"Rabid" and "Sane" Bronies

[The Soldier 2,043]

I've seen these on the internet (but because I use dA, I see most of them there)

 

So it's come to my attention that some bronies are saying that "Rabid" bronies are "giving them a bad name" Take this stamp for example...

 

Okay, the bronies hate the "rabid" ones so much, they call themselves "sane" to make a difference so that the anti-bronies/haters/trolls would know who to target.

 

Anti-brony/hater/troll: "Alright, guys! Let's go get those bronies and show them who's boss! Oh, it's just a sane pony fan. That's okay; We'll just leave him be and go for the rabid ones!"

As if they are actually going to say that, right?

 

You may have to correct me if I'm wrong. Because there may be other stuff that I don't know.

 

But that's not my point. My question is what do you think of the fact there are that some of the bronies who are either called "sane" or "rabid"?

[Twiliscael 3,958]

Doesn't matter, and you shouldn't care. If you're associating yourself with a fandom, you're going to be judged with and for that fandom which does in fact entail the best and the worst of the community. Learn to deal with it or leave, simple as that.

[Gears of Halo Duty V 394]

Call them what they want, at the end of the day they are still bronies. We enjoy a cartoon show about rainbow colored ponies. I like to think we are all a little crazy, but who says that's a bad thing?

 

Besides, all this does is fuel even further the "Us vs Them" ideal that, while always here, is growing pretty large and needs to be minimized.

[Shanks 10,811]

There are crazies in every fandom but one thing this fandom has more than anything other I have ever seen have been the white knights who have this smug sense of self entitlement by claiming they are better than everyone else and expecting everyone else to live up to their standards and get butthurt when they don't and many of them do ironically call themselves "sane" bronies. While I may face palm for a second or two when one of the crazies acts up I see no point in letting it bother me too much as they are an extreme minority anyway though I will admit that the white knights do annoy me a hell of a lot more than the crazies do in large part because there is a lot more of them but it is a small price to pay to interact with the majority who are actually nice people. The bottom line is you have to take the good with the bad, you acknowledge that the bad exists but you don't get so fixated on it that you get unrealistic expectations as we are all human and all have our shortcomings.

[repsol rave 2,963]

i don't really care. you will allways encounter these things in every fandom, so i guess you'll just have to live with it. that being said, i don't really think there are 'diffrenses' in bronies. a brony is a brony, nothing more and nothing less.

[Senor Citizen 516]

Jee-zus, you want some rabid bronies, hit up Reddit.

You want sane bronies, go to /mlp/. The difference is palpable. Reddit=change-hating mouth-breathers. /mlp/=AWG, AiE, and everything that's good in the world.

[Nobody Special 210]

I don't think that the haters/trolls care if you're a "rabid" or "sane" brony, so why should we care? It's like genres, they may be different somehow but in the end they all come together to make one thing.

[Twilight Circuits 603]

First of all, without examples of what a rabid or sane brony is, that leaves it a little to open for interpretation. Sure, we know the meaning of those words, but attaching the word brony to it changes the meaning entirely creates speculation. Leaveing the pony fandom out the equation how would you not find a world in which defines the nature and meaning of those two words and it has nothing to do with bronies at all. What you're looking at is nothing more then a small part of the world linked together by this thing called the internet. Cyberspace isn't the same if you clue in to the fact that there is someone real posting behind this screen somewhere else in the world. The real question is; is their behaviour the same offline as it is online regardless of fandom choice at all...

[~Squishy Skies~ 756]

I'm not a "rabid" brony, (whatever that is) but I wouldn't say I'm a "sane" brony either.

 

Is anyone really "sane"? Aren't we all just a little bit insane, but no one wants to admit it?

 

We all obsess about a show featuring talking horses. I'd say that's an example of a healthy level of insanity right there.

[Moon Rat 4,772]

honestly, I really couldn't give two shits about any of it. I'm not a rabid brony (but I am far from sane, just sayin ) but for people to just single others out like that is just... kinda stupid...

It makes them look that much worse, imo

[fimdash 1,196]

I feel like these people who call themselves "sane" bronies like the show but they don't want to be seen as the typical fan, so they pretty much let people know they're one of the "sane" bronies. I don't really like it when people do this, since I feel like these people act like they're better than other bronies. There's nothing wrong with being a "rabid" brony. These guys just love the show so much and enjoy expressing their appreciation for it. There's also clopping, which a lot of people want to be dissociated from (even some of the cloppers). Nothing wrong with that too, but there is a social stigma, so there's another reason why we have people who declare themselves as the "sane" bronies. It makes sense why people would call themselves that, but I really wish that they didn't. We're all part of the same fandom, and I don't really like the idea of labeling each other as different kinds of brony.

[Silver Letter 1,830]

I'm not a "rabid" brony, (whatever that is) but I wouldn't say I'm a "sane" brony either.

 

Is anypony really "sane"? Aren't we all just a little bit insane, but no one wants to admit it?

 

We all obsess about a show featuring talking horses. I'd say that's an example of a healthy level of insanity right there.

It's about one's point of view. Who thinks that an Italian plumber flying though the galaxy and throwing fireballs from his hooves while talking to stars can be seen as insane too? Just because something is less popular than some other fiction, it doesn't really make it insane by automatic judgment.

As far as there are "sane" MLP: FIM fans or not, that's an interpretation that I choose not to believe personally though some fans are very vigilant.

Edited June 14, 2013 by ILetThePoniesIn

[Rainblow H. Ash 5,090]

Every fandom has fans that are of varying intensity, and this fandom is not different in that respect.

 

I don't even know what one would define as a sane or crazy Brony, but I'd like to think I'm both. Everyone thinks I'm a sane Brony, when I'm really a crazy Brony on the low.

 

*Takes a puff on pipe*
 

Makes sense, right?

[Ezio Auditore 702]

I really only dislike when a "brony" is a brony just because he/she wants to be different, there are a lot of people in this fandom who do it just to stand out, and it drives me crazy

[Belgian&Brony 35]

I'm a loyalist brony i use DA very much and people keep saying ponyfagg to me

I dont trow mlp in someone's troat like the anti bronies say

I protect the fandom like it is a religion thats all

Rabid bronies give me a very bad name

I admit that I'm a little bit crazy

Im a atheist and Friendship is my religion

A rabid brony is brony who is breaking those rules

*love and tolerate

*dont force other people to like mlp

*have respect for cloppers

Well bronism is like communism

Good and bad must live togheter while they are both people

[RockinRarity 1,605]

I am going to use an example of something more important than being a brony.

 

I am Catholic. And certain individuals have their own perception of what may be considered a "sane" Catholic or a "rabid" Catholic. But what does that mean?

 

I do not "force" people to go be Catholic or whatever, and while I do believe that the Catholic Church is the only fully "correct" religion, it doesn't mean that other religions are 100% wrong. Some of them are probably 95% right. I certainly don't hate people who have different beliefs, and I understand that people's experiences drive people to certain beliefs.

 

But if I were to tell some people that I do not like Barack Obama, that I believe gay marriage shouldn't be legalized, and that pornography is damaging to relationships between men and women, I am pretty sure that I would be considered "rabid" or "insane" by some of them. Or at least a milder form of those words, maybe weird or out of touch with modern society.

 

The problem with terms like rabid or sane is that they are so subjective. I can call myself a sane brony by claiming that I do not take the show so seriously that I get legitimately upset when something changes. But at the same time, I have spent a few hundred dollars on the trading cards, and I have lots of pony toys on my windowsill, plus PVC figurines in my cubical at work. I go to a local anime convention every year, and I have also been to Bronycon. I am driving over thirty miles away to a movie theater showing Equestria Girls with a bunch of people who I have never met. To some people, that sounds rabid.

 

But there is another problem with the rabid versus sane predicament.

 

Who am I to judge who is "good" and who is "bad" in the fandom?

 

I mean, I can make some of those judgments. Someone who, in the middle of a MLP panel at a convention, says in front of EVERYONE that parents who didn't like Derpy are retarded, maaaaay have some issues, but that doesn't have to do with being a brony. Those kind of lackings in social skills go far beyond being a rabid or a sane brony. If their mental health is not at its prime, being a brony has nothing to do with that. It may be an outlet of that sort of behavior, but being a brony did not make these people "rabid."

 

And for people to say, "You must be one of the sane ones" to you? That is disrespectful to the entire community. I hope that anyone who receives that kind of half-assed compliment will have the guts to say even something like, "There are a lot more of us than you think."

[DarligPegasi 315]

I believe that there are 'rabid' members in every fandom. Just like there are 'rabid' people in ever religion. It's inevitable. The way I define the rabid/sane thing is this.

 

'Rabid'..Ok I'm going to stop saying that...We aren't animals. >.<

 

Aggressive fandom members tend to be a little bit too forceful with their beliefs and they do more harm then good in my opinion.

 

Passive fandom members are the ones who let any insults or contradictions to their beliefs roll off like water.

 

But there are also in-betweeners, who sometimes go off and sometimes don't.

[Shanks 10,811]

Those kind of lackings in social skills go far beyond being a rabid or a sane brony.

What really gets me is the unbelievable double standard of it somehow being okay for someone to flip out because their favorite sports team didn't win or it is for the most part rightfully seen as an extreme minority acting out whenever some crazies in another fandom do or say something stupid but the bronies are seen as a bunch of raving lunatics just for being into ponies at all and more so when the occasional nutjob mouths off. Nobody says "I am a sane San Diego Chargers fan" or "I am a sane Star Wars fan" but plenty of people say "I am a sane brony" which inadvertently feeds the trolls by drawing unnecessary attention to the crazies. Sure, they are not all the self entitled judgmental jerks I mentioned in my earlier post I want to make that clear but the fact of the matter is that it is still not helping things.

[Mzukiller 233]

I don't see how you could not believe in Rabid bronies. They're there, I see them a lot. Rabid bronies are the missionaries that try to "spread the joy of ponies to others" or the creepy perverts that always go on and on about their clop collection. Scum, plain a nd simple. Oh am I being too rude, too blunt? Well too bad, these people are responsible for the heaping load of stereotypes and generalizations thrown at us every day. They're not a faction in the fandom that we love, tolerate, or even embrace.

 

A brony is a fan of the show, no more, no less. A brony is not a fursuiter, or a saint or some kind of superior person all because they watch this show.

 

But the question is: Should we have to divide ourselves just because of the existence of these lunes? On one hand, we're not all like them, right? So we shouldn't be lumped in. But on the other hand, anyone that sees that part of the fandom and then just assumes that we're all like that is not a person we should pander too, we shouldn't have to change to fit the description of "sane" of some bigot. He's made up his mind, we're all autistic furries and pedos to him.

 

But now, I'm going in circles. My point is simple: We shouldn't embrace these sour parts of the fandom, but at the same time we can't give anti bronies more fuel for the fire by letting them know that there's such a divide.

[Megas 27,087]

There's "rabid" and "sane" fans for every fandom there is, but in the end of the day, they are all still fans. I don't think we should always ostricize rabid fans, because I'd rather have rabid fans who's love for the show knows no bounds than sane fans who's always bitching and moaning over the smallest things/being Negative Nancy's

[Derpius 138]

I feel like these people who call themselves "sane" bronies like the show but they don't want to be seen as the typical fan, so they pretty much let people know they're one of the "sane" bronies. I don't really like it when people do this, since I feel like these people act like they're better than other bronies. There's nothing wrong with being a "rabid" brony. These guys just love the show so much and enjoy expressing their appreciation for it. There's also clopping, which a lot of people want to be dissociated from (even some of the cloppers). Nothing wrong with that too, but there is a social stigma, so there's another reason why we have people who declare themselves as the "sane" bronies. It makes sense why people would call themselves that, but I really wish that they didn't. We're all part of the same fandom, and I don't really like the idea of labeling each other as different kinds of brony.

*facehoof*

 

"There's nothing wrong with being a rabid brony" ??

 

Are you serious?

 

First its "love and tolerate the cloppers", but now this?!

 

Let me tell you why you're wrong:

 

First, its okay to love MLP, but shoving it in peoples faces and putting ponies into every last thing on the internet is unacceptable and doing so is an excellent way to make people hate you.

 

Second, sending death threats to someone all in the name of a certain cartoon pegasus is also unacceptable behavior, even if it is on the internet.

 

Third, completely obsessing over MLP only shows how sad of a person the obsessor actually is. I'm sorry, but if your life completely revolves around My Little Pony, you need to live more and maybe find other interests.

 

And finally, getting butthurt every time someone makes the slightest little joke or a minor negative comment about the brony fandom only attracts the trolls.

 

I can't believe that you actually think that there's nothing wrong with being a rabid brony!

[Twilight Circuits 603]

Third, completely obsessing over MLP only shows how sad of a person the obsessor actually is. I'm sorry, but if your life completely revolves around My Little Pony, you need to live more and maybe find other interests.

And what would you define as a life that completely revolves around MLP? What would be wrong with that on what level and what nature? I wear MLP colors and a tail out in public all the time and no one gives me guff for it. I actually get positive comments. But then again the weird part is that it's almost as if no one ever seea it to begin with. Now I don't spend all my time on MLP related activities as I have to make a living and my tail picks up a lot of stuff on the ground when grounds keeping, so i don't wear my tail to work but i wear in my off hours and on weekends. To be honest it's kinda so second nature to me I don't even think about it really which is why people don't notice it or fear saying something. But yeah, there's other things i would drag mlp into if I had the money but a part of me believes the skies the limit. I'm also not going onto other forums and deliberately anouncing I like MLP as there isn't a single reason to do that to begin with.

   People hang around the forum all day sometimes. Would you consider that wrong and not living? I might agree that to a point after reading threads and responses about how many bronies get distracted and procrastinate other things that would otherwise elevate their choices and lifestyle in pursuit of worthwhile goals that would benefit humanity in some way, but that could just be me talking on that one.

[fimdash 1,196]

*facehoof*

 

"There's nothing wrong with being a rabid brony" ??

 

Are you serious?

 

First its "love and tolerate the cloppers", but now this?!

 

Let me tell you why you're wrong:

 

First, its okay to love MLP, but shoving it in peoples faces and putting ponies into every last thing on the internet is unacceptable and doing so is an excellent way to make people hate you.

 

Second, sending death threats to someone all in the name of a certain cartoon pegasus is also unacceptable behavior, even if it is on the internet.

 

Third, completely obsessing over MLP only shows how sad of a person the obsessor actually is. I'm sorry, but if your life completely revolves around My Little Pony, you need to live more and maybe find other interests.

 

And finally, getting butthurt every time someone makes the slightest little joke or a minor negative comment about the brony fandom only attracts the trolls.

 

I can't believe that you actually think that there's nothing wrong with being a rabid brony!

Hmm the way I see it, you could always ignore the "rabid" bronies. I'm personally not very in-your-face about mlp with others, but I've met some people who are and it doesn't really bother me much. They're just really open about liking the show, and want to spread their love for it to others. I can see how it can get annoying, but I don't think it's bad to the point where you'd end up hating these people.

 

I agree that it's not okay to send death threats. However, not every "rabid" brony does this. I'm sure that the people who send death threats over mlp are a very small percentile of the "rabid" bronies.

 

Don't really think it's sad for someone to be completely obsessed with MLP. It's a very likable show, and I've met people who are pretty damn obsessed with the show and I don't find them sad at all. In fact, I admire most of them. They're really nice and interesting people. The only time when it would become bad is if it's beginning to affect one's personal life negatively, such as grades dropping, not hanging out with friends anymore, etc.

 

I guess not everybody is, but I personally am fine with clopping. How people get off is none of my concern, and it doesn't harm anyone at all. As long as they aren't posting R34 everywhere, I don't see what the problem is.

[Derpius 138]

And what would you define as a life that completely revolves around MLP? What would be wrong with that on what level and what nature? I wear MLP colors and a tail out in public all the time and no one gives me guff for it. I actually get positive comments. But then again the weird part is that it's almost as if no one ever seea it to begin with. Now I don't spend all my time on MLP related activities as I have to make a living and my tail picks up a lot of stuff on the ground when grounds keeping, so i don't wear my tail to work but i wear in my off hours and on weekends. To be honest it's kinda so second nature to me I don't even think about it really which is why people don't notice it or fear saying something. But yeah, there's other things i would drag mlp into if I had the money but a part of me believes the skies the limit. I'm also not going onto other forums and deliberately anouncing I like MLP as there isn't a single reason to do that to begin with.

   People hang around the forum all day sometimes. Would you consider that wrong and not living? I might agree that to a point after reading threads and responses about how many bronies get distracted and procrastinate other things that would otherwise elevate their choices and lifestyle in pursuit of worthwhile goals that would benefit humanity in some way, but that could just be me talking on that one.

If you do most of the following things, then your life revolves around MLP.

 

Ponies have taken over your life if you:

 

- Put ponies into unrelated video games.

 

- Wear a brony shirt every day out in public.

 

- Spend 5 hours or more each day on brony sites.

 

- Only watch pony related videos on YouTube.

 

- Have pony merchandise in every corner of your place o your room, apartment, or house

 

- Post ponies in unrelated forums.

 

- Make sure everything that you do online involves MLP in some way.

 

- Do ponifications

 

Those were just the ones I could think of. I'm sure there are more ways to tell.

[fimdash 1,196]

If you do most of the following things, then your life revolves around MLP.

 

Ponies have taken over your life if you:

 

- Put ponies into unrelated video games.

 

- Wear a brony shirt every day out in public.

 

- Spend 5 hours or more each day on brony sites.

 

- Only watch pony related videos on YouTube.

 

- Have pony merchandise in every corner of your place o your room, apartment, or house

 

- Post ponies in unrelated forums.

 

- Make sure everything that you do online involves MLP in some way.

 

- Do ponifications

 

Those were just the ones I could think of. I'm sure there are more ways to tell.

I'm sure many people here fall under most of those. You're posting this on MLP Forums, my friend. We've got some of the most obsessed fans here, and we're proud of it.