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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)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They were already fascists. The brony trend literally started on 4chan who all thought it would be funny to "ironically" watch this new My Little Pony show and then suddenly found out they liked it. 4chan banned all My Little Pony content when it totally took over the site and it forced it to develop a community elsewhere. This created the wider brony community.

Given the origin it really shouldn't be a surprise why this occurred.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

4chan wasn't nearly as fascist back in 2010.

And they still have an MLP containment board.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

True but it was still a site dedicated to slurs and bigotry as its core culture. The people that gravitated to that were always full of fascists.