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The great majority of new fans like the show for what it is, not for the sake of irony. Anyone who compares the reboot to the old My Little Pony can't help but notice how un-girly it is in comparison(though its target audience is still obviously young girls). As for quality, this generation of MLP is made by some of the same people who worked on Dexter's Lab, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd and Eddy, Kids Next Door, Hey Arnold, and even Ren and Stimpy, Southpark, and more. From an animators standpoint, the sheer expressiveness of the characters is extremely well done. On top of that, it contains fucktons of pop culture references from Star Wars to Chocolate Rain, amazingly catchy songs, some of which are based on musical numbers(see Sondheim's Ever After), and tons of tributes cartoon styles many of us grew up with.

TL;DR: Most like it for real; All-star team of animators, writers, and directors.

Also, check out this video for a more detailed analysis of the type of stuff mentioned above.

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Seriously? One pony and suddenly it gives everyone an excuse to bully and argue with people for watching a show they don't like? To be deliberately unfair and unpleasant to people for no reason other than that? To, for all intents and purposes, refuse to even TRY the show they complain so much about, just to see if they like it or not?

Even if the show DOES have a target demographic of young females, why the hell does that give YOU the right to criticise someone for finding it entertaining? Sorry, does everyone have to conform to your opinion? Because it was my understanding human beings are allowed to be individual and unique. But, no, apparently not, people HAVE to conform and go along with the crowd, because YOU say so.

Everyone has a right to an opinion, and I'm not saying you have to be a brony, but you don't have to start flame wars by swearing at people, just because you DON'T like the show. You can at LEAST be civil in stating your opinions.

But no, apparently even THAT can't be counted on here. You apparently HAVE to be rude, inconsiderate and spiteful to get your point across. You can't just sit down and calmly explain why you don't like something, you have to rub it in people's faces and explain why THEY'RE wrong and YOU'RE right.

Downvote me all you like. I don't care. This post has made me die a little inside. Be ashamed.

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EDIT: everyone who is hating on bronies, read the comments on my comment. Then you can stop hating and the bronies can stop bitching. Thank you.

What bothers me is that it took months of seeing bronies talk about ponies on reddit and 4chan as if they loved everything about them, in what I had to assume was a joke because it was ridiculous that my little pony would actually be something that boys teenage age and above could enjoy. Therefore the only option was that it was all a huge troll, in which case making fun of them/ignoring them was probably the best way to deal with it.

Had a single fucking brony made a half-reasonable argument towards why the show was good (something other than "it's great because ponies" which just added to the fact that I thought this was a troll) I might have considered looking up to see if their reasons for liking the show could be legitimate.

Eventually, I just looked it up anyway. and I found that the show is NOT only targeted at little girls. It has a comic element targeted at older viewers that makes it worth watching.

So you want to know why people are flame-warring? Because they don't know that. They just think there are a bunch of idiots in here acting like they love a show made for 7-year old girls, which is ridiculously unlikely and must be a troll. And not a single fan of the show has tried to explain that they're missing a critical piece of information. Maybe they think it's funny when people bitch at them, I don't know. But they're not explaining it.

So how about THEY sit down and calmly explain why they like it? Because it's pretty damn obvious why they shouldn't, unless you know something that most people here do not.

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Okay, I get where you're going with this, and I absolutely agree that people slinging hate are missing key information... but lemme put in a few counter points.

This is the first time a lot of people, myself included, have found themselves called out this much for their tastes. In middle school, I got super-into pokemon. "Because I like it" was enough of an explanation. In college, I went through a few months of being huge on TF2 and having TF2 content on my facebook/youtube/etc, and no one thought anything of it. But now? I've got people straight up throwing the word fag around because of one tv show. I mean, I'd be naive to not expect to hear about it from someone, but this much BS caught me (and likely others) off guard, and didn't think I'd need to be prepared with thoughtful answers.
A lot of the pony fans have already explained numerous times. There's a whole faq page. It gets kinda old saying it again and again.
And finally, (the key one really) ...haters gonna hate. I'm serious, some people who have decided they're going to rag on someone else are going to do just that, and aren't listening. I can present every well-thought out argument and key piece of information I've got, but if they're not gonna listen or be reasonable then what's the use?

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So what you're saying is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaH4wFL7P8c

But seriously, I think by this point most bronies are used to receiving flack for liking MLP (I know that it doesn't faze me anymore at this point). It's not fair, not at all, because everyone likes something that someone would find weird, strange, or silly, but it's the nature of the fandom. For some reason it's just OK to hate on people who like My Little Pony. It's really not OK, but I'd rather spend my time and energy with the people who do like the show, rather than waste it trying to convince someone so closed minded that it is a good show. I know it's a good show, I don't have to prove anything to anyone.

I think it rather ironic that redditors would garner this much hate. Think of an average person visiting this site. What would they see? Probably a lot of stuff that a lot of people wouldn't find 'normal' (I wish someone could explain exactly what 'normal' entails).

It's whatever. We bronies have r/mylittlepony and we have a good time there. People are welcome to join us if they want, people are welcome to hate us if they feel it's a morally acceptable thing to hate someone for liking a TV show.

And Twilight is best pony.