Citations:brony

English citations of brony

Noun: "a fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, particularly an adult male" edit

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2011 March 10, Scott Dennis, “Ponies overachieving, from feminism to 4chan”, in The Daily Barometer‎^[1], →ISSN:
Back in the mystical land of 4chan, as the show's popularity grew, fans on the site began referring to themselves as "/b/ronies" (the /b/ referring to the board) or simply "Bronies" (indicating male fans of the series).
2011 April 10, Kinley O'Sullivan, “Confound these ponies!”, in Sonoma State Star‎^[2]:
Males who have begun watching the show have proudly taken up the label of "Bronies."
2011 April 11, Joe Coscarelli, “4Chan-Based 'Bronies' Continue Their Media Takeover”, in New York‎^[3], →ISSN:
About a year ago, the legendary image-board 4Chan, most often recognized for its child-porn problem and for spawning the hacker group Anonymous, gave rise to another strange subset: self-proclaimed "bronies" (as in bro plus pony), young male fans of the remake of the little girl's eighties cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
2011 June 27, Megan Gibson, “Guess Who's A Fan? Former President Bill Clinton is a 'Brony'”, in Time‎^[4]:
Sure, you know Bill Clinton the former president of the United States, a Rhodes scholar and the husband to the Secretary of State, but did you know that he's also a brony?
2011 August 3, Joshua Ostroff, “All-ages show: Hipsters love children's programming”, in National Post‎^[5]:
Pony's cool cred has even led to its own adult-fuelled Internet subculture — tens of thousands of pieces of fan art, chiptune songs and videos mashing up pastel Pony scenes with movie trailer audio from The Dark Knight, The Watchmen and Inglourious Basterds — and sparked a surprising male following known as "bronies."
2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's‎^[6], →ISSN:
But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."
2011 November 20, Kasey Jones, “Male audience ponies up ‘Friendship is Magic’”, in East Tennessean‎^[7]:
Brony. The combination of "bro" and "pony," a brony is a self-describing term used to identify males who watch, follow and are fans of the show "My Little Pony."
2011 December 26, Alexandra Alcasid, “Ponies and bronies”, in Manila Standard Today‎^[8]:
Each and every brony has his or her reason for watching and loving the show.
2012 January 10, Angela Watercutter, “Brony Census Tracks 'State of the Herd'”, in Wired‎^[9]:
The census' creator, who goes by "Coder Brony," compiled the data by setting up a 10-question panel on Survey Monkey, then soliciting bronies to respond on fan sites like Equestria Daily.
2012 January 20, “The Mane Event”, in Irish Independent‎^[10]:
The Irish Bronies have created their own mascot, a pony called Shamrock, and regularly organise trips to toy stores to buy the latest merchandise.
2012 April 6, Melody Wilson, “D.C. 'bronies' feel the love and friendship of 'My Little Pony'”, in The Washington Post‎^[11], →ISSN:
The event is a meet-up of D.C. area "bronies": adult men — and some women — who follow the animated TV show religiously.
2012 July 1, Dave Collins, “BRONIES: Bro's Little Pony convention”, in Colorado Daily‎^[12]:
Bronies say they're a misunderstood lot who've gotten a bad rap from the media.