So, Cracked just angered a chunk of the fandom...

[AegisReflector 887]

You guys are playing right into their trap. First mistake was making this topic and whining about it.

 

Ignore it and take your Bronydom in stride!

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Clearly you do not read anything written by John Cheese or David Wong.

 

It is a comedy website, yes, but it is the kind of comedy website that, in their best of articles, contains truth and writes that truth in a way that is hilarious. Or at least chuckle-worthy. But strangely enough, I also find that their best articles are extremely informative. The one recently written about the Middle Ages? The one about what people don't tell you in history class about the founding of America? The one about the religious symbols that don't mean what you think they mean? Those articles are awesome.

 

This article just contains, "herp derp let's make fun of bronies because they're fucked up!" That's not informative, and that's not funny.

 

It's even worse because they've done lists about insane fanworks before that were actually good and gave compliments where it was needed. 

[RockinRarity 1,605]

It's even worse because they've done lists about insane fanworks before that were actually good and gave compliments where it was needed. 

 

Indeed.

 

Although, to be fair, I hate anything and everything that has to do with pony porn. So I really don't mind that they ripped pony porn to pieces.

 

Partly because I hate anything and everything that has to do with porn at all, but making porn out of a little girl's cartoon as if something made for girls is only good for porn in the first place... makes it worse, somehow. Well, sort of. At least ponies aren't real.

 

At any rate, it's the article making it sound like all bronies are like this is what I dislike about this article the most. That and making darker pony stories out to be worse than pony porn. Um, just no...

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Indeed.

 

Although, to be fair, I hate anything and everything that has to do with pony porn. So I really don't mind that they ripped pony porn to pieces.

 

Partly because I hate anything and everything that has to do with porn at all, but making porn out of a little girl's cartoon as if something made for girls is only good for porn in the first place... makes it worse, somehow. Well, sort of. At least ponies aren't real.

 

At any rate, it's the article making it sound like all bronies are like this is what I dislike about this article the most. That and making darker pony stories out to be worse than pony porn. Um, just no...

 

I almost wish Silent Ponyville had come up, I could've ripped any research fails about that one to shreds in a matter of seconds, and even brought up how good is, and how's it's the opposite of screwed up as a bonus. 

Edited January 25, 2013 by Shoboni

[DusK 1,264]

"The children's cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic inexplicably has a legion of obsessively weird adult male fans who proudly refer to themselves as 'bronies,'..."

 

See that underlined part? See it? That's when I knew these two idiots had never seen the show, because if they did, the reason why so many adult males like it would have been explained.

[RockinRarity 1,605]

Also, surprisingly enough, this Cracked article written 1 year ago today is somewhat relevant to this topic:

 

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-stupidest-things-that-make-people-proud/

 

The amateurs who wrote that pony article ought to be reading the articles on their own website.

[Replicant 113]

Wow. I'm not into clop art at all, but I'm also not a selfish dickhead who thinks that my fetishes are the only valid ones. And I guarantee you that the people who work for Cracked aren't all vanilla. It's not statistically possible, but hey! At least they don't like [insert thing that isn't their specific fetish here]!

 

The point of porn, especially the more bizarre stuff like inflation, guro, etc, is that one can "entertain" oneself alone. Now, tell me-- who is being affected by pony porn?

 

... The people who enjoy it.

... The people who get money from the people who enjoy it.

 

Oh look, no one's getting hurt, everyone's happy, and someone is even making money through it.

 

And that's my porn rant.

[Fridge 382]

Funny thing is the writers spot on about fallout Equestria... although he missed the point that, well.... ITS BLOODY FALLOUT! Of course it has death, rape, murder and mayhem. One good thing has come of it though. Crazedramblings youtube channel will now have been given mucho's exposure. I just hope he handles it well.

 

The other ones disturb me, but there you go.

 

Anyway, its cracked. They have a crack at everything. Nothing is sacred. Hell I remember reading one of those lists that ripped on the site itself.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Fridge

[Steve 290]

more things to make us look bad, its not like they can shut us down, why bother? theres millions of us.

 

id like to know where they find this stuff, they must do a lot of digging... they probably search up specific things...

 

i sense a spy among us

[Dev 251]

Clearly you do not read anything written by John Cheese or David Wong.

 

It is a comedy website, yes, but it is the kind of comedy website that, in their best of articles, contains truth and writes that truth in a way that is hilarious. Or at least chuckle-worthy. But strangely enough, I also find that their best articles are extremely informative. The one recently written about the Middle Ages? The one about what people don't tell you in history class about the founding of America? The one about the religious symbols that don't mean what you think they mean? Those articles are awesome.

 

This article just contains, "herp derp let's make fun of bronies because they're fucked up!" That's not informative, and that's not funny.

 

In that case, the article should be taken even less seriously than anything else ever posted on that website! Seriously, if they want to degrade to that level, let them, there's no reason to give a damn Let shitty articles be shitty articles.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Funny thing is the writers spot on about fallout Equestria

 

Aside from the graphic rape and sex scenes part, the original story doesn't have any of those to my knowledge, just the fan-made spin-offs of it like Project Horizons. 

Edited January 25, 2013 by Shoboni

[RockinRarity 1,605]

In that case, the article should be taken even less seriously than anything else ever posted on that website! Seriously, if they want to degrade to that level, let them, there's no reason to give a damn Let shitty articles be shitty articles.

 

I would agree with you. I just love Cracked too much to let them stoop to such levels~

 

It is also one of the featured articles throughout the whole website because it is new. I do hope that by tomorrow it is no longer at the top of every page.

 

That article is going to get lots of negative publicity. In fact it probably already has. I haven't even bothered/dared to read the comments. It's just more fuel for haters. We'd rather that haters weren't reminded of the existence of bronies.

[Fridge 382]

Aside from the graphic rape and sex scenes part, the original story doesn't have

any of the to my knowledge, just the fan-made spin-offs of it like

Project Horizons.

 

Oh yes! Actually your right. That was Project Horizons, I just read the first couple of chapters a few days ago.

Although there is mention of it in the original but its not graphic.

 

It should be mentioned that both Fallout Equestria and it spin off Project Horizons are very well written I highly recommend it, or if you can't be bothered to read go to Crazedramblings youtube channel and listen to it instead;

 

Edited January 25, 2013 by Fridge

[Midnight Seeker 302]

I'm a fan of Cracked and remain one. They do some good work, and it normally gives me a good chuckle or makes me nod my head and say "Hrmmmmmmm" a lot.

 

There was NO humour in this quick-fix. It was an attack, pure and simple. It may well have been called "Bronies: What a bunch of total freaks". I would have been fine if this was a roast, or even fair criticism (hell, they did a bit on us a while ago http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-most-unexpected-fan-bases-in-pop-culture/) but this wasn't funny in any way.

[Luffstups 150]

Yeah, I've been sitting there reading those comments for an hour and a half, thinking about how some of my fellow college students are going to be giving me weird looks when I continue to wear one of my pony shirts to school because screw them.

Cracked is such a funny website, and I can't believe that the people who pre-read would allow hate-mongering garbage in their fantastic line-up of articles. It's beyond me. I literally came here just to be reminded that you guys, my fellow bronies, are just people who want to celebrate innocence and have fun, like myself and my buddies. I thought I was going to have to make the thread, but no, it's here for me.

This fandom is full of brothers (and sisters!) that I would give so much to protect. I hate to even give an inch of thoughtful ground to stuff like this. You guys are all such champs, and have helped me through so much in so many areas.

For the record, I don't even care if you do like pony porn, and I've never read "Fallout: Equestria," so I can't even begin to make judgment. What I do care about is that you all have the good sense to keep that stuff to yourself so we can still get along and not make things awkward for those of us that don't like them.

That's what dickheads like these writers don't ever seem to understand. We have restraint, and we get along. We're human beings, logical and caring. We're not just a bunch of sociopath dudes dicking around on the internet, and those of us that are are both the minority and should still be able to get along just fine, because we're accepting.

Crap like this stresses me out! it SUCKS being ridiculed for just trying to be a better, nicer (even more creative, or thoughtful) person, and meet other people who share that goal.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I just thought of something that makes this even worse, this list of a similar theme that's actually good was posted not to long ago:

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_20227_the-5-most-baffling-pieces-christmas-themed-fan-fiction.html

[Jeddaven 42]

To all of those syaing it's just comedy or you don't get what's hateful, they say we were  "confusing individuality with "being a sociopath."". That's pretty damned hateful, blatantly calling an entire fanbase sociopath because of an author's negative opinions about a few people. because evrything you disagree with is wrong, and the actions of a single perso represent everyone that can be clumped together with them (Not saying I think the stuff they listed is wrong). It's like saying that all whites are slave owners or that all germans are Nazis, but less obvious and severe. Not to mention the lack of any real research.

 

A few other things:

 

 

We are all apparently cloppers, not that I have anything against them, indicated by:

 

HoofBeat and its devastatingly uncomfortable sequel are the end result of about
a dozen brony artists combining their talents to provide unequivocal proof that
they are masturbating to My Little Pony

 

 

Also, the scathing comments on Fallout: Equestria:

Between
the graphic rape and sex scenes and numerous gory deaths, it manages to be a
spot-on representation of what would be screaming inside the mind of a
schizophrenic toddler as he beat his mother to death with a toaster.
 

 

If that is comedy, it's some of the most unhumorous comedy I've ever seen. It doesn;t seem like comedy, though, and trolling your readers doesn't usually go well. Oh, in case anyone is wodnering, i'm not freaking out just because I'm being indirectly made fun of. I'm a Canadian, so I've been the butt of a number of Canada jokes too.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Jeddaven

[~Master~ Button Mash 2,307]

That was one weak Cracked article. Normally I find Cracked entertaining, but there was nothing funny (because yes, it is a bit of a joke site, they are trying to offend) about that at all. And I'm not saying that as a Brony, I'm saying that period. Though yes, I also agree that it is wrong that they are trying to lump the entire fandom into one group.

Edited January 25, 2013 by AtomicBassCannon

[Luffstups 150]

That was one weak Cracked article. Normally I find Cracked entertaining, but there was nothing funny (because yes, it is a bit of a joke site, they are trying to offend) about that at all. And I'm not saying that as a Brony, I'm saying that period. Though yes, I also agree that it is wrong that they are trying to lump the entire fandom into one group.

 

Yeah, it'd be way different if these writers did their research and this was actually a funny article. I'd be laughing right along with them.

 

There's a line that comedians need to understand that you shouldn't cross. You can respectfully make fun of people all day long and it's fantastic. They love it. But when you just start being a dick, it stops being funny and starts becoming a problem. Especially when you're looking for views for profit.

[miygaiya 138]

This is actually hilarious because I inherently find people like this as complete idiots who may/may not definitely don't know what they're talking about.

 

It's just a fact of life when you watch a show that is "intended" for an age range that somebody is going to rain on your parade. Even if it's a parade of love and tolerance.

 

Plus, it's Cracked. Nothing on there should ever be taken seriously because the people who write for them are more often than not the same sociopaths that this guy is mentioning.

 

In conclusion...

 

Edited January 25, 2013 by Captain McMuffin

[Batbrony 16,075]

This is basically no better than Fox when they bucked up their coverage of the fandom, but this is a little more infuriating, simply because this guy clearly did his research, and so was probably deliberately going out of his way to portray the entire fandom in this light, knowing full well that that's hardly the case.  I honestly could've lived without knowing about the second one; sweet merciful Celestia, what the buck was that?!?!?!  Bucking food/pony clopping fiction, what the buck!!!!!!!!!!  So yeah, rational human beings will figure out that this guy is only looking at some of the either more creative projects (i.e. #3, which was actually pretty cool sounding) or some of the more fringe projects (i.e. #1, #4. and I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE BUCK #2 WAS!!!!!) produced by the fandom.  It's annoying as buck, but I get the feeling that that site publishes those types of articles on a regular basis; not saying it's right, but it's also to be expected from them, just as it's to be expected that Fox would've, at least when they did first cover us, buck up their coverage of bronies.  Interesting to see what would happen if they did so now, though.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Batbrony

[Rainbow Dash 1,473]

it was to my understanding that the Brony Fandom was loving and tolerate to other opinions. I didn't look at the article because why should i? Its there to either post a bogus claim to anger fans or just a type of comedy that jeff ross does(roasting). To go out and look for people saying bad things about Bronies and the fandom is a waste of time and effort. The only bad part of this fandom is the clopfic writers. Although, this is my opinion and not fact. 

[Shanks 10,817]

Bronies are a bunch of basement dwelling pervs and sickos fapping to pony porn and reading gore fics all day? Wow what an original and insightful argument I am sure nobody has ever come up with before *sarcasm*.

[null1 606]

This article is one of the many things directed toward us just to an angry response out of us, nothing special about it.

 

Just follow standard procedure and ignore it.

[Ron Jeremy 2,032]

Damn. That piece of an article got like 7,000 views since the last time I clicked OP's link

Really? Terribly sorry if I missed it, but I don't really get which part of the article that is hateful attack.

 

Cracked's style of humor is very different from ED's, and much more better than that. There will always be a bad part of everything, and the article simply made fun of ours. No matter how bronies often claim that the show is very well-made and watch-able for adults, we can't dismiss the fact that show was originally meant for little girls, and of course any kind of fanmade materials that is above PG 13 would be seen as damn freaking weird by anyone outside the fan community. The article didn't really attack the entirety of the fandom, it just pointed out some of the weirdest shit we have buried under our midst. (well, maybe only the 1st sentence, but it's not even that severe.)

 

I rather doubt they will remove the article for anything though.

 

 

The way it implies the entirety of the fandom is the bad side can be considered a hateful attack. I mean, taking the worst of something and claiming the normal parts are the same as it is a common smear attack tactic. There aren't even really any jokes made, it's just "These guys are freaks, let's laugh at 'em! Here, have a picture." which isn't even comedy at all.

 

An article merely pointing out the weirdest parts of our fandom would be hilarious. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against that. But an article saying everybody is like that is just a poorly-researched piece of trash that serves no other purpose than to offend people, and get laughs from those equally too lazy to look into something before judging it.

 

Now if only people would (non-publically, as in through email) complain about it instead of spamming comments on it. I just... ugh. Pretty sure the people publicly saying they touch themselves to cartoon ponies aren't helping anything. <_<