This fandom thing is total horseshit actually. The only thing it stands for is asshats and pornography… just like real life except real life also has murder.

The endorphins and brain chemicals wore off and now we need those little blue pills to help stay interested. Just pony in moderation and you can avoid this tragic fate.

It’s telling that “love and tolerate” was worn out years ago. I think people realized that it hasn’t elevated this fandom into something it’s not. It’s still a fandom.
 
I’ve gained a certain disdain for how pretentious this fandom can be over this stuff, but honestly I’ve had one foot out the door for a while. I haven’t even watched the show in months, nor seen the latest four or five episodes.

I’ll take, ‘What Happens to Fandoms Upon Hitting Mainstream’ for 500.

someone took a trip to Pony Town

especially when people force opinions on others.

@Background Pony #9304  
To be fair, I don’t think “love and tolerate” was created with the intention of being used seriously.

I still try to live by love and tolerate. The key word is try.  
I don’t know what it is about furries, but I just dispise them. Ironic right?  
I feel that overall bronies are still mostly good, but people are people and you can’t let that bring you down.

Been in this fandom since 2011 and not much has changed. We’re no different than any other fandom. Some of us adhere to the message of the show, but most of us just enjoy it while not following it’s message and as soon as it’s over we go back to being complete assholes. Some people in a fandom who genuinely believe in their show’s/game’s/series’/whatever’s message will want to spread it. MLP is a show about loving and respecting eachother regardless of character (why do you think we end up forgiving every villain?). Those who really enjoy MLP for what it is will wish to change the world that way. But the brutal truth is most of us won’t. We’re just another fandom of neckbeards born on 4chan. Sure, we’ve grown into one of the most diverse communities on the internet, people of all races, genders, professions and nationalities have grown a liking to the show. We’ve proven that a show for little girls that’s only enjoyed by little girls, is a bad show for little girls. There’s definitely some all loving and tolerating bronies/pegasisters out there, but there deep behind all the haters and Rule 34 and shippers and shitposters.
 
TL;DR OP is a duck.

I remember that “love and tolerate” used to be words to live by, and not just a gimmick. Now bring them up, and you’re automatically accused of “circlejerking” (whatever that’s supposed to mean anymore).

OP:
 
People aren’t static, and neither is friendship. But even as it changes, it’s still precious.
 
Hope you’re doing okay.

@EPsilon933  
Yeah, it’s like the Firefly fandom or the Babylon 5 fandom or the Battlestar Galactica fandom, or the Trekkies or the Trekkers or the 49’ers or the Liverpool F.C.‘ers, or … Battlestar Galactica again … the folks who loved The Lucy Show …
 
Shows come and go, fandoms come and go. But sometimes the fans hang around forever - I’ve still got my Firefly stuff, and have no intention of ever letting go of it. The friendship keeps on growing :)
 
And, as fandoms age, it’s not like the fans that remain get any less “who they always were”.

@EPsilon933  
A FRIENDLY fandom~

We’re just a fandom

@Marima  
You might be on the wrong site, then.

Eh, been around for three maybe four years. Same crap it’s always been.

Nothing’s changed for me. The sky is still as bright and beautiful and my friendships just as strong and fun as in 2010.
 

@Cipher_Soul  
Exactly how I feel…they don’t make bronies and pegasisters like they used to. :/

It’s not just Bronies, it’s even any religion that’s supposed to be based in such-and-such without goofed up mistakes. Recently I watched a BBC documentary about Monks in England and guess, the monks got a system of being paid to pray for military leaders because the Monks were supposed to be holier or something and so their prayers were “supposed to be worth more” so there were Monks who went to brothels. There’s just the recipe Jesus DIDN’T order and warned against.
 
With that said it’s not as if I have experience with cruelty in the fandom if there is any outside young ones getting pissy on Youtube if that’s even a thing. Even so, is what you saw really that or are you seeing something the other guy didn’t intend? Sometimes I’ve misconstrued things horribly.

Ikr? I remember when I used to have a bunch of brony friends…but they all “moved on”, I guess. Even if it was an online relationship, it was something.
 
w/e…least we have the show to stick to. <3

I still follow it.