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The Brony trend of the 2010s was a Faustian bargain: half became queer communists but the other half became full on fascists (hexbear.net)
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[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Seems every fandom is like this at this point.

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The ones that weren't weird enough to be appalling to the mainstream were the ones that were heavily commercialized in the 2010s. Comic books, Nintendo, Studio Ghibli, that kind of stuff. What's left to be isolated "fandoms" are the ones that were full of weird screwballs to begin with, like Paradox games, and since weird screwballs in these cohorts were extremely online, they were radicalized in the mid-late 2010s.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Uhmmm, I was a weird extremely online brony screwball and I was radicalized in the early 2020s thankyouverymuch

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago

I didnt get my radicalization until 2018. But i was a Paradox Interactive lib right up until then.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 13 points 7 months ago

This, and I’m not a zoomer, I just didn’t break the state’s rules at and early enough age to know I could. And it just took me until all this to realize the societies are a fucking farce and their rules must be broken to escape from them. I blame Obama for making me feel like things could change. That, and going to a fucking Midwest college, all milquetoast and institutionalized.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I've never met a fashy Steven Universe fan. It was just too woke for them

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly shocked, given the Diamonds' behavior.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but the Diamonds forcedfemmed Steven and he bullied them into being nice