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Yeah. 00:00:35.370 --> 00:00:40.330 We are a fanclub of Enterprise and various other Science Fiction movies, as 00:00:40.330 --> 00:00:42.760 Fandoms, but 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:48.650 mainly it's about Enterprise, Star Trek. 00:00:48.650 --> 00:00:50.180 I came to it 00:00:50.180 --> 00:00:55.330 15, 16 years ago, through a 00:00:55.330 --> 00:00:57.750 former colleague. 00:00:57.750 --> 00:00:58.820 And since then 00:00:58.820 --> 00:01:01.480 I'm a big fan of Star Trek. 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:04.310 Enterprise is 00:01:04.310 --> 00:01:06.510 something that's not 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:09.170 that much of an utopia. 00:01:09.170 --> 00:01:12.800 Enterprise is nowadays 00:01:12.800 --> 00:01:14.560 almost reality. 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:17.730 Mobile phones for example. 00:01:17.730 --> 00:01:21.640 Captain Kirk's communicator was the inspiration for today's mobile phones. 00:01:24.350 --> 00:01:25.440 Kirk to Enterprise. 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:26.500 Scotty here, Sir. 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:27.350 We're beaming up. 00:01:27.350 --> 00:01:29.330 Notify transporter room. 00:01:29.330 --> 00:01:33.000 That's why Enterprise is something more real to me. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.690 Star Wars on the other hand, the Jedis for example. You can't bundle light to a 00:01:37.690 --> 00:01:38.890 lightsabre. That's 00:01:38.890 --> 00:01:40.690 impossible. 00:01:40.690 --> 00:01:42.820 But Enterprise, yes, 00:01:42.820 --> 00:01:49.820 there are many possible things. 00:01:59.740 --> 00:02:00.890 I came to 00:02:00.890 --> 00:02:05.210 the anime-fandom, because I started drawing Mangas. 00:02:05.210 --> 00:02:09.649 And 2012 I went to my first convention, 00:02:09.649 --> 00:02:11.009 the "aninite" in vienna. 00:02:11.009 --> 00:02:14.519 First I was there "in civil", but I liked it so much that 00:02:14.519 --> 00:02:15.949 the next day I returned in 00:02:15.949 --> 00:02:20.939 Cosplay, although it was a simple one, "L" from deathnote, 00:02:20.939 --> 00:02:22.879 which is not complicated at all. 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:25.839 But I got to know many people, 00:02:25.839 --> 00:02:29.799 and was "sucked in" into the scene. I'm staying in the fandom, because everyone's 00:02:29.799 --> 00:02:36.799 tolerant and there are no borders of how you should be or not be. 00:02:41.269 --> 00:02:44.400 You get weird looks when you go out in 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:45.819 Cosplay, like 00:02:45.819 --> 00:02:46.850 this saturday. 00:02:46.850 --> 00:02:51.890 I was on a cosplay-meetup with a blue 00:02:51.890 --> 00:02:54.259 120cm long wig. 00:02:54.259 --> 00:02:58.289 We got these weirded out looks quite often, people mocked 00:02:58.289 --> 00:03:03.409 us with "Is carnival?", "Is Halloween?" questions and stuff. 00:03:03.409 --> 00:03:06.639 But we ignore it, we're used to these things. 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.759 When you do that often, it's 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:15.759 easy to ignore. 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.349 My name is Dominik Scheidl, I'm 00:03:25.349 --> 00:03:27.889 17 years old, 00:03:27.889 --> 00:03:29.079 and about 00:03:29.079 --> 00:03:33.429 one and a half years ago I came to the Brony-fandom through coincidence. 00:03:33.429 --> 00:03:38.350 My little pony is already pretty known since childhood, 00:03:38.350 --> 00:03:43.120 the old 80's series and stuff. I came across the new series in 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:44.939 2012 00:03:44.939 --> 00:03:47.329 at the ACTA-demonstrations, where 00:03:47.329 --> 00:03:53.429 I met the Bronies with their signs and 00:03:53.429 --> 00:03:55.080 their slogans. 00:03:56.179 --> 00:03:58.990 That was just amazing. 00:03:58.990 --> 00:04:00.079 I asked myself, 00:04:00.079 --> 00:04:01.449 "Where from?" 00:04:01.449 --> 00:04:04.120 So I searched youtube, and 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:06.609 found the new episodes. 00:04:07.640 --> 00:04:12.050 I started watching and I just kinda fell in the fandom. You think, "a children's cartoon", 00:04:12.050 --> 00:04:17.930 but it handles a lot of different topics, like 00:04:17.930 --> 00:04:24.059 friendship, courage, and 00:04:25.180 --> 00:04:27.060 problem solving. 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:29.409 They give direct advice on how to handle 00:04:29.409 --> 00:04:32.409 everyday-problems and -situations, 00:04:32.409 --> 00:04:39.409 wrapped in an entertaining series. 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:50.300 The 00:04:50.300 --> 00:04:55.520 fanactivities, that fans create websites, are active in a 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:57.199 creative way, 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:02.210 that's pretty rare in nowaday-scenes. That's what's so cool about it. 00:05:02.740 --> 00:05:06.879 The people draw fanart, they animate stuff, 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.540 they organzie events, meetups, 00:05:10.380 --> 00:05:13.180 write stories, it's... 00:05:13.180 --> 00:05:15.699 It's similar to 00:05:15.699 --> 00:05:17.729 the anime-fandom. 00:05:17.729 --> 00:05:21.599 It's exactly the same there, people are active on their own, 00:05:21.599 --> 00:05:26.219 create new things around the fandom, and that's what makes it so alive and dynamic. 00:05:26.219 --> 00:05:30.349 The people in the anime-scene organize events on their own, 00:05:30.349 --> 00:05:32.360 for example 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:36.349 the "Krümmelday vienna", a monthly meetup 00:05:36.349 --> 00:05:37.309 from a friend of mine. 00:05:37.309 --> 00:05:41.059 The cosplayers and Otakus, animefans go there, 00:05:41.059 --> 00:05:43.909 and unfortunately there are few big conventions, 00:05:43.909 --> 00:05:47.549 so most of the cosplayers and otakus 00:05:48.509 --> 00:05:52.550 have small monthly meetings, or go to the VCC Vienna Cosplay Club 00:05:52.550 --> 00:05:55.419 every wednesday. 00:05:55.419 --> 00:05:57.819 We are very active. 00:05:57.819 --> 00:06:01.619 I go to events like, for example last year was an event at the Prater. 00:06:01.619 --> 00:06:06.650 You get photographed all the time, 00:06:06.650 --> 00:06:11.129 we also already were on television in various shows. 00:06:11.129 --> 00:06:14.520 So, weird looks, no not at all, 00:06:14.520 --> 00:06:18.789 once we walked through the Mariahilfer-street with a group of klingons, 00:06:18.789 --> 00:06:24.740 and it was just really funny, so, 00:06:24.740 --> 00:06:27.059 weird looks, no, 00:06:27.059 --> 00:06:31.469 nowadays they give other people the weird looks. 00:06:33.039 --> 00:06:35.759 There are always abysses 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.939 in fandoms. For example, I got invited to a group on facebook, 00:06:38.939 --> 00:06:39.770 called 00:06:39.770 --> 00:06:46.039 "Bad Bronies austria - not safe for work". 00:06:46.039 --> 00:06:50.199 And there are more...let's say, 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:53.439 offensive pictures and videos. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:54.729 There's 00:06:54.729 --> 00:06:57.960 brutal pony content, like, 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:02.589 the ".MOV" series on youtube, a kinda 00:07:02.589 --> 00:07:05.850 extreme variation of my little pony. 00:07:05.850 --> 00:07:09.040 Boy let me tell ya, I sure do love apples. 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:16.040 Applejack, what are you doing? You can't eat all those fucking apples. - FUCK YOU I CAN'T EAT ALL THESE APPLES! Nomnomnom. 00:07:16.210 --> 00:07:19.460 There also is, 00:07:19.460 --> 00:07:24.589 a very delicate topic, ponyporn. 00:07:24.589 --> 00:07:28.520 Yeah, as I said, everything has 00:07:28.520 --> 00:07:32.930 a dark side. 00:07:32.930 --> 00:07:34.550 There are 00:07:34.550 --> 00:07:37.050 many in the scene 00:07:37.050 --> 00:07:41.520 who are only here for Etchi and Hentai, so, the erotic stuff. 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:44.619 But they're not that active. 00:07:44.619 --> 00:07:48.149 I mean, not that active in the "normal" anime-scene. But there's 00:07:48.149 --> 00:07:50.879 a lot of hentai-sites, 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.869 I know one hentai-artist personally, 00:07:52.869 --> 00:07:54.929 he draws extremely good, and 00:07:54.929 --> 00:07:57.839 I mean, I accept it, it doesn't matter, 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:01.699 he draws, he's active, he likes anime, why shouldn't I 00:08:01.699 --> 00:08:02.839 tolerate it 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:06.770 when he likes to watch and draw hentai. 00:08:06.770 --> 00:08:11.699 Right now we're in the hobby room of the residential complex which I'm 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:13.039 caretaker of. 00:08:13.039 --> 00:08:17.259 The room's used once or twice a month 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:18.159 for 00:08:18.159 --> 00:08:19.760 meetups of our fanclubs 00:08:19.760 --> 00:08:23.039 "Galactic friendship" and "Vulkan Spirit". 00:08:23.039 --> 00:08:27.270 So I set up the whole room in fitting style. 00:08:28.740 --> 00:08:30.330 That's fandom. 00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:33.230 Pure fandome. 00:08:33.230 --> 00:08:37.970 You can become very obsessed about it, or not at all, it depends. 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:41.460 How many autographs do you have? 00:08:41.460 --> 00:08:44.300 When I say 30 or 35, it's not much. 00:08:44.300 --> 00:08:46.990 I have a lot. 00:08:46.990 --> 00:08:48.840 The wall's full of them. 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.430 Are they all real? 00:08:50.430 --> 00:08:52.100 Except of one, yes. 00:08:52.100 --> 00:08:58.930 I tried to gather them all, but sadly McCoy died 00:09:01.470 --> 00:09:05.180 and so the best I could get, was... 00:09:05.180 --> 00:09:06.930 let's say, 00:09:06.930 --> 00:09:10.300 a good copy. 00:09:10.300 --> 00:09:13.860 But it is almost worth as much as an original. 00:09:13.860 --> 00:09:15.620 Klingooon!!! 00:09:15.620 --> 00:09:19.080 HAHAHAAAA!!! 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:25.240 HAAAARGH!!! 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:27.560 Now you see me as a klingon. 00:09:27.560 --> 00:09:31.890 That's one of the most-beloved races in Star Trek. 00:09:31.890 --> 00:09:35.370 I made the costume myself, you see, 00:09:35.370 --> 00:09:38.520 the only things I bought are the hair and the beard. 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:43.440 I didn't want the usual uniform they have in the movies, gray, with 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:44.900 stripes. 00:09:44.900 --> 00:09:48.250 I wanted a different color, plus, 00:09:48.250 --> 00:09:55.250 I'm not that much of a warrior, but more the governeur. 00:09:55.290 --> 00:09:58.310 I work in a media company, 00:09:58.310 --> 00:10:02.620 my colleagues know what I do in my free time, 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:05.790 they don't really have a problem with it. 00:10:05.790 --> 00:10:08.880 Sometimes you get the weird looks, but 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:11.520 that doesn't bother me. 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:14.370 All my friends, except 00:10:14.370 --> 00:10:17.970 of two are from the anime-scene. 00:10:17.970 --> 00:10:19.210 Almost 00:10:19.210 --> 00:10:23.550 daily I just write with the people, draw Mangas, prepare 00:10:23.550 --> 00:10:26.900 cosplays, I don't really do 00:10:26.900 --> 00:10:31.560 much more than meeting them and cosplaying. 00:10:31.560 --> 00:10:35.100 That's why I have less time now for my other friends, 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:38.780 unfortunately, some of them can manage it, some 00:10:38.780 --> 00:10:39.560 not, 00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:42.620 and I try to show a good friend of mine 00:10:42.620 --> 00:10:43.500 the scene, 00:10:43.500 --> 00:10:47.290 hopefully she likes it so that we can 00:10:47.290 --> 00:10:51.990 hang out together more often and have fun. 00:10:51.990 --> 00:10:54.240 I really hope that I 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:56.570 stay in the fandom, 00:10:56.570 --> 00:10:58.650 I promised me that. 00:10:58.650 --> 00:11:02.550 Maybe one day my children will become bronies too, 00:11:02.550 --> 00:11:09.550 I'd find that great, 'cause this fandom's just a good thing. 00:11:10.310 --> 00:11:13.600 Slipping out of myself for one hour, 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.600 becoming the character I portray, 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.990 is like 2 weeks of vacation and recovery to me. 00:11:20.990 --> 00:11:26.740 Woooooo-woooooo! Woooowoowoowoowooooooo! 00:11:26.740 --> 00:11:27.620 Woowoooooo-wooooo! Woooowoowoowoowooooo!