Citations:bronyspeak
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Noun: "(fandom slang) the special slang used within the brony community[edit]
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- 2013, Jon Coumes, "What Do Men's Rights Activists and Bronies Have in Common?", The American Prospect, 7 April 2013:
- Brony communities invented ‘bronyspeak’ and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that ‘nopony’ has to suffer social rejection.
- 2015, Bill Ellis, "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet", Journal of American Folklore, Volume 128, Number 509, Summer 2015:
- This playful "ponyspeak" is innocent and easy to decode, but it inspired the much more vernacular "bronyspeak," a hybrid of this official wordplay with oral urban slang.
- 2015, Robert Glenn Howard, "Introduction: Why Digital Network Hybridity Is the New Normal (Hey! Check This Stuff Out)", The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 128, Number 509, Summer 2015, page 257:
- By 2010, the My Little Pony children’s cartoon had developed a network of adult fans, predominantly young males, by circulating “photoshops” (computer-generated visual humor) and discussing them online using an emic folk speech called “bronyspeak.”
- 2016, Nicolai Puggaard Hansen, "Fandom In The Digita; Age: An Exploration of Value Co-Creation in Online Fan Communities", thesis submitted to Copenhagen Business School, page 53:
- In the Brony fandom, despite referencing phrases and catch phrases from the show, the bronies have created a separate language, Bronyspeak.