crossaffliction survey finds 1 in 1 guy asked can't name a pony
The first and only roundup of results from the Mainstream Brony Index uses 1 survey of 1 offline non-furry participant, and data from zero prior studies. This is why we're not connected to any universities.
Many findings revolved around how geeky the participant was:
-Squirtle is best Pokemon.
-Participant could name 100% of movie Avengers, but only 60% of "founding" Avengers.
-Participant thought Lovecraftian meant "crafted with love" even after being told H.P. Lovecraft was a person.
In addition, the completely non-furry sample made it possible to make several sort of educated guesses:
-non-furries know My Little Pony exists.
-non-furries prefer How I Met Your Mother to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
-non-furries don't know how to pronounce BroNYCon.
-non-furries read my articles.
-non-furries don't know many ponies, if any, at all.
The analysis refined absolutely shit, because there wasn't any previous studies.
Squirtle, squirting water and awesomeness
The first question of the survey was what is your favorite Pokemon. The respondents instantly replied Squirtle. When asked why (which was not originally a part of the survey, but I got curious, so whatevs, I'll throw it in), the respondent replied "Because he is awesome and squirts water." The surveyor, whose job has nothing to do with landscaping, by the way, noted that the second response seemed a bit sarcastic.
The point of this part of the survey was to show that the participant had at least one geeky tendency, and wasn't just a jock who only liked football. Though he does like football, too.
Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, the Hulk and Iron Man
For the second part of the survey, the respondent was asked to name the six Avengers from the recent movie entitled, aptly enough, The Avengers. The respondent was able to name all six (Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, the Hulk and Robert Downey, Jr.).
The respondent was then asked to name the five "founding" Avengers as first appeared in the also aptly named comic book, The Avengers #1, written by Stan "The Man" Lee and drawn by Jack "I Can't Remember His Nickname Without Looking It Up" Kirby. He was able to name the obvious Hulk, Iron Man and Thor, but also thought Hawkeye and Captain America were founding members, and completely missed Hank Pym/Ant Man/Giant Man/Yellowjacket/The Wasp/And I Probably Missed One Somewhere and the chick he hit one time.
The point of this part of the survey was to show that different mediums have different mass culture saturation points. Just because enough people saw two comic book movies this summer to make them number 1 and number 2 at the box office this year (I guess I better say so far, but come on? What's going to beat them?) doesn't mean they actually want to read actual comic books.
Mass culture saturation points. I just made that up, but doesn't it sound spiffy!
Pargon, pargon, pargon, pargon, pargon and pargon
The next question that I asked my poor, poor victim was who was H.P. Lovecraft. Guy said, and I quote, "I don't know." We assume that means he didn't know.
The next question was, "If you describe something as 'Lovecraftian,' what would you be describing?" He answered "crafted with love," which is kind of a stupid answer, we note. Then we had to explain who Lovecraft was, and how "crafted with love" is not the correct answer.
The point of these questions is to show even an influential, well respected, important, blah blah blah personage in certain circles, even someone whose influence of certain circles has led to that circle's influence of the mainstream, does not mean that personage will get much respect from the man on the street.
Even if they have become a freaking adjective. Also, since we're about to enter the pony portion of this dog and pony show, I would like to point out that no matter how influential Lauren Faust gets, she'll unfortunately never get to be an adjective.
Honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, laughter and magic
The surveyor then wrote the word "BroNYCon" on a piece of paper, and told the guy to read the word, since pronouncing it might give him a hint, and told him this was the name of a convention for fans of a TV show held in New York, like a Star Trek convention, and asked for the name of the TV show, and added that, whoops, we guess we kinda eliminated Star Trek, didn't we?
The guy answered How I Met Your Mother, which is exactly like Star Trek.
The final question was, "Name a My Little Pony character."
Here the respondent realized how off he was on his BroNYCon guess.
His response was, "Oh, and I just read your article *name omitted* showed me, but I can't think of any."
In other words, I had accidentally polluted my data pool, and it still didn't effect the fact that the guy could not name a single pony. Hell, I'd of taken Spike.
Admittedly, one interview with one dude taken on the spur of the moment basis does not a real study make, but the evidence does suggest, in this case, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is not mainstream.
crossaffliction survey finds 1 in 1 guy asked can't name a pony
The first and only roundup of results from the Mainstream Brony Index uses 1 survey of 1 offline non-furry participant, and data from zero prior studies. This is why we're not connected to any universities.
Many findings revolved around how geeky the participant was:
-Squirtle is best Pokemon.
-Participant could name 100% of movie Avengers, but only 60% of "founding" Avengers.
-Participant thought Lovecraftian meant "crafted with love" even after being told H.P. Lovecraft was a person.
In addition, the completely non-furry sample made it possible to make several sort of educated guesses:
-non-furries know My Little Pony exists.
-non-furries prefer How I Met Your Mother to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
-non-furries don't know how to pronounce BroNYCon.
-non-furries read my articles.
-non-furries don't know many ponies, if any, at all.
The analysis refined absolutely shit, because there wasn't any previous studies.
Squirtle, squirting water and awesomeness
The first question of the survey was what is your favorite Pokemon. The respondents instantly replied Squirtle. When asked why (which was not originally a part of the survey, but I got curious, so whatevs, I'll throw it in), the respondent replied "Because he is awesome and squirts water." The surveyor, whose job has nothing to do with landscaping, by the way, noted that the second response seemed a bit sarcastic.
The point of this part of the survey was to show that the participant had at least one geeky tendency, and wasn't just a jock who only liked football. Though he does like football, too.
Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, the Hulk and Iron Man
For the second part of the survey, the respondent was asked to name the six Avengers from the recent movie entitled, aptly enough, The Avengers. The respondent was able to name all six (Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor, the Hulk and Robert Downey, Jr.).
The respondent was then asked to name the five "founding" Avengers as first appeared in the also aptly named comic book, The Avengers #1, written by Stan "The Man" Lee and drawn by Jack "I Can't Remember His Nickname Without Looking It Up" Kirby. He was able to name the obvious Hulk, Iron Man and Thor, but also thought Hawkeye and Captain America were founding members, and completely missed Hank Pym/Ant Man/Giant Man/Yellowjacket/The Wasp/And I Probably Missed One Somewhere and the chick he hit one time.
The point of this part of the survey was to show that different mediums have different mass culture saturation points. Just because enough people saw two comic book movies this summer to make them number 1 and number 2 at the box office this year (I guess I better say so far, but come on? What's going to beat them?) doesn't mean they actually want to read actual comic books.
Mass culture saturation points. I just made that up, but doesn't it sound spiffy!
Pargon, pargon, pargon, pargon, pargon and pargon
The next question that I asked my poor, poor victim was who was H.P. Lovecraft. Guy said, and I quote, "I don't know." We assume that means he didn't know.
The next question was, "If you describe something as 'Lovecraftian,' what would you be describing?" He answered "crafted with love," which is kind of a stupid answer, we note. Then we had to explain who Lovecraft was, and how "crafted with love" is not the correct answer.
The point of these questions is to show even an influential, well respected, important, blah blah blah personage in certain circles, even someone whose influence of certain circles has led to that circle's influence of the mainstream, does not mean that personage will get much respect from the man on the street.
Even if they have become a freaking adjective. Also, since we're about to enter the pony portion of this dog and pony show, I would like to point out that no matter how influential Lauren Faust gets, she'll unfortunately never get to be an adjective.
Honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, laughter and magic
The surveyor then wrote the word "BroNYCon" on a piece of paper, and told the guy to read the word, since pronouncing it might give him a hint, and told him this was the name of a convention for fans of a TV show held in New York, like a Star Trek convention, and asked for the name of the TV show, and added that, whoops, we guess we kinda eliminated Star Trek, didn't we?
The guy answered How I Met Your Mother, which is exactly like Star Trek.
The final question was, "Name a My Little Pony character."
Here the respondent realized how off he was on his BroNYCon guess.
His response was, "Oh, and I just read your article *name omitted* showed me, but I can't think of any."
In other words, I had accidentally polluted my data pool, and it still didn't effect the fact that the guy could not name a single pony. Hell, I'd of taken Spike.
Admittedly, one interview with one dude taken on the spur of the moment basis does not a real study make, but the evidence does suggest, in this case, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is not mainstream.