I was going to try to make some witty comment about how it's the same with sports, but my one Yankees cap and Wayne Chrebet jersey just aren't on the same level as what you mean with these guys.

There wasn't much brony stuff in the video. They were just acting like dorks in Boston, not going to a convention or anything. The only MLP shit in there was a toy on the dash, one of them had rainbow hair, and they used a song from the show in the video. The camera person had wore goggles, a fedora, and a collar. These people are just so dorky I wanted to take their lunch money.
Its not the same as sports. Its lame and sports are cool.

Not as cool as sports-entertainment.

Yeah, and I'm thinking about the other videos that have shown up here, like where the guy is "reviewing" an MLP coloring book he just bought the last copy of at WalMart. That's the kind of consumerism I think Hooker means, and it's fucking weird because you can't exactly bring up MLP as small talk while waiting for a meeting to start at the office.

It has been argued that it is a rebellion against masculine societal norms that are forced on boys who are awkward or antagonized enough not to see the appeal of acting as such.

It's also been argued that it is a way for autistic people to learn about interacting with other human beings (the main character is essentially autistic).

The third possibility, and what I assume is the case, is that some people just like it and do not know exactly why and have given up trying to rationalize it, instead embracing it, because they can't bring themselves to be ashamed of it.

Watching any video of brony gatherings posted here (like that one that was put up a week or so back of everyone singing and dancing) is an experience beyond cringeworthy, but I can't help but feel like their utter disregard for shame and traditional dignity is kind of punk rock.

I guess what I'm saying is that the complete abandonment of modern shame and the concept of masculine behavior, though beyond awkward and beyond annoying, is abstractly but deeply punk as fuck.

PONY PUNK!!!! *BLAM*

I like the show. I guess cabbage is right, on that its something I can't quite explain, but I'm not rebelling against society's view of masculinity. I shoot guns, kill fish, watch wrasslin, make badass music. I'm just a cartoon fan and find it to have good witty moments.
I'm not in the fandom I just watch the show. I couldn't imagine myself singing at a gathering with those dorks. I'd be fighting the urge to deliver massive wedgies.

It's an unfortunate side effect of making decent cartoons for little girls. Creeps will appropriate the characters for gore and porn art because the source material doesn't entertain them much (but the characters are cute enough to fuck). The fan art gets other creeps into the show, and then you have a herd of bronies.

Amine has dealt with this problem for years, just look at Caminante and his Sakura dolls. I'm glad he finally gave up the pretense of liking this shit asexually when he posted that pomf=3 video. Little girl cartoons act as a proxy for the little girls they want to touch. MLP is that phenomenon with toy horses giving the pervs extra plausible deniability.

I was on the fence about bronies earlier but this video made me hate them with their boring as hell road trip.

You're STILL being a crybaby over that video?

It's been over a month!

You stole everyone's innocence.

I'm not upset, just disappointed. I'm a poe-red veteran, Caminante used to keep it clean. Wanda was cute. I liked Prop Girl. Pomf is this internet's generation Baby Fuck. You revealed your trashy side, it's the proof everyone needed to ostracize you back in the day. JUST SAYIN

I never made the main character autism connection. That does explain things.

Faust becomes a surrogate collective girlfriend to fixate and fawn over, and since most of them are really fucked in the head sexually, none of them really have any problem with it being entirely one-sided and socially fucked up to explain.

Poe-red veteran?! A coward like you has no right to call themselves that!

I'm a coward because I don't approve of grown men posting a song about fucking a child? ooooooookay.