Looking back at it, its kind of wild how for years one of the biggest internet subcultures was adult male fans of my little pony (hexbear.net)

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And also there was (And still is probably) a signficant child and woman hating segment of that subculture

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[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

The regular (non-problematic) fandom also never really went away. There are still plenty of MLP related fanfic sites, discord servers, forum sites, subreddits, YouTube creators, etc. out there. It definitely isn’t talked as much about outside of those spaces, but it’s still fairly active.

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