If you got a laugh when you needed one, even at my expense, then it was worth it. BTW, it's Bronies : plural / Brony : singular. Can't you spell?
But Bronies... they're no laughing matter. They come from all walks of life, and all manner of skills. They literally downed the 4Chan servers several dozen times over several weeks when that little war went down; then they got injunctions to keep them down if they didn't make a couple dozen hardcore shitheads back off.
Myself, I just laughed. I used to mod on Dominion chat... that's the place that spawned 4chan back in the day. A circle-jerk by any other name...
mnem
Ahhhh, mnemories...
wasn't laughing at you friend but at the shared dream experience. only on this thread would i run into someone who has a recurring dream about pcb layout.
and now that i've spent an hour of my life reading about bronydom, i know way more than i need to know. waaay more. i will never learn: sometimes the best thing you can do for your sanity is click the little x box in the right hand corner.
You're welcome. Seriously, the great majority are mostly harmless. Most are halfway decent sort of average folks who enjoy the chance to shift their brains into neutral in one of the few "safe spaces" left on broadcast TV. At least it's not as insipid as Scooby Doo.
I had a brony roommate once back when I had an apartment with roommates. Dude watched my little pony pr0n. ...and he would never do his dishes until forced.
Yeah, that's why I posted the Brain Bleach.
There tends to be a lot of crossover with such a broadly popular media property; the adult fanbase ranges from
"Included-Against-Their-Will Parental Units" like myself who appreciate the generally positive message and the much better production values to complete pervs that can't even function on 4chan.
I've run into a lot of the adult fans and cosplayers at DragonCon and a number of comic cons & Farscape Cons; They're actually funny as hell if you get them drunk or take them to a party where they can catch a few hits off somebody's jay.
I tend to have a bit more of an open mind about such things; I used to hang out in some of the darker, furrier regions of the internet before there was such a thing as tor and most of it was physically in the US. There really were very few places to hide, and folks who didn't understand the difference between "my spirit animal is a dragon" dragonkin and the "closet zoophile" breed of furries lumped us all together in one pile. As a result, Emerald Forest survivors tended to fight back as one pile too.
IMO, what someone does in the privacy of their own tissue-box is nobody else's business... but on the flip side of that, take reasonable care to KEEP IT PRIVATE, FFS.
mnem
*veteran of a thousand psychic wars*