Pfft... Whatever.

*nods*

It'll get worse. It'll eventually be the blue bronies against the pink bronies!

see, but at that point, I'm just grabbing a chair and some popcorn.

And KFC? :P

Taking bets? My money is on blue!

It has been on for ages, and I still wonder why people do this. :( We're all the same at the end of the day. u.u

I just don't get this.

This may be too naive from me.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8464417/

it really should be that simple. If you don't like something, don't worry about it, don't get all upset because it's around you.

like...jeez, how retarded are people?

People like to fight. It's been like this since always... Even inside the fandom you'll find rivalries (?) like these.

Hell, im both. Wtf does it matter honestly?

that's what I'm saying!

There are angles of the things worthy of debating. For example, are fans of my little pony considered fur's? Is loving ponies the same as having kinship with animals? Are you a furry simply because you have nowhere else to go? What is a furry? Why are there so many socially awkward furs? Are 'bronies' furries who have not yet figured out that they are so, or simply people looking for a place to belong and get friends? Are bronies just fans of a little girls show? Why is a little girls show so popular?

In order:

No, the MLP "brony" concept existed apart from the larger furry fandom, and can be considered a separate entity unto itself.

Possibly, but it would be on an individual basis. You're implying that kinship with animals makes a furry a furry, and that's not entirely correct or accurate.

Again, possibly, but it depends on the person.

General definition = someone with a passion/desire/affinity for anthropomorphic media, specifically animals with human characteristics. By this definition, one could call bronies "furries", but it would be wholly a misnomer by virtue of the isolated, focused fanbase centered entirely around a certain television show and its canon.

The furry fandom draws misanthropes because of its open and generally friendly/accepting nature, historically. Also, those members are the ones who usually are most vocal online, oddly enough. The less socially awkward members fly under the radar and don't get noticed as much.

The first part of that question is a matter of opinion, but from what I've seen, most bronies show no interest in anthropomorphism outside of the MLP: FiM TV show. It isn't about the ponies, it's about the show, and that's a very important paradigm. People who enjoy a certain show/movie/comic/whatever tend to hang out together as a matter of enjoying social interaction with individuals who share a common interest. Any other questions trying to psychoanalyze their emotional needs starts becoming a matter of opinion.

In a word? yes. I'm sure it goes deeper for some of them, but as a general rule, it's really that simple.

That's something that, again, depends on opinion, but here's my take as a fan of the show but not a "brony":

-Very solid animation
-Remarkably good voice acting, including vocalist work
-Positive and interesting storylines (I know less about the latter as I don't watch the show regularly)

It's a decent, if not good, cartoon in an era that praises mediocrity and laziness in animation. For people like me, who grew up in the golden age of cartoons and have always enjoyed them, a show like MLP is a step back in the right direction and something honestly enjoyable, though admittedly juvenile.


This whole "debate" boils down to people with opinions getting mad at other people for having different opinions, and not a discussion concerning facts or objective information, ergo, it's striking me as rather useless.

Hey, ass, you need to come visit down here in Arizona some time! This kind of conversation makes you fun to have around!

FINE JEEZ

We all get through the day by thinking we're slightly different than somebody else. A lifetime of social ostraciation doesnt take away that urge.

maybe it's because I don't have that urge. I don't get through the day comparing myself to others, that's...that just sounds like a terrible way to live.

Well, nothing ensures individuality like subdividing the tags associated with the group you're wholly sublimated into.

....right?

oh, of course! as long as I have a name for what I am that's different from someone else's, I'm an individual!

I think it's a sadly funny repercussion of the advent of the Internet that while people of certain groups have been given nearly limitless ability to find one another easily and exist cohesively, we've also been given equally limitless ability to willingly subdivide ourselves into groups consumed with petty preferential slapfights.

Remember Seuss' "The Butter Battle Book"? Same kinda thing. I rofl at the concept that there is such a thing as a "conflict" between one group who likes their cartoon horses rendered via sketch by independent artists, and another that likes their cartoon horses rendered in Flash by Hasbro-approved sources.

Though I may be overanalyzing this a little.

The Butter Battle Book is a MARVELOUS analogy here.

Seuss fixes everything.

http://i.imgur.com/oWiHBqI.jpg

FFFFFFFFFFFFF

I've actually been looking for this picture for a while now! thanks!!!

Kraken also fixes everything.

:D

Yeah it amuses me the VS of the 2, when ideally they're pretty much the same fucking concept, 1 is just more specific

To me, it really boils down to the fact that "bronies" are fans of a TV show, first and foremost. Like, the whole "furry" concept is so much wider and has been around longer. One could very easily draw a Venn Diagram about this.

Eyup, Furries are lovers of Anthro Animals ( BROAD RANGE)

Bronies are lovers on Anthro MLPonies ( VERY SPECIFIC )

and to have any kind of grief towards the opposite party strikes me as...well, retarded.

Given the ways of humanity as it is today, I see it as it exists because it can. xD

*sigh* you actually have a point there. I guess sometimes I see stuff like this and say, "dafuq."

See, you say that, but most furries I know got here from one cartoon or another. In waves over the years, and ALWAYS with much hmmming and hawwwing about how they're ruining everything. I say if bronies wanna come, let them come, if not, meh. Maybe I'm getting old but I just don't see the point in picking fights with people anymore.

I see your point, but to me it's a Genus vs Species argument. Like, for the sake of classification, one could call "bronies" furries the same way one could call people with Sonic the Hedgehog characters furries, but in the end, I see futility in the apparent need to make clear distinctions.

like, in a final analysis, let's just all enjoy what we want to enjoy and stop trying to label every damn thing.

*facepaws* Seriously?

'parently.

Well, there are certainly less-savory aspects to each side. Same reason why my furriness is kept secret from absolutely everybody, aside from other furries. I don't want to have to deal with all the negative connotations.