My Little Pony

My Little Pony is a franchise developed by the toy maker Hasbro. It is marketed primarily to young girls. Among other products are plastic toys and several animated television series and movies. The ponies can be identified by their colorful bodies and manes and typically a unique symbol. Accordingly, the ponies are named after the symbols. Following the related My Pretty Pony franchise, introduced in 1981, My Little Pony was launched in 1983.

History

The original product produced by Yum-Yum entertainment that inspired the franchise from 1981 before being renamed to My Little Pony in 1983

In 2010, a television series was developed by a feminist and was designed to appeal to young girls, but also included politically correct characters and settings that challenged "stereotypes", and added adventure and humorous elements to keep parents interested.

Unexpectedly, My Little Pony (in particular after the 2010 television series) has also gained many adult fans, often males, who have adopted the name "brony", a combination of "bro" and "pony". The "brony" subculture has sometimes been ridiculed and has sometimes been criticized for argued aspects such as sexualization, bestiality, pedophilia, homosexuality, rape jokes, and even anti-feminism and misogyny. This has been seen as particularly problematic as such material may easily be found by children. "Bronies" have also been accused of bullying and threats against critics, even underage ones.

Bronies have similarities to furries. Furries are fans of anthropomorphic animals, such as those in cartoons. Furries may have a sexual fetish for these characters, just like bronies.

Fans

The series was originally written for five-year-old girls, but has recently taken on a growing fanbase of teenage boys to middle ages men. They are degenerate, often homosexual, typically white middle class men who call themselves "Brony". Their website is full of images and written material to make sexual aberrations popular. The fans meet regularly and try to convince all people to live as abnormal as they do.

Many of the bronies originally came from 4chan, and the first brony was an autistic man from Ruckersville, Virginia that 4chan mocked and hounded. Bronies are related to the furry fandom, or furries. Furries are fans of anthropomorphic animals such as those in cartoons. Furries many times have a sexual fetish for these characters, just like bronies.

In February 2014, an eleven-year-old North Carolina boy, Michael Morones, attempted suicide due to bullying over being a brony. In March 2014, a school told a 9-year-old boy, Grayson Bruce, to stop bringing his My Little Pony backpack to school as that was causing bullying and constant classroom disruption.

2013 Comic Con incident

In the My Little Pony comic con event in 2013, a brony fan brought up a discussion to one of the official voice actors of the MLP franchise to the darker sides of the fandom mentioning the portrayal of Princess Celestia as a molester and a tyrant due to the fan base's sick fantasy of degenerate projection. They were stopped by the moderator and removed leaving the audience in shock having the VA of Celestia reason with the audience that the show has no involvement with what the fan base does and doesn't represent many of their ideas.

See also

• Bratz Dollz

External links

• Film Highlights Male My Little Pony Fans, but Draws Criticism
• Terrifying New Trend: Grown Men Who Dig 'My Little Pony?
• The Mysterious World of Bronies
• Fixing The Problems Women Face in the MLP Fandom
• Brony calls Princess Celestia a molester to voice cast YouTube
• The problem with bronies: a look at the corruption of "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
• My Nationalist Pony