My little pony and the "Brony" fandom is bad and a menace

Yeah, but just putting "Bronies" in the title doesn't mean anything. That could also mean that I am for them as well. I put "are a menace" so that people know what it is about. This is why it it is called the "title" and not "What are you for/against?" or whatever. Unless I am somehow failing to understand how this site works. 1.I find that hard to believe. I am not saying the non-rabid fans don't ever post on the net. What it sounds like you are saying to me though is that only the rabid fans go on the net and post or post the most. I would think the same amount of fans, rabid or not, would be on the net posting. 2.This also sounds wrong. While it is true that most shows, movies, or books with fandoms aren't constantly putting out new projects fan usually don't just "go away". This is why fandoms still exist. They just don't gain fans at the same rate as something brand new. Ultimately though fans are still going to be generated as long as something has a following. Afterall Star Trek has had a movie recently. It started off as a show, but that doesn't make that much of a difference. With Star wars it is the reverse. It started off as movies only and has had shows such as "the clone wars" which just finished up its sixth season. Plus Star wars has new movies coming out. I am pretty sure Dr. Who is still going on as well as various other popular shows or movies. Harry Potter is supposed to have a new book coming out, while it isn't a direct sequel to the original book series it is still something. The point is you really can't say what is the actual "height" of any fandom because whatever it is will always still have something coming out and previous generations of fans will share their love of whatever with the next generation or new projects will lure the new generation of fans in with their new projects. 3. You are again missing my point. I never said it was "forced". I said that it happened. Something that has NEVER happened before up to that point. The sole purpose of commercials is to advertise products. If I have a shop I buy air time to get the word out about my shop and the products I sell. People normally don't buy air time just to say "thank you" to a certain person or persons. That is like buying a commercial just to say "I love you" or "Will you marry me?". They aren't cheap and people don't usually have that kind of money to spend. I don't watch sports. I have never seen any Super Bowl with its popular commercials. I doubt though there has ever been a Super Bowl ad where someone spent however much they spent to get the ad in just to say "thank you" to or for whatever. 4. I did. TV.com. IMDB. Unless you are talking about the actual links to said hacking? In which case I will admit that I can't do due to the passage of time. The IMDB thing happened about 2 or 3 years ago. For the TV.com thing look at the the winner and look at the number of votes for the past 2 years in a row http://www.tv.com... http://www.tv.com... For 2012 MLP has 6,190,392 and Avatar which came in second has only 618,347. Every other show after that has a mere couple hundred thousand. The numbers don't lie. That is hacks. The same goes for 2013 MLP has 13,082,728 Regular show has 1,295,506 You can argue "Well the MLP fandom just has more fans". Except the only site to state the number of bronies claims it got to that number, which is between 7- 12 million, through online surveys. Just like anything online it can be cheated. These surveys only required a name or a email address. Meaning that anyone one person could have taken these surveys multiple times by just using a name generator and/or fake email address. This means there is no real actual number of bronies in the MLP fandom, but from what you can see either by con attendance or online stuff you can safely assume about couple hundred thousand to maybe a few million (worldwide) AT MOST. I doubt those few million all went to those site just to vote. If they did, then that just further proves my point. That would mean those few million wanted their show to win so bad that they all spent most of their time voting on websites just to prove that their show is the best. Which goes back to my original argument that this is something no other fandom has done before. I think I'm going bring up up another issue now. I brought up in my opening the "derpy hooves" incident. Derpy hooves is another good example of bronies being a problem. They took a simple background character who had a mistake and turned this character into something much bigger. At first it was okay because the show's creators didn't see anything wrong with this mistake that the fans took to her. It wasn't until the season two episode "The last roundup" when all hell broke loose. Up to that point in time this character was in the background of certain episodes doing nothing really except maybe providing a gag scene or being a "where's waldo" character. The show's creators stupidly decided to give Derpy a small speaking role and have her name said in the show. Bronies rejoiced for weeks to come knowing that their beloved show pandered to them and made a non-cannon character cannon. The problem with derpy though is the name. Derpy was a word invented by South Park Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They pretty much explained as doing something stupid to get a laugh. These two people are in the adult comedy field. Just about everything they do or make isn't meant for little kids. Then there is the internet plus time factor. Derpy might not have started off as an insulting word, but just like the word "Retarded" (originally a medical term used by doctors) it became an insult. The bronies named her not realizing this. When she was named on the show people went ballistic. The episode was labeled "ableist" because it looked like they were promoting discrimination against people with handicaps. Hasbro soon realized their mistake and did their best to undo the damage they had done. This in turn enraged the bronies. They created petitions and websites telling Hasbro to not listen to the "politically correct few" that had supposedly let them in on this information. This was done by rabid and non rabid fans alike. The only real difference between them is the non-rabid fans only sent in letters and signed petitions . The rabid fans went in to death threats and tried to find blame. Which was found in a person by the name of Yamino who created fan art of her being "retarded". All of this was in vain though and she remained changed. The episode was edited and her name was removed permanently from the show. The real problem here though is that so much commotion happened OVER A BACKGROUND CHARACTER! This is the same as if fans of pokemon named a random human character that was seen a few times in various episodes, named him/her, and when this character is removed from the next season they go crazy. This show has hundreds of characters in the background. Many tv shows and movies do as well. Yet fans usually don't pay much mind or attention to them. Bronies do. They name just about every background character whether they speak or not. A character could show up once for a few seconds and by the end of the episode this pony will have a name. It becomes more ridiculous when you realize that this show is created in FLASH. Because of this the show's animators have been lazy on more than one occasion duplicating the same character numerous times for background scenes. All the characters on the show are also what would be called "cookie cutter" characters. Any one character design can be duplicated many times over to create new characters just by changing the colors, hair/tail style, and "cutie mark" on the flank. Yet bronies speak of "great" animation and of course name every incarnation of every cookie cutter pony. Going back to Derpy. She is as I previously said is a background character. A character who has no standing importance in the show. She doesn't help the main cast. She has no information or episodes dedicated to her and except for that one episode hasn't really ever been acknowledged. She doesn't do anything really except make the world that the characters live in look a little less barren. Just like all background characters do. Because it would be really weird to watch something where the main characters live in a big city or whatever and yet you never see anyone else in this area. By removing her Hasbro didn't hurt the show one bit. Yet bronies feel she is just as important as if she was a main character. No other fandom has ever felt this way about any background characters and would most likely not go to the lengths that bronies have for such a minuet character. Bronies have even gone as far as to give this character a life. She is married, has kids, and a job. None of which is true when it comes to the show. There are other characters that have about the same amount of exposure as Derpy that the bronies have also given similar treatment to. As I mentioned before no fandom has done this. Fandoms don't care about the background because usually the background (and its characters) have no effect on the story at hand. Superman fans will never watch a movie where a person calling for Superman's help is named John or Jane smith. Then when John/Jane Smith is removed from the next movie because he/she is seen as "offensive" they go crazy because their beloved random person that Superman saved is just as important as Superman.