Slammy

Yup, when I started watching the show again I despised myself at first, thinking pretty much the same thing. Pretty silly of me looking back. Yup, I am too. It's kinda neat though because I get this nice weird nostalgic feeling whenever I watch the show now thanks to that long time absence. Makes it even better :v

MLP hasn't directly helped me grown as a person but the experiences from being a fan of the show have kind of shaped me in more ways than one. I'd say my general optimism has somewhat stemmed from my first experiences with the show and talking to other fans. I was at my edgy "everyone is terrible" phase when I first started watching the show. I really didn't like people and was letting myself become a bit of a social outcast. When everybody in the fandom was really nice to me and people in real life showed me support it kind of changed how I viewed people as a whole. It's funny how something people say leads to being a social outcast helped me escape from being one myself.

Here, have my story shamelessly copy and pasted from my introduction: Sometime in early 2011 at the "mature" age of 11 I was lurking in my favorite forums known as Facepunch when I found out there was a flame war about My Little Pony. Confused, I looked into it further and found out about the show. Myself being an open minded little kid, I searched it up on Youtube. I instantly fell in love, but soon came to realize that would mean I was a "Brony", a new term to me. As I changed my online presence to a more pony related one I was horrified to see all the hate coming in. People were calling me stupid and other much more unpleasant things. That didn't stop 11 year old me though and as time went on I became more vocal in real life about MLP. My parents encouraged me and told me I shouldn't be judged for what I like. Soon enough, by 8th grade my room was filled with pony related stuff and everyone in our small school knew me as the brony. I was accepted for who I was and I was loud and proud about it. Then, a move happened and highschool came. Disaster struck with it's cold, cruel hands and I became overwhelmed. I started to become embarrassed about my obsession, did I really need all this pony junk? I moved away from MLP for years, avoiding it like the devil. I joined in on calling bronies weirdos a few times. It seemed like my love for MLP was in the past. Then while I was very sick, on one fateful night in 2015, I had an urge. An urge to watch My Little Pony. With out anything else to do, I took my school-issued Ipad and started binge-watching the entire series. It is the only time I've ever binge-watched anything ever. I fell in love again, but I was in denial. I grew to hate bronies. Why would I let myself become what I hated again? I was doing so good, I put past me those cringey middleschool years. I fought for days against the urge to be a brony once again, but eventually it won. Pony avatars began to flock my social media. Messages of concerns were spammed, saying that people were concerned for me (seriously, several people were concerned about me being a brony lol). The Anti-Bronies I had befriended had unfriended me. It was a tough battle but I prevailed with an old interest of mine revitalized. TL;DR I used to be a brony, then I stop and hated the show and its fans. Then I came back to enjoying it after my first ever binge-watching of a show. Fun stuff.

There really isn't much content to the video, it's just him showing videos of rather extreme bronies (the last of which was a parody) and then saying "MLP is CANCER!!! Get over it." It feels like click bait, It's very poorly put together and its as if he knew that making this video would net him plenty of views. It's this kind of pandering to the stereotype that keeps people irrationally hating large groups of people, such as bronies. Of course though, I'm not denying that there is weird people in the fandom. Its just when people latch on to the extremists and then generalize a group because of that that frustrates me. It's immature and a terrible way of arguing your point.

Hmm, very fair point. Though it still sucks when you get thrown under the same boat as the toxic members of the fanbases you are in. (Unless I actually am one and I don't realize it :v)

Having a top 5 worst fanbases is weird to me, as honestly any and all fanbases can be equally terrible, it's just a matter of how deep you are willing to look into the fandom.