The Most Unexpected Cartoon Fandom
When it comes to modern cartoon fandoms, there’s not a lot of good than bad, most of them being toxic for having very ugly shipping wars, attacking people, attacking the show creator and staff, and so forth. However, there is one cartoon fandom that’s pretty good and no one would except this but it’s My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic aka the Brony Community. While it’s true they can be cringe and do a few bad things but the good outways the bad and here’s why.
Let’s go back to how it all started. Back at Oct 2010 when the first ep of MLP FiM had come out, it got it attention not just from little girls but adults, mostly men which they called themselves “Bronies”. After the first episode, there was an instant response about the show on 4chan’s message board but due to conflict between Anti-bronies and Bronies, the website had banned anyone who mentions “MLP”. 4chan welcomed back the Bronies but they rejected it, creating their own sites such as “Ponychan”
It’s not too long that in 2011, the community has begun their own convention called “BronyCon”. New York hosted the original Bronycon and brought together over 100 MLP fans and it keeps on growing as years has gone by.
2. The Creativity of the Bronies
So most cartoon fandoms do fanart, fanfiction and few animatics to show their love for the show such as Steven Universe, Rick and Morty and so on but with MLP community, their creativity shines above the rest from what’s been seen over the years.
- Most of the music by the fandom are godsend which even non-bronies come to listen to such as
Lullaby for a Princess by Ponyphonic
Discord by The Living Tombstone
- Fanfictions can be really in the community and that’s not common to most fandoms
- Animations are really well animated like it’s pretty amazing for fans for the show to be able to make good quality animations.
Pony.Mov by Hotdiggedydemon
Once Upon a Time in Canterlot by Kanashiipanda
Epic Wub Time Musicians of Ponyville by Alligator Tub Productions
Double Rainboom by Flamingo Rich
Fall of the Crystal Empire and Snowdrop by SFS Animation
They even got official voice actors from the show do some
Let’s Go Meet the Bronies by Jan Animation Studios
While they can be very imaginative of creating of such content but there’s one creative thing that they’ve done that’s never been seen before
When comes with true creativity, it’s the background characters/ponies. The background characters/ponies have very little screen time and yet with little information that was given, the Bronies still wrote what their character is like such as
Lyra Heartstrings sitting down as a human in “Dragonshy” which sparks a meme that she knows and loves the human culture
DJ-PON 3 also known as Vinyl Scratch is written as a DJ for Ponyville
And then there’s the Derpy Hooves, the most loved MLP FiM character and her backstory is very unique than most. She first as an animation error when she first appeared
However, instead of treating as an inconsistent, the Bronies treated it as a character with distorted eyes and appear as a background character for most of season 1. When she finally talked in “The Last Roundup”, the fans went crazy that she finally speaks.
But it comes with controversy for her first speaking role due to soccer moms believe that it’s making fun of a person with a disability. She was about to be taken out but the fans fought for and wanted her to stay and so the fans won and she get’s to appear in more appear as the show continues.
This is what makes creative, they were able to write a background character to be unique and interesting with very little detail they know what they are.
A show about love and acceptance other, the Bronies really do learn from the show, unlike another fandom. In fact, they do some charity runs such as
- The Old Grey Mare helped raised $1,350 USD for the Transgender Human RIghts Institue. On January 31 2015, it raised $14,576 USD.
- Michael Morenes attempted suicide due to bullying. Thankfully that attempt was halted and he was able to be saved but he suffers severe brain damage. With support from the Brony community by a charity and support, he’s alive and making progress, his parents even have a Foundation, to educate communities on youth social development.
- Joey Oropesa, the creator of Ponies meets World was diagnosed with cancer but he was able to recover and pay the medical debt with help from the community.
-Kiki was diagnosed with a brain tumour in early 2011. It was strongly supported by Tara Strong and fellow Bronies such as Dusky Katt and Celestia Radio Cast. Sadly she passed away with Tara Strong singing as she passed away.
It really shows that Bronies are far more than a bunch of grown men watches MLP FiM.
While most modern cartoon fandoms are pretty toxic like Steven Universe, Rick and Morty and Voltron, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic fandom/ Brony Fandom is the one the I’ve heard mostly good than bad. It’s the one fandom that I always tune in with and always excited to see what projects they’ll do. Although it has become every day fandoms but not too toxic like the rest, I’ll always remember as the most unexpected and passionate fandoms I’ve ever seen.
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