This thread needs more sombreros!
And I pretty much agree with
Niorah here. Except for the occasional Browncoat, most other shows' fans are not as in-your-face about it as it seems the MLP fans are.
THIS.
Even at the height of the Browncoat phase people weren't posting thread-bombs and Browncoat related material everywehre. And even if they were it at least wasn't annoyingly, childishly, cutesy with pastel colors.
Other past crazes at least didn't have the stigma as being perceived as being a show for grade-school girls. With it's core characters being ponies (traditionally seen as being an object of affection for young girls), cute voices and, again, the pastel colors.
On it's surface the show pretty much screams "This is for young girls!" Despite whatever noteworthy subject matter might be behind all of that there's still a lot to get through to find it.
I've
tried, twice now, to watch the show's first episode and I could not get past the "little girly-ness" of it. The colors, the voices, the characters, the singing, overly-cuteness. It just wasn't for me.
But people want to like it? Fine. I find it odd and maybe a bit creepy (as I think there's a touch of a bestiality-like fetish in it too.) But then it gets rammed down everyone's throats.
Thread bombs, signatures, avatars, all of that. It's a lot to take in and accept when you have to look past the fact it all simply
looks like a little girl's show.
It'd be like putting a rainbow flag sticker on my car, or wearing that symbol on my clothing and telling people, "No, I'm not gay. I just really like the color spectrum!" It'd be true, but there's a lot of stigma and stuff you have to see past to get it.
So, you can probably see how people would be a little freaked out when all of the sudden adult males are rooting for characters named "Twilight Sparkle" and "Rainbow Dash", have pastel-colored ponies in their avatars and actually talk about a Saturday-morning cartoon aimed towards grade-school girls.
Then there's the slight bestiality aspects of it some aspects of the fandom have taken (someone once had an avatar suggesting cunnilingus between the two characters, another posted an up-skirt/school girl picture of one of the ponies) and then there's the phraseology from it people spout all of the time, namely "Friendship is magic."
It's a
lot to look past to see and understand the rabid fandom behind the show, and for many it may not be easy to look past and many will be unwilling to look past it when every turn you make there's someone posting a large pony-themed thread bomb.
The "FiM" aspect of the show may be a noteworthy message but it's also horribly trite and over-cutesy. It's not necessarily
wrong to think such a thing but I'm sure there's a better way to say it that doesn't make one sound like an 8-year-old girl.
If you're going to be in this fandom you have to understand there's a lot of stuff one has to look past to understand it and it's difficult to look past it. Someone had posted video from a contributor on That Guy With the Glasses of a young man (late-20s) declaring and explaning why he likes the show. And, I'm sorry, it's hard to really watch, understand, and accept why an adult male is here saying how much he loves a cartoon with the sub-title "Friendship is Magic" that's about pastel-colored ponies with names like "Twilight Sparkle."
It's just a lot to take in, look past, and accept is all.
huh?? I think Mr. T'Bonz has summarized his whole "matter" with concision and clarity. Well said, sir.
