About

Militant Brony, also known as Horsefuc/k/er (alluding to the origin site's /k/ weapons board), Is an image macro series featuring a young looking male wielding an AR-15 assault rifle while wearing an "I love Derpy Hooves" t-shirt. It is often accompanied with threatening and aggressive statements against supposed contrary opinions to the Brony fandom and extending to imageboard culture.

Origin

The original image allegedly was posted on 4chan's /b/ Random board sometime between 2012 and 2013 in a thread where users would post pictures of each other's faces to be judged by other users. Over 3 years later on July 19th, 2016, the image was re-posted as the OP of a "faces of /mlp/" thread as an erroneous "false flag" to bait users of the site into criticizing the OP's outrageous appearance. Many posts were made criticizing the Trigger Discipline of the person in the OP image, as well as his theatrical grimace. One user created a dual-panel image macro with the text: "INSULT MY WAIFU? NOT ON YOUR LAIFU" with the bottom panel being zoomed in on the face. This quickly caught on with hundreds of images being made and ultimately derailing the thread until the bump limit was reached.

Spread

With the success of the original thread reaching the bump limit the thread was remade several times being spread to boards other than /mlp/ such as /v/, /b/ and /s4s/, with over 1000 variations of the macro being made.