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My Little Pony haters acting as though nerds had never before watched cartoons aimed at kids

AnonusAnonus
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I know this isn't 2011, but what the fuck is/was THAT about?
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  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    watching a cartoon aimed at kids is different from claiming the cartoon aimed at kids is not actually aimed at kids
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    did any significant number of people ever seriously claim that MLP wasn't aimed at kids?
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Yes.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I don't think so
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I mean like, I was immersed in the damn fandom for years and I saw someone say something kinda like that once?
  • AnonusAnonus
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I heard about it via hearsay
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    and I got some hearsay in my spam folder that says that the FBI wants to give me 3 million dollars
  • TanyaTanya
    Pizza Dog
    First of all, It's 'aimed' at little girls, which is a threat against people's MASCULINITY ERMIEGARWD. HOW CAN I CONTAIN THIS MUCH MASTESTORANITY IF I"M WATCHMING TECHNICALOR PAWNIES.


  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    Yeah I definitely have a problem w bronies because I think they're wimps.

    that is

    100% me
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    i don't have a problem with my little pony or adults of any gender enjoying my little pony or even my little pony porn though that's one of those things i don't really like being reminded exists

    but actually calling yourself a brony is kinda a red flag to me
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    at this point the whole brony/pony/porn thing and the associated thoughts opinions and beliefs of people... aren't something that I think about really.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    the whole thing is weird and convoluted and vaguely embarrasing
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    naney said:

    did any significant number of people ever seriously claim that MLP wasn't aimed at kids?

    Yeah, I always thought that was a bit of a strawman argument

    As though people conflated "this show is for kids, but an adult can appreciate it too" (which, imo, applies to a lot of cartoons) with "this show is really for adults"
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Yeah, it was that, i think.

    Like i think people were reading that as some kind of disingenuous thing?  Like if somebody said 'this show is for kids, but adults can also enjoy it', they'd read that as 'this show is for adults' but being dishonest about it?

    Brony hate confuses me, not because it exists, but because so much of the hate comes from furries and social justice bloggers and neither of those makes any sense to me.
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
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    i do maintain that there were references in MLP that children cannot have been expected to get.  i mean, this is true of a lot of children's shows.

    And i think early on they were intended for parents, but later there were definitely some bits that were aimed squarely at the online fandom ("careful Derpy" being an obvious case in point).  So i don't see how it's supposed to be stupid or dishonest or otherwise bad to suggest that the show was written partly with adults in mind.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Tachyon said:

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    i do maintain that there were references in MLP that children cannot have been expected to get.  i mean, this is true of a lot of children's shows.

    And i think early on they were intended for parents, but later there were definitely some bits that were aimed squarely at the online fandom ("careful Derpy" being an obvious case in point).  So i don't see how it's supposed to be stupid or dishonest or otherwise bad to suggest that the show was written partly with adults in mind.

    This is basically what I've heard -- that the show was well-written in such a way that children and adults could both enjoy it, albeit even if in different ways.
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