This. I blame Lord Pony the Trolly.
Not you responding to said troll in an 80 page thread? Sure whatever fits your ego.
Before I go, I'll just make one more point:
There have been many fads. Furries, Housepets, fsjal... There were also megathreads created for such. But why did they go downhill? Because some people chose to start arguments over it. This pretty much would not have happened if you were tolerant of a few pictures being posted in different topics.
If people hadn't chosen to start posting things intended to piss off a group of avatar fad users, none of this would have happened. The Bronies are ultimately not to fault.
You just can't accept you followed a fad too far after it crashed an burned on the mountain. No that's cool, nobody's at fault here fellas, just 75+ pages of "no big deal". Not like there was a definable effort involved point to point. These things happen right?
Heck it's not the people who brought the pony avatars here's fault it's the people with the preconceived notions that pony avatars are bad! The Lincoln/Douglas debates didn't solve anything because all the points debated were already known, right? Hence a debate not being a debate... where am I going? I'll tell you!
You're all stupid. Congrats on responding to all of this acting like you didn't care. You're the real winners.