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Abedeus

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Captain Placeholder said:
Abedeus said:
Because it's another meme... Like over 9000, lolcats, numa numa... and few others that were big, then forgotten. Only now and then some idiot tries to resurrect it.

Except more obnoxious, because everyone changes their avatars and talks about it 24/7 instead of just using boring references.

The only meme I liked was "Assuming direct control", because it was sort of random, and yet fitting everywhere. Or just because there was a funny thread on Bioware forums with pictures. Like other memes.
MLP is NOT a Meme. Just as Star Wars is not a meme. Just as Star Trek is not a Meme.

I will give you that MLP Spawned a few memes, but it isn't a meme onto itself. Just as Star Wars and Star Trek spawned memes, however you don't go around saying "Durr I fuckin' hate Star Wars because its a meme." Because that would just be stupid.

The point of my post is to point out just that.

MLP IS NOT A MEME.
JUST AS POKEMON IS NOT A MEME.
JUST AS BLEACH IS NOT A MEME.
JUST AS 99.9% OF TV SHOWS ARE NOT FUCKING MEMES.
I KNEW that you'd have a pony avatar when I saw your reply.

Pokemons are over 10 years old, and Bleach is not that popular. You don't see people quoting shit or posting images from the shows.

Okay, look:

House MD is not a meme.
"It's never lupus" is a meme. I get this.

But when 90% of the time I see a Pony thread, there are thousands of pictures, references and quotes from the show.

Star Wars and Trek might've been memes if they were created now. Look at inception - the only thing the Internet remembers about it is the meme "We need to go deeper". Memes destroy things. If there were no MLP memes, I would've tolerated the show. But the constant barrage of pictures and etc just repulses me.

Generic Gamer said:
Right.

It's a show. You watch a show and you like the show. That is all. There's no need to tell everyone about it all the time, spam fucking huge pictures in threads, constantly go on about how it doesn't make you gay, a paedophile or a sissy even though no one accused you of that or rabidly defend the show against criticism. You are also not a persecuted minority, you are some nerds that like a show. Honestly, bronies have managed to out-persecution complex furries, I shit you not!

All I want to do after a long day of being told that people who don't like the show are homophobic, insecure, right wing, christian or whatever is smack a bitcha frankly. Watching a show doesn't make you unique, smart or special. You like a show and I don't fucking care.

No one fucking cares what shitty little show you watch because we're all nerds here, we ALL watch a shitty show no one cares about!
Exactly... It's becoming worse than Gay Pride. I'm proud to love other men/women/ponies/tv shows! This is my way of life, listen to me, look at me!

My avatar is from Gurren Lagann. Am I going around forums, making threads about it, spamming pictures, constantly quoting "BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU!!"? No. Because it's annoying.

And what quote above said - it reminds me of furries.

So you like to look at animals with boobs. Big deal, I don't care, maybe I'll stop hating you if you stop bringing it up every second post. Furries treat themselves like martyrs. "Oh what have we ever done...". You bitched on the Internet for way too long, that's what.
 

CrazyGirl17

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I used to be hesitant about the show... but then I actually saw it and fell in love with this world of Ponies.

So yeah, guess I learned not to judge something I haven't seen...

Though I think people dislike it because of the overabundance of MLP stuff. You can have too much of a good thing, after all...
 
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StonedMonkey said:
It's a show for 5 year old little girls; that now you, probably an older teenage are watching. I don't like it because most of you who watch this SHOW FOR 5 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRLS are just people who are into it because the rest of the internet is, because you wanna fit in with a stupid ass group.
Everyone knows video games are just toys for little kids. Honestly I think it's pretty obvious that teens/adults who play video games are just sad, lonely, developmentally retarded shut-ins. Imagine if you devoted all that time and energy to something important, like football! Don't you know this computer games thing is just a fad that will blow over, and you'll be left with nothing but wasted time? If you don't believe me, just watch Fox News (the only news station that hasn't been bought out by corporate interests trying to push that poisonous hobby)!
 

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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.
Wow. Another one? There's a Dave Matthews Band song that goes "Some people do / Some people don't..."
 
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MrDeckard said:
I don't "Hate" anything about it. I hate the KKK, I HATE Jack Thompson. Hate is too strong of a word.

In fact, I don't even dislike the show itself!
I do however, quite dislike the people who are major fans.

Two reasons.

1) The show just isn't that good. It's [i/]slightly[/i] above average animated show and yet it has the most dedicated, hardcore fanbase of ANYTHING I have seen in the past years.

2) Everything about the fans just irritates the fuck out of me. Particularly the words used, but nearly everything they do related to their beloved show just get's under my skin like nothing else can.
I second this.

I've watched a few episodes, and I really can't see what the fuss is about. It's a decent cartoon aimed at children.

That's all.

Why the hell people treat it as the second coming of Christ beats the fuck out of me. It's like some sort of weird hipster shit where people love it ironically, except it's not. People genuinely like the show enough to edit their communication with equine references.
 

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James Joseph Emerald said:
StonedMonkey said:
It's a show for 5 year old little girls; that now you, probably an older teenage are watching. I don't like it because most of you who watch this SHOW FOR 5 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRLS are just people who are into it because the rest of the internet is, because you wanna fit in with a stupid ass group.
Everyone knows video games are just toys for little kids. Honestly I think it's pretty obvious that teens/adults who play video games are just sad, lonely, developmentally retarded shut-ins. Imagine if you devoted all that time and energy to something important, like football! Don't you know this computer games thing is just a fad that will blow over, and you'll be left with nothing but wasted time? If you don't believe me, just watch Fox News (the only news station that hasn't been bought out by corporate interests trying to push that poisonous hobby)!
I'm pretty sure MLP is marketed towards little 5-10 year old girls. My cousin had them when she was little.

But do you see ALL games being targeted to ALL gamers? God knows I played Diablo 2 when I was 8, but the main audience was 18+. Same with GTA, Larry, Hitman, Wolfenstein, Quake and other games that are targeted at adults. Those "Only Mature Audience" sticked says so.

edudogel said:
MY POINT IT IS JUST A TV SHOW WHY THE FANDOM
Maybe "reversed girl gamer" syndrome. Instead of girls playing male-targeted games, we have males watching female-targeted shows.
 

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I wanna agree with you on that. Yeah, even I am annoyed by our fandom sometimes, and I do feel sorry for those other groups that are getting picked on. Enjoy your Mass Effect 2, A Storm of Swords, and a crunchie bar. ^-^
 

Bek359

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Because people won't shut the fuck up about it. Tvtropes has an article about this phenomena:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeAversion

Go. Read. Understand.

And yes, I have seen people try to shove MLP down people's throats. THe constant memes posted in forums, the uproar if anyone dares to say that they don't care for it, etc., etc. All for a show aimed at little girls. You are allowed to like it, just file it under "guilty pleasures that you don't really talk about".
 

Peteron

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1) TF2 isn't about girly little ponies
2) What do you mean it doesn't affect us? Ponie threads are everywhere and it is mentioned all the time, even when it is completely unrelated.
3) Take pride in your gender, don't like ponies
4) It would be less irritating if people stopped talking about it and kept it to themselves.
 

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Dude, Katy Perry should totally voice Octavia.
NO!

She's my favorite character. Don't ruin her for me D:
She'll make the character 10 times better, I'm telling you it'll work. Besides she didn't have any speaking lines to begin with.
 

Beryl77

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It's not really hate, more like tired of hearing and reading about it the whole time.
 

Silent Anima

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For.I.Am.Mad said:
blaqknoise said:
For.I.Am.Mad said:
Dude, Katy Perry should totally voice Octavia.
NO!

She's my favorite character. Don't ruin her for me D:
She'll make the character 10 times better, I'm telling you it'll work. Besides she didn't have any speaking lines to begin with.
I have to agree with blaqknoise on this one. I wouldn't want her to be voiced by Katy Perry. >.<
 

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Can't resist posting in this thread, but I have nothing interesting to contribute other than not all fans are as loud as people make them out to be, but with that said I agree that yes, some fans need to stfu.
 

blaqknoise

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For.I.Am.Mad said:
blaqknoise said:
For.I.Am.Mad said:
Dude, Katy Perry should totally voice Octavia.
NO!

She's my favorite character. Don't ruin her for me D:
She'll make the character 10 times better, I'm telling you it'll work. Besides she didn't have any speaking lines to begin with.
I would prefer if she stayed a background character. I like the fan given personality she has.
 

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Pretty much that; people complain when things are popular. It's what people do.

If they dislike the show then they tend to keep to themselves; if it's cool to hate it though; well ya'know.