I think what angers me the most about this movement is not the motivation behind it - I can see what they’re going for, I really can, even if they aren’t handling quite as they should - but the utter stupidity of both sides. It’s entirely possible that pinkiepony is making this story up (hope she isn’t), but I need to use something for an example. Apparently, she was cornered by a group of anti-DWM bronies and had to resort to hiding in a changing room. So now the fucking crazies are coming out and driving the brony name even further into the ground, great. But every time something along these lines happen - brony threats, bronies making themselves look stupid, bronies being violent, etc.- the G1-G3 fandom and the rest of the DWM movement points their fingers and says “IF YOU STILL CONSIDER YOURSELF A BRONY U SHOULD BE ASHAMED BECAUSE OF THESE PEOPLE”. To quote a user on Tumblr talking about Pinkiepony’s incident:
“You see, the reason I use the wide sweeping brush stroke and say the fandom was better before Bronies was because it fucking WAS. Know what we argued about then? Scalpers taking all the good ponies and why we were irritated at Hasbro.
Oooh bad stuff, right? People feared for their lives, I tell you!
Bronies came from 4Chan, 4Chan is fucking garbage, you guys poured fucking garbage into our fandom and now you’re taking it one step beyond by threatening real people in their real lives.
Not okay.
And to the people who call themselves Bronies and are standing against this behavior? Good for you. Spread the word. DWM or pro-Molestia, the abuse of a teenage girl is wrong and if you don’t think it is?
Get off my fucking planet.”
Don’t drag me into your fucking rant, princess. Seriously, has anyone seen the reactions of the G1-G3 blogs? I hate to generalize, but the majority of them reach for any opportunity to say “see look how much bronies suck we were here first”. Get over yourselves.
I think that’s what angers me most. This entire movement, which could have actually been something beneficial if they hadn’t focused on just one blog, has dissolved into picking at anything thrown.