Usually alot of my posts end up as the very last one and it goes to the next page :/
Boy do I know that feeling.
Anyways, so Bisjac was saying in that "bronypassions" thread a while back (that one where me and Kimon and later one other guy basically took the trollbait) that the entire fandom is basically handicaps who didn't get that the thing was "a joke from the very beginning", and that prettymuch the entire early fandom was nothing but people richarding around trolling and joking. Cybersix claims this is true (and allegedly knows 4chan so well that it must be true!), but given that both of them have a history of being richards to groups they don't like, I'm wondering if what they said had any actual basis in reality.
I realize that to an extent it shouldn't matter anymore, it's not what it started as but what it is now, but they also said it still is a "joke fandom" and therefore everyone in it is faking it or handicapped/dumb/dense/etcetra.
Does anyone have any information on the actual beginnings of the fandom, and (if Bisjac is in fact correct) at what point it converted from "joke" to "serious"? Cause so far I've had no luck.