Long story short, regulars on /mlp/ don’t like being called “bronies”.

If you’d called them horse fuckers there’d be no argument.

@lumpfish
 
@richiebenaud  
Oh yeah? Where? Give me some examples to back up your statement.
 
>lol pinki is a cereal killer xDDD
 
Funny you mention that because Smile HD isn’t creative or funny. All it is is a gorefest. Though I’m not sure he visits 4chan though.

@richiebenaud  
I suppose so. I still am really not up with the ‘community’ aspect of 4chan though. I freaking hate sites like Tumblr too but I can understand that it features many prominent brony artists too.

I love all the people here saying there’s nothing left being made in 4chan when a good amount of art that’s posted here still comes straight from their boards.
 
Don’t say shit you have no idea about.

………I….don’t get it. All this from one guy? Then again, I don’t involve myself in 4chan affairs.

@Background Pony  
Also  
>creative content  
>lol pinki is a cereal killer xDDD  
>lol culestia is a rapist xDDD  
Don’t be blinded by nostalgia.

@Background Pony  
I disagree with that, good shit is being made all the time.

4chan basically created MLP:FiM fandom. It was rapidly superseded by Ponibooru as the place for MLP:FiM discussion and art, and EqD as a place for MLP:FiM news. It was briefly useful again when Ponibooru went down, but only by virtue of being there in some form whereas Ponibooru was not there at all. Derpibooru subsequently took over in the role of FiM art archive and discussion place (albeit with significant content holes relative to Ponibooru, such as the greentext story images). Over time, 4chan’s myriad fundamental problems caught up with it and it became a worse shithole than it ever was before. It’s essentially useless today, but does hang on clinging to its fandom laurels, by virtue of having been first.

4chan nowadays is a shell of its former self anyway. It’s borderline Reddit-Minus. It’s that bad a circlejerk.

@richiebenaud  
I’m not sure about that. /mlp/ has an art thread up almost 24/7, not to mention the numerous generals for fanfiction, animation, and other stuff. They’re basically an island nation, and the rest of the fandom is a big continent.

@richiebenaud  
I think most of the fandom’s creativity/originality died awhile back. There’s so few people left.

I used to browse /mlp/, but that place has become a hate circlejerk to levels where its not fun anymore.  
Also the fact they’re overly hypocritical and can’t make funny/original content to save their life was another nail in the coffin.

@Background Pony  
Having the ability to speak freely is a great thing and I’d never want to see /mlp/ or any of 4chan censored in any way, even if I don’t personally want to go there often. They always seem to go past blunt and honest and give you a nice helping of ludicrousy and hatred, oh well. People can be brutally honest on here as well and it never seems to get to /mlp/ level.  
@Background Pony  
And I’m glad, on the very rare occasion I’ve valued /mlp/’s brutal views.

@Techy Pony  
@Background Pony  
yeah techy, it’s just the way 4chan is  
you either dig it or you don’t
 
personally I don’t post there anymore. I’ve found better places to talk about the show, and they don’t dive right into shitposting whenever there isn’t a new episode to talk about

@Techy Pony  
Those responses are a bit of a given. They’ll always be there. Usually, if you respond to one, they’ll tell you exactly what they think. I’ve seen it happen a lot, particularly in regards to animations and fanfics.

@Techy Pony  
It’s a weird way of thinking. This is the basic train of thought; “This place is a shithole, but it’s OUR shithole.”  
They mainly reject decency because it’s something they feel like they have to do to keep themselves relevant, and that’s okay, in my eyes. There are lots of other places on the internet to go if you want something nice and pleasant, but very few if you want something more blunt. I feel like 4chan in general acts the way they do not because they want to, but because they feel like they NEED to. Open discussion is rare, and the best way to foster open discussion is to be blunt, often offensive, in order to get your point across.

@Background Pony  
As I said it had its merits, but even after wading through all the “OP is a faggot” and “it’s shit” and the like, it’s still debatable how realistic the rest of the responses are. They could very well be more pecimistic than they actually think. Like say someone said “I love my waifu and no longer am attracted to real humans”, the most legitimate response you’d get would likely be “I don’t give a shit” (expressing an actual feeling) or “take a break from mlp” but nothing I’d call an analytical response.

who /bronies/ here?

@Background Pony  
If they think it’s such a shithole why do many of the go there so often? (Some people just want to watch the world burn type of thing?)
 
/mlp/ and 4chan in general does have its merits, but the ability for discussions without trying to be nice and politically correct doesn’t mean you have to reject all descensy.

@Techy Pony  
4chan isn’t the place to go if you’re looking for something positive. Anonymity makes it easier to focus on the negatives instead, something which goes hand-in-hand with solid critique. If you want a good opinion on something, /mlp/ will tell you exactly how they feel, as long as you’re willing to wade through the replies of “it’s shit” and “OP is a fag” long enough to find good replies.

@Background Pony  
Having that knowledge would probably make me want to use the term more.

And I’ll admit they’re not all bad all the time, at the very least they’re rather entertaining if you lurk a bit. Sometimes chaos and obsurdity is entertaining. But as a whole it’s difficult to see good in /mlp/ most of the time.

@Techy Pony  
I haven’t talked with a single person on /mlp/ who thinks they’re better than the fandom. Ask them what they think of /mlp/, and they’ll pretty much all say that it’s a shithole. However, it does have one thing going for it, which is open discussion, something that’s quite rare elsewhere. Anonymity has several downsides, but the main thing that outweighs them is the fact that you can call people on their bullshit however much you want, which isn’t all that common on other sites.