Walmart Brony Shirt

[Broccoli 127]

I'm sure many of you here know about Walmarts recent release of a brony shirt:

 

http://screen.yahoo....s-30836004.html

 

The video is removed I think, so I went to read the comments. Apparently a large majority of the users don't know what a brony is and most of them were either like WTF or GAY or "people these days..." I know there are haters for everything, but many of the comments were just very naive and very very biased/stereotypical. I can guarantee those who commented something like "Men watching ponies? GAY!" do not know what gay means. If you read the comments you'll probably notice. Just because people ouside the demographic age group like the show doesn't mean they are sexually oriented or do not have a life. Also, the phrase "get a life" is one of the worst things you can say to anyone. It is very biased, since someones definition of enjoying life may be different from another. I was just dissapointed that people commented with their first reaction upon finding out that there are adult male MLP fans. It is like taking a book with an unappealing title and saying that the book is very lame and stupid without actually opening it or reading the summery.

 

Feel free to post your opinion on this matter. When I first knew about this from Equestria Daily, I thought it was quite funny I wasn't angry at Walmarts decision at all.

 

*It also seems that from looking at the comments, many people still like the original MLP show, but not gen 3/3.5

Edited October 11, 2012 by S_P_A_C_E /) * (\

[Shiki 5,855]

Did you ever notice that people outside of the brony community who are haters typically cannot seem to type out a single sentence without making 12 grammatical, 23 moral, and 70 argumental mistakes?

 

I simply facehoof at this kind of thing.

[XrosOver 613]

To quote a friend of mine I have supplied a picture that sums it up quite nicely. Haters gonna hate (and make several grammatical errors) on anything and everything.

 

[AnonyPoni 564]

Haters gonna hate, Ponies gonna pwn

 

Anyway, Haters are just Haters. They'll just hate because they can, generally *shrugs*.

 

As for Walmart, I think they said that they were sorry for the shirt. They weren't Trolling us, they were simply ignorant about bronies

[Crispy 5,563]

Doesn't matter. Target's done the same thing, now.

 

 

They're just trying to cash in on a subculture that's rising. Can't blame them. They just suck at it, is all.

[Crystal Sparkle 344]

I can get down with this, I'll go to my closest Wal-mart and check it out...

 

As for the comments, I just don't care anymore, we all know that 90% of commentors on Youtube are idiots

 

That's what the comment blocker is for!

[Hawk 100]

Yeah I wasn't even remotely angry about the whole t-shirt fiasco. In fact I found it hilarious. They need to hire better research people because that is kind of an embarrassing fail haha. Also, Haters are gonna hate. It is in their nature. To quote Fallout: Nuka Break: "They are like a puppy, just too dumb to know any better."

Edited October 12, 2012 by Hawk

[Miss Light Diamond 2,802]

The Walmart thing, Meh I don't really care. But the haters... They watched A Single Video and then just kinda jumped to conclusions that aren't really true.

But just like what Anony poni said, "Haters Gonna Hate, Ponies gonna pwn."

[Samurshy 708]

I used to be a bit of a hater. But that was until I watched Dj. Alex S.'s My Little Pony glitch remix PMV. I was blown away, completely and utterly flabbergasted, but above all intrigued. So as soon as it came out for viewing on Netflix I sat down and watched the first episode. At first I was like "Ha! People watch this shit?" but it left enough of a cliff hanger that I wanted to watch the next episode. So I ended up watching the next episode, at the end when they used the elements to defeat Nightmare Moon, nostalgia flooded my senses. I could remember watching power rangers when I was a little tike, and the elements reminded me of the best show on earth. So I continued to watch episode after episode, it was not before long that I had burned through every episode in season 1. I am a big Otaku, and the show reminded me a lot of an anime series. As soon as I realized that the show was actually good I embraced it and it's community. Their are haters for everything, people who call Otakus "Weeaboos", people who call virgins " ugly losers who have no life" (as if the meaning to life is to have intercourse with as many people as possible), and people who call bronies "gay".

 

I find it a tad bit disappointing that the naive people's first impression about bronies is that we watch a girl's cartoon from 1982 (because the majority of us don't), so in that regard I am kind of angry. But from what I have heard, it was an honest mistake on Wal Mart's part because they said "vintage sells"(not in this case). So I am not angry at Wal Mart, just disappointed that they did not do one iota of research on the brony community. ( -_-; )

 

EDIT: LOL I said I watched every episode in season 3 instead of season 1, I must have season 3 on the brain.

Edited October 12, 2012 by Bronynonymous

[butter scotch 79]

Wal-mart up to no good, THE SOUTH PARK EPISODE WAS RIGHT! BREAK THE MIRROR BRONIES BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!! Next I watched the zombie sign thing in... Maine? Waht a coincedence?

[Fghik 360]

I'm starting to think if Shawn was as excited for Rainbow Dash the same way he is for Ferb's Grandfather people would be more accepting of the MLP community.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

I found the Walmarts T-shirt thing to be humorous and I'm surprised Walmart even started selling those. Just as always, hater comments are just pointless. I mean what is the main objective of being negative about a person's interests.

 

Sadly, emotions are just tools...

[duidamasterXD 9,627]

To be honest I think it's really awesome that they are trying to appeal to our fanbase, I do kind of wish they had sat down for a half hour and tried to figure out exactly what would appeal to us, but I appreciate the effort. I hope our response doesn't scare them away from us