Pocky Pen

Personally, I love the show but have a bit of a love-dislike thing with the fandom. I've seen and met some wonderful bronies that make me want to be half as good people as they are. A few of my brony friends at way better people than I could ever hope to be. Then there's those who are as vicious and volatile as the Anti-Bronies and they make me want to hang my head in shame. And then there's the "extreme" bronies. To be honest, they are a grey area for me. I don't know any personally, but I have met and seen some briefly at the previous Anime Expos I've attended. And in all honesty they didn't seem like bad people. A bit obsessed with the show maybe (and I'm not one to talk, really, given my growing pony merchandise collection), but not bad. The cosplay doesn't really bother me, and neither does carrying plushies (as I've noticed a few have complained about here) because c'mon, those plushies are adorable. I wouldn't carry my Pinkie plush around in public during non-con times, but that's me personally. I get embarrassed easily. As others have already said, every fandom has its moderates and its extremists. Hell, I can easily draw parallels between the general anime community and the brony community; they are really alike from my experience. From shipping wars to crossplaying, character nicknames to talking about the show almost all the time (or at least referencing it), there's so much similarity. And how do we really draw a line anyways as to what is considered "extreme"? What is extreme to some may not be to others and the varying combinations of traits that people claim make one an "extreme" fan can really blur the line. Other than dedicating one's life completely to the show (and that's probably extreme even by extreme standards, whatever they are), there's really no definite line for extremism; it's all just up to what each person likes and dislikes or is comfortable with that makes their definition of extremism. I'm comfortable with the cosplaying, crossplaying, cuddling plushies, buying the toys and other merch, drawing, music-making, analyzing, shipping, fanfic writing, wearing pony shirts/accessories, constant lurking/chatting on forums, and daily referencing/talking about the show aspects of the fandom, so those don't quite reach the extreme line for me. R34 bugs me and I refuse to go looking for it, but that's not quite extreme either as it's really par the course for most if not all fandoms. Same with clopfics; no fandom can escape the lemon bombs. And waifu talk (then again, the general anime community may have had some influence on that with me). The only thing that makes me think "extreme" is holding a real-life wedding between yourself and your waifu and whatever else I can think of that passes that. And even then I only think it's quirky or oddly interesting, but not creepy or disgusting. Maybe I'm just weird like that. I'unno. Feel free to TL;DR if you want.

Ahhh it's good to see her back! I know it really shouldn't be much of a big deal, but this is Derpy! The only reason she exists at all is because a slight animation error was noticed and spread like wildfire, becoming the pony that everypony knows (take that, Rarity!). Some bronies probably make too much of a big deal out of her absence, but either way I think it's nice to see that she's back. And if you don't like her, just go ahead and ignore her. Is her just existing really that much of a personal injury to you? Anyways, yay Derpy, glad that she's here to stay.

@Scootalove Augh, my heart did NOT need that! Bad enough I was watching the Japanese dub of Stare Master earlier... On another note, I have never seen anypony lose so badly as Mr. Cake is right now. I feel bad for him, but I also wanna laugh.

Poor Mr. Cake didn't stand a chance...

And we all remember what happened when she tried to (or had to, rather) make dresses. Hoo boy do we remember...