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>>/5469/ > Let me tell you something. Your fandom is one of the strangest I've seen. It has various amounts of degeneracy and cringe, but a lot of your people don't into the traits of a lot of the groups that some would call your peers. first of all, you have to consider the following things here. Do you believe that it is easy to deal with all this? If you have been reading about the origins of this fanbase you will realize that this fandom isn´t exactly left leaning except for the mainstream social media groups, so this means that the vision leans more towards a chan mindset (thus one would imply a more right wing leaning or at least one less left leaning than other communities that rely on Tumblr as their main source of interaction and material delivered). I say this in the OP of the editing thread, this started with the explosive pony spam that occurred on 4chan because a few /co/fags liked it (and were ready to mock it beforehand) and then, /b/ spammed it everywhere, increasing the popularity of the franchise greatly. It was banned from 4chan until in 2012, /mlp/ was created as a containment board for posting every pony picture. In case that you dare to post any picture related to MLP, you will get a ban of 3 days (the famous global rule 15). Unlike Pokemon with /vp/, you cannot post anything from Derpibooru even if no pony appears in the picture (they tried this with Gummu, Pinkie´s alligator) Why am I giving a lesson of history here despite sounding redundant? Because most of the philosophy inherited comes from a chan influence. MLP has its roots in this format and all the fan art get really well exposed in these sites. However, this isn´t the most important aspect to take into account for the fanbase.... the biggest difference between MLP and any other community is that...it has been an isolated one since the very beginning. It has carried that infamy for so long that if you are inspired or want to make something related to it, you will limit yourself to the community despite going beyond its comfort zone. No outsiders want to be associated with it because in theory, it appeals to the lowest common denominator and most degenerated people one could imagine. In terms of degeneracy, only a furry could emphasize with these circumstance and could easily jump from furry content to MLP material without any problem. In addition to the degeneracy seen from society´s standards, /co/ has decided to leave it aside, as a dark episode in its history. Tumblr considered it uncool after season 5 happened, their love and tolerance discourse failed to appeal to the whole community and jumped onto other franchises instead (part of the brony fanbase would create the SU fanbase later after juming off the wagon) The cringe and stigma still affect to this day for liking it. Maybe not so much the cringe but in the early years (the golden era reached its explosive peak between 2011-13), fans were proud of being bronies in public and some of them didn´t watch a single episode of the series, they only cared about fan content or jumping onto the latest trend just because. A lot of noise happened, it reached the media and news at some point and there you have the famous brony cringe compilations. This along with the rule 34 will be the main reasons to find any reddit thread about worst fanbases on the internet and say that this community is toxic because of those two reasons, assuming that every year is like 2012 turned out. But they won´t tell you about the other side of the coin....and I have experienced my years in this community from 2014 to this day.