The Brony Fandom's UNHINGED Incidents...
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- The Brony Fandom is one of the most infamous on the internet. In this video we're doing a deep dive into some of the obscure controversies that it has to offer. From a terrifying rabbit hole, opened up by a packet of cookies, to concerning convention stories, let's dive right in...
Timestamps:
00:00 - Political Ponies
03:18 - Intro
03:50 - Background
06:20 - Trot Along Gone Wrong
13:14 - Applejack Snack Attack
17:15 - The Convention Confrontation
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Its funny how scary/rated R horror media has mostly kids in the fandom
While shows meant for kids have adults in their fandoms
Reminds me of an old clip from a 1980s Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards had John Ashton who played Taggert in Beverly Hills Cop come up on stage (an R rated movie BTW!) since the movie won - and asked the audience if they wanted to see a sequel!
It's like that old meme about how little kids play Call Of Duty while adults play Animal Crossing.
@@LikaLarukuI love animal crossing ngl and I’m 30 😅 it’s just so cute and relaxing
Kids want to feel cool and mature for liking grown up things, and adults want an escape from their miserable, mundane adult lives, it checks out 😅 I still like Pokemon because it's relaxing.
They are pedos
My daughter loves MLP and I have a favorite pony (applejack) but HOLY SHIT I feel incredibly normal and well adjusted after watching this.
Ok I have to update. After watching some more, I am also a big fan of Rarity’s little sister. She’s got spunk.
@@forrestpatterson6053 lmao
@@forrestpatterson6053 Must be talking about sweetie belle! I think she was raritys sister, she was one of my favorites as well
@@forrestpatterson6053Spunk is one word lol
@@forrestpatterson6053 lmao this comment is amazing
Every fandom has its down terrible disgusting side
That's true man
It doesn't mean you should disregard it.
Why does everyone say this, I hope your not trying to say it’s a normal thing that we should just accept because it isn’t. I’m glad people are talking about how disgusting humans can be & how they can ruin a good fandom just like that.
@ILoveMenWayTooMuch don't think anyone is. Just saying that every fandom had its shitheads
@@kpopsolosit’s not that we’re saying don’t talk about it. But when people bring up bad parts of a fandom they assume the WHOLE fandom is all awful. This applies to all fandoms, every fandom has a really gross awful side. People jump to assume everyone is bad depending on which fandom you bring up is bad so many people feel the need to remind people that it’s not EVERYONE. Just the 1%.
so much deplorable behavior , when freindship is meant to be magic ffs
friendship*
@@revolverjesus98No one cares.
@ILoveMenWayTooMuch I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure someone loves you and you're not alone
@@revolverjesus98 I really hope something other than a primary school wants you 🙏
@@ILoveMenWayTooMuch I genuinely hate how badly Akimbo's fanbase is a hugbox. All I did was help correct a guy's grammar, you didn't need to get all pissy about it because I was slightly inconvenient
I feel like racism was a bit of a problem in certain parts of the fandom. When I was a kid I remember seeing edgy jokes and art about the zebra ponies (basically a stand-in for black people), like slavery, cotton plantations, weird racial fetsh stuff, etc. The MLP fandom originated on 4Chan, so it's really not surprising that there'd be edgelords and racists in the fandom. The Aryanne OC came from 4Chan as well.
It was also strange how hrny the fandom for a kids' show about ponies was.
You gotta remember the only reason why bronies are a thing is because a bunch of people ironically watched it and ended up liking it. Basically, a bunch of edgelords and toxic individuals flooded the fanbase and comprised most of it
I just feel bad for all of the little girls out there who went looking for content of their favorite magical pony show about friendship and got scarred for life based on the search results.
@@xxxstellarxxxI was that little girl. Pretty much fucked up my entire psyche and I had unknowingly traumatized my cousins too since I loved showing them brony MLP content when I was younger. It took me years to properly heal that part of my childhood.
I'm glad I never saw that but as a trade... I did see the NSFW side of the fandom... So it's not really a win for me.
all art and all jokes are acceptable.
True Story:
Back in 2016, me and an ex attended a Brony Convention in the Philippines thinking it would be like an Otaku Convention. It was much worse than we had anticipated because the adults hosting the event kept making references to 2 Girls 1 Cup and various genres of furry porn. The worst part was one of the hosts attempted to play a particularly infamous animation made by Zone Tan on the main projector screen in a room full of kids. Now I heard the same guy is in hiding after doing some unspeakable shit in Taiwan in 2019.
Showing porn to kids is literally illegal. Thank God that creep is in jail.
@@KrimsonKattYT
I don't think he ever went to jail. He just became a pariah of sorts from what those Filipinos told me.
That's disgusting.
I'm sorry you had that experience.
As a filipino, I didn't know my country hosted a convention like that back then. I thought it was only for the american niche.
What is the animation ? I might have heard of it
Im a brony and I don't feel offended at all. Actually I feel validated. Had to be really careful who I talk with in this fandom.
You never know... you never know...💀
So true. God forbid you mention it in front of a real creep, then it's all they bring up and try to send you drawings from cupcakes.... like come on man.....
Same, The NSFW fanfic with child pedo on running for it
@@cassiemoyles4177- Ugh, I heard about the cupcakes thing from another video. “Creeps” is the right word. Animation or not, that’s fn suck.
Based!
@@PatchedUpTwiceIsn't that just some creepypasta?
Imagine tryna choke out a guy because he had a differing opinion about rainbow horses (even though it was a joke) 💀🙏🏾
Yea
Blud is a twitter user
bro thought he was the main character
This doesn't even scratch the surface. One of my biggest regrets is getting drawn into the drama in that fandom, and the toxic people in it.
Yea, that's a thing.
(scratch) the surface.
I've been a fan of mlp since I was a little kid, it's sometimes sad to see how negatively people react when you say you like mlp, but hearing these stories makes it a little more understandable
I have seen multiple european communities come out and talk about how their religious symbols like the sun wheel and many more were pledgerised by the Nazis. Seeing multiple of my favourite animes and memes and beautiful moments used by these lifeless demons just makes me incredibly sad.
Hugs? I started collecting MLP in 1983 and it's physically painful to see what was done to not only my special interest but something that was a comforting reminder of my childhood.
> *little more understandable*
IMO for those outside looking in - and even those reporting on the "bad side of a fandom," it should be understood that good and bad exist in any fandom, and to act like someone saying they like a show (or any hobby) means pigeonholing them into any one part of it (good or bad) would be ... well, it'd just be logically erroneous, wrong, potentially hamful in some more extreme cases.
@@NostalgiaUnicorn I mean, in the age of the internet even if FIM didn't explode like it did, it'd probably happen anyway (but at perhaps a slower pace), it does suck though.
@@DanknDerpyGamer It would have happened a lot differently if 4chan wouldn't have been involved. I've always seen that as the root of the problem - it started with a lot of bad actors and so it continued that way with those types of attitudes. I'm not sure if 4chan wouldn't have gotten in on it if there'd even be a fandom besides the collectors. This hasn't happened with Strawberry Shortcake or Cabbage Patch Kids or He-Man or a lot of old properties that get constantly recycled. Those communities are still just kids, fans, and collectors who have their own dramas for sure but nothing like what happened with FiM.
I was the target audience for MLP:FiM around 2012 (female, age 12) and I relate to that first story, except I entertained these people instead of running... I had unlimited access to the internet and I frequented sites like Ponychan, SyncTube, and Derpibooru (I think it was Danbooru at the time?). I still have a pony related Steam username that I will never be able to change lol. I would end up doing erotic role play texts with these men that were up to 20 years older than me over Skype. When one guy thought we were in a relationship and not just role play, I let him down and he threatened to off himself. I remember staying up all night on a school night to convince him not to. I then went to my school's guidance counselor to report it but idk what they could do about it. Kinda wild to think that a 26 year old guy believed he was in a committed relationship with a 12 year over the internet that he met on pony forums.
Wow... This is such a toxic environment for children, but you couldn't know that since it's a show for children. Those adults who doesn't even want to make an effort to act as safe people are ruining it. They are the ones responsible for it.
Jesus Christ
Respect for the Jack Stauber sub.
He didn't, he wanted to be as threatening to kill themselves is a common manipulative abuse tactic that chains the victim to them by guilt tripping them. He got what he wanted by you wasting your time and attention on him.
Internet and relationship safety is so important to teach children.
@@ezekielc604 true
Forget ghouls and masked slashers, this is true Halloween horror.
I was a teenage brony. I was too naive to see the horrific things in users like tooncritic and lilly orchard or the "watch it for the plot" meme. While there are good people in the fandom, there were creeps and pedos and even zoos. I'm not going to sugar coat it. The things I've looked back on as an adult woman and still a fan of the franchise a child shouldn't have been exposed to
As for the creeps, pedophiles, and zoophiles, nothing can be done about them but get them locked up.
As for MLP content creators such as MisterDavey and the writers of grimdarks, while I love that part of the fandom, I think those people should be a little more aware of how easily a child can come across it, and make it a little harder for them. You know, like age restrictions.
IMO the "watch it for the plot" memes are cringe, they caused a damage.
@@CageBlack1443 yep
@@CageBlack1443 misterdavey literally even tried to get children to watch his gory videos. he got off to kids getting traumatized and shit. thats why i hate him
@@weiner01103 Wait, what? Really? Wow. That is disturbing.
Smile.HD is the reason I became a Brony. Is there evidence that can back this up?
I've been a fan of MLP for quite a while. I even went to a con in 2018. Though, I was dressed as a L.A. Noir detective. I got an autograph from Nowacking, which is super cool.
The con wasn't what I really expected. I thought it'd be a great place to make friends but woo, it was lonely. I think something like 2000 people were there but damn... everyone was so socially awkward, no connections were really made.
Haven't really been keeping in the social side of things. Quietly admiring it from afar at this point as I move on to other stuff. MLP will always have a place in my heart, though.
Awwww I’m so happy you enjoyed yourself there and have even gotten a few autographs of course there are socially awkward people seeing as they don’t know how they’ll be seen in the interest there and ultimately though it’s really harmless.
Hello
At least you kept the PFP
Getting such "I am very badass" vibes from all the se stories... like, we were all ready to throw our stuff down and jump into action with flying back flip punches and carotid artery shattering kicks but thankfully we never had to - to be clear, we had the opportunity, but when the person appeared, we were mean to them and told them to go away, which is far worse than any beating.
....not sure how cowering from a predator is badass but thanks as I have had to do it many times.
@@mandiblackwell4668 I'm referring to when people tell stories and make themselves and their actions out as more heroic or badasd than they actually were. I hate that cowering from predators is even a reality and I hope when it happens, people don't just send the predator away to look for another target. I'm not saying get violent but talk to security, make them aware of the threat, then take the predator's pass or follow them around until they can be pointed out to security and escorted off site or arrested. It's not like turning them away from one child will make them no longer a paedo for the rest of the day...
As a girl growing up on the internet and LOVING mlp. The amount of times that I came across soft core pxxrn and gore on UA-cam as a child was lowkey sad and I still remember everything 😭.
I found a gacha life tentacle p*rn of fluttershy just yesterday in youtube shorts 💀
@@MarcellusJasonClay WHAT THA HELL
@@MarcellusJasonClay i keep getting an ad for gacha heat every once in a while...
@@ovgem the occasional gacha heat in shorts is normal but i never got it as an ad, feels weird if you get it that way
There's still love of it today 💀💀💀.
Every fandom has bad people keep in mind this is a small amount of members. I say this not to disregard the bad things that happen in fandoms. They need to brought up and spoken about but just to remind people that fandoms are not bad but the people they attract sometimes are and the fandoms do reject these crappy people.
Indeed - and, I'll add this: People need to be stronger in denouncing others using this as an excuse to crap on those whose only relation is enjoying the same show, movie, media, etc - if the people who crap on others want to crap on those doing bad things, that's one thing. If they want to crap on those who just enjoy the same media, THEY'RE the assholes, not the ones who are expressing issues with their generalizing (contrary to what some believe - that it's somehow wrong to be defensive), not even the problem people themselves.
honestly, i think the biggest problem is these thing get brought up and spoken about too much. there is this habit of dogpiling any time anything even slightly unchaste happens. take the applejack plantation picture. most had never heard about it, never heard of the artist, but when it came out, that picture was EVERYWHERE. you couldn't scroll three posts on twitter without it being talked about. and this keep happening.
it all gives this unfair view of the fandom that its full of this type of stuff, when its not. but wholesome stuff doesn't get spread around like that did. like, griffin village finally came out. the artist worked on it for like 8 years. its been highly anticipated. its an awesome animation, very wholesome. but there wasn't a fraction of the attention given to it.
fact is most of that stuff comes from 4chan, IE, its mostly trolls. the attention is WHY they do it. they want the reaction. they want you to speak about it. cause they think its funny. and as long as they get fed, they'll keep doing it.
i'd rather focus on the good stuff, which there is far more of it.
Why the hell wasn't that 11 year old with her damn parents?!
More like why weren't the parents with her. Parents' lack of caution and protection over their own children, especially at such an age, are what lead to situations like this and unfortunately much worse.
It was explained in the video. Did you even watch it? The mom and older sister who where the only 2 adults there are physically disabled and so they can't move as fast as the 11 year old. The 11 year old was also super excited to be at a place celebrating one of her favorite shows so she ran around, like kids do, away from her family who mostly couldn't keep up.
Still no excuse, they should've had a babysitter (someone much younger who can keep up) watching over her at the very least to prevent this situation from happening, absolutely negligent.@@artcasual99
@urmom6701 I agree, you cannot bring a child to a event like that without proper supervision. Shit like this happens all the time everywhere, including the grocery store. It's extremely irresponsible of the parent/adult sister to allow the daughter to run around without any safety precautions while knowing they have the physical disability
So the brony fandom is heavily associated with the autism community because most autistic adults are more likely to be open about liking something that society deems as childish and not "normal" for an adult to enjoy, which is a huge problem because there's an unfortunate amount of autistic men that are coddled and allowed to act in egregious ways because they're autistic and "don't know any better." The problem here is that they absolutely do know better, autism doesn't make you a degenerate or a moron. But they're allowed to be inappropriate and endanger children because they're disabled. It's a huge issue in the autistic community but the people (usually autistic women) who point it out often get berated and told that we just "don't understand." There's nothing we can do about it and it's very upsetting.
oh my god, as an autistic guy myself that stuff is what bothers me, my autism doesn't make me a pedo and saying that they didn't know any better like bro, stop treating autistic people like children!!! they should know not too groomer or endanger kids yknow
As an autistic dude... What the fuck, Autism doesn't make you or even justify any of that
Ahhh, so the women are superior…I see. Lmao, anyone who is rational understands that degenerate behavior is bad regardless of tisms or not
@@Mizuki-dx5cu So apparently liking a kids show is bad?
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c ?? When did I say that?
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I'm a brony myself, and I find it very odd how people are zeroing in on the fandom and trying to find the darkest and meanest stuff to dig up about it. The vast majority of us are normal, well-adjusted people who just really liked a show, and we expressed our love for it through art, music, etc. Every fandom in life has a small portion of crappers ruining things and causing trouble, but they are always a small (but very loud) minority. It's very wrong (and a logical fallacy) to judge an entire fandom based solely on its worst members.
That's because it gets views and attention. If a video was made talking about the good aspects of the community it wouldn't get nearly as much attention. That's just how humans are, they always like to focus on the negatives and bring those to attention instead. I've been a brony for a very long time and I've made so many friends in this community, I'm very glad to be in a fandom with so many kind people.
@@Top10Dylan I'm glad to be in it, too. I feel like MLP:FIM was a one of a kind thing, where it was a good show that brought out so much creativity and positivity in people.
@@KingdomHeartsBrawler Yeah totally. there will never be another show like mlp. some say bluey is but nah bluey doesn't hold a candle to mlp. And I can't think of anything else that inspired so much fan creations like art, music, fanfiction, etc
Yea
@@Top10Dylan yea
At least bronies haven't stabbed people over McDonald's sauce (Rick abd Morty), or goaded an artist to almost ki.ll herself over drawing a character too skinny (Steven Universe), or threatened to leak studio info if their ship wasn't made canon (Voltron), or filmed a fan having a breakdown at a convention panel talking about her abuse (Sherlock), or put needles in cookies to give to an artist who drew the "wrong" ship (some anime, idek anymore), or have been holding a decade-long delusion that two cast members are in a relationship and the child of one of them is actually a doll (One Direction), or calling the cops to have people arrested for Cheese Pizza charges when there's no Cheese Pizza involved (dear God too many fandoms to name), or
The needle cookie was over an Undertale ship. Glad the community is more chill now
Did you really right all this out as if Bronies haven’t done absolutely deplorable things lmfao.
@@Partyhatpossum unless somebody hacked my account when I wasn't looking then yes I did write all this out. And?
They drew art of a SA survivor being SA'd because she told them to tag their p*rn so kids couldn't see it. And they wrote her parents letters. And they left notes on her front lawn. I was sent r*pe threats for asking bronies to please remember MLP is for kids and to tag g*re and p*rn. And then there's Mandopony. And the child VAs of the Cutie Mark Crusaders being made uncomfortable by adults. And asking Celestia's VA about adult things.
@@MissSallyB1 Wow, soo inspiring how you spring to the finger pointing D- FENCE of this... stuff. Personally haven't been an active fan of mlp since I was a minor child in the 80s. You want to get on a soap box & defend the virtue of ADULT MEN who go gonzo for a little girl's toy?! Y'all fuckin wack.
Im a brony right now and I really hate this part of the fandom because the negative parts always cover up the positive parts of the brony fandom such as the creative parts of the fandom in art and music (examples: Minty Root, doubleWbrothers, 4everfreebrony) and also the contributions that the brpny fandom made to multiple charities. While i acknowledge that the brony fandom has the worst aspects showcased to the world, it's sometimes sad to see no one acknowledge the good side of the fandom
It happens in every massive fandom. Anime, furries, Bluey, there's always the maladjusted people and it's not interesting for people not interested in the fandom to hear about the normal parts.
@@squirrel670 yeah i just think it is incredibly sad, definitely love to get bashed over the head that a small minority of fans make us the worst fandom ever every 2 months
@@kieranloh5200 I just don't judge things by the dark side minority. The bigger the fandom and the more socially accepted, the less the members are looked at others and the small insane side doesn't pull weight as the main group. Like comics, and anime, they are socially accepted now for the most part and mainstream so insane fans are insane on their own.
I know wild people are out there but that doesn't mean they never like the same things I like. I wouldn't stop enjoying food because a monster of a person liked pb&j because I liked it too. I think the more people are aware of that, the less of a problem it'll be.
Yea
@@squirrel670 yea
When Fox talks about film footage from 2012 being “dusty relics,” I feel like a dusty relic myself.
i remember being a brony in 2012-2019. i have met alot of deplorable people in the fandom and some people would send me nsfw of the characters when i was like 9 or 10
Same. I remember looking at my little pony shit on deviant art. Some loser sent me porn of rainbow dash getting railed by 4 other horses. It was so weird and i was 11.
I was sadly a victim due to the MLP fandom but I will still say the fandom has its dark side but also very delightful side too. Despite what happened to me I do miss my time there and I still have all my old merch and still adore my old oc.
I do believe though the combination of 4chan, adult men, and MLP was dangerous from the get-go. It’s a real shame.
Yea
All I'll say is that I may have been part of the Brony fandom and mlp community for years, But I won't deny that it does have it's share of shameful and creepy things in it. But literally no fandom is perfect you know. That doesn't excuse the bad things that happened in the Brony community, But I'm just saying every community has it's share of incidents, toxicity and general drama enough said.
True
1:03 That image made me laugh esp bc there is literal pony racism in gen 5
you know, i wish people would do videos that highlighted all the good things the fandom has done. they far outnumber the few negatives that just seem to get repeated over and over in every video like this.
I def' know that feeling.. There will always be bad parts of a fandom, but there are also good parts too in it.
Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking. Having been a huge fan during the show's prime, I would say far more good things have come out of the fandom than bad things and no one ever even mentions them. It's things like this that makes the whole community be the target of so much hate based only on the surface things that they see simply because people only like to talk about the bad things.
@@laurii0512 That's really well said and well thought out! Way better than what I could say, lol
I hope those types of people here who says “They Hate/Dislikes Bronies” realizes that there is obviously every type of group that is both positive and negative. Religious people can very well be negative for normalizing sexual assault abuse this one time I’ve heard incense they forgive this man yet all of a sudden when they found out that the woman who was abused when she was 16 by the guy came up and spoke out against a guy they all of a sudden went from forgiven the guy to outright disgracing him which is one of the examples of how another type of group people can be quite negative but that doesn’t necessarily mean I find all of them but there’s just some people out in the world who are just like that case in point Bronies in my little pony are really not like that in general they just want to enjoy a innocent show most likely trying to escape from all of the harsh cruel people in this world as a way of looking at something very cute sweet and innocent and there’s nothing wrong with that absolutely hell there’s even some of these guys who even make some very cute animations or even pictures I’ve seen is well of course speaking on the positive side of the spectrum paying their respects to the media they simply consume and take part in I hope for at least the people who sees these guys is weird or strange at least take into consideration that these people enjoy what they do and that just because you do not like these people or just this thing doesn’t mean you should just bully harass or even look at them in a strange way as you yourself don’t know if these guys are strange or not you’ll never know for sure without evidence.
IMO those people are part of the problem since they're most probably the ones trying to act like the bad represents us all, tries to convince others who don't know better that this represents a larger part than it does.
Somehow the focus, in any fandom, group, hobby, etc, always overlooks this - and ignores that this logically erroneous notion needs to spread somehow, and thus the people (again IMO) causing the REAL damage get overlooked or just ignored.
@@DanknDerpyGamer You are exactly correct in what I mean is that many people just like to focus on the negative on these aspects but never the positive.
Ever heard of punctuation?
@@ThePopo543 people like you don’t got a better augment and is just hatful of people so let’s try to insult instead. Seriously you live a sad life if you truly do this to people.
Yea
I forgot how much i enjoy your videos, gonna binge em now
Legend
Kudos for going into lesser talked about stories. I feel like every time these kinds of videos come round, it's the same dozen stories over and over.
Yea
As a New Brony, I will be aware of whatever bad will come to me or I would somehow encounter.
Thanks for the warning.
You’ll find that it won’t, just stick to the vanilla chats that don’t allow that kind of discourse, this is just kind of a skimming of everything that has gone wrong in a fandom with millions at its peak, over the span of 13 years
Thanks for the advice
How long have you been in the fandom?
@@Top10Dylan Well when I first saw Mlp:Fim I never knew the Brony community was a thing. I always pretended I didn't like the show. But ever since 2014, I secretly liked the show until 2021 when the new Mlp movie came out and that's when I discovered the Brony community.
And for some odd reason, I wanted to create a different Brony community where it's not as bad as the old one was before.
@@Michael__B if you were watching in 2014 then you're definitely not a "new" brony lol. And every single online community is full of degenerates, the brony fandom isn't any more bad than the others.
As with any large fandom, minors attending cons should not be left unsupervised (by a parent, older sibling, or other family member). I'm not writing it to victim blame minors or their families, but it's just reality in any large convention. There will always be potential creeps, even if they are only a very small percentage of people gathered. Many cons are not really a 100% safe space for minors, even if there is security in place.
Yep
Best cons are those that require adult supervision for individuals below the age of 18 to enter.
well narrated video, kept me occupied while drawing! thanks for sharing! if you ever read, I just wanna add: don't worry so much about whether other creators have covered a story before or not. i was put off when you were grinning as you introduced the story at 14:00. most likely it was just excitement to share a rarely covered story, but dark and gruesome doesn't bring me many smiles. it think its important for multiple people to cover the same story, as each person has their own presentation and narration and it is very good to have multiple sources to build your own opinion! both of the creator, and of the content they're covering. keep up the good work! subscribed.
edit: after finishing the video. i think maybe you just smile a lot! have a good day man!
Been here since around 10k. Keep up the good work!!
why tf is facism and nazism correlated with a show about ponies
Same reason there's literally Nazis with their own Muppet ocs they're losers who have to make everything they enjoy involve their hatred
Fandoms are weird
The fandom started on 4chan so, that’s self explanatory. Also there’s a couple of less than amazing race issue episodes
4chan
@@derpyman3716yep
I was 4-7 years old then I joined the Fandom ….. and I am still traumatized after 12 years
Hi
@@ramonalbertogalangjr6410 do I know u?
how do you join a fandom at age 4?
@@anitamihholap5926 idk I had early Internet Access and my mom only cared that I got distracted so she could do her work while I do something that doesn’t annoy my mother
@@anitamihholap5926target demographic
I actually discovered this second story in person, when i saw a notice in a shop that the transformers and MLP branded biscotti were being reclaimed.
So the "Applejack Snack Attack" incident has nothing to do with Bronies and is about a chinese individual sniping the domain of defunct snack company to host CP?
I’m still a brony to this day (although I’m a girl, I don’t like the term pegasister as much since the words don’t blend together as well) and while there’s been a lot of great times and interactions with other fans, yeaah… the bad apples always managed to find the limelight more which made me sad that they were what people thought the fandom was primarily focused on.
I mean, one creepy dude ruined MLP cons for me by making me feel so freaking unsafe.... I am aware there are mostly not creepy people, but the one person harrassing me is enough to ruin it. (Also lol my pfp is a Pinky Pie doll btw.)
@@mandiblackwell4668 And that's fair, creepy people doing their thing very much have the opportunity to ruin experiences. Sorry to hear, but I'm at least glad to know about your awareness.
(It's nice! Mine's a gift art from a friend a long time ago, but I love it so much I haven't changed it since!)
im not a brony but i cannot deny that it works well as a name for fans lol. if you want something different but not too clunky, how about pegasis? just like brony uses the first three letters of brother, it uses the first three letters of sister? if I'm not mistaken, some of the characters in the show are part of the alicorn species(?) so maybe allycorn could be a gender neutral term too. sorry if these are terrible suggestions lmao
I have been a fan of this show since 2012. I was 11 at the time and wasn't on the internet much other than DeviantArt, CoolMath4Kidz, Webkinz, Animal Jam and some parts of YT. I was always cautious of who to talk to and where to go thanks to my parents and internet safety in general. I was always uncomfortable with sexual things growing up and would always click away if I saw anything that I didn't understand or wanted to be around.
The only "traumatizing" things I have seen that were made from the fandom were the Rainbow Factory MV and that old Cupcakes animation. Besides that, I never was around predators or any toxic individuals of the like. I mostly drew Warrior Cats so maybe thats why??
Idk but I'm lucky none of this ever happened to me and my heart goes out to anyone who has experienced these horrors and how angry I am at these adults that have corrupted something that was so innocent to you all as well as those who have failed to protect yoy. I hope you are all healing well and are safe.
as someone in the mlp fandom honestly it’s kind of hard these days to meet someone that also likes my interests that isn’t also a little strange
i know what your talking about.. its sad you cant find mlp fans who aren't the bad apple and you cant search the characters without finding explicit stuff ;--;
I mean in recent years the fandom has gotten a lot more chill than it was over a decade ago and most of the weirdos are long gone by this point. But as for the strange part, tbh any adult that has such an interest in a children's media is going to be kinda strange; but there's nothing wrong with being strange it doesn't mean you're a bad person. I've met a lot of friends from this fandom and they're all good kind hearted people, albeit they're definitely oddballs and dorks, myself included.
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@@kittylovelbp yea
@@Top10Dylan yep
Vice and buzzfeed has attacked every nerd subculture that’s not sponsored by Disney. It’s a Disney/Netflix monopoly….oh, and don’t forget cuties on Netflix and the monopolistic, hyper capitalistic tendencies of Disney
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I love hearing you talk
My Little Pony’s writing: Love and kindness is the answer!
My Little Pony fans: I don’t think black people should have human rights.
Unfortunately true for a lot of folks. (But not me.)
The rogue link on the food packaging is very likely the result of the dissolved company's website domain going inactive and getting snatched up by a network of Chinese spammers - it happens all the time.
i enjoyed the chills reference at 16:55 thanks
First one to spot that hahaha
love the vids, been here since 20k :)
As a member of the fandom to this day, I'll toss in my two cents about what I saw happen. On the topic of the racism inherent in the fandom, I don't think it was too much worse than any other fandom, but there was a polarizing effect, thanks in part to the stigma placed on bronies and our desire to have the world see us in a better light. To put it simply: "The world already sees us as degenerates for being 'socially unacceptable' because we like a show we aren't supposed to like. We don't want them to assume we're all racist too." This led to a lot of accusation-flinging towards artists who, more often than not, were just hired to draw an art piece by some edgy teen/young adult and weren't picky about what they drew. This led to more infighting, as those individuals were targeted unduly for something that likely wasn't even wholly their fault. Yes, they could have been more picky about what art they drew, but a lack of awareness does not mean they support what they draw.
Another side is that a good number of this art came from users over on 4Chan, specifically Aryanne. From what my memory can recall, she was held as a kind of free-speech mascot by many 4Chan Bronies, who felt that any kind of restriction to speech could be viewed as too authoritarian. Many of them did *not* agree with these antisemitic ideals, but simply believed it was wrong to censor *anything* in this day and age, especially art (and pastel ponies, I suppose.) For all its bad reputation, 4Chan can actually be a force for good at times, so I'm not trying to demonize the site. In fact, while I believe their methods were flawed, the overall ideals were on point. And yes, there were those who *were* a problem, and there *were* those who genuinely supported these ideals, but even among those posting dark topics and taboo subject matter, many of them were just trying to make a point. In one of the worst ways, they could have done it, yes, but still.
I appreciate Fox for not lumping all Bronies into the category of filth, like most videos analyzing our fandom on UA-cam. Many of us - the vast majority, if my time on popular fandom sites like FiMFiction has taught me anything - are just normal people who have very average views. A fair portion of the fandom even gained a *better* understanding of their fellow man from watching the show, myself included. I was a teenager when I started watching the show - an edgy 4Chan user who wanted to "overthrow the establishment" and join Anon, because it was the "cool thing" to do at the time. At first, I watched it ironically, like everyone else, mocking people's love for it. But as a lover of quality animations and cartoons, I was drawn in by it. The lessons, while geared towards children, were something that anyone could walk away from with a better outlook on the world, and it wasn't patronizing or talking down to its viewers. The show genuinely made me re-evaluate my life and decide that I was doing the wrong thing; walking down a bad path. Ever since about 2013, I've made it my goal to give back to the world and do my best to improve as many lives as possible. It put me on the path of psychology and set me on my road to becoming a therapist, which I'm still walking today.
I hold immense respect and appreciation for the show and its fandom. Road bumps and all.
wow, this comment is so eloquently written and your point is so well made. I'm glad the show and fandom were so beneficial to you and wish you all the best in your journey to become a therapist, thank you for pursuing such a noble profession, your patients shall be lucky to have you working with them!
@@projectjupiter5523 Thank you very much. This comment gave me the biggest smile.
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Ive had a bad experience with the brony fandom as a young age due to my own older cousin, he exposed me to the gore and weird part of the fandom, I was really a small child at the time who loved mlp, and wanted to bond with someone who loved it as well. but eventually he groomed me into a relationship and almost made me do an unspeakable act with him…His father didn’t know how to react and I hardly remember it all now.
If you can barely remember it, you may have repressed the trauma. You may want to get therapy for this issue.
@@BillyBasd yea
@@BillyBasd he should. This stuff is not normal.
We as a Fandom should know better.
@@SunIsLost I understand that parental supervision is needed but it is frowning that the community at the time was really ran by some disturbing adults at the time (Recalling animations and art including gore/abuse of baby ponies and that one notorious NSFW game) it is nice coming back to mlp as an adult and looking at the art, because passing all of that MLP is still cute to me. even if the fanbase caused me to be in a dark point of my life. MLP is still my coping mechanism
Oh boy, this is gonna be a fun one.
I remember the biscotti scandal! I remember seeing a recall poster in my local Herons.
When I was part of the fandom, everyone I knew treated the character Aryanne as parody. Though I know there were other people (who I didn't know personally) who took it seriously, unfortunately.
im from around the hull area so its so strange to think something like that happened around where i live
Me clicking on a video I'm not interested in simply because it is a FoxAkimbo video - enjoying it anyway 😅
NGL, I thought this was going to be the same info that other UA-camrs has already mentions like Izzzyzzz. Nope I was wrong as you provided NEW info I never knew about and I was a former brony too but I never dwell in the dark part of the fandom!
Always gotta hit you guys with the fresh stories
It's funny that adult media and brutal horror movies have fandoms that are mostly chill and full of light-hearted memes, yet fandoms for shows like MLP:FIM are filled to the brim with misogynists, p3dos, and racists. Bronies are, and have been, one of the worst fandoms that I have been a part of.
Really is the worst fandom ever, introduced me to rule 34 and turned me into a furry. That is fucking horrible this fandom corrupted me!
4chan ruined it
Concordo com você,e olha que bluey está no mesmo caminho de mlp ,com uma comunidade só de adultos que veneram o desenho australiano,e isso me dá medo 😱😱
As a brony I try to be as kind as possible and follow the lessons the show tought me as a kid, I am a brony with a girlfriend and a job be a good one and contribute to society
I loved your video ❤
It's not long since i saw those coockies in the shelves at Europris in Norway as well! O.O
I remember being a fan of MLP when I was 5-8 years old, there have been multiple things I saw from bronies that either confused me, scared me to death or made me uncomfortable
-I once saw a vore animation of Twilight Sparkle being eaten by nightmare moon and thought it was a scene from the actual show, so whenever there was an episode on TV that had Nightmare moon in it I'd hide away just in case the "scene" came on (I'm pretty sure you can still watch the video on UA-cam, I watched it again and its pretty obvious it isn't an actual scene from the show but I was a kid and I did not know better)
-once I wanted to draw Rarity so I googled a picture of her and after scrolling for less than a few seconds I saw rule 34 of her, the worst part was that I was near my Mum when I was doing this but luckily I managed to scroll away from the weird stuff before she looked at my Ipad
-I once went down a rabbit hole of MLP gore art (luckily it seemed like most of the art was drawn by edgy kids so the art wasn't that detailed so I wasn't too traumatized but it scared me none the less) mostly of Pinkie Pie slaughtering the characters
-I remember hearing about the Rainbow Dash jar incident but I was confused because at the time I was around 5 and didn't know what masturbation was so I thought it was pee
-I once saw another vore animation (I think it was made by the same person who made the Twilight and Nightmare moon animation) and this time it was a point of view of going into Flutter shys mouth, this time I didn't confuse it for an actual scene from the show but it still made me feel weird
-those weird 3D animations of the ponies making out and stuff
Luckily I didn't see anything else too bad unlike some other younger people in the fandom
i'm a hull resident and i didn't know about the 2023 mlp incident. but i thought i recognised the herons food image used in the video.
Oh man, my best friend and I got into My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic when we were in middle school, thankfully we were both smart enough to avoid the weird side of the fandom. We both weren't too open about liking the show for fear of being made fun of both online and in person, we are still cautious of other people whenever we enter a new fandom and so far we've had few bad experiences.
I must clear something up with Aryanne: I don”t really know when she was made, but she was around long before that headline. But also, why she gets popularity and support vs BLM is easily explained that everyone who has seen her years before knows she’s a pony with a Nazi theme as a joke. Yes, as everything in the fandom, there are probably supremacist who actually use her to promote that horrible ideology. But the original author, and most fans of her just see her as a that: “nazi-theme joke”, not hate propaganda.
I'm not a brony, never have been, don't like MLP.
But whenever I hear someone, anyone, called "far-right", "fascist", "alt-right" or "Nazi", I just tend to dismiss it. It's just what people say when try to cancel each other.
Bronies creep me out because of the perverts and the cringe, not because of their politics.
Here's one for you then. Im a Brony and i voted twice for Donald Trump. I dont give one flying fuck what others think of the fandom. AS an American i have the right to watch What i want.
Calling everyone a "Nazi" or "Libtard" is yankistanian stuff or something
Esqueceu da parte que eles veneram my little pony g4 como se fosse algo sagrado e quem não assiste é imaturo,mas quando o é o desenho de 1980 eles tratam com infantil e coisa de criança,os bromies são estranhos 😱😱😱, e pensar que fui um deles 😡 no passado.
The Brony fandom left a mark on the MLP community that had existed since the 90's that we only wish we could get rid of. I wish they controlled their loud, obnoxious, toxic members better because I sure don't enjoy telling people I collect MLP and being treated like I "clop" to children's characters and am alt-right. MLP was my innocent magical 80's childhood and this sucks for all the middle aged women and men who just like plastic horses and collect for nostalgic happy feelings.
THIS. I only joined the fandom because I grew up with MLP, and ended up getting drawn into a bad crowd. Not as bad as the guys talked about in this video, but close. They were "anti-sjw" types (both male and female).
So glad I got away from all of them.
@@GlitterySpleenI am pretty sure not all anti-sjws are bad people, your call though of course as some anti-sjw are horrible.
> *because I sure don't enjoy telling people I collect MLP and being treated like I "clop" to children's characters and am alt-right.*
IMO... part of that is having to tell those people to stop being stupid, and use their brains - and understand that "some people doing 'clop' doesn't mean anyone who does enjoy the show does 'clop'," and so on and so forth. These people - ignorantly, or in some cases maliciously, are a part of why people only see the negatives - and nobody standing up to them AS WELL as dealing with the true degeneracy, is why we get walked over.
It's a problem in not just there, but in a lot of hobbies and fandoms, this idea that somehow bad people existing means that those who make bad generalizations about others to people who don't know better are let off the hook "just because reasons" more or less - when they are the ones choosing to throw the bad AND the good under the bus in a lazy manner - instead of just thinking for 2 seconds, and articulating points that call out just the bad.
People in hobbies and fandoms, IMO, need to grow just a little more backbone in standing up for themselves.
@@DanknDerpyGamer Nobody should be publicly talking about clopping, no one should have ever made that a thing, it shouldn't even have a name. This is a kids show. It's like getting off to Sesame Street characters. I know someone probably does but it sure shouldn't be a normal part of the fandom to the point where saying "I love Big Bird" would be met with talk about s*xual topics and being called a Muppet f*cker. No Bronies stood up to the people who made MLP gross and degenerate, they all made excuses when they should have policed their own fandom.
This is absolutely not on the MLP collector community because we did stand up to poorly behaved Bronies. We threw them out of our groups. We let the ones who stayed know that we were a PG community based around love of all generations and none of that 4chan behavior would be tolerated and you know what? It worked. The Bronies who stayed are awesome, respectful, and not the problem to this day. I'm so tired though of explaining MLP existed long, long before most Bronies were born and when their parents were in diapers.
@@DanknDerpyGamer yep
Hi, Fox! Mango Island here, from, of course, the MLP fandom. Is it OK for me to submit/share this video, to this fandom site called Equestria Daily? Asking for your permission, before doing so, thanks!
Yeah I don't see why not
@@FoxAkimbo Thank you!
A show based on having peace and friendship with 'everypony' having a racist fandom group is pretty insane and ironic
imagine if the series is a psyop to reform bigots and extremists lol
the majority of bronies are NOT republicans, racists, nazia, transphobes, and homophobes. Im in the fandom and i go to cons and my friend group is nothing like that. that being said, there are some bad bronies and yes it needs to be talked about and dealt with, but you gotta remember not to judge everyone in the community
Okay, what kind of convention owner allows kids into a brony convention? It's a BROny convention, not a POny convention. This is why I prefer to stay an "independant furry" as mentioned in the beginning of this video, because people in CFBF (Character Form Based Fandoms, such as general anime, furrys, bronys, etc) are crazy, and I can tell you this from first hand experience in all three. (I haven't been a brony since I was 10)
Loved the rendition of the family tree lol
I was a brony when i was 13. I joined website that involved befriending other bronies, doing roleplay, trading art ex... i was asked to join a discord chat where we would talk about the show and do roleplay. There was a tread that had 18+ on it, being dumb i clicked on it and it had scrat porn, and zooiphile stuff. I left that fandom years ago and now follow invincible and the boys fandoms
I miss these days. The memes, the art, the show itself, the community. Everything. The times there were drama and cringe only made my time in the fandom more entertaining.
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This story has the same vibe as an "and then everyone clapped" story
17:02 Noticed the Burger King foot lettuce reference, nice
There's much, much worse than that in the MLP fandom.
In a fandom that had 30,000,000 adult fans at it's peak, you have to expect that the worst 1/50 of a percent will be people that do not belong in society.
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I grew up in the MLP fandom and the amount of questionable figures it has is extremely concerning. Racism is extremely normalised even to this day. There is a serious problem.
As a kid I did not understand most of the popular memes throughout the fandom but most of them were racist or p3do jokes or about wanting to do things with these literal cartoon horses. It’s terrible. Bronies need to stop
@@apples6375 I mean, the ones who didn't start doing it don't need to stop since, well, they never started doing it. Many who did go into that darker, weirder side have stopped too, what should those people do then?
@@DanknDerpyGamerthey're clearly a brony so I don't think you need to tell them not everyone does it.
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@@squirrel670 TBF even people in a fandom can be convinced of erroneous, or even harmful, mentalities or statements - not to mention the phrasing can be important since clearly those not in the fandom or in the know will read the comments.
As a Brony myself, the fandom has always had this _extremely small_ but loud sub-group of people pulling all sorts of weird shit.
Like, you go to any comment section on youtube on a MLP related video, and I guarantee you that, among thousands of normal bronies, there's this one guy standing out like a sore thumb.
And it's not just us, it's every fandom. Only difference is how far the rabbit hole goes.
Second I saw the notification I was like “Now I gotta see this”
im 14 and i like my little pony, but god i will do anything in my power to stay away from the screwed up side of the fandom. its downright disturbing
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I wish I never knew about the pony jar incident 😭
Hearing “Derpibooru” again almost gave me a fight or flight response
I first heard about in an old commentary video years ago that talked about it having rule 34.
That was years before I became a Brony btw. (I became a Brony 1 years ago in 2022 for nostalgic and curious reasons.)
nazi bronies existing pretty much tells you all you need to know about nazis in general
Man, they really fell off since 1945. Same with communists.
I have rarely ever seen a video that was so bereft of the actual facts of its subject as this one. Goodness, I don't even know where to begin. This was **not** the first time the subject of racism had come up. The articles you point out were penned *before* any drama happened within the fandom, and indeed, the drama about facism within the fandom was a direct consequence of these articles making a mountain out of a molehill.
For some reason this makes perfect sense.
I remember being a child watching this show and also having access to the internet. I remember playing Banned from EQ Daily not knowing better and seeing… things. I remember all the UA-cam videos that desensitized my brain I watched. So much I remember that haunt my childhood.
21:56 why do they call it a restroom if i'm fighting for my life in here
I have an interesting story to share that I think makes sense now. I live in Seattle area and work at a hotel in Bellevue, every couple of months we‘ll have normal guests be completely overtaken by bronies. There are an unimaginable about of overweight neckbearded men who appear, some of them are wearing MLP onesies or cosplay, they carry around giant dolls of characters like Rainbow Dash or Apple Jack, they didn‘t have the best social skills, were not groomed and had the ugliest shirts of fanart, and they didn‘t smell good either. I think one of them even gifted a poster to our front desk and they gave it to my boss since she had it hanging on her office wall that day but was gone the next. These people are bizarre and it feels like I‘m at a zoo whenever this happens.
i think i know what hotel your talking about. I travel to Seattle every August for Everfree Northwest, which is the largest brony convention rn
@@West-rk7dz It's in August when every Brony starts to appear! Which hotel are you thinking about because I may be able to confirm.
@@mastercrazyyyd7699 hyatt regency in Bellevue.
@@West-rk7dz close but no, Hilton Garden Inn, we are just by the Hyatt Regency though.
@mastercrazyyyd7699 yeah the con is at the Hyatt. It's a very large con so there's always ppl staying at the nearby hotels as well.
The rampant racism (and it was BAD) was ultimately what made me back out of the fandom. I gotta deal with that BS irl, I don't want to have to navigate through it in a place where things like that are supposed to be frowned upon, and not protected. I still love MLP, but I don't want to get involved with the fandom ever again.
I was watching this and my brain went “Bluey is next…”
Oof
So glad i did not have internet access when i was 12 and obsessed with mlp. Literallu so glad. I was such a hardcore fan that i even loved all the original series.
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i was born in 1989. Grew up with my little pony toys, power rangers, a strawberry shortcake castle, he-man masters of the universe, X-Men animated series, garbage pail kids, etc. (How did these people become SO WEIRD about My little pony?)
Idk, people are weird, probably something to do with the fandom originating in 4chan.
Hey just to clarify at minute 13:24 the image he posted mixes two totally different concepts, as you can see the guy is a Brony and ABDL (Adult Baby/Diaper lover) which is another community totally separate from the brony but, It can mix because ABs generally like childish things like MLP in this case. By the way, ABDL people don't like children, only childish things
I am also in LGBTQ+ community, FNAF community, Furry community, etc so I see a lot of bad stuff being said about things I like and/or am a part of.
Before joining every community I am in, I only heard the bad stuff but that was only because I was an outsider.
What I always say is that you should never judge a community from the outside. Only once you step inside will you see just how much of the community are just loving people looking to have fun sharing their interests with fanart, theories, songs, and appreciation for others for liking the same thing. Most are normal people.
Communities only get bad light because only the bad things get big. Despite this, there will always be so many other good things. Maybe the bad things only get talked about more because the good things are so common and happen every day that it's just normalised that the community is positivity and therefore it doesn't have to be said every day how good it is.
Sometimes I wonder which communities I am in DON'T have bad history and/or people who give the community a bad name to outsiders...
But apparently every single one of them do and it is impossible to find one community without that unless it's based around a game or program that nobody knows exists lol
MLP is defiently one of the worst though when it comes to bad things getting noticed by outsiders although many other communities I'm in have also had their fair share of people doing bad things getting exposed for what they have done as well as a few other communities I am a part of.
Every community has bad things about it and every community has good things about it. Most only actively look for the bad stuff and therefore others who aren't searching come across it more. I can guarantee that even the worst communities (that obviously aren't created for the purpose of being bad) has good people in it. You just have to find them.
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I'm also LGBTQ+ and Furry/Brony.
I'm Pro-Fandom So yes.
I Defiantly Agree.
them buiscuts also happened to the Lidi paw patrol ones too
That was in the video
Aryanne is usually used ironically in the fandom similar to a lot of memes. Edginess is sometimes part of the fun similar to how people will make fun of 9/11 and also not support terrorism. Regardless, you can look at any internet fandom and you'll find crazies that have done and still do terrible things. Whether it be Roblox, FNAF, Furry, MLP, or Minecraft. You will find bad people if you look. People can believe that friendship is magic and racism is cool without any cognitive dissonance. Nothing is mutually exclusive for those who form an illogical worldview.
I still remember watching the show all the time with my cousin, who would babysit me good times
I've always been more a Care Bears person TBH. And are any of these Bronies (sounds like guys into paper towels) into the G1/80s MLP's?
Some have reviewed the earlier versions.....
Some yea.
I watched everything from G1 to G3,5. (even an old cringe theatre show related to G3, surprisingly having some boys sitting there.)
You know it's gonna be good when there's wojaks in the thumbnail
Kind of ironic, I believe combating racism was a notable theme in MLP, yet we have racists in the crowd.
Yea.