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>>What leads Star wars fans to be abrasive dicks to Star Trek fans
I think generally speaking if you like one, you like the other. For the small minority that does hate the other, it's generally out of a desire to prove the universe they like better is in some way more valid than the other.
>>or for Normal people to hate Bronies?
Speaking personally, images like this did it. This right here epitomizes the problem. Think of any meme you like, anyone at all. Google image search it. Add the word pony.
Far more than any other fandom, for some inexplicable reason they feel the need to make everything about ponies. Inject it into every facet of everything they interact with. They hear a song they like, it's not enough that they like it, they have to in some way link it to ponies. That's what it is.
There are people who are like that for many fandoms, sure, but you can't say the majority of any other fandom is like that. Yes, you will find one Transformers fan who claims she's married to Optimus Prime, yes you'll find a few Doctor Who fans who spend their every waking moment pumping out two frame gifs on tumblr of every frame of the show, but generally speaking, even those people, at their most obsessed don't try to turn every conversation into the subject of their obsession.
It's like with religious people. You probably don't care if they are religious, but if they have to inject it into every conversation and remind you of it constantly, it becomes annoying. Or that one pothead friend who can't talk about anything else and ruins it for everyone.
Let me put it another way, JohnofE. He was one of the first lolcows to enter his own thread when he was first posted here and talk about himself, and at first everyone was very receptive, but after a few hundred posts everyone soured on him. Even the people who were flirting with him just wanted him to shut up, because he had outright admitted he was incapable of having a conversation that wasn't about his desire to in some way penetrate whichever cartoon dog or beaver he was obsessed with penetrating that week. From the word go everyone knew he fantasized about stabbing dogs to death, and still creepers were interested in him, but the fact that he could discuss absolutely nothing else turned even them away.
The way they can galvanize online communities, and behave as if their enjoyment of a children's cartoon is a social movement. That's the problem.
It doesn't help that they're extremely easy to make fun of. That their ranks are extremely stereotypical and seem to be made up entirely of the most embarrassing members of every other fandom. That they desire to do something most everyone else finds disgusting, absurd and laughable, and that due to their obsession they tend to have very short tempers and thus be extremely easy to troll.
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