Afty

I look like that guy in my profile picture.

Love and Tolerate is a slogan, if a business has a slogan that doesn't mean that every worker obeys the slogan, or agrees with the slogan. I called someone a friend fat at BronyCon and his sister punched me in the gut multiple times, it was good.

How did the fandom start on an immature side? I don't understand where you're getting this from.

I guess you could say *Puts on hipster glasses* I liked it before it was mainstream.

I liked it better when nobody knew what the term Brony meant outside of our community, and a few others.

I have to strongly disagree with this. In the beginning it was about loving a show, not work, not anything but the show. In my opinion the Golden Age was when we were portrayed as losers, when it wasn't a common thing, but when nobody went around with shirts expressing their love for a show. Back when the term Brony was a trigger for hatred because no one knew what it meant. I liked it back when we were a nice little cult group of people no one knew about, because it made it more special to connect with someone who was a Brony in any community.

I wish ...But in all seriousness, whenever I see another Brony I don't do anything special. Most Bronies I meet outside of Bronycon are greasy neckbeards that greet other Bronies too strongly.

I'm talking about sport stuff in places where sports are not related at all, I agree with you in it being the cesspool of the Internet, so let's just agree to disagree

I'm with you when comparing it to sports, but, go to a popular YouTube video, look through some comments, you're bound to find someone saying something like 'Le 20% cooler xDxDxD'You're not likely to see a soccer fan on a popular video not about soccer post about how they want their team to win.

Thanks for mentioning this, I edited the post.

Its target audience are little girls. A young girl would probably be thinking 'Where are the Mane Six, where are all the characters I can relate to, why are there all these new characters who had only had a few lines at the most, where is the pink one?'

It's safe to say that this fandom has been around for a while, (Not compared to many others, but, in my own opinion.) And, as time went on I've noticed a big decline in how mature the fandom was, I still love this fandom even though I've become less involved over time, which may be the cause of me seeing many members of the fandom as immature. I think it is due to the fact that the fandom being around for so long, that it has passed its 'Golden Age' and peak in creativity, and that the fandom also has been around so long that it's gaining many members, and more members means more vocal members, more vocal members means more drama, then eventually everyone is yelling incoherently because no one can hear over other people yelling. What do you think of the fandom now compared to when you first joined the fandom?