Is anybody here a brony, just for the fandom?

[Mesme Rize 15,687]

Are there any bronies in this forum, that are just bronies because of the fandom?

 

I am surprised how many i've seen over the years, be it because of the show not being interesting anymore for them, because the show interested them in the first place, etc.

 

If there is anybody here, who is just a fan of the fandom, please tell me why you are. Because it kind interests me.

[Pokemons are gaaay 113]

That was me at first. Then I watched the show, and actually enjoyed it. Then I knew why everyone loved it. That's when I became a true brony.

[MysticShine 529]

I honestly don't watch the show all that much. Anything that has an interesting world and good fan fiction potential instantly hooks me.

[uml4mj4m 134]

Saw the show, got out of it, got into, got out, now currently half-interested.

[Aleh 481]

Pretty much. I've been in the fandom for two years. 
Only on season 2 >.<

[Yozer247 1,006]

Well, in this hiatus, all you have is the fandom to sate your need for pone :v

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

No, i enjoyed every moment of that show. 

[Shadow Beam 1,179]

I liked the show, but the main reason why I'm still here is because of the fandom. 

[Untitled Goose Q 5,138]

The show got me here, and into the fandom, but if it were not for the great community, I might not even still watch the show.

[Splendormane 203]

Even though i love the show also, i am really only a brony for the fandom !

[Vox 870]

I'm here for both, but honestly, the show gets more of my attention.

[Fractured 2,684]

Watched the show, love the show. But eventually, you run yourself into the ground on old episodes. I'll still watch one or two of my favorites, but I tend to need something new, which is why I turn to fanfictions and such to interest me now. When the new season comes out, i'll be right there, but until then, i'm in it for the fandom.

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

I'm here for the community really. I watch the show and have seen every episode many times over. Can't get enough! I only came here when I thought Netflix was going to cancel it, as that was when I realized I was a brony and wanted to share in my love of the show with others as well as meet new people.

 

Short answer, no I am not here just for the fandom.

[Roketsune 388]

I did not become a brony exclusively due to the cultural traits, but that is what provided the impetus for becoming a brony, and that adds to the allure of the show.

 

This may sound rather dramatic, but, I see this subculture as potentially the venue within which I can emotionally recover from severe injury, receiving a substantial amount of support and friendship even while I cannot fully reciprocate. While I had been pondering the idea of becoming a brony for a while, and had made a decision to make that a critical component of my social/interpersonal campaign before this, I had been severely harmed by people, including local furrydom, three times in the month preceding my arrival here. My drive to volunteer for conventions plummeted and my wariness of people, which was already high, went off the charts. Locally I don't feel I have a home subculture of any sort now. Furries were unsupportive and hostile here. The recovery community is based on meetings and there's insufficient opportunity for exploring other topics or interests, and AA especially is frequently too dogmatic and myopic for me to stand listening to right now. The last frontier to explore locally would be bronydom.

 

I don't know yet what to expect from local bronydom, but, from what I have encountered here, I feel hopeful that at least a substantial number of bronies adhere to various alluring principles. I've never had so many people with such little prompting start conversations or friend requests, and never saw a place which facilitated such a degree of social intercourse by technical design and interface. I feel as if bronydom may well become a primary component of my support infrastructure as well as a primary means of providing support when I'm stronger.

[Vinyl Scratch (Filly)™ 936]

My best friends lil bro looks up to me like I'm bloody Superman. Whatever I like he loves, etc. When I first became a 'brony' he wanted to be one too, so he bought himself some mlp merch. He's only watched like 2 episodes of the show, but he's having fun so I leave him to it lol. Poor kid, looking up to someone like me xD

[SanityNotIncluded 335]

I've never had so many people with such little prompting start conversations or friend requests

 

This was a huge thing for me.

 

I'd been on a number of forum communities beforehand, but I never looked at them as places for making friends until I joined the Brony community. Most of the time, you'd go on, make your posts, have a few discussions and that was that.

 

Here however, is a completely different story. Whether you want them to or not, people will send you friend requests and PMs like they're going out of fashion - and most of them do it because they genuinely want to get to know you.

 

Eventually, I joined a pony community specifically for Australian Bronies and the response was similar. Heck, one guy even offered to come up and meet me in person. I think my most positive experience however was the first in-person meetup I ever attended. I'd attended a lot of fresher events for different uni clubs, so I wasn't exactly unfamiliar with large social gatherings. However, unlike those events, I left the Brony meetup feeling really happy. Not happy in the sense that I'd accomplished something, but happy in the sense of feeling really satisfied and optimistic.

 

It took me a long time to pin down why I felt so happy, but in retrospect, I think it was because this group had such a profound sense of community. To illustrate what I mean, here are some comparisons between the Brony meetup and the fresher events I attended:

 

Freshers: Food was provided, but it was pretty basic and only one or two people brought anything.

Bronies: There was enough food to feed a god-damn army and nearly everyone brought something. Not only that, but most of the sweet stuff was home-made as well and I left feeling incredibly fat.

 

Freshers: People wore normal clothes.

Bronies: Everyone barring myself and one other person was wearing a pony shirt. While I'd later find out that most of those people don't usually wear pony shirts to meets, it did give off a certain "this is what we are, and we don't care what you think" vibe which was fun to be around.

 

Freshers: When people talked, they tended to stick to really specific topics. Eventually, a small group would dominate discussions and other people would chime in with something every now and again.

Bronies: Everyone was talking to someone, and peope talked about all kinds of stuff. I ended up getting into a really interesting conversation with a girl who works in her father's auto shop. She started helping him out from a young age, and ended up telling me lots of stuff about this antique car they were doing up.

 

Freshers: All we'd really do is talk, and occassionally share silly Youtube videos.

Bronies: We'd do that, but we'd also play a lot of card games as well. While I'm not hugely into MtG, I can at least thank them for introducing me to Cards Against Humanity... which i'm convinced everyone should try at least once.

 

So... yeah. I like MLP, but I probably wouldn't still be into it if it weren't for the fandom.

[~Phoenix~ 196]

i find that i enjoy most of the fandom. i do always watch the show when there are new episodes, but seeing as new episodes of mlp are an endangered species these days i really am only just a brony because i didnt stop being one. i dont think i'm particularly involved in the fandom. i dont fallow things like flufflepuff or falout equestra. i dont got out of my way to see brony artwork or to read fanfiction. as a matter of fact, two years ago whenever i heard someone mention ponies i would freak out, and now, even though most of my friends who am still friends with are bronies, it really doesnt effect much anymore. i am not involved, all i do is watch the show when new episodes are out, but i'm still just casually a brony. 

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,262]

I'm not here just because of the fandom. I love the show too.

[Jeric 46,866]

I'm here for both. I have met what I expect to be lifelong friends in this community, and the artistic content that is pushed out still astounds me. There is a saying, "Came for the pony, stayed for the brony." That doesn't exactly describe me, but I completely get it.

 

 

Oh yeah, and this isn't the thread to bash the fandom. Please keep that off-topic element out of this thread please.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

um... no I was a Brony long before I knew what a Brony was....

[IcyHaze 595]

I haven't watched the show for months, and in general have stopped actually caring about it. I also don't want to go to any conventions or dicuss MLP. But these are some of the best forums I've ever found, and with some really cool people, so I stay for that :3

[AlbaTross 1,586]

I'm here because I like the show first and foremost, but if this wasn't a good forum community I probably wouldn't be posting here. I can't say I have had much interaction with the larger fandom but at Brony Can I felt really welcome, despite being a new fan who hadn't gone to all the cons or collected any merchandise. My pony collection is still a work in progress, but it's growing. As a sociology major, I've always been fascinated by the social phenomenon that is this fandom, and I can't say I truly understand it yet despite being swept up in it. My qualitative methods research assignment is a mini-ethnograph that seeks to reveal more of the truth behind it, but it is fairly limited in scope. Still, it has yielded some interesting data so far.

[Rainboom Dash 1,056]

I joined because I like the show and wanted to talk with others about it.

[epzik8 92]

I used to be, but then I started watching episodes on TV and on YouTube because I thought I wasn't a "true" brony if I didn't watch the actual show that spawned the fandom.

[Laughing Derp 27]

Because the art inside the show. The drawing-style exactly, and it takes stories and adventures, just like the old saturday morning cartoons. You just have to love it, if dont~ call an ambulance xD