Another Cringe Thread About Bronies in General. (Possibly NSFW)

@icicle wicicle 1517
Online culture was healthier back then and people could take jokes.

@icicle wicicle 1517
This political correctness has been nothing but problematic to artists and content creators for some time now. I get the importance of spreading awareness towards sexual abuse and shit, but going after fictional work and other “offensive” work is a little too much. It’s not just “muh sexiZUM” that has become too pervasive. People have been getting canceled left and right over anything that some fucktards on Twitter deemed “offensive” to their fragile sensibilities that they seem to have no problem weaponizing.

If anyone thinks this is okay and that nothing is wrong, or even the right way to go looking forward. And not a bleak warning towards how ridiculously clownish slippery slope situation things have become. I dunno what people are on. Social media platforms have been enabling grifters, opportunists, scammers, and authoritarians under the guise of “activism” these days. Establishments have been empowering these useful idiots because they serve to further their influence. They are not for you nor are they helping any causes.

Damn right.
Poor taste I agree. But they didn’t really treat it like as if someone committed genocide or a fucking war crime.

@icicle wicicle 1517
It’s not like such things were ever without harsh criticism. Down With Molestia was a big thing.

@Latecomer
They have always had criticisms. But they weren’t as subjected to censorship and cancellations as they are now, and more reasonable level headed voices on the topic won out more.

Because people knew how to make the split between fiction and reality.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ
The solution is for the metaphorical adults in the room to stand up and say, “cool story, we don’t give a shit.”

@Latecomer
It’s also why boorus such as this one and its clones are so important. When an artist gives into the pressure and deletes their back archives, it’s up to places like this one to keep the art alive.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
That was the mindset of the majority of GenX and a larger swath of GenY including myself.
But much of this whole “either you’re with or against/if you believe A, you must be B” type of mentality is rampant in GenZ who seem to have a nack for preemptively attacking those whom they beleive do not conform to their sEnSaBilATeESsS!! There’s no middle ground with these fuckers.

We’re also seeing numerous classic work needlessly being altered to fit “MoDURRNN SensabilitEES!”

None of this was what I was implying or trying g to talk about with the OG post lol

@icicle wicicle 1517
Suuuuure It wasn’t.
Even if it wasn’t, it’s inevitably tied to said problems the online world is facing right now.
Which is the issue of political correctness and cancel culture.(Which some people here seem to unironically deny exists)

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
That’s based on the assumption that it’s never right for the art to die.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ
No really. It wasn’t :/

@Latecomer
It’s a better assumption than its alternatives.

I’ve thought about this before, probably too much. Here’s what I came up with.

Probably not. As much as I miss the humor of the early 2010s, it’s probably for the best. The punchline of HaHa Rape becomes a bit more sour when you now know there are those kind of people aren’t actually rare but instead there’s a lot of them hidden in practically any position that gives them power over someone else. Molestia as originally intended probably wouldn’t go well now. Although you could definitely do a Celestia who’s just a pervert, seen plenty of shit like that.

Ironically if MLP came out now Fall of Equestria might be able to still be done but there would be some conditions.

First, You would have to make it exceedingly crystal undeniably no way to misinterpret clear that it is merely a fetish project and not some incel thing. We didn’t have the incels or manosphere yelling about how women are inferior back then, so you would have to distance yourself as far as you can from them. If you didn’t you’d become the star of some youtube videos talking about those new on the scene brony freaks.

Second, you’re just going to have to take your lumps of being the guy who made a rape world setting of a cartoon for little girls and people understandably asking “um…fucking why?”.

It was never fully accepted back then and wouldn’t be now (Those FIMFiction scores were always in the red), but if you made sure everyone knew it only porn and nothing else you’d probably be decently fine, but it would still now as it was then be viewed as weird.

@♥♥Princess♥♥Celestia♥♥
Making it crystal clear would also ruin any eroticism for the fetishists and make it boring for everyone else. Whatever happened to bronies deliberately earning a negative reputation for the fandom? It’s a better way to live than the respectability politics found in many furry spaces.

@icicle wicicle 1517
You do realize, that while true, your OG post wasn’t implying it, you inevitably are gonna have those things occur.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
what do you mean, bronies deliberately earning a negative reputation for the fandom?

Things would be good if the internet could just return to the 2000s Newgrounds era of sensibility.

There’s a guy who is going on every image featuring the Shadowey Alicorn claiming that she’s really Twilight. Every single image. He’s also the same guy who went on every image of Potion Nova (back when Pony Life was still a thing) claiming she’s actually evil.
And this guy is a rather infamous user in other places

@Background Pony #990D
As repetitive as he is, I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the case.

@ЅℰℒᎯℙℋℐℰℒ
While I don’t like being called a “faggot” by a random stranger on the internet, I do miss the times when that word was thrown around like free candies in social medias.

@MoPyr
At least there are still people around who will replace slurs with polite language and clear connotations.

What bad things, can anyone tell me?

@PUBLIQclopAccountant
Yep you are right, society evolves anyway, if it gets more polite, that’s good, let’s not devolve back into the past and let’s try to overcome the nostalgia sickness.

@Background Pony #D9F8
Fuck that shit.
That’s pretentious and it’s sad.

Crudeness is the spice of life. Humanity needs to devolve a bit.
The last thing we need is oversanitatization of everything.

Some of us just like to display our humanity in the rawest manner possible.