@mirageandjazz1197  
He lost it again. Don’t mind him.

@Turnways_Flip  
Dude seriously?

@Battle GT  
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

@Turnways_Flip  
I hope you’re being ironic

@Millennial Dan  
The name “brony” is insulting. I prefer to be called “horsefucker”.

@Vree
 
No the lesson was “just because you can’t explain it doesn’t make it not real”
 
plus Pinkie Pie

@Vree  
I want to go on record saying that theism is hardly something that is inherently opposed to or believed in spite of the laws of logic. In fact, classical apologetics rely quite heavily on the laws of knowledge and reason. For that reason, I’m convinced that many people entirely misunderstood what FPK was actually getting at, which was perhaps assisted by Twilight’s rather poorly-worded letter.

@Beau Skunky  
It was such a young, innocent fandom then. [sniffle] We’re all grown up now, we can afford alcohol and guns for the really interesting unecessary drama.

@Vree  
There was a li’l drama over it, I remember, but it was brief compared to all the drama we had last year.

@Beau Skunky  
The lesson “some things can’t be explained by logic, you just have to accept them by belief” was very theistic. >_> Lauren said it may have been over-exaggerated, too.
 
But there really wasn’t “drama” in the sense you kids have these days, with the inb4s and the usVSus where the most innocent stuff gets tagged drama because some dumbass always has to scream FIRST! and jump down the neck of anyone holding an opinion. It’s not even the problem that people dcan’t respectfully disagree, it’s the infantiles who pop up screaming FIGHT! FIGHT! when people would just like to be on their way.

@d715  
“Brony” has always sounded to me like an insecure fratboy trying to make excuses for liking a little girls’ show by frontin’ what a bro he is, like naaahhh, dudester, no homo, totes a bro, bro.
 
Screw that noise, man, if you can’t walk right on in the Pink Aisle and shop for magic horse toys like a self-respecting grownup, get a different fandom. Buck the haters, go like what you like and to hell with any fool who has a problem with that.

@ArrJaySketch  
Indeed. As far as I’m concerned, people can call me a brony, a pony fan, or something even less flattering for all I care. I’m not worried about their associations at all, as long as those I actually know understand what I am and am not actually into.

@d715  
Eh. I don’t think anyone outside a particular fandom actually cares, or bothers to differentiate. Someone hears you’re into Star Trek, and the first thing anyone asks is, “Oh, do you dress like Klingons at conventions?” They don’t care if you’re a Trekkie or Trekker. :)
 
Considering there’s no way to actually filter what fans go where or stop fans from calling themselves whatever they want, it’s only a matter of time before the “stigma” leaks over to the new name fans call themselves. I think it’s honestly better not to care what the “worst” fans are doing, and instead do one’s best to provide a best example of that fandom. Make it the fandom you want it to be, basically.
 
I say all of this because I’ve been involved in various fandoms for 18 years.

Context, for those who didn’t bother checking the belatedly-added source, to see what he was responding to: >>555002

@Beau Skunky  
Well really I’ve never liked the name brony anyway
 
sounds stupid
 
none taken

@d715  
Eh, no matter what people call themselves, they all still like the same show, so “bronies,” “pegasisters,” and “MLP-fans” are all like the same thing to me.
 
No offense, but I think it’s kinda annoying when some MLP-fans, act like they’re “better then bronies,” just ‘cause they don’t call themselves “bronies.” (Like all those tumblr SJW people who act like that…) Seems a li’l self-righteous to me, no offense.

Who could have foreseen that a pic of M.A.Larson mocking hysterical fandumb drama could cause hysterical fandumb drama to erupt in the comments?

@d715  
Added Or like how Otaku and anime fan are two different groups

@Beau Skunky  
I like to veiw MLP fans are bronies two different groups
 
like how Star Trek fans are Trekkies are two different groups

@d715  
No offense, but aren’t you kinda a brony/fan to? (Assuming you like the show.) Not all bronies/MLP-fans are crazy, but some are. Same goes for every fandom really.
 
I also remember somebody trying to say Zecora was “racist,” or something… Oy…

@Beau Skunky  
Oh yeah and “Over the Barrel” because another World with a different Culture isn’t playing out “native” and Western interactions the same way on Earth
 
Because you know ALL worlds have the same history as Real Life
 
and Buffalos aren’t just Natives ponies are form the same area.
 
And Bats because Fluttershy’s side wins out (Long term gain at the cost of short term? What’s that?)
 
And people wonder why I think bronies are stupid

@d715  
There was also drama over the misunderstandings of the “moral” of “Feeling Pinkie-Keen” back in season 1. Some die-hard Atheists got angry thinking it was somehow promoting religious ideals, or putting down “skepticism,” which it wasn’t.

@Antonyourknee  
lets see
 
Season 1 with the CMC/Applebloom  
Season 2 with Cadence, Canon Luna, a few minor ones like Mare do Well and people bitching about the episode’s moral not being 100% perfect  
Season 3 with Princess Twilight, the shorter than normal season, Too Many Pinkies,  
Then Equestria Girls, Sombra for a number of stupid reasons
 
and now Rainbow powers and EG2

@Background Pony #85E5  
To each their own, I think they’re a nice change of pace sometimes.

@Beau Skunky  
Not everyone. Generally, I find CMC episodes less interesting than the rest. I don’t have any particular reason to give right now, they just don’t do it for me.