This is Celestia and Denis.
Celestia is lord of magic pony world,
Denis - security. But, more important, he's a Brony.
That means "bro" and "pony".
It's some weird adult men
who plays with toys, isn't?
Totally not! It's normal adult men
who like a cartoon series for little girls.
This spark appears, when I understood
that all of you are my friends!
Their united not only by love to characters,
also by idea to understanding and good relationship to others,
which promotes this cartoon.
Therefore, Brony isn't just a fan club:
subculture, hippies of the new century.
Classic subcultures, as we says -
gothics, emo, punks, hippies, skinheads, etc -
they are at this moment on the marginal position,
very few people mentioned they.
Researchers from Higher School of Economics at three years interviewed the participants
of modern youth associations and followed their lives.
It's a introduction picture.
We has about fifty people...
Yeah, some time, remember?
Dagestan street workout and parkour, tatar rap...
Western course, even without russian names,
naturally joined in the patriotic course.
I am a free bird,
I do not chase fashion
and I don't drive in the boxes,
walk from the Sloboda to center,
on the banks of the Kazanka...
In the late 80's and 90's western was copied as is
and contrasted to Soviet lifestyle.
After almost twenty years,
subcultures and protests are no longer synonymous.
Now young people are friends not against someone,
just with each other, united by interests.
Three of the most mass movements of modern Russia:
gamers - they have the overall lead in the researched cities;
bikers - in the second position;
bronze, surprise, at the fans of board games.
Black cloak to the floor - you are probably Goth.
Add a contrasting pink and bangs in half face - that emo.
Leather jakets - rockers, iroquois - punk.
So it was before!
Today, the issue of identification of supporters in the crowd is no longer necessary:
now they are easier to find in the social networks.
Do, please, that such a position...
here's a little bit, well, that it...
Yuri - fan of the anime, japanese comics and cartoons.
In casual, an assistant professor of philosophy.
But in university employee his at the job,
on the Caucasus that's safely.
But he's more like a white jacked and a red wig
of Butler Useramiya,
character of the novell "When the Seagulls Cry".
In our country can be still a stereotypes to the geek culture
for most people it's a unexpected, specialy in the provinces.
we just try to promote
cosplay and geek culture...
Nikita - admin of the one of the largest Brony clubs.
Nastya - his team mate.
In their public page on VK about forty thousand subscribers,
more than half - men.
They can see themselves in the characters and begin to match them
and they also get a lot of friends.
By changing the shape and nature, subcultures didn't change the main goal -
unite people.
Sergey Sirkin, Nikolay Bulkin, Nikol Morozova, Maxim Konovalov, Viktor Babenko.
NTV. Moscow, St.Petersburg, Pyatigorsk.