The point i'm making is that nobody is trying to discredit MLP or say that it hasn't made a cultural or even a big impact on modern entertainment, nobody is taking that away from you nor do they dislike you because of that fact, most hate stems with the attitude that bronies give, if bronies didn't act so damn stubborn and realize when people doesn't like them, then people wouldn't honestly care.
It's no different than any other fanbase, and I can safely say some can be worse, but you have to draw a line between "Do you liek PONIES??!?!?" and then posting a bunch of pony images because you can. I guess half of this stems that MLP is generally favored as not normal to like, and that the studio audience is supposed to be young girls, while half of the fanbase is usually over 20. That's probably the big issue here, and that it's just asking for trolls to spam it and piss people off, and for the people who actually like it to get associated with that and get hate that really isn't needed, which just causes problems between bronies and non-bronies.