A "brony" is an adult male fan of the children's cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. These are not rare men, but a legion of dedicated fans with websites and news services devoted to the cartoon:
Each day, out-of-work computer programmer Luke Allen self-medicates by watching animated ponies have magical adventures.
The 32-year-old, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, loves his daily fix of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, and he’s not alone. He’s part of a growing group of “bronies” (“bro ponies”) — men who are fans of a TV show largely intended for a much younger audience.
“First we can’t believe this show is so good, then we can’t believe we’ve become fans for life, then we can’t believe we’re walking down the pink aisle at Toys R Us or asking for the girl’s toy in our Happy Meal,” Allen said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “Then we can’t believe our friends haven’t seen it yet, then we can’t believe they’re becoming bronies too.”
Link -via Boing Boing | Photo: Luke Allen
I have a coworker older than me that walked past me at work one day singing the Spongebob theme.
And I have to admit that I've seen bits and pieces of the show and it's surprisingly good.
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I smile whenever I see someone raging about us bronies. I laugh when they call us faggots, pedophiles, losers, autistic, whatever. Because I know immediately and forever that those that say hateful comments about us are ignorant and to be pitied at best. Best to just pat them on the head and say "You poor, pitiful creature."
Hated the 80's cartoons, but was recently re-introduced through the Neatorama post on the physics of MLP. I agree it can be awesome.
Sometimes I watch a barbie cartoon as it is can be about building relationships, accepting appearances, managing your ego.
It feeds my feminine psyche.
@Ryan S - self-medicant? was that in chapter 12 or 13?
Personally, I think it is a little disturbing but not harmful to themselves or the general public. Would I date a man who watched MLP...probably not, but I would lend an ear on to why it peaked his curiosity before completely shutting him down. Yes, it is odd...lol and makes for a good bit of peculiar pondering....
While many of you knock those who enjoy shows like these, you are quite busy destorying your minds in reality tv, etc. Each person has the right to enjoy what they like without having any horrible connotations associated that would make these people less human or dangerous to society. Shame you insecure guys who can't look past a beer, ESPN and The League, to see that there can be animated programs that reach audiences further than anticipated.
Do none of you have children?
It's wrong to read your kid a children's book and enjoy it yourself?
Oh, you have to be better than that and think it's stupid and immature and naive, while you're reading it, or else you're not a man, right?
I'm a 26 year old public servant and I enjoy watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic with my daughter. I like the show. It's cute, it's funny, and my daughter and I both enjoy it as a TV show and as a way to share and connect with each other.
If you want to judge people for watching kids cartoons, maybe you need to reconsider. "Growing up" is not learning to reject innocence, fun, silliness, or laughter. Stop being so cynical and jaded.
I remeber crying afterward, and being very upset.
http://www.intothesea.com/MyLittlePony/NewPony/2009_NewbornCPinkiePiesPlayhouse2.jpg
Holy shit, this is amazing.
Little story here: I run invention sessions at work. Hardest thing for me to do is to get participants to be playful with their ideas so they can actually invent something new and useful rather than toss out lots of little tiny unimaginative changes. Even when we are fire fighting an urgent problem a bit of playful curiosity is really helpful to asking the right questions and understanding the situations. Being able to think and play like a kid is a gift and has nothing to do with mental deficits or aberrant behavior.
It sounds so lame and stereotypical reading all those hate comments from ppl who grew on muscle men destroying shit and then fail at social life. You can perfectly see that in the way they talk and see things.
It is also fascinating how they still dont realize that all the shows,even for babies are actualy made by adults and that means alot.