How fast the haters convert

[Cloud_Jumper_189 56]

Actually, me and Gingerpotato recently found out that a good friend of ours who always makes fun of us for liking MLP has gotten into the fandom music side of it with almost no influence from us :L made me giggle.

[Prince Midnight 817]

i love the reply, so were idiots for sticking to our opinions and not agree....seems legit

i laughed, hard,

[Acleps 11]

I've never been a hater, I used to just ignore it, until I gave it a try. I see a bunch of haters on YouTube, but I'm guessing most of them are just trolling. I think that the people who actually hate the show haven't given it a chance, or that they've gotten a bad impression of the community, when someone tried to force MLP down their throats .

 

I think you should try everything: If you have experienced it, only then you can judge it.

Edited April 16, 2012 by Acleps

[Prince Midnight 817]

i mostly just ignore comments on every video i watch, beacuse im watching old soviet music, you get the political debates, i watch a pony video you get the comments that were all gay and evil, its the same for everything, i just ignore it X3

 

this is my thought process in picture form

 

Edited April 16, 2012 by Midnight Moon

[RazzyJam 1,519]

I used to be a hater like you, but then I took a pony to the TV. I got curious, watched an episode.. then another.... then season one... all in one sitting

[Fox 5,330]

I'm disappointed with others whom feel like they need to put up an arguement to defend themselves, from what, A show? I myself didn't argue with myself, I was passive and watched it just for entertainment. I was clearly entertained, and then became a fan. I don't think we need to force others to watch it, but ask for them to be open minded and just try to enjoy it. (if your still forcing them to become bronies)

[Fluttershy4life 150]

Well once you actually see the show its kinda hard not to love it XD

[NavelColt 22,877]

I was browsing around on YouTube and went to go give "

" another listen through when I came across this interesting chain of comments.

 

That literally fits this process quite well.

 

[Nas 2,863]

It's the same thing with all haters/flame wars on the internet in general: ALL pointless.

 

Short and sweet, those kind of people go around and judge other people/bash subjects, yet they don't know anything about them. Key point is: they're all ignorant people who always jump to conclusions and ignore all evidence. For instance, I've tried everything I could to convey why there are so many people who are a part of this unbelievable fandom, and why we watch our show, to a bunch of people at my other forum, and it didn't work well. They wouldn't even take it from a brony. My theory is that they are just ignorant like the others, or they can't accept that this franchise has evolved to the widely-rejoiced brand that it is...

 

They even said things like "It WASN'T made for you, it was made for little girls. Don't try to justify why you think it makes sense for you to watch it", or something like that. I have explained that the show is for all of us in general, but when I see their ignorance, I find no point in even trying to explain to them anymore, I switch to the Love and Tolerate gear.

[Crystal Sparkle 344]

They mad!

[I used to be a stranger 7,989]

i used to be a hater but then i took an arrow to the knee (sorry it had to be done)

 

I used to knee. But then I adventured a took to the arrow.

 

We'll probably never have an accurate metric of how many bronies or anti-bronies there are, nor the rate at which one or the other grows or shrinks.

[Proctra Music 335]

That's pretty cool TBH. My friends were haters and teased me bout it... But one day I forced them to sit down and watch the show. They Both loved it and are now fellow bronies.

[spas-ticShotty 3,582]

I never was a hater. I was just very curious. The first video I saw of MLP:FiM made it look like girly shit but the video was a YTP, and they make everything look like poo (By making it hilariously messed. Thanks cs188 ), so yah :lol.

[LovingTolerance 131]

I never hated on anyone for being a brony though I kind of laughed when I heard my friends brother was into it. I didn't know what to make of it. I suspected that it was a massive meta-trolling conspiracy or some sort of insincere hipster irony.

Edited May 11, 2012 by SageWise

[Parties like Pinkie 385]

*Facehoof*

I guess the phrase "Don't knock it until you try it" really matters!

 

I agree with you completely.

 

Also, to add to the fact, all the haters that have directly confronted me face to face, I have counter-trolled and generally ignored, giving them multiple opportunities to begin to learn about the show.

 

my conversion rate is at the 85th percentile.

[Equestro 0]

My little sister had some G3 DVD's before and she would watch those. So when the G4 show came out I dismissed it as just another poor exploitation of the series. But once I started seeing all the buzz on the internet, I watched a few episodes... And well, it turned out to be AWESOME!

[Twich 15]

I used to be a hater,but then I found that there was more to the show than I thought there was.

Kill me later. Anyways, I was never a hater. I was the "curious individual", so to speak

 

I never really used to be a hater, just an avoider?... right... anyway, as I was lurkin' around on 4chan, saw a link in a brony thread (and my rule is allways open links on 4chan) opened it, and then it was done. I became a brony through, you guessed it, youtube.

 

Haven't been på 4chan since, or atleast for some months, I got better things to do now

 

But I must say, I'm actually surprised at how many non-haters there is / was.

 

Though I fully understand why it is / was like that, considering, we don't make a fuss about all the joiners, only the haters

[--Eve-- 351]

Heres a timeline

• saw ponies popping up, ignored it
• started getting irritated
• made a post in some Anti-pony thread on the MC forums
• watched an episode(to see what was so good about it)
• converted

So that's pretty much it.

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

How People convert these days (no offense), sadly.

[Strider Hiryu 116]

I was not a hater, but I thought I'd never get into a show about talking ponies. I watch an episode with my sister and I liked it, and now I'm a brony.

[Clover Heart 978]

I moved to Japan almost two years ago, so I didn't know about the show when it first came out. A friend of mine posted this on his FB:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-FYQv9Uvc

 

 

And I laughed harder than I'd ever laughed at anything. Well, almost. Anyway, within a few weeks, I was positively addicted.

[Yellow Diamond 7,564]

 

"In the end, you always kneel..."

[JhonHipster 124]

I myself was a hater only becuase my friends where, a soon as I watched an episode I liked the show.

[That One Techpriest You Used To Know 2,286]

Heh.. interesting.

[Bugz 159]

The second I actually watched a single episode.

 

I was just blindly hating something that other people hate.