That's exactly what I mean. Here's a simple, yet depressing story of an event in my life. I used to have a small blog, which had a good anount of followers. I talked about basic stuff. Writing, programming, psychology, issues, stuff like that. (Please note this is before MLP FiM became widespread. At this point, it was just starting to gain a few followers.) Anyway, I had mentioned MLP FiM on a blog post. Apparently, my mass amount on activity of the internet had earned me some fans prior to this point. Anyway, this one follower of my blog was an extremist brony. And I mean extreme. Anyway, when I mentioned MLP, this is basically what I said. "Look, another kid's show picking up popularity on the internet. Looks like I'll have to check it out or whatever one day." This recieved a mix number if responses. This one brony sent me over one hundred emails asking me about My Little Pony. And these weren't normal questions. Some of these include: [Not quoted for respectable reasons] -Ask me if you need any pony pr0n! -What's your MLP sexual fantasy? Stuff like that. Some of which I won't go into Anywy, I had assumed it was a joke until the messages kept coming. And not just from him. I had a collection of over 300 emails about this crap. I deleted all of them, and made a post saying to stop sending emails about MLP FiM to me. This brony became very upset, even though I didn't mention him at all. He spammed my inbox with hateful messages, and tried to spam my blog about me being "gay". None of these rumours were true, but many people unsubbed because of him. Eventually, I had his account deactivated for harassment, and I shut down the blog for good. This by far influenced my view on bronies at the time, but I understand now that it's not everyone. This is one of the main reasons which I was (and sometimes still am) hesitant to call myself a brony.