4chan there was actually a huge (nerdy) flame war between bronies and haters that eventually ended with 4chan

There is no other place like 4chan^^.

Instead, your fangroup should stop forcing MLP everywhere.

This is forum. It has rules kept straight by a paid (?) stuff of members. And there are certainly no rules that forbid the right of free speech.

1. What makes you enjoy the show so much?

It is actually pretty clever..and **** adorable. Then, there is just some unexplainable force that pulls me to it

3. How did you become a person that liked the show?

To be honest..the fanbase pulled me in. How awesome it is and how insanely creative they can be

people think fan activity is intrusive.

I understand that this community rarely talks about MLP.
I understand that you(staff) want this forum to be a nice experience in general.
I understand that you are doing your job.
I was voicing my opinion, and not a very hard one.
Delete my posts if you don't want anypony to get mad, really, because people in this forum are that sensitive. I am not coming back to these forums.

1. What makes you enjoy the show so much?

Personally I like the pure joy and lack of hate that the show, well, shows. I also LOVE the fanbase. There is so much musical talent in the brony community, for example: MandoPony, Living Tombstone, Prince Whateverer, AcousticBrony the list goes on. :)

2. Why do so many people like the show?

It's actually a really good show. It's well made has interesting characters and good animation. It's also the (like I said) lack of hate that the show and fanbase emits.

3. How did you become a person that liked the show?

I saw a bunch of memes and was just like "what the hay" watched like four episodes and now a year later I've seen every episode at least once and try to support the fanbase as much as possible XD

My posts wasn't meant to offend anyone, just giving my opinion on it, sorry if I was harsh

*reads up on thread*

Geez Strop claiming to not like the show but then laying down the law in the fans' defense. Anyway, since me, and people like me, are implicitly not bound by the same rules that apply to you plebs, I'll go ahead and hate on the fandom for everyone else.

I don't like the fandom. I dislike most fandoms, really, because I'm me, but I find this one particularly offensive. Probably just because it's near me, I don't know. I don't like the fandom because it becomes way too excited about the wrong things and spends no energy on the right things. I don't like the fandom because it tells people that spending a lot of time and energy generating fandom-related content is okay, but it really isn't (most especially fanfiction, but to a lesser extent fanmusic, and a little bit of fanart.)

I don't like that people pay more attention to endless regurgitation of fanbase memes and favorite quotes from the show than original content. Moreover, they also pull focus from analyzing and discussing the literary merits of the show and related media in an original fashion.

And you know what I hate the most? The fandom is ruining the show. No, not because it's coloring my perception of it. I don't mean that the fandom is ruining it for me. I mean the fandom is actively causing the show's downfall. The creators clearly listen to fans and throw nods to them, and otherwise allow the fans to have a voice in the creative process. This is stupid.

It led directly to the Derpy Hooves disaster, which was thankfully rectified. And I believe it's a primary factor in the degeneration of the writing and characters, from well-rounded to one-dimensional in-jokes. This is because the fandom, by in large, represents a population that has little knowledge of how to create good television, and, more pressingly, little knowledge of why it likes the show in the first place.

You don't like Rainbow Dash because she said 20% cooler. You know the phrase, but what does it mean?

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(In case you're curious, my post focuses on stating concerns about the fandom and the ideas surrounding it as well as how they interact with the show, not on the quality of individuals in the fandom itself, and doesn't seek to insult anyone. That's why it's okay by the code of conduct/general manners. NOT because the rules don't apply to me. Well. Not JUST because the rules don't apply to me.)

i am a brony and i am proud of it!