Seriously?! What's it called?It's called Bronies.
I watched it last night. It sorta softened me up on how I feel about bronies. I love the idea of sweet boys/men just wanting to be a part of something good and kind, and it just happens to be a girls cartoon that spoke to them.As a brony I would like to thank you for getting something possitive from an apparrently flawed documentary. The kind of "good" brony you described is the kind that I always try to be, and I agree with you about the "bad" bronies, and try to avoid that side of the fandom as best as I can. I would be one of the first in my fandom to point out exactly what's wrong with it, and would like to correct about the fandom if I had more power in it, but it is still saddening when we are all represented by the bad ones, to see a post like yours is very refreshing. So thank you, it actually means a lot. :)
Some of the boys in the show were too sweet and cute, they are invited to play ponies with me any time that they want. ^.^ I mean, why can't straight guys be into something that is not about fighting and violence for once?
I noticed a lot of them were saying that they love MLP for the same reasons that I have loved MLP has a child (and why I still love it now). It's an escape and it makes you feel happy in this world of stress and bad stuff. I can relate to that for sure.
However I think it was a little one sided, they didn't talk much about why some bronies have such a bad reputation. I perfer not to think about that side of the fandom because I find it gross and offensive to my sweet, innocent childhood (that almost feels like an invasion)
The sweethearts they showed are welcome, as far as I'm concerned. :lovey:
oh and PS.. if we want to go all pony nerd G2 did not start with the "My Little Pony Tales" cartoon, that is still G1. :P
As a brony I would like to thank you for getting something possitive from an apparrently flawed documentary. The kind of "good" brony you described is the kind that I always try to be, and I agree with you about the "bad" bronies, and try to avoid that side of the fandom as best as I can. I would be one of the first in my fandom to point out exactly what's wrong with it, and would like to correct about the fandom if I had more power in it, but it is still saddening when we are all represented by the bad ones, to see a post like yours is very refreshing. So thank you, it actually means a lot.
Its not bad at all. It just shows a few different male collectors - one is a young teen, one a southerner and one an Autistic guy in England. Its narriated by the voice of discord and has Lauren Faust in it as well.
its nothing like the show on TLC with odd obsessions.
Then again, Im not a male nor am I a pegasister. I consider myself a collector and G1 will always be my fav
I had watched it back in April or May. Needless to say I was not impressed. I guess because I don't really care if boys like MLP or not, and I don't think it's a subject worthy of a documentary trying to "figure it out." It's a great show and people like it and the toys. Done.This is pretty much my reaction. Female collectors have always gotten negative attention in docs, been called obsessive, etc.--but when guys do it? They get called omg so special and admirable, etc, etc. It's pretty irritating.
I had watched it back in April or May. Needless to say I was not impressed. I guess because I don't really care if boys like MLP or not, and I don't think it's a subject worthy of a documentary trying to "figure it out." It's a great show and people like it and the toys. Done.
I can't bring myself to watch it. I'm not a big g4 fan, plus the idea of bronies is a bad thing in my head from seeing them on Tumblr and watching the MLP tags being taken over by p0rn. I used to love Rarity and would check that tag a lot but it quickly flooded with p0rn images so I never check the tag anymore. I understand they're not all like that but still, I'd like to stay far from them. -_-
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I don't mind it. I don't consider myself a brony and I don't really care for the fandom, but since the documentary is ABOUT bronies, not ALL MLP fans, I don't know why some folks are getting so huffy that other gens weren't included. Yes, it was annoying how in the beginning the previous gens were picked on, but that's pretty much it and otherwise the video stuck to FiM and the events surrounding this particular show.
The video showed how there were definitely some parents who didn't "get" it, and even though there were a lot of males featured I certainly saw some girls too, including the one who was interviewed. Given that the brony fandom IS mostly males, I don't see how there being more of them in the video was weird (plus I like how in the little cartoon the girls still stuck up for themselves to make a point that they were just as much a part of the fandom as boys were, even if there's less of them who consider themselves bronies). I like how the video showed how creative many bronies are, I thought the guy who worked with lasers was pretty interesting since I've never seen anything like that before, and the music it features was pretty neat as well.
Was it sensationalized? Maybe a little, but pretty much every documentary under the sun is. Big surprise. Overall, I liked how a common theme seemed to generally be that the fandom has given a place for people to go to where they feel accepted. That's what it all boils down to. And that's never a bad thing.
It was alright, and actually increased my respect for bronies. I wish there was a documentary about the REAL ponyfans( aka collectors) who dont hate on previous generations of mlp and the fans of these older generations.
I can't bring myself to watch it. I'm not a big g4 fan, plus the idea of bronies is a bad thing in my head from seeing them on Tumblr and watching the MLP tags being taken over by p0rn. I used to love Rarity and would check that tag a lot but it quickly flooded with p0rn images so I never check the tag anymore. I understand they're not all like that but still, I'd like to stay far from them. -_-
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I'm a little scared to ask this, but I guess I shouldn't be since you stated that "Not all of them are like that", but if you found out someone was a brony would you automatically hate/want to stay away from him or her, even if he or she wasn't only "not like that", but also hated the fact that there were those that were "like that"?
If this question offends anyone I will delete it straight away, or PM someone to delete it... however it's done here.
I don't like the term much because it does have that negative connotation for me, but I do not mind guys liking MLP or calling themselves bronies if they want to at all! I just don't like the ones who constantly draw/post p0rn of it or knock g1, those are the only types I'd stay away from. lol. And that's just personal preference. Still, the idea of the movie is a bit of a turn off for me for some reason.I understand. I hope you didn't mind me asking.
I saw it, it's not perfect (some parts were a bit too drawn out and lost the energy) but worth a watch. Female pony fans (pegasisters or collectors) were under represented. Based on the fact the movie was about "Bronies" and not the ladder, I was okay with it.
I (obviously) resonate more with MustBeJewel's awesome documentary "My Little Pony Obsession" :D ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Wd0caSZiE )
I do have one thing to say: now that it is on Netflix, more people I know are watching it... and there are a few more people who used to be closed minded about how "weird" it was for adult males to like ponies, and no longer feel that way. So I must say mission accomplished.
I watched it last night and quite enjoyed it. It wasn't great in terms of being a documentary but it was nice to see people being so happy and to see the nicer side of the fandom when all I usually see is the negative side.
I don't know if this was mentioned already, but why do so many bronies get the G2s wrong? Is it because of this doc? I had to enlighten one just today- and I still don't think he believed me, even though I told him to look up the ponies in toy form.We got it wrong long before the documentry, sadly. Even I am guilty of calling Tales G2, despite the fact I already knew that they "skipped a generation" (I discovered Tales by accident, so maybe I thought that those who said there was no G2 show just got it wrong?)
That's one thing that bugged me when I looked it up on Netflix. People were complaining that it DIDN'T show the negative side of bronies. I'm wondering what they would have wanted-- some kind of hard-hitting expose that would view more like a 60 Minutes segment or reality show? This might be exaggerating a little, but it made me sad that people WANTED to see negative things. Did they want to see their opinions reinforced? I know the whole fandom isn't perfectly angelic, but I think we all already know that.
As far as the p0rn thing, my understanding is that almost every fandom with a lot of males in it have folks who express their interest in that way...so it isn't terribly interesting to bring up. It's kinda like "well, duh, that happens all the time. So what?"
To be fair with BabyMedley's outlook on the manner, I'm in a lot of fandoms, and yes, I do experience it to this degree with some of them. Heck, when I was just about 13 years old and I did an image search for a Digimon character (Gomamon, I believe), pretty much every second image was 'that' kind of image.
As far as the p0rn thing, my understanding is that almost every fandom with a lot of males in it have folks who express their interest in that way...so it isn't terribly interesting to bring up. It's kinda like "well, duh, that happens all the time. So what?"
To this degree? Please. And we can still think they're disgusting and want to stay away from them. :) So 'so what?'
It was alright, and actually increased my respect for bronies. I wish there was a documentary about the REAL ponyfans( aka collectors) who dont hate on previous generations of mlp and the fans of these older generations.
Yay, more focus on the straight white male side of the fandom, while everyone else gets ignored or brushed under the rug because they're not 'omg special' enough. I really couldn't care less if some guys like little toy ponies. Hardly a topic worth making a 'documentary' over, except that obviously is this society straight white guys must have their finger in every pie and be the most important aspect of, well, anything. Colour me surprised.
SO over the brony hype.
To be fair with BabyMedley's outlook on the manner, I'm in a lot of fandoms, and yes, I do experience it to this degree with some of them. Heck, when I was just about 13 years old and I did an image search for a Digimon character (Gomamon, I believe), pretty much every second image was 'that' kind of image.
Yay, more focus on the straight white male side of the fandom, while everyone else gets ignored or brushed under the rug because they're not 'omg special' enough. I really couldn't care less if some guys like little toy ponies. Hardly a topic worth making a 'documentary' over, except that obviously is this society straight white guys must have their finger in every pie and be the most important aspect of, well, anything. Colour me surprised.
SO over the brony hype.
As far as the p0rn thing, my understanding is that almost every fandom with a lot of males in it have folks who express their interest in that way...so it isn't terribly interesting to bring up. It's kinda like "well, duh, that happens all the time. So what?"
To this degree? Please. And we can still think they're disgusting and want to stay away from them. :) So 'so what?'
BINGO.
If straight white men are interested in something odd it's NOTEWORTHY. However, no one wants to do a documentary about women liking Transformers. Which there are quite a few of us.
Yay, more focus on the straight white male side of the fandom, while everyone else gets ignored or brushed under the rug because they're not 'omg special' enough. I really couldn't care less if some guys like little toy ponies. Hardly a topic worth making a 'documentary' over, except that obviously is this society straight white guys must have their finger in every pie and be the most important aspect of, well, anything. Colour me surprised.
SO over the brony hype.
It's not so much that there's malice behind most of them. It's more like constant self-congratulation. I know there are guys who get teased for liking "girl stuff", and that's wrong! But it's like there's this smug undercurrent of "us liking MLP is proof that it's COOL now", rather than "wow, we sure were wrong to just blow off everything 'girly' all these years. I wonder what else we missed?"
. The doc also seemed to have a lot of dudes making sure you know they're totally not gay, okay! Which annoyed me. But the doc was made by bronies for bronies, and was exactly what I expected. The pre-gen bashing made me sad but was also not surprising. The only surprising bit of that is that, apparently, Lauren Faust had some involvement in the lyrics and we wouldn't have FiM without her interest in G1, so...I agree with you about the "I'm not gay!" stuff, I haven't seen it yet, but I agree that it's stupid to get defencive about looking gay - if people ask, and you're not gay, just say "no" and move on, don't get defensive about it.
I have already heard that Lauren helped with the lyrics - hence, the song was more likely to be joking, and making fun of past gen hate, rather than actually hating them as a best case scenario, and at a worst case scenario just pandering to bronies by ignoring her own love for the eariler generations (not that all bronies hate the older generations - I am proof of that), but it's more likely to be the former, and the pre-FIM haters, and the pre-FIM fans are taking it at face value.
Trust me, Lauren is still/always a fan of pre-FIM, and if she never was, then she's obviously an amazing actress to have to pretend this long. A lot of people seem to be missunderstanding Lauren's views on pre-FIM, and the short version is she was a fan of it (mostly G1, but the others too), but people tend to get the wrong impression of her, which saddens me.
Seriously?! What's it called?
BINGO.
If straight white men are interested in something odd it's NOTEWORTHY. However, no one wants to do a documentary about women liking Transformers. Which there are quite a few of us.
This is my reaction too. If guys like MLP, I am fine with that. But to pay for a documentary . . . about yourself . . . over something that everyone would shrug off if it applied to women. (Women make up 41% of the buyers of the current Transformers comics . . . How many times has that been in the news compared to "OMG bronies!"?) It just doesn't sit well with me. It seems very self-aggrandizing.
BINGO.
If straight white men are interested in something odd it's NOTEWORTHY. However, no one wants to do a documentary about women liking Transformers. Which there are quite a few of us.
This is my reaction too. If guys like MLP, I am fine with that. But to pay for a documentary . . . about yourself . . . over something that everyone would shrug off if it applied to women. (Women make up 41% of the buyers of the current Transformers comics . . . How many times has that been in the news compared to "OMG bronies!"?) It just doesn't sit well with me. It seems very self-aggrandizing.
Maybe we just need a convention just for us Transisters (men can call themselves Transisters as well as it is a gender neutral term) and claim full ownership over the next TF show, shunning little boys who like such womanly stuff as Transformers. TF is for grown women now, can't you see all the references they put in just for us? Knock Out had something going on with every character on TFP, why would they do that for you? Go and play with Bob the Builder or something else stupid for boys.
And now that TF is finally cool we should work on that documentary in which we celebrate ourselves! :lol:
BINGO.
If straight white men are interested in something odd it's NOTEWORTHY. However, no one wants to do a documentary about women liking Transformers. Which there are quite a few of us.
This is my reaction too. If guys like MLP, I am fine with that. But to pay for a documentary . . . about yourself . . . over something that everyone would shrug off if it applied to women. (Women make up 41% of the buyers of the current Transformers comics . . . How many times has that been in the news compared to "OMG bronies!"?) It just doesn't sit well with me. It seems very self-aggrandizing.
Maybe we just need a convention just for us Transisters (men can call themselves Transisters as well as it is a gender neutral term) and claim full ownership over the next TF show, shunning little boys who like such womanly stuff as Transformers. TF is for grown women now, can't you see all the references they put in just for us? Knock Out had something going on with every character on TFP, why would they do that for you? Go and play with Bob the Builder or something else stupid for boys.
And now that TF is finally cool we should work on that documentary in which we celebrate ourselves! :lol:
ilu.
Transisters is new to me, but I told my roommate ( the even bigger tf gal nerd than myself.) and she loved it.
They raised money for this documentary therefore they got to pick and choose what went in it.
A neutral party did not take interest in bronies and make a documentary about them.
Maybe we just need a convention just for us Transisters (men can call themselves Transisters as well as it is a gender neutral term) and claim full ownership over the next TF show, shunning little boys who like such womanly stuff as Transformers. TF is for grown women now, can't you see all the references they put in just for us? Knock Out had something going on with every character on TFP, why would they do that for you? Go and play with Bob the Builder or something else stupid for boys.Do it. :cool:
And now that TF is finally cool we should work on that documentary in which we celebrate ourselves! :lol:
I really don't care to see the whole thing honestly and it's all based on the animated short.
It's setup as 'Pony University' - (remind me never to go that university).
Can you say, pretentious...Presenting yourself as MLP History University professor and not knowing the facts about the brand and only have the ability to research the brand of MLP by what newbies tell you...that's insulting, especially in a documentary.
I don't have netflix but there is a Brony Chronicles documentary on youtube. It wasn't awful. I still stand by my opinion that I don't really care for the anime style of the FiM cartoon, but the stories are wonderful and entertaining.Sorry to be pedantic, but FIM is not anime style in slightest. It was never made with anime in mind, and was never intended to be.
I don't have netflix but there is a Brony Chronicles documentary on youtube. It wasn't awful. I still stand by my opinion that I don't really care for the anime style of the FiM cartoon, but the stories are wonderful and entertaining.Sorry to be pedantic, but FIM is not anime style in slightest. It was never made with anime in mind, and was never intended to be.
No offense, just needed to get that out there.
That is possible, if I jumped in without thinking, I appologise - I tend to do that.I don't have netflix but there is a Brony Chronicles documentary on youtube. It wasn't awful. I still stand by my opinion that I don't really care for the anime style of the FiM cartoon, but the stories are wonderful and entertaining.Sorry to be pedantic, but FIM is not anime style in slightest. It was never made with anime in mind, and was never intended to be.
No offense, just needed to get that out there.
Was the poster saying anime as in Japan style anime or did they mean to abbreviate animation? Because when I read it I thought the comment meant how the cartoon animation looked, but I could be wrong.