How do bronies compare to other fandoms?

[GreyScholar 1,584]

Yes, but at least it wasn't awarded by Bronycon(it's the only equivalent I think of) as best fanfic. That's what I'm yelling about, the fact it not only existed but was given awards by the fandom.

 

I'm fully aware of twisted fanfic. 

Well what site? Some are more open and okay with their adult stuff then others, even being accepting of child, 'cub', porn.

Do I also need to mention that bronies don't normally engage in acts of zoophilia? Unlike many furs who openly admit it on too many cases.

Please, most furry I know do not even consider zoophilia. Most furries into the more adult stuff would be shock at the suggestion of having sex with animals.

 

Also, how about Fur Affinity? I have seen some clean decent stuff there, heck there is actually a could of tumblrs dedicated to showing only clean furry art. I have also read some decent web comic series.

 

A great explain of the best of the 'furry' fandom is a comic series called Dreamkeepers, a fantasy/adventure series: http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/

 

Another is actually a couple of roleplays, Ironclaw and Jadeclaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclaw

Before you ask the cover is parodying an anime/manga series called Slayers

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Well what site? Some are more open and okay with their adult stuff then others, even being accepting of child, 'cub', porn.

Please, most furry I know do not even consider zoophilia. Most furries into the more adult stuff would be shock at the suggestion of having sex with animals.

 

Also, how about Fur Affinity? I have seen some clean decent stuff there, heck there is actually a could of tumblrs dedicated to showing only clean furry art. I have also read some decent web comic series.

 

A great explain of the best of the 'furry' fandom is a comic series called Dreamkeepers, a fantasy/adventure series: http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/

 

Another is actually a couple of roleplays, Ironclaw and Jadeclaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclaw

Before you ask the cover is parodying an anime/manga series called Slayers

 

I don't even remember, but it was an award ceremony that's considered pretty important in the fandom. I don't even want to look it up because I rather scrub the knowledge from my brain

 

If you want to bring up good furry comics, don't forget Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures. 

 

 

If you really read my posts, then you would be aware of the stereotypes, it is the furries that bring said stereotypes among themselves. I'm sorry but people don't just pull that shit out of thin air on a internet subculture, most people who dislike them experience family members fursuiting constantly and that tends to get out fast on the web.

 

Bronies are in no way connected to or part of furries, that is like stating Ford and American Motors are the same car company or Sealand making a colony out of the Soviet Union; while both fanbases share the same foundation, we have completely different skyscrapers that stand atop them. The only thing we have in common is the passion we display for anthro art, but even those who dwell on that are furries who transcended to the Brony community. Bronydom is a massive cultural empire a bit too complex to explain, while Furrydom is comprised mainly of imageboard sites that houses nothing but (borderline) porn and crappy fan fictions based on the Road Rovers franchise, and if you think Derpibooru is bad, you obviously never heard of VCL and Furribooru.

 

Do I also need to mention that bronies don't normally engage in acts of zoophilia? Unlike many furs who openly admit it on too many cases.

 

I have to agree with Scholar here:

 

1)Yes they are. Several big-name furries also open bronies and vice versa. There's a massive overlap in the fandoms much the same why the overlap between furries and Sonic fans exists. While it may not be true that every brony is a furry and vice-versa, there is a major connection between the two.

 

2)Most furries are animal lovers(no, not in that way) and consider zoophillia an appalling act of animal abuse. Being an open Zoophile is one of the few ways to become a universal acceptable target for the fandom.  

Edited March 3, 2014 by Shoboni

[DND 2,355]

PewDiePie fans... damn, they're annoying!

 

I also find first-person shooter fans like CoD to be unnecessarily rude and obnoxious. I stray from the X-Box because of them. 

 

Certainly not all Sonic fans are like this, but if you check out the fanworks, fanfiction, OCs, and generally, 50% of the fans, It's nothing to swoon over.

[Windseeker 546]

Please, most furry I know do not even consider zoophilia. Most furries into the more adult stuff would be shock at the suggestion of having sex with animals.

 

Also, how about Fur Affinity? I have seen some clean decent stuff there, heck there is actually a could of tumblrs dedicated to showing only clean furry art. I have also read some decent web comic series.

 

A great explain of the best of the 'furry' fandom is a comic series called Dreamkeepers, a fantasy/adventure series: http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/

 

Another is actually a couple of roleplays, Ironclaw and Jadeclaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclaw

Before you ask the cover is parodying an anime/manga series called Slayers

If it isn't zoophilia, then they stick to fursuiting, if not that, they just scour the web for anthro porn. As for Furaffinity, its pretty much all mildly suggestive pictures, the only ones that aren't are the terribly low-quality pics drawn by horny furs who can't pick up a pencil. I never created a account in my years being there but I know for certain there is a mature feature to it. There are even a few artists there who have separate websites dedicated to containing all their porn.

 

I joined the furry fandom in fifth grade, role play didn't cross my mind until years later when I found City of Unity, but when they killed that RP off, I practically got bored of Furrydom afterwards. The entire fanbase is made up of horny teens who seek pleasure in animals with boobs, no one can really deny that. I been on Vivisector long enough to learn so many exploits of the Furry community, its almost truism nowadays. Well... that's were the stereotypes come from.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

@@Windseeker,

Well just know many furry fans either have no interest and/or money to consider fursuits, and I can say I feel confidently that most furries don't get fursuits just so they can sexy fun time in them.

 

I would also argue having a furry/anthro fetish can be no more messed up then those with a fetish for elves, vampires, sexy demons/devils, or any number of cute monsters or petting zoo characters which may even involve nekos and inus (cat and dog characters though often just ears and tail).

 

Though really I feel the ones to look for are those that insist on their furry/anthro art being anatomically correct to the animal. If they are completely human in body shape but are simply covered in fur, have ears, tail, and muzzle you can't argue zoophilia... which can be found among some fan with the insistence of, ick, 'crotch boobs'. 

Edited March 3, 2014 by EquestrianScholar

[aoEAF2FBvC0MIo2Q 3,673]

I haven't been to many fanbases... There's this one, Metroid and Fire Emblem. That's pretty much it.

 

The Fire Emblem fandom is the one I enjoyed the least. Blegh, all that people really talk about there is who the better characters are and that everyone's smarter than each other for this or that reason. It's the elitism that chased me away in other words. Average stats this, teirs that... blegh.

 

As for the Metroid fanbase, I mostly stick around a specific forum and community that's doing pretty well but people from outside come and say how much the Metroid fanbase has been torn apart in the wake of Metroid Other M even after three and a half years. Let me give you a quote:

 

 

 

I will say what I really try not to say very often, but the Metroid community has endured a horrifying split after Metroid Other M's release. If you know why I joined these boards than you know I joined them cause this board is VERY peaceful compared to other places in the Metroid community. So please understand when I say the community I mean other places and for the most part am not talking about MDB. It has been soon to be four years since Other M's release and I feel the community is nowhere closer to healing itself. In fact I feel it seems to get even worse every year. Even if the next game in the series is the greatest thing to ever happen to the series I feel there will still be no moving on from what has happened. What I am trying to say is I feel this split is going to be one the Metroid fandom will endure for more than it should have to endure.

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[Windseeker 546]

@@Windseeker,

Well just know many furry fans either have no interest and/or money to consider fursuits, and I can say I feel confidently that most furries don't get fursuits just so they can sexy fun time in them.

 

I would also argue having a furry/anthro fetish can be no more messed up then those with a fetish for elves, vampires, sexy demons/devils, or any number of cute monsters or petting zoo characters which may even involve nekos and inus (cat and dog characters though often just ears and tail).

 

Though really I feel the ones to look for are those that insist on their furry/anthro art being anatomically correct to the animal. If they are completely human in body shape but are simply covered in fur, have ears, tail, and muzzle you can't argue zoophilia... which can be found among some fan with the insistence of, ick, 'crotch boobs'. 

The sole purpose of a fursuit (from a furry perspective) is to cos-play, and that can range from anything from behaving like a animal to ferociously having sex like one, its a sort of devotion to their culture that operates way too differently than our liking for ponies. A culture centered around a damn fine TV show that is somehow part of one that is revolved around mainly a kink doesn't make sense to me.

 

Also, you fail to point out any of the valid arguments I previously (and repeatedly) stated.

[GreyScholar 1,584]

The sole purpose of a fursuit (from a furry perspective) is to cos-play, and that can range from anything from behaving like a animal to ferociously having sex like one, its a sort of devotion to their culture that operates way too differently than our liking for ponies. A culture centered around a damn fine TV show that is somehow part of one that is revolved around mainly a kink doesn't make sense to me.

 

Also, you fail to point out any of the valid arguments I previously (and repeatedly) stated.

My point was there are far worse fandoms then that of 'the furry'. Also you cannot say it centers around a kink any more vampire fans are in it because they find these monsters of the night sexy.

[Windseeker 546]

My point was there are far worse fandoms then that of 'the furry'. Also you cannot say it centers around a kink any more vampire fans are in it because they find these monsters of the night sexy.

I don't know much about anything involving vampires, unless you are referring to those affiliated with Japanese anime or of the Twilight Saga. Even so, those fanbases haven't received so much negative feedback from mainstream society to earn them stereotypes that come close to matching the furries.

[Guest90210 3,568]

Juggalos, though, are worse than any fan base.

 

 

OH! Juggalos!

 

The Juggalos

 

Wow. 5 juggalo related responses on the first page alone.

 

Juggalo here. I guarantee you actually know barely anything about Juggalos or ICP, so I would suggest looking into it more if you seriously consider us the "worst fanbase".

[PsychedelicPony 440]

Juggalo's hands the hell down are the worst.

[Guest90210 3,568]

 

This really isn't a good topic honestly, it just encourages stereotypes and stuch.

 

Bingo.

 

This is an incredibly pointless and hypocritical thread.

 

Don't you hate it when people stereotype bronies on other parts of the internet? So why stereotype other fandoms on here?

Edited March 3, 2014 by Rivendare

[websterhamster 203]

The fanbase I hate the most is (and I know I'm going to receive hate for this) the "Whovians".

 

Why, you ask? Because they try to insert their "doctor" into everything else, and in the process make him super OP and very obnoxious.

 

No, I've never seen Doctor Who, but I probably will eventually. The reason I'm holding off is the same reason I didn't watch MLP the first time I heard about Bronies, basically I don't want to become a "Whovian". I dislike that fandom.

 

I don't dislike the fans, though. Most of my acquaintances are Doctor Who fans, and I've got nothing against them.

[SBaby 660]

The Star Trek fanbase, the Sonic fanbase, the Pokémon fanbase at times, the Power Rangers fanbase (good god, you should see how elitist some of them act).

 

So yeah, there are a ton of fanbases that are worse than us.  When you think about it, we're one of the better ones (or at the very least, the top half).

[Zhortac 1,474]

 the Power Rangers fanbase 

 

 

In their defense, when you get crap like Troy, you really can't blame them

[GreyScholar 1,584]

The Star Trek fanbase

Hey now, don't go there. I admit I am more of a Starwars fan but I am also part of a Star Trek club, out ship being a part of Utah's 7th Fleet. I can say that Star Trek fans have little more problems then making going up in ranks a bit tedious and intimidating as it is taken fairly serious.

[SBaby 660]

Hey now, don't go there. I admit I am more of a Starwars fan but I am also part of a Star Trek club, out ship being a part of Utah's 7th Fleet. I can say that Star Trek fans have little more problems then making going up in ranks a bit tedious and intimidating as it is taken fairly serious.

 

I'm as much of a Star Trek fan as anybody else (I think most bronies are), but anyone that's been around the more hardcore parts of the fanbase knows how they can get.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,205]

If you really read my posts, then you would be aware of the stereotypes, it is the furries that bring said stereotypes among themselves. I'm sorry but people don't just pull that shit out of thin air on a internet subculture, most people who dislike them experience family members fursuiting constantly and that tends to get out fast on the web.

 

Bronies are in no way connected to or part of furries, that is like stating Ford and American Motors are the same car company or Sealand making a colony out of the Soviet Union; while both fanbases share the same foundation, we have completely different skyscrapers that stand atop them. The only thing we have in common is the passion we display for anthro art, but even those who dwell on that are furries who transcended to the Brony community. Bronydom is a massive cultural empire a bit too complex to explain, while Furrydom is comprised mainly of imageboard sites that houses nothing but (borderline) porn and crappy fan fictions based on the Road Rovers franchise, and if you think Derpibooru is bad, you obviously never heard of VCL and Furribooru.

 

Do I also need to mention that bronies don't normally engage in acts of zoophilia? Unlike many furs who openly admit it on too many cases.

 

 

I beg to differ. I see PLENTY of clean/SFW images. If anything I see just as much R34 of ponies as I do Furries. Also what's wrong with Derpibooru? It's a great site to find the latest images/art without having to rifle through Deviantart or something...and most images have a source to the artist...And of the record, e621 is probably the worst furry image site, I see constant brony bashing and whatever "they" don't like. and what you describe of the Furry fandom is a very small percentage.

 

I don't know ANY furries that would be involved with such thing as "Zoophilia"

 

The sole purpose of a fursuit (from a furry perspective) is to cos-play, and that can range from anything from behaving like a animal to ferociously having sex like one, its a sort of devotion to their culture that operates way too differently than our liking for ponies. A culture centered around a damn fine TV show that is somehow part of one that is revolved around mainly a kink doesn't make sense to me.

 

Also, you fail to point out any of the valid arguments I previously (and repeatedly) stated.

 

 

I do know a couple that do "Stuff" in their suits, but it's a VERY small percentage. Most furs wear them at cons or meets to be their fursona or just act silly and escape reality. Not many furs are going to pay $800-$2000+ for a custom made fursuit just to have sex in it.

 

You clearly don't know anything about the furry fandom. It doesn't revolve around "kinks".  The Furry Fandom originated from various cartoon shows (Mainly Disney and Redwall and such shows) as well as various writings involving anthropomorphic animals. and with the coming of the internet (Yes the fandom existed before the internet was widely available) it exploded with more art and even people with their own fursonas of various animals....some would consider them "Spirit" animals.

[CT-1138 3,182]

Just to put in my two cents on the furry fandom, but I agree a large percentage take it too far. I knew a pair of girls who would show up to every school function with fox tails clipped to the back of their belts. I could understand a t-shirt, but not even bronies clip tails to themselves outside of cons. I wouldn't say that there's many who are zoophiliacs, because I'm sure that's the vast minority, but I do find an overwhelming number of them annoying. The very image of some half naked anthropomorphic animal seems to make the biologist in me pop a vein and scream "stop making bad art of anthropomorphized animals!" The ones that feel the need to spam their character sheets EVERYWHERE are the worst. I don't mind that they have an oc, but stop shoving other people's faces in it. We don't care about your crappy oc. With all that, though, I still wouldn't think they're worst than us. Maybe slightly so, but not by much.

Edited March 3, 2014 by Dinos4Ever

[Revertz 159]

Let's see...

Beliebers

1D fans

Pewdiepie fans (It counting PART of the fanbase, so if you do like Pewdiepie, that is fine as long as you don't count people who played the same games as Pewdiepie 'copycats', flame people for disliking, etc.)

If someone dares plays slender that is not pewdiepie omg let the hate flow like a river

I would have to say Deathcore fans (if you do not know what deathcore it is a combination between deathmetal and punk i think*) anyway if you dare say something about there favorite genre of music they will be the last thing you see 

[Bendy 1,821]

OK, everyone.

 

Fans of Hitler are a fanbase, whom are Neo Naizs.

 

The Holocaust which resulted in the deaths of millions, is by a Neo Naiz point of view a good thing and should happen again.

Edited March 3, 2014 by Rush

[Windseeker 546]

You clearly don't know anything about the furry fandom. It doesn't revolve around "kinks".  The Furry Fandom originated from various cartoon shows (Mainly Disney and Redwall and such shows) as well as various writings involving anthropomorphic animals. and with the coming of the internet (Yes the fandom existed before the internet was widely available) it exploded with more art and even people with their own fursonas of various animals....some would consider them "Spirit" animals.

I been in the furry community for almost a decade and honestly, I feel slightly pissed that you pretty much deny the time I devoted in the fandom in the form of nine words. You have no idea about my time being one so don't even bother making such assumptions or denying the obvious. I am going to make this clear one final time and I will start from the beginning...

 

If the furry fandom (and this is a huge IF) was meant to center around said franchises, then those traces are long gone and are replaced with mostly a yiff-based community hating on other subcultures and tearing at the throats of normal furs who disagree with them. The only type of fan media created by furs on their portrayal to anthropomorphic pop culture is anything related to mainly Starfox, Thundercats, Road Rovers, Pokemon, and Sonic. Nothing really related to anything they correlated their community with... Today it revolves around fetishists who thinks boobs look nice on animals and attempt to cover these types of things up by bullshitting their origins when in fact, they popped up all of a sudden in the 80s with no real definitive source. I have no problem with it, but some furs refuse to let things go.

 

I get it, so called 'Spirit' animals are furs who associate themselves with 'Otherkin' which is pretty rare after the decline of the fandom in the mid-2000s, even people who release their 'inner animal' still have the tendency to do it in the form of sexual deviancy. I'm not generalizing here, but you can't deny the fact it still freaking happens quite often.

 

I beg to differ. I see PLENTY of clean/SFW images. If anything I see just as much R34 of ponies as I do Furries. Also what's wrong with Derpibooru? It's a great site to find the latest images/art without having to rifle through Deviantart or something...and most images have a source to the artist...And of the record, e621 is probably the worst furry image site, I see constant brony bashing and whatever "they" don't like. and what you describe of the Furry fandom is a very small percentage.

 

I don't know ANY furries that would be involved with such thing as "Zoophilia"

There is still the fact that there many NSFW furry imageboard sites with Furrydom's famous artists making their own sites solely for housing their porn collection, it makes Lil Miss Rarity's art pale in comparison in terms of NSFW. If clean is what you are aiming for, then Furocity and ArtSpots is the place to go.

 

I didn't say anything bad about Derpibooru, it contains quite a bit of questionable art but this isn't my point, its just unnerving when people call out on the furry fandom as if its a oppressed-minority-and-misunderstood-shining-cultural-beacon that deserves respect because it isn't. Furries bring stereotypes upon themselves as I previously mentioned and there are reasons why former furries moved on and forget the subculture entirely, I have friends who left because of they are sick and tired of being the target of someone else's actions or putting up with elitist fur drama entirely. There are anti-zoophilia fur groups, then there are pro-zoophilia groups, scalies who fight against furs (and vice versa), furs against fursuiting, furries against bronies, anti-furry groups without a damn inkling of an idea of who they are attacking, and then there are smart anti-furry groups led by furs, and so forth. It is merely a terrible community plagued with oh so many tedious little groups that absolutely hate it when you know the ugly truth about them or simply have opinions of your own. You really never met a zoophiliac fur? Then congratulations, I'll happily take your word for it and say we walked down completely different paths.

 

I moved to Bronydom because it has created a ton of media centered around a fine TV series ranging from art to entire gaming platforms involving my favorite characters as well as a active community that is friendly for the most part. I feel more accepted and happier than I ever had been as a furry. It has its flaws but every social aggregate has flaws, and what grinds my gears the most, is how judgmental we are towards an episode and the writers who worked hard to create it. The furries just have more disadvantages than advantages and simply lack in terms of media and activity with no real creative contributions among the group.

 

I do know a couple that do "Stuff" in their suits, but it's a VERY small percentage. Most furs wear them at cons or meets to be their fursona or just act silly and escape reality. Not many furs are going to pay $800-$2000+ for a custom made fursuit just to have sex in it.

A small percentage? Who exactly is giving enough fucks to keep tabs on the furry fandom activity? I'm not talking about rigged surveys created by furs to dissuade public opinion. Most mainstream media thinks its a extremely large percentage that engages in fursuiting, and they could be right. Obviously, people have more money than sense, you don't even need to live in a capitalist country to know that. There are people who are willing to spend their grocery money on rusty broken lawnmowers and furs are no exception in hasty transactions involving sexual plushies, fursuits, and expensive commissions.

[Fender 1,283]

Simply put: Every fanbase or support group, or even religious group that has ever existed or ever will exist will have some very, very, very shitty people. I am pretty sure there a radical bronies who have killed for the fandom, like there are people who have killed over star wars, or Christianity, or democracy. It's all the same in one sense: People will fight for their beliefs and interests.

[Tigerpop198 696]

The extreme anime fanbases, those are very, very bad.

[Bastion 414]

Nearly every fanbase of modern military shooters

Call Of Duty (its not a fish)

Battlefield

Medal of honour

and Counterstrike.

 

I love counterstrike but the community is just so bad!