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Wario has a new scam up his sleeve I see.
MtW abomination.
Why the fuck does that work so well? mama mia...
Ma'am a mia*.
It's funny as in real life, bronies were basically the first pic and they were actually chill guys but because they liked an animated show for kids, they're 'creeps'.
Meanwhile the mainstream media will run defence for the fetish wearing freaks wanting to be near kids alone..
Considering the sheer level of pony porn being created in spaces that were near adjacent to a children's show meant for little children, I don't think they get to pull the "chill guy" card.
Some were for sure unfairly maligned just for liking a kid's show, but there reputation for being creeps became pretty self-fulfilling pretty fast with how their "fandom" evolved. And not "a few extreme wierdos" problem, but seemingly an overwhelming majority of them were either for it or tolerant of it.
The entire rule34 space is so wildly bizarre and cringe, and unrepresentative of the majority of fans of any fictional property that I'm not sure it's quite fair to judge a fanbase on the porn made of it. By that token, one would have to assume that the majority of fans of any show want the characters to be fat/inflated futas, which we know isn't the real case. For some reason, artists who make r34 stuff and the people who consume just happen to have really fucked up ideas of what's sexually arousing, but they aren't the norm for anything.
I have no idea how common it was to bronies in particular, but the single data point of "this is the porn of their show" being weird shit isn't enough to fully establish the point. The r34 of everything is really weird shit.
Frankly it's so bizarre that I'd be really curious how it happened. I can't say I've ever played a game or watched an anime with a hot waifu and thought "you know what would make her hotter? If she weighed 500lbs and had a dick". But for some reason, that does seem to happen with a ton of artists for just about every fandom there is, and I have no idea how that happened.
Bronies transcended this level and were far beyond any other simple "rule 34 space."
They were creating pony porn right next to regular pony art that was in official channels, flooding Youtube with so much questionable material that children would be watching, and had the actual ear of the company itself working to their whims. Shit they still have their own fucking board on 4chan that is one of the most active on the site, despite the show ending years ago.
Its why they not only have a name onto themselves, whereas most porny fandoms do not, but its a well known one at that. Because they were special in many ways, and few of them were positive.
So, uh. What were you searching for to do that to your algorithm?
Funny that that's the only sexual issue you provide too. Going by the rest of your post, it seems like you're complaining that bronies were influential and visible moreso than that they were sexual.
I was on the internet. This was pre-algorithm where things just existed alongside everything else. I know, shocking idea that there was a time when Google didn't control what you considered reality. I hung out on 4chan, where they were so bad they had to get banished from /b/. I played WoW where they were a menace that would ERP in any chat channel they could.
Also he dismissed them as "unrepresentative of the majority" so I responded by saying they how were visible and thereby the rest of his musings on "weird underground r34 culture" weren't relevant to them.
Do I need to repeat the original comment inside each reply to help you keep up?
To be fair that's the furries that exist in EVERY community, if it has fur or hooves, they'll make porn of it...
True, but most furries don't have a subculture onto themselves for specific properties that is massive enough that it changes industry standards and marketing.
Like as a whole they might, but they Zootopia fandom isn't literally shaping discourse and internet culture like bronies did.
The show ran for like 10 years. The people that started watching it as kids grew up and became adults with adult interests. And the show was still going.
To be fair, and speaking as a brony who looks back on the (early) show fondly, furries gonna furry. There were definitely untoward elements in the fandom. But that's true for every fandom in existence. It's literally a rule of the internet. And it's directly proportional to the popularity of the media in question too. So ponies got popular, ponies suffered the consequences, male fans totally to blame. Go figure.
It's interesting. Media can pander directly to female pervs and nobody bats an eye. But male pervs make their own smut for media they're interested in and suddenly it's completely degenerate to like that thing. Once again, go figure.
Men tend to be visual, women tend to be verbal. Weirdo visual porn of fictional characters draws outrage. And yet the galaxy sized amount of fanfiction written by and for women that turns all of the male characters into faggots gets a total free pass.
And we don't have to get into women telling on themselves with a book about women willingly enslaving themselves to a rich dark triad rapist being the most popular and best selling novel for women in history.
See the Rick and Morty fandom
When you say "basically the first pic", are you implying they sought to read to/entertain kids? Because they might be pretty chill but I'd still view any of them who sought access to a kid with great suspicion.
I'd sooner suspect them of massive autism than attempted molestation, but if that autism requires interaction with a child to properly manifest itself, then no good can come of it.
The 19th Amendment was the worse thing to happen in the 20th century.
The denial of the obvious is the religion of the modern age.
We should petition our Malicious, Sadistic Teenage Overlord to put us in a slightly less absurd simulation. C'mon man, I really feel like someone is ratcheting up the absurdity just to laugh at us believing that this can all be real.
That's coz guys in drag are gay and aren't a threat to women... so little johnny is safe to be read to...
Yeesh... I meant that as a joke but that's sounding more and more likely to me...
The rainbow cult is literally cumming for your kids.