Regarding pony hate

[Sonic Doctor]

Hi!
I was in the "Memes you hate" thread, and noticed a lot of people voted for My Little Pony. I'm just curious of why you hate it. I don't think there's much of a reason to, at least not on the escapist. We keep to ourselfes in the MLP group chat, and the only pony you get from us are our avatars. Otherwise we're like any other escapist user. And I don't see you hating on people with, let's say, TF2 avatars, even though there's a lot of people with that too.

Well, I thought some of the stuff had been toned down, and things were getting back to normal, at least normal for this site. But, the giant pony picture that was posted in the thread for the newest installment of the Critical Miss comic says otherwise. The big thing that came out of the whole pony thing was that the fervent fans of the show haven't been all that great at being subtle and courteous when they bring their fandom out.

The picture I was talking about is an example, because I find that I haven't found one post where a pony fan properly put their giant picture in spoiler tags so that it doesn't mess up the flow and size of the thread. Yeah other people do it to, the example being the funny troll picture near the beginning of this thread, but with the majority of the other fan bases of things, people put pictures in spoiler tags and are much more civil when someone says something about the thing they like.

You making this thread shows my point. So what if somebody makes a vote thread and the majority vote that they don't like the pony thing. Why is this so alarming that, that you have to make a whole thread about it. Of course you are free to do so, but it just comes off as desperate to have everybody like what you like.

On the avatars thing, I don't nearly see as many TF2 avatars as pony avatars. Plus what gets old is that so many pony fans have the same pony avatar and they copy of each other that it is hard to tell each person apart unless I pay close attention and quote the right name before I comment. With most people on this site, I can usually easily recognize if I have read comments from them before, because most have pretty unique avatars, but I have seen quite a few people sporting your avatar, and other pony avatars I have seen in this thread. While, I haven't seen quite that many TF2 avatars that are the same.

There are a few people that have similar Doctor Who avatars, but I would say about 90% or more that I have seen are unique. I strive to be unique with my avatar and not follow the group. I specifically picked out a section of one of the newer episodes cut it down in Windows Maker and used a gif making program to turn it into a animated gif. It really isn't hard at all, my first one I made was a Scrubs gif of the Janitor doing a jig:

Spoiler: Jig time.

It took about an hour of time to learn how to use Movie Maker, find a good gif making program, and learn how to use that. After that it took all of five minutes to make a unique avatar.

Spoiler: More personally made avatars of mine followed.

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On uniqueness like that, I have maybe seen five or six new pony avatars since the craze started, but four have become spread around so that they aren't unique, and two have been replaced by user that seems to change his avatar almost every month if not every week, he probably knows who he is, he is an okay guy as well.

I don't watch the show, but it wouldn't become so grating on the Net if the fans actually came up with something new instead of posting and having the same stuff over and over again. But again, the overreacting and being offended by the slightest hint of somebody saying that they don't like the show or find the memes annoying (on the seeming, most of the fans), it isn't a surprise that a lot of people are annoyed by it all and vote that they hate the pony stuff.

So the next time you see stuff like that meme vote thread, just let it slide and continue in your fandom, oh and strive to be unique, because for a show that from what I have seen(the show is partly about being unique and being accepting of uniqueness), the majority of you aren't being very unique in your fandom. You pony fans all talk about being a part of the herd, well instead of totally being a part of the herd, stand out from it and be different, be unique.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

But I don't want any hate in this thread. Just an explanation.

Yes, but the explanation IS hate.
Yeah, they have reasons as to why, but at the end of the day their just hating(No not the "haters going to hate" hating, just hating.)

Tolerate and love the shit out of them, Brony. :3

 

[Loop Stricken]

People who can't participate in an argument or debate without resorting to macros, or just fall back on the "just watch it before hating it" with YouTube links. Stop it. You're not helping.

I vaguely disagree. It's one of the best arguments you can make. Nopony should actively dislike or even hate something they've had no experience with. if they watch it and don't like it, fair enough. But people really need to learn to make informed judgements and opinions instead of the "herpaderp is for leetle girls" nonsense they do now.
And no, not just for pony-based animation, but any bloody thing in life.

Except vegetarianism, that's just silly. Animals are delicious.

I get what your saying, but this is a cartoon show, not deciding who's going to rule your country for the next X years. Think realistically. If someone is dead set on hating the show than posting episodes and telling them to watch it isn't going to do anything but make them more upset and giving them more of an excuse to call you preachy.

Then we ignore that person for being a silly filly. Or better yet, point at them and laugh derisively.
Not that politics really goes any better anyway.

 

[Kukakkau]

Already aware of it. It's also just a MLP hate thread in disguise. And that thread does in no way represent the majority on the Escapist.

Just came from that thread - how is making a poll of notorious memes then the OP saying out of them my little pony annoys him the most a hate directed thread?

 

[effilctar]

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So what's stopping you from having your pony discussions there instead of dragging the subject kicking and screaming into the main forums?
It isn't due to pony hate, because there's no smoke without fire. If there was no reason for us to hate it, we wouldn't hate it.

 

[Innegativeion]

Fox can take out a Jet on his own without a vehicle, that is just as cool.

Without a gun?

I never said they were childish, you are the one putting words in mouths.

It's in the very message you just quoted, look:

Any yes, Space ships are cooler and less childish than brightly coloured ponies who believe "friendship is magic".

Don't use a descriptor if you don't want to imply that description.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Spoiler

In what way is it childish I ask you? They are going to save the freaking galaxy from a man who wants to watch them die, not childish at all.

You are taunted about how your father squealed before he died and how you were going to be tortured.

Childish?

Not_sure_if_troll_or_just_stupid.jpg

I mean, everypony knows that in MLP:FiM the mane cast embarked on a quest to stop an evil tyrant who planned to stop the Sun rising, casting their world into eternal darkness.

But then I suppose they didn't do it with polygonal spaceships so it's not cool.

Ok, first of all. Your villian simply threatened to cause harm. Andross destroyed nearly all life in the system and turned worlds into wastelands (look at Zoness, it is a planet filled with nothing but pollution and machinery).

He was on the verge of winning after he invaded Corneria before the Star Fox team came.

Any yes, Space ships are cooler and less childish than brightly coloured ponies who believe "friendship is magic".

IT'S SO GRIITY AND MATURE! GARGH CHEST HAIR!

When did widespread suffering of characters in a story become a pre-requisite for coolness?

 

[Flunk]

I watched the first two episodes because I was curious. The art is really good and if I had a little girl I would make her watch it, that show teaches the right lessons.

I have no idea why anyone older than 12 watches the show. I suspect that most of you are just in to it because you think that you want to be part of something. Then again I did watch the first 25 episodes of Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z because it was such a train-wreck I just couldn't look away.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Personally I hate anyone that uses something they didn't create to express or represent themselves.

I'm lazy and I know far too many long and interesting words than is good for me, and I try to use them as often as I can.
When trying to write a book, this can be quite detrimental. And my handwriting sucks. Also I'm hugely lazy. Oh, and paranoid.
Ergo if and or when I actually CREATE my own creation I won't be putting it up online for a goodly while for fears of plagiarism and the like.

So for now I shall use a cool picture of a pony as my online representation. I use this current piccie on Steam too.
because you do not want to see my actual face. You would not sleep well again.

FOREEEEEEVERRRRRRRR.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I don't know why you're laughing this is a serious matter. I mean, consider.

There are people

on the Escapist

who have avatars

which contain characters

from the cartoon

My Little Pony.

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Seriously, how much worse can it get? I don't know why the mods haven't cracked down on these people. The audacity they must have to pull off this heinous and criminal act. It's just sickening. I hope no children happen to glance at the screen while their parents/older siblings happen to be on. The mental scars they're carry through their life... nobody should be made to carry that burden.

the burden of? seeing a brightly colored cartoon pony, that may or may not be a Pegasus or unicorn, or both in rare cases

>.>

yes, a truly terrible thing, unlike the anime/videogame/manga/comic avatars every one else has the mods should crack down on them to, cause those can be just as scarring as the ponies

No, you see, ponies are totally different than anime/videogame/manga/comic avatars. Totally. Which is why it's okay to have anime/videogame/manga/comic avatars but not to have pony avatars.

 

[Febel]

Going by the definition, Fox isn't a cartoon.

Any more serious? Read the above lines, threats of death and torture. Also if you played the game you would realise how dark some of the dialogue is.

Dictionaries have multiple definitions for a reason.

Miriam Webster: A preparatory drawing, design, or painting.

So yeah, it is a cartoon. And even if you don't think your avatar is a cartoon because it's a 3-D model (2-D computer drawing of a theoretical 3-D object if we're getting technical, so a cartoon anyway), here:

Spoiler

Fox is now a cartoon.

So every 3D model in a game is now a cartoon? Your logic is flawed.

The character is not a cartoon.

This is a fox.

This is Fox.

Note the exaggerated features and anthropomorphism, both traits common in cartoons

 

[Innegativeion]

"even if you don't think your avatar is a cartoon because it's a 3-D model"


That was your point, 3D models are cartoons, I never put words in mouths, I simply read your words.

I once again refer you to my previous post.

Uhhhh no, wrong again. This time you're taking partial quotes out of context.

Are you TRYING to do EVERYTHING you're not supposed to do to sound credible?

Full quote:

"even if you don't think your avatar is a cartoon because it's a 3-D model (which, if we're getting technical, it's actually a 2-D computer drawing of a theoretical 3-D object, so a cartoon anyway

 

[WOPR]

Hi!
I was in the "Memes you hate" thread, and noticed a lot of people voted for My Little Pony. I'm just curious of why you hate it. I don't think there's much of a reason to, at least not on the escapist. We keep to ourselfes in the MLP group chat, and the only pony you get from us are our avatars. Otherwise we're like any other escapist user. And I don't see you hating on people with, let's say, TF2 avatars, even though there's a lot of people with that too.

It's not so the show as much as the fans (see: Portal)
while it's true that a good number are just normal people that like the show
it's ALSO true that there's a bunch that are annoying about it

mainly (at least I think) one of the things that ticks us off is when we're at school and they constantly say "Everypony" instead of "Everybody" or they're so obsessed over it that instead of sticking to the "fun day" that was planned (Quake LAN party) that instead they shut off all the computers to turn on episodes of MLP:FIM that they've already seen enough times to recite word for word

while the above is yes a personal thing, it's UBER-FANS like that, that tick us off, we don't care if you like MLP or have a MLP avatar, it's when you get worse then the people that yell "THE CAKE IS A LIE!" every 10 seconds that we get tired of the meme

in short: it's too far... not from you personally, but from other MLP fans... annoyingly too far

EDIT: when did this become a furry war involving starfox..?!

 

[Loop Stricken]

I mean come on if you say some silly nickname is what you are for liking something then it's gone too far

Like Trekkies?

 

[mjc0961]

We keep to ourselfes in the MLP group chat, and the only pony you get from us are our avatars.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That's a good joke!

No, you don't keep yourselves in the MLP group chat. This thread for example. And the only pony we get from you are your avatars? If that's the case, explain all the replies I see from people that instead of text, they post a picture of a pony with a caption on it as if this was an image board. Granted, the fact that they're acting like this is an image board is the more annoying thing there, but fact is that it's also a solid example of there being a lot more pony around than just some avatars.

I don't hate ponies. I hate people who can't shut the hell up about how much they love ponies and how we all should love ponies too. I hate all the "your avatar is ____", "the last thing you killed in a game is ____", "the last thing you played as in a game is _____", and so on threads too. And I also hate hearing about the cake being a lie and spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace! every time people can find even the weakest connection to what the thread is about. Doesn't mean I hate Portal.

There is no pony hate. You are not a persecuted minority.

There are only people tired of seeing pony memes inserted into threads with barely any connection to the show, and of hearing people bring up MLP at every opportunity despite knowing that most of the people in the discussion aren't interested in it.

I'd find it irritating if people started posting lolcats in every thread they could find even the tiniest excuse to. Does that make me a cat hater?

Another well written post on the matter.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Threads like these showcase some of the reasons I am sometimes disappointed to be a part of the fandom. "Why do people hate us so much for no good reason? It's not like we've done anything to them." Get over the persecution complex. It's the real world. People like stuff and people hate stuff. MLP just happens to be the flavor of the month(s).

People who can't participate in an argument or debate without resorting to macros, or just fall back on the "just watch it before hating it" with YouTube links. Stop it. You're not helping.

"Bronies." No. Just no. I am a person who happens to like a show. I don't need to further segregate myself by adding a dumb moniker.

"Somepony," "Anypony," and "Nopony." For the love of [insert divine entity] stop. This is like nails on a chalkboard to my eyes, and I am one of you. I can't imagine how grating it must be for someone not in the loop.

I'm sorry if I disappoint you, but it needs to be said.

thank you for summing up what i feel about this, i have tried liking MLP, as i love cartoons and i love to be open minded to stuff, but sweet jesus it makes me tear my hair out in a "WTF, this is nails on a chalkboard to me" kind of way

and this is coming from someone who doesn't mind hope or vanille at all from ff13, let alone most jrpg characters, especially their voices.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I see a MLP avatar and I wanna rip the users gullet out via their anus......
It was that period here where nearly every thread was to do with fucking ponies (not in that way... wouldn't put it past some of them though)

I've been warned a few times and suspended twice for brony hatred :S
Must try to behave but they make it so damned difficult

I'd like to sympathise but then I read your forum name.

Any particular reason?

If your anus is bleeding, you have bigger problems to worry about.