It’s VERY odd. Who would ever do such a horrible thing? :O
 
</sarcasm>

Rock radio recently done a thing on bronies and it was the run of the mill “ I don’t get how adult ass men watch a show for little kids” I don’t think anyone will ever fully understand bronies unless they speak to them face to face.

@Naughtypony2010  
It was uploaded in November 2015.

@CyanLightning  
And what date?

@Naughtypony2010  
British.
 
 
@Lupin Quill  
Okay.

@CyanLightning  
Y’see? That’s how you do it. British papers are usually hit or miss, but this article works.

@CyanLightning  
Nice c: whens that from?

This tabloid is late at party. Like…..4 years late.

Health expert Dr “Gilda” Carle.
 
lel

You know what this means:  

@Vinyl Fluff  
agree its a bad issue from internet.  
sorry it just really burned in my head from what i first heard it is. the furry fandom.  
And because of…reasons i like to avoid the term close to mlp and its fandom.

That’s the problem. Because of the internet-going public’s perception of “furry”, and sometimes including some of the misinformation included with it, people have built up their own mental image of what constitutes a “furry.”
 
One person may think it’s only a character that stands on two feet and is literally covered in fur. Another may think it’s only a person with animal body parts attached. Yet another will think it’s only sexualized designs. And another will think it’s only “weirdos” who dress up in fursuits.
 
But when it comes down to it, the definition covers everything animal-related that exhibits some human-like characteristic.

@Vinyl Fluff  
now thats interesting. still would find it weird now to call them ‘just’ furries. it doesnt match from the concept somehow in my mind as its so overtaken by them as something else

@Naughtypony2010  

 
The concept of furries in the original definition of the word has existed with us since before recorded history. Some of the ancient Egyptian gods are a good example of some of the most well-known historical “furries.” Being half-wolf, or half-eagle, or half-cat, or whatnot.
 
The term “furry” dates back to the 70s, early 80s, before which it was predated by “funny animal.” The term(s) were usually only used by the people in the genre to begin with, that’s why the term wasn’t a well-known one until the internet later exploded and people in the genre could reach out and find other fans, and associate in larger numbers, and eventually knowledge started trickling out to the public at large, much of it misinformation and misunderstandings.

@Vinyl Fluff  
oh wow didnt know that really :O  
How is that i never heard it all being called furry? aside the actual fandom?  
anthro itself should describe the humanoid like creature forms.  
I had never heard the term furry to describe the ponies in whole 4 years i am in ^^. Sorry i really didnt its very new to me

@Naughtypony2010  

 
The definition of “furry” is an animal with anthropomorphic characteristics. We use “anthro” to describe human-like ponies here, but the term actually includes any human-like characteristics at all. This includes talking, self-awareness and more.
 
If it’s an animal that is completely feral in design but talks? It’s a furry.
 
If it’s an animal that is completely feral in design but is self-aware and sentient? It’s a furry.
 
This means every animal you’ve ever seen in any cartoon or otherwise falls under the definition unless they were completely feral and their depiction showed nothing more than what the real-life version was capable of.
 
That is, and always will be, the original definition of the term. Everything else afterwards is basically the individual person mentally making up their own personal criteria, but none of it counts.

@aerion111  
i understand you very good, they can be called anthromorphic animals. Very human like being in their world. however the word ‘animal’ pretty much overtakes in their look right said.  
Well we fans are something on their own and they relate to the show and are very appealed to the design
 
 
But there is what i disagree it is not a furry series as in how you would see it in the furry fandom.  
the source of everything here is the show. without it no ocs no stories nothing. And they have character most of the time. At least a little story and not any creature randomly drawn as such with no real source or characteristics. Maybe i see it wrong but it is what i get to see.

@Naughtypony2010  

 
Shrug There are some very talented artists and/or storytellers that use this site.  
I don’t know how else to explain it :P  
There aren’t a lot of other places I can find content this good this easily.  
‘Normal’ art (not furry or MLP-related) tends to be cluttered with low-quality and/or pretentious pieces, and even when the art is actually good it’s usually still not to my preference.  
Furry art feels very dominated by commissions, and is also fairly cluttered with stuff I don’t care about.
 
Really, the big thing is the tag system; Being able to Hide, Spoiler, Search, and Watch tags is very helpful, and the other sites I browse for art do not have that.  
I’ve checked ‘booru’s in the past, but they’re usually a lot more minimal in their tags; You’d never have a ‘* is trying to kill us’ series of tags in those sites, for example. You’d be lucky if they can even remember to tag the artist.  
But even beyond that, even back before I re-filtered some of the less interesting tags (‘Pony Creator’ for example), this site has a fairly decent concentration of good art; If the fandom has as many bad artists as the world in general does, then they’ve certainly stayed away from this site.
 
Heck, I haven’t even FOUND a non-MLP ‘tumblr ask blog’ with a good story (tumblr being the only other place I regularly browse pony content - Youtube doesn’t count)  
Homestuck fans tried, but I think it died out before they perfected the formula, since even some long-dead MLP blogs seem more interesting than any Homestuck ones I found.
 
But… Let’s be honest for a moment; MLP is a furry series.  
It’s on the ‘feral’ side, as in they are very animal-like, but they’re certainly not humans.  
Nor are they entirely new fantasy creatures with no basis in reality; They’re look vaguely like and are referred to as ponies, and two of the races are referred to and look vaguely like Unicorns and Pegasi. Plus all the horse puns.  
So, they are ponies with humanoid characteristics.  
All the argument about exactly where the line of ‘furry’ is drawn aside, that at least fits the most basic definition; Anthropomorphic animals.  
I might not be the target audience for the show - and don’t get me wrong, I can usually see the quality and hard work in the popular episodes, and it’d probably be my favorite show ever if I was a little girl, they just spend too much time talking, exploring the social side of the world, and making up new things at a whim (so, things that would suit a stereotypical young female viewer), and too little time going into the complex rules of magic, clever problem solving, and action I’d prefer (but which would be a mix of boring and scary to said young girls)  
But I am often the target audience for the fanart; Even when they don’t go the more ‘young adult novel’ route, the art is usually much better (a TV show could never compete with static art. It can’t even compete with high-end movies), but often the concepts and directions are a lot more to my liking.  
And then there’s stuff like ‘Fallout Equestria’, and its off-shoots (of which I’ve only gotten through most of Project Horizon. I’ll probably read more later), where it’s just straight out mature - I know both have mixed reputations, but I’ve always managed to tolerate some flaws in the writing as long as I’m immersed in the story (which I was)  
Turns out, content made by young-adults and up, with the intended audience being other young-adults and up, is a lot more likely to be what I enjoy.  
So shrug MLP fanart is relevant to my interests as a furry with certain tastes in story-genres and such.

Also they still use G1 artwork instead of G4

“Still it’s very odd”

@Lupin Quill  
To be fair, ‘fetish’ doesn’t strictly mean something sexual. That’s just its most well-known and most applied definition. The second definition of fetish says: “a course of action to which one has an excessive and irrational commitment.”
 
Yes, the writer of the article likely had strange sex rituals on the brain. But given how attached some of us are to MLP, even those of us not invested in clop can still be said to fetishize the show and its characters.

@FanOfMostEverything  
Hehehe, yeah, that section isn’t so flattering, but the rest of it tends to negate the few terms like that.
 
Besides, I found the whole article quite humorous and took it in stride.
 
“I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe.  
I was not offended,  
for I knew I had to rise above it all  
or drown in my own shit.”  
- ‘Maggot Brain’, Funkadelic

@Mildgyth  
Assuming the “Globe” in the header is what I think it is, that’s exactly where this came from.

The whole article reminds me of the ghetto-trash tabloids i see selling on supermarkets once in a while. the only thing missing here is sensationalized crime.