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There were also a lot of those “adult male” fans who are still fans but no longer adult males.
And in all seriousness I think the fact that the fandom allowed men or male-presenting folks to explore popular culture outside of a narrow range of allowed “masculinity” was a very positive thing for a lot people.
True, true. I am not condemning the phenomena as such, it's just a little funny.
The regular (non-problematic) fandom also never really went away. There are still plenty of MLP related fanfic sites, discord servers, forum sites, subreddits, YouTube creators, etc. out there. It definitely isn’t talked as much about outside of those spaces, but it’s still fairly active.
Unfortunately the adult male fanbase also did things like Fallout: Equestria, a grimdark fanfic that featured SA
IIRC Fallout Equestria was by a queer woman, and was almost-endearingly-cringe edgy slop clumsily playing with themes of cycles of violence and also queer repression and alienation.
You're thinking of the later fanfic someone else wrote in the Fallout Equestria setting: Project Horizons. That was the weird edgelord coomer one.
Yeah, I thought Fallout Equestria was good, though it is also pretty dark at points
I have no idea about Project Horizons but I'll probably avoid it in that case.
The Brony fandom is a land of contrasts
Yeah that was 100% the draw for me.
If you want to be into that stuff, fine! have kids! It's what they're for ! You can buy all the legos and visit all the dinosaur museums you want and nobody can utter a peep about it. That's why everyone got creeped out by Micheal Jackson having that Neverland ranch with a carousel and all that. His dad had five kids, for Pete's sake!
Gender variant interests being related to pedophilia is a deeply reactionary take
Wasn't there a struggle session about this like two and a half years ago? Are there really still Hexbears who have these sorts of deeply weird brainworms around not letting people enjoy cartoons? Honestly this is straight up the weirdest form of the brainworm I've seen. It reads like "Successful BREEDERS will be rewarded with the right to play with legos. Please be good and BREED." wtf
At age 11 you will put behind childish things like running, jumping, crawling, rolling, and holding more than one hand above chest height. You will replace them with gender performance so as to improve your Darwinian fitness, and you will enlist cars and other motorized components to move your body, which you will keep in a narrow photogenic posture at all times. Your only sanctioned experience of a childlike state will be through alcohol.
What if I don't want to have kids but still want to play with legos and visit dinosaur museums?
Te reason people got creeped out by Michael Jackson was the pedophilia. The fact that the amusement park stuff was a way to lure in kids is the problem, not that he liked carousels.