Bronies are not the worst fandom anymore · 4:16am Oct 30th, 2015
(Note: Much of this is a final gasp of venting. Things are about to get very angry up in here. You have been warned.)
There are a lot of fandoms that get attacked as "the worst." The Sonic fandom has historically been a nightmare land of hatred and idiocy. Every console since the 16-bit era has had its share of trollish fans and stubborn defenders. And FiM's fandom has been a good-sized lightning rod for a while. The idea of teenage and adult males liking a "little girl's cartoon" was initially shocking, and even as that shock has largely faded, there are still plenty who view the fandom as nothing more than a bunch of perverts ruining things for children with their porn and hatred. And sometimes those criticisms are deserved. As a fandom, we have sometimes said and done things that are offensive or hurtful, and we need to own up to that.
But then you have the Steven Universe fandom.
As I mentioned long ago, back when some very vocal fans decided that FiM fans shouldn't be a part of the SU community, I commented that a segment of that show's fanbase seemed more in love with the inclusiveness and "progressiveness" of the show. And I can't say I completely blame them, given how screwed up the general culture and Internet can be regarding anything that doesn't fit the norm. Where it becomes problematic is how they try to defend the show from anything they perceive to be a threat. In the past, they bullied an artist because they drew Garnet "too light." Before that, they went ballistic because Pearl not liking to eat seemed to conflict with her saying she liked pie in a previous episode.
And then you have what they more recently did. Namely, a segment of the SU fandom stalked and harassed a young woman to the point where she attempted suicide. What was her crime? She didn't draw Rose Quartz "big enough," cosplayed as characters of a different nationality than her own, and drew a somewhat-questionable picture of Fluttershy as a Native American. For this crime, blogs were dedicated to following her every step, her tumblr was buried in a sea of accusations of bigotry, and when news of her suicide attempt broke, these same people wavered between wishing she had died and trying to track down the hospital so they could keep up the harassment.
This is already sickening, but even worse is when the show's staff stepped in on her behalf. The suggestion that people should be free to draw what they want was taken as a blanket approval for child porn, gorn, and all of the nasty stuff these "stalwart protectors" had been fighting against. So they turned on the people creating the damn show in the first place, accusing them of everything from racism to pedophilia.
And all of this was in the name of diversity and equality.
As a community, we have done some bad things, but this...this boggles the fucking mind. It's not just the bullying that gets me, it's the fucking weaksauce bullshit they use to try and make themselves seem like the victims. A girl tried to end her damn life because you didn't like the way she drew some fictional characters, the creators stepped in because they were upset at what you were doing with their work, and you act like you are the one being targeted by bullies. Maybe some of you had some shit in your lives. That's fine, we all do, and some people have it worse than others. But that doesn't give you the right to act like you're some kind of moral crusader when you behave exactly as vile as the people you should really be fighting against.
Steven Universe is a good show. I will continue to recommend it to my friends. I will continue to watch it, and enjoy its catchy musical numbers, memorable characters, and engaging storyline. But the community can go die in a fire for all I care at this point. SU is, to date, the worst fandom, and I pray to god that FiM never sinks to this same level of shit. Even at our worst during the Derpygate fiasco, nothing quite compared to this.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need a drink.
I don't drink, so I'd appreciate it if you drank one for me too.
.... I am ashamed to be a human from reading that.
Drink half a bottle of whiskey on my behalf.
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Don't try making him drunk now.
Anyway, yeah that is horrible. It feels like the SU fan community is hijacked by Tumblr SJWs.
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3506836 I CAN'T drink, so don't drink anything on my behalf.
That Pinkiesomething on Tumblr did a similar thing with the animator of that Button Mash video where she sicked her fans after that person trying to drive them to suicide and delighting in it. So yeah, I was hardly surprised given that small group of fanatic tumblrites that war chanted that any and all bronies that dare write fanfics or draw art of 'their' precious SU show should all be unquestionably attacked in the worst ways possible.
This is just another dose of the usual "Nothing can harm me so I can do and say whatever I want to people over the internet!" mentality. It's a disgusting powertrip as well if any of their targets off themselves or quits doing art or whatever. But yeah, far as fandoms go? Those very loud SU fanatics caused even the creators once to respond to the idiocy. I wonder if they responded to this latest attack though. Kinda curious.
My liver be dead by now if I drank to every asshole SJW and fandom kneejerk reaction to every little thing that goes against peoples way of thinking, but this sure made me wish I had a bottle the day this news popped up. This fucking world, huh? lol
3506853 I... don't think it was ever HIJACKED by them...
3506860 What do you mean?
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The creators were attacked for siding with the victim. At least one of them is locking their Twitter down as a result.
3506867 I mean they've been there since the beginning.
Seriously, why do they hang on the porn thing so much? There is porn of virtually everything. Why do we get singled out?
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Perhaps they feel there is a degree of difference between, say, porn of GI Joe (who are humans), porn of Sonic characters (who are anthropomorphosized and mostly more human-like than animal-like in appearance), and porn of Twilight Sparkle (who is a horse and very obviously not human, at least in appearance). There's that extra bit of taboo wherein the subject of the porn is not just a cartoon, but a cartoon animal. Plus this (MLP in general) is a fandom historically populated by little girls, but G4 MLP has seen adult men flock to it in droves that no one could have ever predicted.
Me, personally, I use the Jack Harkness rules. There's a Rarity version of that, by the way.
3506905 Because they're cuntish prudes afraid of anything that isn't their brand of "normal". Simple as that.
I am ashamed to be an SU fan right now.
oh boy, here we go again.
This all actually sounds very textbook SJW. And it is no less tiring than ever.
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You and me both...
So many assholes and so few bullets...
3506975 I'm fairly certain I once saw an episode where he flirts with a dog...
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A bar of bullet grade casting lead is ten dollars.
Lead melts at under 330 Celsius, 630 Fahrenheit.
Equipment to melt the lead and cast the rounds is easy to obtain.
Bubble wrap is perhaps thirty dollars a roll.
Small gift boxes are a few cents apiece.
There are over seven billion of us.
You decide how many you want to personally deliver a bullet to.
Edit: Thank you, Google and Google Shopping.
I did eventually decide to watch the show, but wow is the SU fandom terrible.
Oh good, a place where I can talk about this!
You know what I don't get? No one seems to give a damn if you draw Jasper with big hips and a trim physique and big lips and boobs. All these people upset about skinny Rose don't appear to value "muscular" as a body type when they talk about body type representation. It just boggles the mind, and it only bothers me because I can't stand those kinds of pictures. They weird me out something fierce. <.< But it's not like I haven't come to expect that kind of inconsistency from Tumblr...
3506947 Ditto.
It's garbage like this that makes ME want to do suicide. No matter how hard you try to defend it, what they did was wrong in the worst way. Pushing someone to suicide, and actually acting like they are the victims when the creators call them out, that is just sick. I really hope those people go to jail, because I would never want to be apart of a fandom who does this bull.
Thats why i sometimes hate being in fandoms
I love SU
I love the characters, I love the fan art
I HATE the bullying, harrasment, and all around stupidity of a majority of the fans
and this has happened in the brony fandom too, but on a smaller scale
and this happened in the homestuck fandom a few years ago
and idek about superwholock
i mean i watch all 3 shows but i know nothing about the fans
aghhhh
la vida son subidas y bajadas lo q no te mata te ase mas fuerte y todos tienes el derecho de decir lo q piensan sea bueno o malo,
admiro a las personas q tiene el talento de escribir sus sueños, y sobre todo compartirlas
I heard of this from Alphaomegasin's recent video and I'm kind of disturbed and depressed at how it went from bad to worse.
I really do pray that Zamii070 does recover. And while I'm not a hardcore fan of SU nor it's creator(Not out of spite I'm just not a fan of her politics TBH) I don't believe that she along with the crew deserved to be treated like garbage.
And yeah the whole thing of pushing someone to suicide over a cartoon(or it could be a film, tv show etc.) is beyond repulsive and anyone who does it should feel shame. That sort of thing should not be tolerated.....ever.
you're right, we bronies need to fight to retain our title as shitlord-supreme's of the internet.
Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, stated that the desire to protect has created the first generation of kids who think that censorship=cool. He was immediately labeled a douchebag.
If i had one with, i'd with that 1 in 3 Tumblr users (or any shithead whoever used a "Trigger warning") would spontaneously have strokes and died.
To be fair, I don't really know if you could say that it's the fault of the Steven Universe fandom as much as it is Tumblr being, well, Tumblr.