Little Ponies

[Jiro]

Proto just referred to himself as part of the herd, in the same post where he denied being a furry.

Caught you out bro.

[Pike]

I think people like ponnies because 4chan told them to like ponnies and they can't decide whether or not 4chan was being ironic. They don't want to be left out because 4chan is COOL! It's important to prove to the world how much you really really like ponnies if you want to be COOL too.

Speaking of ponnies and 4chan, moot caved and made an MLP board. Click at your own risk.

[Jiro]

wait what

[Hollycat]

I love how even when someone makes a pony hate thread, it immediately becomes a pony love thread

[Sephex]

wait what

I'm not surprised. If I frequented there like I used to, I would be happy to see less clutter in the forums, even though they are cluttered with other random BS.

[Yar]

I love how even when someone makes a pony hate thread, it immediately becomes a pony love thread

I don't mind the pony love. I just hate confusing everyone with everyone else!

[Yeargdribble]

I think people like ponnies because 4chan told them to like ponnies and they can't decide whether or not 4chan was being ironic. They don't want to be left out because 4chan is COOL! It's important to prove to the world how much you really really like ponnies if you want to be COOL too.

That's the why, but I don't really have a problem with people liking ponnies though. It's certainly one of the less annoying fads to come from the internet. The animation looks kind of neat too I guess, although I've never been interested enough to watch an episode.

Yup. I didn't care enough to watch an episode either. I couldn't give a tit less what 4chan does and honestly try to stay away as often as possible. I think it's safer for humanity if nobody ever tries to live up to anything because 4chan thought it was cool.

Eventually the pony stuff kept popping up that I just wanted to check out a few episodes just have a frame of reference for the culture.

After the first episode I just thought it was a wonderfully animated, but ultimately silly, cutesy show. I gave it a few more and started thinking, "Hmm... there characters are sort of interesting." I decided to watch a little more and eventually I was fully hooked.

I'm certainly not a furry and while I don't mind some rule 34 of actual human characters from media I'm familiar with, the idea of rule 34 of ponies seems absolutely abhorrent to me.



What I find interesting is the need for anything that is remotely popular to have a counter movement directly proportional to its popularity and based not at all on arguments of merit. This happens with virtually all media types. It's one thing to be indifferent and not care about something, but to out and out hate it shows something far more juvenile. Justin Bieber... huge fan follow, huge hate following. I couldn't care less about Justin Bieber really. His form of bubblegum pop isn't any more horrible than any the rest. People just hate him because other people like him.

Same thing with Twilight. I haven't read the books or seen the movies so I don't care and will withhold judgement until I'm actually familiar with the content. Meanwhile, other people who aren't familiar seem to find the need to demonize it simply because it's popular.


I guess it's always ultimately cooler to be part of the anti-something group. It goes along with the whole "nothing is cool but apathy" mentality that I see damn near every day. If you want to dislike something, do it based on merit or lack of merit of the product, not on something you unfamiliar with or the fanclub of such.

[Freya]

Wait, how did it become a pony love thread? I'm not seeing that part hypo.

I honestly get you guys confused a lot. I don't see "oh there is berry whatever and rainbow explosion" I see "pony person". Sorry.

ALSO: Yearg, even with all those examples, it's not the whatever itself that people hate. It's the fans. And you pony fans are obnoxious with your pony pride x.x The internet is covered in ponies these days. Don't get me wrong, it's a cute show, ponies are awesome but ugh enough with the ponies everywhere!

[Agent Proto]

That's why we have SCREEN NAMES to tell everyone whose post they are reading.

[Hollycat]

That's why we have SCREEN NAMES to tell everyone whose post they are reading.

Wait, is that what those things are? I always thought those were some kind of barcode!

[Freya]

Who looks at screen names when there are avatars and sigs to notice? You're just grumpy Proto cause this means I think of you as the same person as hypo xD

[Yar]

tbf I can dig the pony love. You all know I have an unhealthy obsession with Pokey.

[theundeadhero]

think people like ponnies because 4chan told them to like ponnies and they can't decide whether or not 4chan was being ironic. They don't want to be left out because 4chan is COOL! It's important to prove to the world how much you really really like ponnies if you want to be COOL too.

Is that what I am to you now, Sally? Just an internet cool-theme chaser? Someone who let's the masses tell me what to like? Yeah? Well... YOU ONLY LIKE WALRUSEYES CAUSE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SAID THEY WERE COOL!

I honestly get you guys confused a lot. I don't see "oh there is berry whatever and rainbow explosion" I see "pony person". Sorry.

That's like saying I can't tell the difference between anybody with a Final Fantasy avatar. BoB? Rikkulover69? Sexy Cactuar? They all post exactly the same!



We keep the talk to one thread for the most part. You only have yourselves to blame for bringing this pony topic to the attention of GC and the bots.

[Freya]

I can't

[SwordFox]

Does this mean I can put Rainbow Dash as my avatar again?