>>5499
>Magic of Friendship? Ha ha.
hey watch out about laughing at that, I have heard that someone conquered an entire land for believing that unironically and not without success to be precise. Maybe you have heard about a certain Twilight Sparkle,who is ruling that land currently even though my info is limited about her way to handle it so far.

Friendship is Magic, as simple as that

>IDK if we "beat" the weebs.
considering that they are much bigger in numbers,there might be probably peculiar cases among them even though it's completely divided because of the insane number of seasonal animes that air in each quarter. So despite having a bigger size,the most dedicated fans of it may spend all their dedication in judging as many animes as possible of each season.

>Perhaps we are ahead in RnD though I don't see it as a contest.
me neither.While the concepts might be the same for every fanbase,the philosophy and base material to be a fan of varies greatly. In fact,anime has become so popular and so mainstream that personally,I would have to judge the subcommunities instead. While not being as huge as music or videogames,you would have to set the patterns for an entire industry.

Anyway, could the brony community have followed the patterns of weebs to some extent for all this time? Considering this post >>5497,it makes sense to copy or imitate some of their standards and twist them until finding a defined path.

If there is a contest,outsiders will put all these communities for the trophy of being seen as the worst to the public eye. MLP sometimes wins this and some still use the rule 34 argument to this day as if this franchise was the only one at that (EQD linked an article about that yesterday).

But as for the rest, definitely it's far from a competition.