Agent Escalus posted:

They told you that because they were projecting, probably because they might have been remnants of the brony weirdos we had on here (with a flurry of pony avatars who using their show's thread in TVIV as a fast-moving combo of megathread and imageboard), or instead of ponies they were all about Avatar/Korra/Adventure Time/the "they look and sound female but they aren't!1!!" lesbian space rocks cartoon.

...but yeah, all of this is something that doesn't really happen in the rest of the world.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Me I'd rather watch Popeye where he murders a Mexican stereotype sniper by deflecting a bullet off the back of his head back into the Mexican man's skull causing him to fall 20 feet from the top of a building.

Applewhite posted:

That was obviously self defense.

Agent Escalus posted:

They told you that because they were projecting, probably because they might have been remnants of the brony weirdos we had on here (with a flurry of pony avatars who using their show's thread in TVIV as a fast-moving combo of megathread and imageboard), or instead of ponies they were all about Avatar/Korra/Adventure Time/the "they look and sound female but they aren't!1!!" lesbian space rocks cartoon.

...but yeah, all of this is something that doesn't really happen in the rest of the world.

Spinz posted:

Wait this isn't a joke this guy that killed like eight or nine people posted he wanted to be with a cartoon pony in the afterlife really??

Spinz posted:

Wait this isn't a joke this guy that killed like eight or nine people posted he wanted to be with a cartoon pony in the afterlife really??

r u ready to WALK posted:

at least with furries you are pretty safe, because how are they even going to pull the trigger?

Flyball posted:

Why did they name a pony after a type of booze?

DrManiac posted:

Looks like somebody doesn’t know about the big nazi/furry overlap.

limp_cheese posted:

I always keep this picture around to remind me that the nazi schism in the furry community was a real thing and not some loving fever dream.

Hammerite posted:

the anime right

Devils Affricate posted:

You don't see any mass shootings from Fluttershy fans, just sayin

ChubbyChecker posted:

quote:

My Little Pony fans have had a Nazi problem for a long time.

The brony subculture is about as niche as they come....Many of the show’s adult fans genuinely enjoy My Little Pony and the wholesome escapism it provides. Others, however, delight in the irony of their fandom. To them, it’s edgy and provocative to be an adult obsessed with cartoon ponies.

That’s where the Nazis come in. My Little Pony fans primarily express their enthusiasm for the show by sharing their own cartoon drawings of the main characters, which they usually upload to the image boards. The most popular of these sites is called Derpibooru, a combination of a character’s name and a common term for image boards. Derpibooru hosts millions of My Little Pony artworks, plenty of which are simple tributes to magic, friendship, and magical friendship. But a substantial number of them are extremely, jarringly violent. An image that I recently viewed on the site depicts a My Little Pony character presiding over three lynchings and one beheading of cartoons drawn to represent various marginalized groups. Derpibooru even lists “racist” as a searchable category, and more than 900 pieces of art are tagged as such.
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Following a new wave of Black Lives Matter protests across the United States, the fandom is in an all-out civil war...Over the past few weeks, some My Little Pony fans have mocked the protests with racist fan art, most of which was posted to Derpibooru, then massively upvoted by [4chan's] /mlp/ users. One much-discussed image was a pony version of a white-nationalist meme that circulated after the launch of a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station: a photo of the two white astronauts side by side with a photo of black protesters “rioting.” The artist replaced the black people in the image with cartoon zebras—which are awkwardly coded as African in the real My Little Pony universe, but often referred to on 4chan with a portmanteau of zebra and the N-word...At the same time, My Little Pony art that was supportive of the Black Lives Matter protests was being hit with hundreds of downvotes—an apparently coordinated action that is against the site’s rules.
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What’s clearest from talking with those on either side of the argument is that the My Little Pony fandom has developed a totally nonsensical hodgepodge of values. Many fans who specifically support Black Lives Matter, for example, are also fans of Aryanne, a fan-invented Nazi pony with a pink swastika on her hip. They do not acknowledge a contradiction. “I love Aryanne,” a 25-year-old My Little Pony fan named Sam told me. “It’s just cute, funny, sexy art.” Then he added, “Black Lives Matter art is great. I welcome it.”
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“This is a fan community that has prided itself on a permissiveness and pushing boundaries and cloaking themselves in irony and the idea that they can make the mainstream uncomfortable,” Anne Gilbert, an assistant media-studies professor at the University of Georgia who has studied the My Little Pony fandom, told me. “That has been a source of pride.”

That pride makes the My Little Pony fandom’s problem twofold. Members who want to tear the fan community away from the active racists will also have to disentangle themselves from a long-held commitment to anything-goes uploading and a willful ignorance of the significance of political imagery.

escapegoat posted:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/

Funky See Funky Do posted:

I've always said that adults watching children's cartoons would end in bloodshed and you all told me I was mad! Well who's crazy now?