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Ok it won't be here forever, but it will be apart of the internet's history. And who know, 20-30 years from now VH1 might do one of those look backs on fads such as this. Maybe. Would be funny to see something like that though.

The whole rule 34 thing I think is funny. you guys shouldn't be so negative against it. I mean so what people drawing sex. Big deal. This was the first rule 34 MLP. I found it on deviant art. You can tell by the way it was drawn that someone who draws furries did it. I wrote rule 34 on it and posted it but this was the only one at the time.
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Ah crap…….

Daniel just started something that will never end.

Why? This will only result with angry post.

I'm out of here…..

Good luck.

Yeah, I guess you're right. Maybe I should be cutting back on the pessimism before calling people out on their optimism.

NEW PAGE!! The first post did not lay down any rules for me to follow so…



I hope you all enjoy your new…

@ Supermonday

Since I was first post I will let you do so. But next time I will not be so reckless with such power.

Don't run away you coward.
I understand it's like talking to someone about anime and they have it in there head as you're talking about hentai. You just gotta say fuck em they will never understand. Are you guise that worried about how others see you?

I've only been on here for barely a month, so first impressions are important. But I think the image was an unnecessary image to post. I do like to talk about MLP even though I get the look like I should be wearing a helmet at all times. To those people I just say go watch it and tell me what you think. And to your tone to how I think of being judge, to that I say, its something someone should take into account but to be sure not to make it a critical factor into your judgement. So yes and no.

No hater can possibly look at us worse that they already do. There is a ton of MLP FIM R34 but we would like to keep it on the proper sites (I just said "proper" and "R34" in the same sentence, is that possible?) such as… well i'm not gonna name the sites. We would like as little R34 here as possible so that we don't have to see it.
As Caboose said: They can't see me. I can't see them!

Yes, well done, Daniel. You continue to cement our reputation as creeps who jack off to horses. on top of that, we have to look at that disgusting picture every time we post on this page.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Ok so lets do this. Because i was mercin some noobs in cod post cod ponies.

Hell yeah!

Don't worry, we will get to page 21 soon enough. If you want to get there faster just…

@SinisterSnuggles

I liek how I keep seeing yous guise post "We" if you look on page 2 I'm posting and "We" was not

Call of Duty:

Call of Duty, but with ponies:

And that's all I got. Funny how there were pages filled with pony/portal crossover images and barely any CoD ones.

Sorry if I break the internet and theme.

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I only say "we" if i'm saying something that has been said by other bronies.

You cant do that! when you divide by zero this happens

So if I go back to my old avatar can I be a "we" too
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@SinisterSnuggles
Well now I really want to divide by zero.
@Daniel Vazquez
Well you would be part of the minority that has no problem with MLP FIM R34 being posted. "We" is used when talking about an idea shared by the majority.

@ Daniel

Bring it on!

With Pinkie Pie, that's bound to happen next season, zero-division or not.

I don't have a problem with a bit rule 34, I have a problem with the porn. That's taking it too far.
So I'll let this one slip.

Besides that:

I wouldn't worry about a fourth wall breach, it's impossible, could never…

…God help us

Heh, funny, I'm a pedophile and I didn't even know it. Shrugs You learn something new everyday, and I do hope that people know I'm being sarcastic though.

If I may, I would like to develop a little more on all of this, and end my argument with a question for all bronies.
From the beginning of the MLP craze on KYM, I've been, and still am, part of people who got to watch at least one episode of the show without being charmed by the herd. Actually, I still think it's a decent show but nothing more, nothing that would make me reference its characters that much.
So yeah, I have the same old argument against it being the fact that I don't understan d why people need to brag about the show that much if they like it.

However, something caught my eyes while reading the comment section of the MLP entry when I locked image and video uploading for 1 horu or two.

I remember again, like I remarked after I apologized, that many KYM bronies were all "OMG, we can't update with pony pictures! We are doomed! Our fandom is gonna die here so we must migrate to continue expressing our love for the show!"
Literally, I literally saw someone quit KYM because of that ( I don't know if he came back though).
But, in all seriousness, it really looks like a weird attitude to me. A fandom, any fandom, doesn't die because you can't upload new stuff on a website. It's silly to think so. If that were the case, trekkies, Star Wars fans, LotR fans, even the zombie fandom would die at one point.

That's were I realized a little why bronies would think that way: they formed a big community inside the article. I pointed it out already, and that's also why they used the article in a very different manner than other sub-culture articles. Then again, why?

We have fans from everything on this website, being internet or non-internet related. Touhou fans, pokemon fans, hell even Adventure Time fans but none of them formed a community completely dedicated to their fandom in a remote place of this website. Some, sometimes, make threads about it, but that's it.

So my question is why, bronies, why do you keep having a remote pony fandom inside KYM instead of being simply pony fans (while loving other stuff too) that are browsing a website about memes?

I don't understand it. It almost looks more like trolling than anything to act that way, to me.

I can live with the fact that you watched an episode and it didn't appeal to you. That happens to more people, we once had a person in the comments. He said some things why it didn't appeal to him, but he wouldn't hate the fandom. Some tried to counter his arguments. But in the end we accepted it, you can't force a person.

It is true that we brag about our love for the show. But most of us try to keep it within the entries and the forum here. I will tell you later about the amount.

I think I know who you're talking about (the person who deleted his account). I caught my eye as well, but I didn't really dig into it. Maybe it was a coincidence, I can't tell.

When you locked the images I was away, the next day I noticed all the developments around it. So I paid a little attention to it. The main reason why people got upset because you did it without warning. I also read the comments and forum. I noticed that the development was more a flame war, people were attacking you and you defended yourself. At a certain point, if I remember correctly, you called the MLP fandom a mental diseace. That argument was kinda low, and people took it very hard. I could understand your arguments, but it was more the fact that you did it without warning or discussing it first.

True, any fandom dies. The current development in this fandom is out of the ordinary. But it could have happened before. If the internet was as developed ealier as it is now, think of the content star trek would create when its fandom reached its maximum.

Like you said, we have fans for everything on this website. I also did my share in other fandoms, like Pokémon. But the MLP fandom is the only one on this site which creates this amount of communication among fans. It's unique for all fandoms registered here.

And with that I would like to answer your question as well. In the comments a lot of people tell they come to this site because of the community here. They get their fan-art and the comments/forums are always lively. It appeals to people. People explained that on other sites communication between bronies just didn't went as smooth as it did here.

That appeals to me as well. I started visisting this site because of the memes. At a certain point I started to pay more attention to the bronies, and I noticed its popularity here. I convinced me to join it. I visited other sites, but they just don't appeal as much. Those sites are most of the times 100% MLP, but I like other memes and subculteres as well. Currently MLP just appeals the most.

I hope this answered your questions a little better.

@Tomberry

I started posting here because of the community that was already present. I don't know how the community started within the site, so you'll probably have ask someone who's been around for a bit longer about that. I do have an idea for why it's still here though.

Due to the popularity of the subculture, the page gains a lot of views and comments, which keeps it trending so others can find it. The constant stream of images uploaded to the MLP article make it a convenient place to find the latest content, which attracts quite of lot of people. Many of those people also read the comments section and see the discussions going on there. Some might want to get involved with the discussions, so they sign up to the site. This is why the community persists; we constantly attract new members who get involved with discussions, following those who were already doing so. Those of us who were already involved in the community keep returning due to the people within it. The people I've met here are very friendly and enjoyable to talk to, which is quite rare on the internet.

I see your point that it's unusual for this to occur on the site. The reason other subcultures haven't gained a similar response is probably due to a lack of popularity or activity within those subcultures. The brony community is quite large on the internet, and is churning out content at a rate that far exceeds similar subcultures.

As for the response to you locking the images, the flamewar was more due to the way you worded your arguments than due to your actions. Implying that we're mentally ill wasn't exactly going to be well received. People wanted the images unlocked because, as I mentioned earlier, those images attract a lot of people to the site, and are part of the reason they keep returning.

The MLP article isn't the only reason I'm here. I'm no where near as active in other areas of the site, but I do enjoy reading other articles, and was interested in memes way before I actually signed up and started posting comments. We definitely aren't trolling here (or at least I'm not), and we're not here to stir up arguments with other site members. The reasons we choose to communicate on this site rather than others are likely different for each member of the community. I post here because I like the way we can communicate on the site. I've never liked image board sites like PonyChan or Ponibooru, and Equestria Daily doesn't have a dedicated forum. Those sites also have such large communities that it's difficult to communicate frequently with the same few people like you can here.

@Tomberry.
For me, MLP cured my depression when absolutely nothing else could. Nothing else! It's hard to express how joyous I was, does this mean I sold my soul to MLP? No. I'm just happy again! I've seen MLP actually do good for many people. I've seen someone who got loads of friends thanks to the morals in the episodes. I've heard of someone who got their career off the ground because of it.

If you watched an ep, didn't like it, that's ok, but I've been to KYM many times before ponies came along.

As for your questions, well I think it's because KYM is friendly, or that's my guess at least, but I don't think that answers your question, I think it's because with KYM. But to be honest, I don't know as much on it.

@Tomberry
So many things to try to explain…
 
"I don’t understand why people need to brag about the show that much if they like it."

• I wrote up two or three pages on the matter when discussing blind haters and overzealous Bronies. Perhaps I should send that to you as well. It won't fit as a forum post, and I don't want to double post. But simply, I think for some Bronies, MLP is much more than a show. It's fulfilling some social and personal needs that some people have never or rarely have fulfilled. It is not a mental illness, but I will cautiously say that most Bronies have common characteristics that make MLP (and the community) terribly addicting outside of the quality of the show.
   
• As for the response to your locking up of the images, I found the hoopla to be weird myself. I simply didn't like the "I'm a mod, deal with it" approach. I think some people overreacted, because the only Brony community they knew and felt welcome on was on the Comments section of the MLP article. If anyone is like me, they found out about MLP via KYM. It follows that a community would begin here if that's how people first learned about it. I know if this thread (I guess this is a thread in a forum…I'm still a bit of a noob online communication.) and the Comments section was killed off, my participation in the community would be limited to posting comments on YouTube. Yeah, I'll live, but it would be a bit sad. I think other people may have felt that much more than I did. I still think leaving KYM is weird, but to each, his own.

Shows/anime/games (e.g., Pokemon, Adventure Time) were probably first seen and understood fairly well outside of KYM. Again, if anyone is like me, their first exposure was here. That explains the number of people here for MLP. The activity of the Comments section was probably started by a few people who simply like to post a lot and it set the tone for newcomers.
 
"So my question is why, bronies, why do you keep having a remote pony fandom inside KYM instead of being simply pony fans (while loving other stuff too) that are browsing a website about memes?"

• Um, I'm not sure if understand that question.
   
  Why don't we go elsewhere for all of this pony talk?
  Personally, I'm comfortable here. If I thought we were truly compromising the integrity of the site or if a ton of mods told us to change or simply leave, I'd be the first to bolt. But as it stands, this little thread (and the Comments section, when I decide to post there) is…nice.

Why aren't we more involved in other memes and not just ponies
The show is my current long-term hobby now. It was Pokemon at one point, where I visted Serebii as often as possible for any kind of news. It was a combination of Dragonball Z/Big O at another point when I watched R. Dorothy Wayneright to a point verging obsession. When my friends IRL were nearby, I spent my time around them and not online. MLP is that thing right now. I love 60's Spider-Man and Troll Science, but I can go to their respective articles once a week and not see much change. The spread isn't nearly as large as My Little Pony.

Also, objectively, as a person of the social sciences, My Little Pony is just much more interesting as a subculture than any other article on the site.
 
I mean, freaking candy-colored ponies are taking over the male-dominated bowels of the Internet and is making its way into parts of the mainstream. And has been doing so consistently for months.
 
You can't explain that.
 
I do understand your concern or just confusion. We are trying to clean up the MLP page and organize things so we're…not as loud (and to better document the spread of the subculture,) but we do stick out like a sore clichè.

I've got a question though. Are your questions about a concern for the site (to see if changes should be made, which I'm ok with) or trying to understand the MLP within the site (out of plain curiosity?)

my very first post on this thread

Sephiroth can go fuck himself.

Anyway, Anyone know the meaning of this "surprise" that was just posted to the home screen?

but its so small, why do you think he has long hair and longer sword, he's obviously over compensating

So, you post a pic of him, and then insult him? Your logic is quite flawed.

I know how you feel. My gf and I broke up, ponies made me happy. Grandma got Cellulitus, ponies made me happy. Soon I'm heading to college and the only thing keeping me from freaking out or stressing out is ponies. So yeah…..rough month so far.

I'm really hoping they've sorted out some sort of new image gallery system, but the nagging pessimist in the back of my head keeps telling me it's gonna be something bad.

@Tomberry
Come on you were here when the 4chan pony wars happened. bronies started migrating here during that time. Once the community was established here and the mods where OK with them being here…..the rest is history. When it first started here in the forums Trick Lobo, Lanthus, 00Clank and myself (I'm sure I left someone out) where some of the biggest bronies here. Myself because I liked trolling Troll King. It seems for the most part that most bronies stick to the MLP comments and don't bother with the forums and most of us don't bother with the comments and stay within the forums.

@Ann Hiro

TMI what you do with Pony cross-overs is your business. Though this forum can be provocative, I would at least ask you to be polite. The last pic was not needed. Other than that I leave you with this.

Alright, ANN. We are not people who jack off to horses, let alone creepy hentai versions of characters we love. Your conduct is most disappointing. Now get the fuck out of this thread, and never return.

nah i just deleted my last post

1,000th post get.