B and friends thread

/b/ and friends

The /b/ and friends thread (sometimes referred to as /b/read) is a serial thread initially from the original pony threads on 4chan's /b/ (random) board. Originally, the only 2 pony threads on imageboards were the My Little Pony General (MLPG) on /co/ and the /b/ and friends thread on /b/, making them the longest running active communities of pony fans online.

Origin

For the February Bannings, see: Brony.

Running from early 2011 all the way to the current day, the original /b/ pony thread has gone through numerous changes and challenges. Despite moot and 4chan mods best efforts to rid /b/ of the pony menace, it has run almost unimpeded the entire time, the longest continually recurring serial thread in any imageboard's history.

The /b/ thread endures constant trolling, spam, bans, and other moderator efforts to make them leave, ranging from deletions to locks to changing the text in pony threads to be unreadable. Because of the difficulty in maintaining a community in such conditions, a refuge thread was made on Ponychan, referred to as the /b/ and friends thread. Some moved to this thread permanently, some stayed only in the 4chan thread, and some visited both.

When moot finally relented and created /mlp/ for pony fans, the thread underwent another semblance of a split, with a /b/ pony thread calling itself /b/read starting to recur there. At this time, there were 3 pony threads related to fans and friends who had found the show through /b/.

When MLPchan was created, after a short while the 2 non-/b/ threads - the /b/read and the /b/ and friends threads - merged on MLPchan and once again became /b/ and friends, becoming larger and faster than the two were separately, with the original thread continuing on /b/.

More recently, the /b/ thread itself has fallen into entropy, and while still recurring, any original or long term members have either moved on or prefer the relative peace of the /b/ and friends thread without the constant bans, spam and trolling, and having several members of the site staff who have originally been members of the thread.

Culture and Environment

The general atmosphere of a /b/ and friends thread is highly social; members know each other from long histories, often spanning across multiple sites and many months, if not years. The thread is highly populated for a serial thread and has accumulated many visitors from its long tenure and several sites it has called home before finally coming to long-term security.

The topics of a given thread will range from anything from video games to ponies to the relationships of the posters themselves. The tone of the threads is usually extremely lax, and a much wider berth is given to the thread than most others due to its history and origins on 4chan.

The thread members will also regularly refer to each other as fagets, fegs or other variations, a term of endearment it popularized long ago, and will engage in its own memes and in-jokes from its lengthy time.

Current Members

A list of current members, as of May 2013, who have posted within the previous month:

1. Coffee
2. Babsseed
3. Rita
4. Hupony
5. Tom
6. Mein Name Here
7. Macil
8. Momizi
9. Smiles
10. Neko
11. Alexis
12. Sadface
13. Brashy
14. Birdy-bird
15. Hash
16. hippy jesus
17. Nopony
18. Karma
19. Hamwall
20. the 20 percent
21. Trony
22. Umbra
23. Tracer Bullet
24. Ommadon
25. Blue
26. Luck of the Irish
27. Pulse
28. Poplep
29. Azimuth
30. Dract
31. Anonthony
32. Darwin
33. Lunafall
34. Cadance
35. Pinkie and the Shy/Wahah
36. Cato
37. Smoker
38. Bready
39. Herp
40. Esquire
41. Dashy
42. Desert
43. Kere
44. Pinkamena
45. Swipe
46. Ryft
47. swk (some white knight)
48. Troll
49. Bamboo Tank
50. Specc
51. Pinkie Pie Mike
52. Starshine
53. Pinkanon
54. Nate
55. Ethanol
56. Mochanon
57. Squidward
58. Urist
59. Funtimes
60. Juvenal
61. Sama
62. ScSquirrel
63. Choco
64. Ruse
65. Galoshes
66. yelloworange
67. awesome eel
68. Mellowbloom
69. Machinae
70. Xippy
71. Hashbrown/Sweetie
72. Shinauko
73. C (zecora anon)
74. bananapudding
75. Tense
76. Derpy squared
77. poni3
78. Commissar Flavikov Davedenko
79. fleur
80. FORREST
81. Chromy
82. Edinpony
83. Joey
84. Soren
85. Courier
86. Tarra
87. several notable anonymous posters

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