In the late 00's a new version of my little pony has been aired. The producers and authors decided to make it an anime for the whole family rather than an anime for little girls. So basically something that a dad can enjoy as much as their daughter. An unplanned side effect is that there was a whole public of single men in their 20's who really enjoyed that show, add the toxic masculinity around it blaming grown-up men for watching a girl thing, and it created a lot of fuzz/meme about people liking it and people hating-it (or hating the person liking it, because you know right wing hate everyone including themselves) and it's how my little pony became an internet meme (but objectively if you end-up being the parent of a daughter, watch that anime with her, you'll enjoy it together)
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For what it's worth, anyone with children in that target demographic today should skip ponies and watch Bluey. That's a show clearly geared for the whole family. Parents can learn as much as kids about how to play and interact together in a wholesome way.
Theres only so many episodes of Bluey, and my kids want it on every single damn day, on autoplay.
Aww, I can't say I've ever watched it, but this comment and the agreement under it is the faith-in-humanity restorer I needed today. Y'all awesome!
This. My autistic daughter loves that generation of MLP and watches it daily for the past five or so years. At first it was somewhat enjoyable for the memes and subtle adult humor. Now it's overkill and I think I could out quiz bronies at a MLP quiz game. Certainly more tolerable at first than many of the other shows she likes though.
As the father of a daughter, I concur. I've been forced to watch worse cartoons than my little pony.
I have no problem with anyone watching whatever show they want. Bronies took it WAY too far though
OP what kind of hole have you been living in for the past 10 years? How is it possible someone doesn't know about this and knows what lemmy is, of all things?
OP is unaware of Bronies.
Did you somehow miss the MLP fad a few years ago?
Lol. Apparently so
Iโm a little jealous. It was everywhere.
When the newer version My Little Pony came out the fandom got hijacked by sweaty incel men in their 20s and 30s who are definitely not giant pedophiles. They like to call themselves "bronies" and walk around in pony costumes at conventions but they absolutely are not sexually deviant furries...
I'm saving this image. I'm sure I will have use of it again lol
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OP, this is the correct answer. It's being downvoted because the people who are definitely not giant pedophiles are in this thread slinging bullshit.
I knew a girl in high school who picked "Not All Bronies are Pedophiles" as the topic of her speech for our public speaking class. We also caught her reading hentai in class... "For the plot."
Stereotypically speaking, stereotypes are bad. But some of them exist for a reason.
Jenny Nicholson does a really good sum up as part of her video on The Last Bronycon
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There are adult fans of My Little Pony. It became a fan culture / subculture.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony#Adult_fans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_fandom
Bob's Burgers had an episode themed with it - S04E17 The Equestranauts.
A new popular movie for adults is about an iconic children's doll. Before that, we were delving into young adult books about a secret wizard's school. Be careful where you throw stones.
why do this to yourself?
Question has been answered, now it's getting into stereotypes. Locking per rule #2.
I think he got sued or got a cease-and-desist or something after his second album got big, and he changed the name of the band to the name of the album, 'Making Marks'. It's a really good album, if you haven't heard it yet.