movies/tv Bronies in a UK Channel 4 Documentary

[James A Williams 199]

Recently, a UK documentary was released on Channel 4, World of Weird. The program features strange and Weird things in the world. From a Texan family owning a pet buffalo to 4 bull fighting Columbian dwarfs. But there's something else in this program that these people find weird: us bronies.

 

Why can't everyone just except us for who we are? We're 18-30 year old men that watch a great show with ponies. So? I mean, do these people even stop to look at the show like we do? Why must they always describe us as if we're people from a different planet or dimension or something?

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/world-of-weird

 

What do you think of this?

[redaxted 1,765]

I don't think it's really that bad. I think we are all weird, but in a really good way! We're different from others, and variety is amazing. Although talking about bronies on such a programme probably wasn't the best idea. I do find that slightly offensive to the fandom as whole (although I am a young teenage girl - pretty close to the intended audience). I mean, really, that's like saying that girls that like The Avengers are misfits, outcasts, if you think about it. I have a feeling this will cause major and serious backlash; this most likely won't go down well with the brony fandom.

Edited September 25, 2015 by Wolves

[SteveMorison 407]

It's a TV show, nothing more, nothing less. Bronies are no more weird than a guy who watches breaking bad etc.

[Flutterstep 47,130]

Well, being a brony isn't that common, so it could be classed a being weird. You could say the same about the other things on the show. You can't judge the other things as being weird except bronies, because they are xD Not that being weird is a bad thing. Realistically, everyone is weird; everyone is different

[Sapphire Lightning 784]

"Normal People" scare me. They are the most massive hive mind. Homogenized. So, us being "weird". Fine. I'll live with it.

[LittleMac 3,085]

The mainstream audience doesn't understand much about things like bronies. It's normal to think of it as weird if you don't understand.

Besides, imagine back to before you were a brony. What if someone said that one day you'd watch a show about sentient, multi coloured horses who can do magic and fight evil with the power of friendship? I dunno about you, I'd be weirder out.

Of course there will be some people who will find this documentary offensive. Heck, not even the actual show can please their own fans sometimes. But the purpose of this documentary is to bring the weirdness of the world to a mainstream audience. Bronies aren't really well known outside if the internet so the concept of grown men watching mlp is alien to them. But that's why they're making the documentary, because it's something new to the audience and so they will become interested.

Who knows? This could actually be a good thing by introducing people to the fandom, therefore giving them a desire to watch the show and maybe even become a brony themselves.

Bronies are weird. I'm just gonna say it, watching a show aimed at little girls who still play with Barbie dolls while you're a teen or older is a little odd. I'm not saying it's bad, just weird. But you know what, I'm probably gonna watch this and I'm gonna laugh. I will probably find it funny when these people are introduced to bronies and the cons and stuff. No use in getting upset over something that will most likely be done in a way that won't offend anybody intentionally.

 

And even if it does offend, I'll just use the old brony argument of "it's just a TV show" right here

Edited September 24, 2015 by LittleMac

[Guest]

Why care? TV has been saying gaming causes murder, rape and all that crap for years and gamers still exist.

[Rainbowdash_82 404]

Screw them, if they think that we are wierd, then just let them. But I think that we are not wierd, we are unique!

[Partialgeek514 5,011]

I felt that World of Weird actually did pretty well with this episode. The host seemed to like Bronycon. I think that it could possibly inspire some people to look into MLP.

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,092]

Agreed, it was reasonably balanced.

 

Yes we saw some people who are a long way down the rabbit hole, but that applies to all hobbies/fandoms.

 

Most people never go to the gym,

some people do.

There are a few who want to get totally ripped,

and there are fewer still who want to get totally ripped, put on their Speedos and parade around in front of similar people at bodybuilding competitions.

Some people will always take things to extremes.

 

I believe that it's no longer on YouTube (boo and hiss)

Channel4 will want you to be in the UK, so you might get around it with a VPN.

 

 

 

 

We met a UK brony.

The presenter was welcomed to Ponycon.

Loved the Military Bronies, Hoo Rah! Especially how he described starting to watch the show.

Random Stig

After being gobsmacked by the $1500 price tag on a Celestia plushie, the presenter found the proud buyer.

A chat with a couple of Spike hoodied fans about bullying.

 

In the presenters words...

"Everyone's been lovely, when I walked in I had my reservations and got greeted with a group hug.

At that point I thought they're a bunch of kinda wacky people.

 

Now I'm leaving, I don't think that many people can be wrong.

 

Everyone's happy."

 

They didn't just focus on the extremes.

The presenter seemed to have an open mind, and was pleasantly suprised.

[VeeniAshes 21]

I KNOW! it just annoys me so  how can they compare us to Texan family owning a pet buffalo to 4 bull fighting Columbian dwarfs.

[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,092]

Maybe, but one guys weird is another guys normal.

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

The thing is, being a brony goes against societal norms, so it literally is "not normal". We just have to accept the fact that not everyone will understand and accept us.

 

Also, what's so bad about being weird xD?

Edited September 29, 2015 by GuyNamedEarl

[DJW 142]

Quite.

 

Both 'sides' (brony and non-brony) frequently associate wierd with wrong, but then the opposite is true as well.

 

I'd also suggest that liking MLP isn't actually that wierd. It's the assumption that it is still what it was in the past that (as a generalisation) makes the ol' eyebrows rise.

While it's targetted at the younger crowd, I'd call it a family show, not a children's one (which says something about our idea of what makes a children's show).

Edited September 29, 2015 by DJW

[Scootaloodle 1,623]

That was cool, it seemed like quite a positive segment on us lot.

 

As for being called “weird”, as someone already said being a brony isn’t that common and most people are weird in there own awesome way. 

[Aero Stratus 46]

You're acting like being weird is a bad thing?