The Ups and Downs of the MLP Fan Base Part 2: The Bad

Does everyone I remember what I said about how awesome this fandom was? It's still all true, but there is a super big down side to everything. It can even be said that the negatives outweigh all the good. Yes, this amazing show is helping to raise a better, kinder sort of girl. However... the amount of douchie older people have increased. I know, people would say that every fandom has it's assholes, but I would expect better from a group of people who love a show that teaches inclusion, tolerance and kindness.

I have seen fights over best pony get ugly... like name calling, almost fist swinging ugly. I personally think a fist fight over who your favorite pony is is REALLY silly, but apparently that is not the case for all bronies. Further, I have seen the bronies fat shaming some of the female fans, saying  things like "How could that fat bitch be Rarity? She needs to lose weight before she can be best pony." It's disgusting, in my opinion, to have these men who supposedly love this show and support it's morals and then do things like that! Artist who draw the ponies as humans and make them overweight often have to disable comments because of all the hate they get for it. I read this under someone's deviant art picture.

"ONCE again, awful reactions from rabid bronies has forced me to, once again, give another explanation for WHY THIS HAS TO EXIST.
So yeah, I will be very honest here and say I drew this mainly to mess around with body types, the nationalities were pretty much last minute and the main point of the picture was to show each of the mane 6 in a varied and unique way, not so much to show off my personal headcanons for them.

Also, I did not have male sexual appeal in mind when I drew this! I was not drawing them for dudes to find "sexy" or "universally attractive", i just wanted to give them a lot of variance, not just in body type but facial features. If they look ugly to you than no prob, it's your opinion after all. "

Artists shouldn't have to explain their work and they shouldn't have to deal with hate because of a differing opinion.
"Pinkie pie can't be fat!" Well, technically she can. She spends all her time eating sweets. "Rarity obviously has giant boobs." Why? Because she likes fashion? Your head cannon is not anyone else's and some of what you draw is just gross... but that's for another post.

So yeah, the fandom is awesome, but then again the fandom isn't and I haven't even gotten to the ugly stuff yet.

See you in my next episode The Ups and Downs of the MLP Fan Base Part 3: The Ugly