Like in its 3rd year it was bigger than every furry con, and then 3 years later it's fucking dying, 2 after that it's shut down
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in reply to @fwankie's post:
I'm guessing a subset of them folded back into the furry community and the rest moved on
it's interesting that the rapid rise in attendance there seemed to have zero tradeoff with any of the other conventions, and indeed its rapid falloff seems to have contributed to feeding them
I'd argue that a lot of people just got on the hype train in the beginning, but the fandom itself isn't short-lived and is still going strong to this day. Con graphs also aren't a good way to chart the popularity of a fandom, the 2019 BronyCon got ~10k people because they couldn't fit more in the venue, and I'd guess the same is true for the furry conventions capping out at certain counts. Convention-goers are also the minority of people in both fandoms.
It's actually kind of hard to get simple data (eg google trends) for the pony fandom, because a lot of people don't use the term "brony" and just looking up "pony" or "mlp" gives a lot of misleading results.
One better proxy for fandom size might be the amount of fanworks - art, stories, music (mlp fandom especially early on has a lot more of that than furry I feel) - created in a given time frame. Shouldn't be hard to look up say on derpibooru the number of images (excluding screencaps etc) uploaded for each year or each month.
Convention attendance is a good enough measure here I think, it's constrained by the same things that furry cons and BLFC is the only one with even close to the same growth curve (also constrained by its venue)
Yeah, that'll happen when people start realizing the fascists run the show.
quibble: this is bronies not general MLP fans, the cons for old fans have been steadily trucking along for two decades.
this is just bronycon, even the post-G4 cons are steadily sailing along a decade and a half later and new ones keep popping up
Yeah sorry, I meant bronies specifically but hit the character limit lmao