poweryoga said: MLP fandom is pretty huge for some reason. I never understood why though.
Because its a meme, and it went to the steam side of the internet, the one that says (lies) that every hater is a homophobic immature and every like is a reasonable adult gentleman, but the cartoon itself its pretty mediocore, search for bhaalspawn on youtube, he is a professional on the subject.
1) The Show is fine, considering the franchrise and the target demography that it aims for, It makes me glad kids have shows like this now a days! 2) The Problem, aside of meme spamming, isn't that the show is overrated, it's that the people who aren't part of the target demography overrate themselves for watching it claiming maturity and other bullshit. All this disregarding this isn't a new trend and people in the past watched stuff like Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, etc. because they were fun, and without some mistaken sense of "I'M A BIGGER MAN FOR LIKING THIS!". They're not a bigger man or woman for watching such show, they just have fun watching it, big deal. I speak for experience, since I watched all those shows (MLP FiM included) and I sure don't feel like the bigger man, I'm just GASP Entertained by them! 3) There is NO "professional on fandom subjects", only people who give their opinion about fandoms in great quantities (they aren't necessarily good or bad), there is a difference in that, which can save your net life.
You could compare the MLP and Touhou Fandom Problems with the Furries, while there is some blind hate and all that should be frowned, the reality is that a great deal of the hate is because the fandom overrate themselves, act obnoxious about it and overblow any negative feedback they get for their antics and obnoxiousness.
Man It sure has been a while since I wrote a Wall of Text This Large! I'm all full of nostalgia right now!
JusticeItEasy said: 1) The Show is fine, considering the franchrise and the target demography that it aims for, It makes me glad kids have shows like this now a days! 2) The Problem, aside of meme spamming, isn't that the show is overrated, it's that the people who aren't part of the target demography overrate themselves for watching it claiming maturity and other bullshit. All this disregarding this isn't a new trend and people in the past watched stuff like Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, etc. because they were fun, and without some mistaken sense of "I'M A BIGGER MAN FOR LIKING THIS!". They're not a bigger man or woman for watching such show, they just have fun watching it, big deal. I speak for experience, since I watched all those shows (MLP FiM included) and I sure don't feel like the bigger man, I'm just GASP Entertained by them! 3) There is NO "professional on fandom subjects", only people who give their opinion about fandoms in great quantities (they aren't necessarily good or bad), there is a difference in that, which can save your net life.
You could compare the MLP and Touhou Fandom Problems with the Furries, while there is some blind hate and all that should be frowned, the reality is that a great deal of the hate is because the fandom overrate themselves, act obnoxious about it and overblow any negative feedback they get for their antics and obnoxiousness.
Man It sure has been a while since I wrote a Wall of Text This Large! I'm all full of nostalgia right now!
Exaggeration fucks up everything, they overrate their show and fanbase, so they brought this hatedom upon themselfes,the haters are not good, but the fanbase is not rightheous either, i would help the hatedom since the bronies started acting like shit first.
No they don't have that, instead they have the tumblr communities and all those "ask pony" accounts, their own Fanfic Site with a system that puts fanfiction.net on shame (I mean seriously I would love to see the capacities of fimfiction.com being put on Fanfiction.net.), they have loads of youtube videos, music remixes, etc. And damn they also have their own Convention, bronycon or ponycon I don't remember how it is called.
I swear they may not have Comiket and Doujins like the Touhou Fandom, but those MLP fuckers aren't far away of the touhou fandom capacity...
All of those things you say touhou fandom has too, which is why I'm not mentioning them. Plus the initial major attraction came from the doujins sold at komiket: Almost all "characteristics" of touhou characters are derivative of pixiv drawings or doujins and it took off from there.
I'm guessing 4chan has a lot to do with MLP's popularity, correct if wrong...