[ SECRET POST #2386 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2386 ⌋

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Notes:

Sorry for the slight delay, still at work.

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Comments

[chardmonster]

I've gotta ask what you mean. Of course hordes of little girls love the show, but that doesn't really count as "fandom." Little girls don't go on the same message boards and don't end up at cons unless parents take them.

Mainstream MLP fandom is definitely a boy's club.

[silverau]

I think it counts as fandom. If little girls play with their pony dolls together and draw pictures of the characters, that's fandom too. And I dunno if MLP has anything like this, but when I was a little kid I went on message boards about cartoons I liked (like on nick.com.) It's fandom, it's just... the kiddy side of fandom.

Of course, they don't generally interact with 4chan/Reddit/brony side of fandom, so I agree with you there.

[(Anonymous)]

Granted, this is when the internet was shiny and new, and it was still relatively unexplored, but when I was a kid, I went on kid message boards to talk about Animaniacs. I also wrote fic about the Brothers Warner (and their sister, Dot). I was not the only one.

Seriously, this kind of fandom is about as valid as any of them. Little girls may not have the purchasing power a bunch of 20something neckbears might, but it's still very much a valid fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

As a mom to one of those little girls who's husband insists on buying her every pony possible and who goes with her mom to the comic book store every week and gets all the pony comics, I'm gonna have to disagree about little girl purchasing power.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconding this. I don't like the show, but my kid loves it SO MUCH that all she ever wants for birthdays is ponies ponies ponies -and she's doted on by the rest of the family so even MORE FiM ponies. I've spent more on her collection than on some of mine XD

[diet_poison]

I'd agree with this assessment. Any mutual enjoyment of media for which you can be a fan (so basically...all media) is fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

...Except for the people who grew up on the original My Little Pony toys and shows, and who have been collecting, customizing, forum chatting, and producing fanart and fanfic since before Friendship is Magic even existed?

There's a certain lack of overlap due to the 'boy's club' dynamics and general brony hostility towards the previous gens, but MLP fandom is nothing new.