Remember everyone, remain calm. Love and tolerate the haters, they're an inevitability. Really, it just seems like they don't like ponies because of a few things.
1: Avatars. They don't realize that we all choose avatars based on what we like. A lot of people like ponies, and want to put them as their avatar. Plus, you gotta admit, a LOT of people here have blatant pony avatars.
2: They don't want to like it. They will refuse to watch a single minute, not of fear of liking it, but fear of looking like a sissy. Before G4 came out, you would probably think the same.
3: Basically any thread made on the Escapist asking what people hate. If it comes up once, everyone will jump on the bandwagon. And those threads come up a LOT as well.
Hopefully this clears a bit up.