12-09-2015, 03:40 PM
(12-09-2015, 08:26 AM)Shadow Step Wrote:(12-08-2015, 07:58 PM)Fiction Wrote: Teenagers are some of the dumbest people ever. And unfortunately, I'm one of them.
I had a dude on Facebook try to defeat my reasoning behind disliking a character in a TV show with, "You're a brony? You'll grow out of it, kid." So, to establish, I'm 24, about a year from graduating college with a bachelor's degree in English with an emphasis on creative fiction. I KNOW A GOOD CHARACTER.
So I check his profile. Sixteen photos of him in a high school classroom with a peachfuzz mustache posing almost duckface wearing a deadmau5 shirt (like, the way he's sitting clearly emphasizes the shirt, as if liking deadmau5 makes him cool).
I wrecked his preconceived notions about people that have pony avatars by explaining the traits of a good character, citing sources, and then told him that the only reason I'd changed my FB icon to a pony was because I had seen a comment about how people should "ignore any manbabies with cartoon icons (including that anime shit, because it's still a cartoon!) and bronies should be mocked." and decided to ruin other people's notions by posting the exact sort of things I'd done to him, well thought out, researched, and proper responses. He had nothing to respond with.
tl;dr, some teenager on facebook tried to be cool by calling me a kid because I have a pony avatar; I promptly destroyed him with college level fact checking. All this to agree with Fiction's post that teens are some of the dumbest people on the internet.
Gladly I don't have a facebook account and I am hiding my powerlevel very hard. What I really dislike is how much negativity pony stuff in general gets. I guess many people like to pick on the "weirdoes" so they will feel more confident or something.
Sadly people rarely grow out of high school...