was expecting from his 'image.')
I heard the fact about Judas Priest in passing one time, no one seemed to care much, life went on.
Pretty mush how I wish gays were treated by the rest of society.
They're there, they're gay, but they are also just people doing their thing and they are (and should be) known more for their actual accomplishments and talents than what gender of people they like to see naked.

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See, bronies do like Priest!

@'Fag'
I guess that leads nicely into this topic.
I'm really pretty mixed about stuff like this.
In my opinion, no word is inherently offensive because that comes more from intent than specific word choice.
Two close friends joking around can use all kinds of profanity with no ill intent ("I love you, ya bastard!") but when that language is thrown out with the intent to offend or insult, trying to justify it as 'taking the word back' just doesn't make sense.
In my eyes, the word has only lost power in some very specific communities that, while seemingly large on the internet, don't really represent much of the outside world at large.
In any case, talking like that in a public place when you know that the word is, at best, controversial just reeks of tactlessness and a lack of consideration for others.

(BSoD, I disagree that 'fag' is no longer used as an anti-gay slur. Just look at any 'God Hates Fags' sign that pops up at colleges around the country whenever people with more Bibles than brain cells decide to go on a field trip. They turned up at least once a month back when I was going to classes and always generated a large, angry crowd.)

@Larson

The meme has pretty much eaten itself at this point!

(I agree that it isn't really big enough to justify an entry though. Maybe a listing as a sub-meme somewhere on one of the pony pages, but it's really more of a 'running gag' than a meme and it has mostly died down from it's original inception during Twilicorn-time.)

@DP

BSoD, I disagree that ‘fag’ is no longer used as an anti-gay slur.

Didn't say it wasn't. I quite agree with you. I was talking about in the context of the internet. Also the keyword I used was 'rarely' not 'never.' 95% of the time I see somebody type that word online, it's not being used towards gays but that's not to say it doesn't happen, hence why the LGBT community is still very adverse to it and doesn't buy the whole "lost all meaning via overuse" angle.

I only know two people IRL who utter that word (also IRL). One is my young teenage cousin who hasn't learned tact yet and uses it to describe things he doesn't like. He doesn't use it to describe gays though. The other is my crazy homophobic apocalyptic zealot uncle who definitely uses it to describe gays

So while I hardly ever see the word used in its infamous context, I do know it gets thrown around as a proper slur.

But I predict that in time, the LGBT community will claim authority over the term. Sort of like how the black community claimed authority over 'nigger'. It's their word now. Nobody says it out loud but them. I think 'fag' will befall that same fate, but for gays. Already I know a lot of guys who call themselves a fag and use it with pride, because that's how they've come to defeat it's offensive implications: by claiming it for themselves. (Not my friends though, they still hate the word)

Not my favorite genre (though far from my least favorite) so I don’t have much knowledge of albums

It's not necessarily mine either. I'm about as lost in that discussion as you are. I'll just wait until we start discussing ponified Daft Punk again.

(Ever heard Marilyn Manson have a serious discussion? I don’t want to say that he’s ‘surprisingly’ articulate, but it certainly wasn’t what i was expecting from his ‘image.’)

Better yet, you should see what he used to look like before he decided to be Marylin Manson

@Vasqueeze (Yes you are Vasqueeze now, because that's hilarious)

My first ever entry was Tom Dan. I had no help from anyone writing it. No mods offered any help. I got shit comments from just about every brony and non brony. And in the end it was deadpooled and yet I still to this day see new Tom macros. If a mod doesn’t approve or help out then most likely any new pony meme will be deadpooled. I thought this was a site that studied and cataloged memes, not bowing down to subculture opinions.

To be fair, we also have tonnes of macro's and mashups coming in for Fluttershy too, and Rarity, and Dash, and Applebloom, and Lyra…all to this very date

If we count Tom Dan as a meme for all the spinoffs that the fandom makes of him, we'd have to do the same for all the other characters for all the spinoffs the fandom makes of them, no? We don't do that because we know that all these characters are only popular because they are part of a greater meme, that is MLP itself. They arent spreading memetically by themselves. They only spread when MLP spreads so one might say that the development of Tom Dan as a meme, only shows development of MLP as a meme.

@DeviantART bundle of sticks
I always wonder how those people act in real life, cause I see college completely crippling them if they act anywhere close to that.

In a slightly related note, DeviantART sucks for fanfics. Not only is it an absolute pain to post stories there (I gotta pdf everything cuase I'm not touching the HTML), but nobody reads anything.

@Derpy Vazquez
>Not including Fimfiction
>Not including the Pony Fiction Archive

Do you even fanfics?

@Faggot terminology

>yfw I use 4chan in a college essay and get an "A"

EDIT: Damn, that's a wall of text. I'm too lazy to sort through it.

Kewln00b wrote:

Personally when it comes to metal my favorite happens to be Judas Priest. Obviously not a lot of bronies think the same way (Probably because they’re like “No, we can’t like that band. The lead singer is gay! We have to prove we’re manly!”) as I can’t find too many parody album covers and can only find Painkiller album parodies and I don’t feel like posting Painkiller album parodies right now so instead I found this.

I've actually found quite a few ponified Priest albums other than Painkiller through a quick Google Image search:

Also, any brony who claims that they can't like Judas Priest because they need to be perceived as "manly" probably shouldn't have become a brony in the first place. Hell, I watch the show and I like to listen to this band called Limp Wrist. They're a Queercore (LGBT punk) band. I think I'm past the point of caring about being perceived as "gay" or "unmanly."

Judas Priest is awesome! I love heavy metal and I could care less if the vocalist is gay or not.

Same as Vintiezre, you shouldn't stop liking a band because of a member's sexual orientation.

@Level4outbreak
I'm listening to their 'official discography' album, that band is awesome.

I made this once

mm…I really should make a better recording of that. Was one of my better pieces of work.

@Fag discussion

Eh, I really dislike people who try to control words, I think it's some subversive bullshit. I dislike how the black and LGBT communities have turned nigger and faggot respectively into forbidden talismans with magic powers as opposed to just mouth sounds people use to communicate. The problem isn't the word, it's really the artificial groupings that those words have been used to corral people into and which those same people now parade about stupidly and proudly as opposed to joining the larger community to which they have a right. Respect people for people's sake, not because they claim to be part of the flock of this constructed cultural and metaphysical icon they've made of their gayness. Fuck gay rights. I believe in human rights.

I just know from experience that some of the more insecure bronies (AKA the ones that feed the goddamn trolls on Youtube all the time) like a few of my friends will go out of their way to make themselves look manlier to trolls so they can't troll them or whatever (Like my friend who does nothing but favorite Action movie trailers and Killcounts from said Action movies). At least that's more like how it was when Bronies were still starting off and Bronycon just had a few hundred people there. I mean now that every single fucking filthy casual is a brony now I guess said people would be normal (haven't talked to them since they said they wouldn't listen to Judas Priest since the lead singer is gay) always thought how it was funny that they'd hate gays then constantly use a rage face inspired by this man right here.

Long story short: Bronies are weird.

@Deadparrot Lol, I said I didn't want to put up a Painkiller Parody and you ended up doing it with that final picture.

@Fifths

Hey guys, listen up. Any chance we can move all this fag discussion out of the pony thread? I'm really curious about this discussion topic and I think it deserves its own thread at this point. If you have any more comments on the word 'fag' please start a new thread about it and take it there. Thanks! Here's Lyra with a hat and tie