>>6515
>I think furries and bronies are seperate but adjancent fandoms
the only fanbase that is similar and can understand bronies are...well, furries. Because of the fact that both groups are the weirdos in the degeneracy, that similar status (among other things in fanart and creative works) is what makes them similar and therefore, easier to swap between each other. Even to the point that...

>Bronies cultural definition is from mass rejection + our own autism and sperging
basically, if you are a brony, automatically you are socially seen as that so...in for a penny, in for a pound. Once you are seen as an autist, whatever you do matters way less so people take advantage of it in order to do more retarded things because who would even care if the status cannot be redeemed.

>I believe a distiction exists between oldfag furries that joined the fandom, eg, skoon, seth, versus the new furries that grew into it. oldfag furries engage with the fandom as a fandom, even if they never at first tried to split it from furry. Newfag furries have a lot of "hype" with their social media identity and display a greater hostility to us.
>I'm in the middle honestly. I hate newer SJW furries but I also hate any disrespect shown to furries contributions to our fandom in the past
if you ask me, I share more or less that position. In fact, I will add something else here. There is a fear among /mlp/ users that furries would leak into the fanbase if there were material that would appeal to them, therefore the brony fanbase would get absorbed by furries.

On one hand, that´s true and could perfectly happen because many of them are stalking in order to absorb everything that they are capable to hunt so those users would join into their cause. If that´s the case, knives out!

On the other hand, it might have been already too late because... well, you might have been interacting with furries all along and you might not have even noticed it because those are capable to contain themselves or at least handle their manners as if they were pure fans of the franchise, therefore, you wouldn´t point out any differences from the average fan. You could detect it in the artworks or in certain threads where they mention their private lives or tastes but if you don´t dig all that deep, those people might have created fan content that you like (and it might not be anthro at all).

Those fans who are capable to act and adapt themselves for each circle in their respective sites...hey, those have my respect because they don´t feel intrusive nor predatory so you wouldn´t perceive any menace coming from them.