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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.
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.