The MLP fandom · 10:43am Feb 27th, 2013
This post is just musings but if anyone has a view point on the topic I would love to hear it.
I have been surfing between several MLP sites and have noticed some interesting things. For a community that supposedly has the motto of love and tolerate there isn't much going around. On this site there seams to be an underlying hatred of EQD in the user base. Derpibooru has a fairly strong dislike for our site and almost everywhere I go /mlp/ is hated on for there views of the show. Even the pony Tumbler's have there groups that they love to hate. While I haven't seen much hate on EQD I have seen user names from that site hating on others on other sites. Now why is that?
Is this all human nature that when there are three people humans try to turn it two on one or is there something more. I really grooved on this fandom when I was exposed to it a little over a year and a half ago. It was interesting, but now I'm seeing doom and gloomer's everywhere, and haters focusing on other parts of the fandom.Then while all this is going on I hear about Unicon, the disaster in Nevada. Parts of it fuel the arguments between sites and it brings more Chicken Little's out of the wood work. It starts feeling like the fandom is no longer what it once was. Like it's now just a bunch of squabbling kids that refuse to grow up and then you find out about the people who are doing what they can to help people who are trapped in Vegas just because they are fans of the same show.
In the end what I've decided is that the fandom is a mirror of what it is to be human. We fight, we argue, we are jealous of others who are more successful and we form cliques. We are also kind, generous and have the power to unite for the greater good. I know I'm fighting against the tide and power of internet anonymity when I ask this but how hard would it be to hold on a little more to the positive side and let the negative get washed away.
I never expected some show change human attitude, it is a shallow experience. despite some claims, I believe people who changed [in some sense] is not only because mlp, it must have some other background a kind of happenings more trascendental to the individual. Also, I like to think think what kind of show is this and what kind of people it attracts.
Grain of salt.
871072 I agree. I don't think I've changed at all since finding the show. I don't think the show can even be considered a catalyst on a singular person. However the community is something different. The fandom can be the cause of change given enough time.
My musings were not about the show at all it was all about the infighting of the fandom and how usually when there is an external danger the fandom breaks those boundaries. Then once the problem goes away everyone seams to go back to hatting on each other. Sometimes I wonder if there aren't trolls and haters hiding in plain site.