Cheesecake is ruining me

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Have you tried saying to your friends that you're not really all to interested in the show and that it's quite inconsiderate to make you watch all these video's and remix's when you don't really want to.

As for being the only one, well.

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[babinro]

I've never heard anyone mention the show's existence offline.

As such it still feels very much like an underground thing that happens to have a strong fan base at a couple select websites.

 

[Num1d1um]

I watched like half of the first episode and couldn't stand more of it, and I can't really take a fan of it seriously. It seems like nothing but a stupid fad that'll die out before the world ends. If you really feel your life is being fucked up because your friends are devoted to some cartoon, you may want to consider switching friends.

 

[Pinkamena]

I watched like half of the first episode and couldn't stand more of it, and I can't really take a fan of it seriously.

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Just wanna say that the first two episodes are considered the worst of them all. The animation studio had to play it really safe because it was the pilot episodes. The later episodes are much better.

Also, to the OP: Just tell your friends that you don't care about the show, and that they should stop trying to get you to like it. It's sad that you should have to actually tell them this, but some people just don't take a hint.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Hey, I'm a fan and I'm not obsessed with it! Fuckin' nutjobs ruin everything...

Could you at least try talking with your friends and come to an agreement?

 

[lord canti]

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We just had a thread like this about MLP and how the OP dislikes the Bronies which got locked
.. so.. uh.. not sure what else to add to this post really. ... ... Okay I guess I can add something.

OT: I used to be a big time Brony. Like, loving the show so much that I seeked the fanart, stories, and feedback about MLP along with other things (had 1 toy of Pinkie Pie, but gave it to my niece after some time). Everything was great when I was a Brony.. but sadly, the community got pretty bad (i'm assuming because it grew so large, a mix of irrational fans became active). Like for example, anyone to dislike the show or question it got bashed by many fans of MLP. I didn't like that, because it's shunning opinions that differ then theirs based on a show.

Also, most of them are hypocritical. Love and tolerate is a popular phrase that's passed along the many fans yet they can't even tolerate each other. How? Because fans who draw (rule 34) tend to be discriminated by the community of Bronies. Sure I am not into that ether, but I don't treat fans who like R34 or the artists poorly. It'd be like treating a prostitute poorly because she's defying my religion (I am a Christian, but trust me.. I don't discriminate anyone for I am not one to judge. Sorry to bring that aspect up, but it was to point out the similarity.)

All and all, I got done with being a Brony. I'm just a fan now who only watches the show and nothing more. Yea, people usually see all fans as being Bronies but to me a Brony is someone who engages in the franchise, doing more then watching the show. Besides, there's one more thing I dislike about the Brony community.. they do things for the wrong reasons. You shouldn't treat people fairly or kindly because a show tells you to or represents love. Instead, treat people like you'd want to be treated because it's just the right thing to do. If you base your actions on a show's dignity, then what will happen if the show goes downhill for you? What shall you give off then? Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Bronies. I'm just criticizing their ways is all. Feel free to debate with me if you feel otherwise.

Yeah I've noticed that as well. Whether it's people who draw rule 34 or people who write shipping fanfics, and people who just pokes fun at the community. Bronies tend to do everything but love and tolerate.

 

[Piorn]

I don't know anyone who watches the show, and even though I really enjoy the show, I'm glad I don't. I see it more as a private thing.

 

[Popadoo]

I watch the show, but I wouldn't buy any merch.
To be honest pretty much every fandom has the obsessive and weird kind, it's just that since MLP is weird enough being watched by guys it seems worse for some people for a guy to have a whole set of the dolls than say, a collection of manga or something.
I love the show, I make art and stuff for it, and I don't mind if someone becomes obsessed with it. They're happy, and if it annoys you ignore their hobby.

 

[nickyv917]

Hey, I'm a fan and I'm not obsessed with it! Fuckin' nutjobs ruin everything...

Could you at least try talking with your friends and come to an agreement?

Fuckin' right. It's the same way with Sonic the Hedgehog these days.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

I think your friends just have problems, I know 3 Bronys(?) and being told once that I would not watch the show was all it took. They never brought it up again to me.

I agree with the general consensus here, Adventure Time is amazing.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Dangit, not another blasted pony thread. Only one thing to do. No need to jump in Daystar, I got this.

I hate to do it, but you forced me too. This thread is now about cheesecake.

Make me proud, son.

Spoiler: Make me proud

[sub]Pony threads are fun now [/sub]

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

Wait, did I miss something?

I have been absent for 2 weeks and haven't really been following the trending forums but everyone is saying there has been an influx of pony related threads.

Is this true, or are people being dramatic because sometimes the internet classifies 1 or 2 posts on the same general topic as and "influx".

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I don't have that problem. Having now seen something like 20 episodes of the show, I am as confused as before about the whole MLP thing. While it does mark a startling increase in quality over the show from the 80s that my sister watched, such a compliment says little. Simply changing the 80s show so that the characters did not sound like infants would have been an astounding improvement.

To me, it is simply an okay show. I can understand why it would be reasonably popular with children but the obsession generated in audiences clearly outside the target demographic remains baffling. It is tolerable. It has moments that are good. But its capacity to generate rabid fans remains startling. 8 hours of ponies later and I still don't believe the MLP fandom is anything but a joke those involved forgot the punchline to.

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

To cloppers scare me.
Otherwise I keep similar attitudes about the show to everything in life. Like it if you want to, share it if you want to, but if it's not relevant or the person you're talking to clearly doesn't give a single shit, then stop.

Off topic, but after traveling to Britian I think I have figured out the origin of your gif. It is Steven Fry hosting the show QI gardening edition objecting to one of his guests sawing the table in half with a cane that transforms into a hack saw.

 

[Orks da best]

That sounds just sad. It's a very well made animation series, but doesn't really do anything for my taste.

Anywho, it's just a trend with the whole self-acknowledging hook of young men enjoying a show, made for kids, full of cute ponies. It will die out for the most part eventually.

Fortunately this site is pretty much the only place I happen to encounter any pony-fandom.

ye be wrong on that second part, if will not die out, since when as anything died out shortly after it was created? It will likly stick around for years, decades even, but after say a 100 years, yes it likely be remebered by only historians.

As for the op, ye in quite a bind. I don't know what I would do, so me of little help here.

As for my status I love the show, characters, and yes the fanart is on/off with me, some good, some bad, some in the middle, but me not over obsessive. I do not hate or dislike anyone who has given the show a fair try at least. Stay Orky

 

[LilithSlave]

I don't know about you, but I'll take a Pony Thread over an ME3 thread anyday.

Oh God, yes.

I love these My Little Pony threads. I think I earned them for putting up with all the Mass Effect threads.

 

[hazabaza1]

To cloppers scare me.
Otherwise I keep similar attitudes about the show to everything in life. Like it if you want to, share it if you want to, but if it's not relevant or the person you're talking to clearly doesn't give a single shit, then stop.

Off topic, but after traveling to Britian I think I have figured out the origin of your gif. It is Steven Fry hosting the show QI gardening edition objecting to one of his guests sawing the table in half with a cane that transforms into a hack saw.

That is indeed correct.
Feel free to find yourself a cookie. I'm a lazy sod and am slightly too busy to be on here and I really shouldn't be checking me messages but shhhhhhh.

 

[Poerts]

Cheesecake is ruining me.

Seriously, it really is. It seems that the majority of my dude friends are really into cheesecake. Not just like dudes who like dessert, either, but harsh, harsh "cheesies" (that's what they call themselves). One of them has written an over one-hundred thousand word cheesecake fanfic; I'm honestly impressed he actually managed to find that much to say about a type of pastry. Another has a shelf full of random slices of now-rotten cheesecake. Hanging out with this assortment of various cheesecake-obsessed young gentlemen has gotten somewhat monotonous, as hangouts frequently boil down to them constantly changing the conversation to cheesecake, or showing me various videos and remixes on Youtube (yeah, those exist. I'll admit that cheesecake dubstep is pretty fucking awesome).

As for myself, In small doses, I honestly don't mind cheesecake. It is pretty tasty, I've tried 8-9 different kinds of it and liked them all well enough. It's not something that compels me to obsess about it constantly or want to have it as my primary dessert of choice or whatever, but it's alright. Except now I find myself constantly being harrassed by cheesies for not joining the bakery.

Does anyone else have so much goddamn cheesecake drama in their life, or am I the only one troubled by it?

You forgot all the cheesecake haters who accuse anyone who eats cheesecake of unwholesome cake-lust.

 

[BENZOOKA]

That sounds just sad. It's a very well made animation series, but doesn't really do anything for my taste.

Anywho, it's just a trend with the whole self-acknowledging hook of young men enjoying a show, made for kids, full of cute ponies. It will die out for the most part eventually.

Fortunately this site is pretty much the only place I happen to encounter any pony-fandom.

ye be wrong on that second part, if will not die out, since when as anything died out shortly after it was created? It will likly stick around for years, decades even, but after say a 100 years, yes it likely be remebered by only historians.

It will die out. I'm not talking about it suddenly having no fans at all. But all the hype and brony-stuff will. Eventually as I put it, the phenomenon will die out.

Every kid still got a Tamagochi? It was a lot larger thing though. This phenomenon revolves on the surprising audience group, and it's devotedness, given the commonly associated target audience is immensely different.

This might be interesting. It was recently featured here on the largest commercial TV network's news. The 10 o'clock news has for decades had some kind of a funny, interesting, surprising, endearing, etc. bit in the end.

 

[Moth_Monk]

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