Just checked out the lemmy version of r/place. On there, on people profiles, and many lemmy communities are devoted to my little pony and various other childish cartoon stuff. Im mostly out of the loop. I read an article a while back about a website that was an alt-right thing that used childish speech and my little pony imagery. Is this what this is? Is it a fetish thing? What is the reason for the prevalence of childish cartoonish imagery on the internet in places most likely inhabited by adults? Dead serious question by someone out of the loop. Anyone in the know please help me out here. Marked Nsfw just in case.
Question has been answered, now it’s getting into stereotypes. Locking per rule #2.
In the late 00’s a new version of my little pony has been aired. The producers and authors decided to make it an anime for the whole family rather than an anime for little girls. So basically something that a dad can enjoy as much as their daughter. An unplanned side effect is that there was a whole public of single men in their 20’s who really enjoyed that show, add the toxic masculinity around it blaming grown-up men for watching a girl thing, and it created a lot of fuzz/meme about people liking it and people hating-it (or hating the person liking it, because you know right wing hate everyone including themselves) and it’s how my little pony became an internet meme (but objectively if you end-up being the parent of a daughter, watch that anime with her, you’ll enjoy it together)
For what it’s worth, anyone with children in that target demographic today should skip ponies and watch Bluey. That’s a show clearly geared for the whole family. Parents can learn as much as kids about how to play and interact together in a wholesome way.
Theres only so many episodes of Bluey, and my kids want it on every single damn day, on autoplay.
I have no problem with anyone watching whatever show they want. Bronies took it WAY too far though
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When the newer version My Little Pony came out the fandom got hijacked by sweaty incel men in their 20s and 30s who are definitely not giant pedophiles. They like to call themselves “bronies” and walk around in pony costumes at conventions but they absolutely are not sexually deviant furries…
I’m saving this image. I’m sure I will have use of it again lol
🫡 Glad to be of service, lol.
OP, this is the correct answer. It’s being downvoted because the people who are definitely not giant pedophiles are in this thread slinging bullshit.
I knew a girl in high school who picked “Not All Bronies are Pedophiles” as the topic of her speech for our public speaking class. We also caught her reading hentai in class… “For the plot.”
Stereotypically speaking, stereotypes are bad. But some of them exist for a reason.
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