Jenny Nicholson Being Gatekept and Mansplained

Clearly a fake pony fan

[spinyfur]

Why are you stealing Jenny Nichols’ videos and posting them yourself?

[indiramaldonadovalverde]

I’m sorry but gatekeeping the flintstones is so funny to me. Idk why it’s just such an un-gatekeepable franchise. It’s like gatekeeping I Love Lucy

[alfy]

Jenny: *wears full star wars cosplay, clearly homemade*
Some guy: ah yes I must familiarise this person with the basic structure of the star wars franchise

[ninereeds]

I CANNOT believe that Jenny got gatekept at an abandoned Flintstones themepark. Like, who even was that guy?

[T-Jex]

Full growned up adult gatekeeping my little pony from women

[Demon]

Fucking explaining the absolute bare bones basics of Star Wars at a Star Wars convention has me fucking dead

[Eira_]

For people who tend to normally complain about woman not being into their hobbies, they sure seem to try really hard to make sure woman who are into their hobbies don't exist in their mind.

[Babyteef]

I still cant understand how Jenny got mansplained to at bronycon like she wasnt a VERY well known person in the community, she was a PANELIST at one point too. Like how???

[seanicus]

That first guy is so cool. He's right that Jenny is totally a loser fake-pony fan if she hadn't heard of this complete chad's sigma pony creation.

[shawnabiera]

I really wish she would hit them back like "Oh, you've never heard of me, Jenny Nicholson, who's made hours long essays on the topic?? Fake YouTube fan smh"

[rjr]

“At yes. This woman at this Star Wars conversation clearly doesn’t know anything about Star Wars. I must be the one to explain it to her”

[HelplessFangirl]

As someone with an OC, the appropriate response when asked about your character is to word salad their entire lore at the poor sucker who asked

Edit: now that you’re all here, let me tell you about my original charact—

[Lucifersfursona]

HER FRIEND’S FACE AT THE END
HER EYES

Incredible. Absolutely slaughtering this ignorant stranger

[BeefBronson]

Wait, Anakin TRANSITIONED??? Good for him!

[rya]

No no wait, i think that last guy wanted to explain why Anakin is a trans icon

[primroseprom]

Once a guy tried flirting with me by saying he’d “Be the Luke to my Leia before they knew they were siblings” and I just stared at him for a whole second like, “Wow.. She has a whole ass husband but you decided to talk about the incest.”

To stay on-theme with the video, this same guy then called me a fake Star Wars fan for saying my favorite movie in the series was Rogue One because heavens forbid anyone likes anything new.

[cybramir]

the last one is the funniest considering Jenny was the host of a whole ass Star Wars centered talk show

[rowan]

Side note: how is not knowing one specific person’s OC a knock against a person as a fan of a franchise? Lots of people are fans but not heavily involved in fandom, or may even be extremely involved (like Jenny) but the internet is a big place and not everyone is going to know all the little goings on about a fandom. Let’s say even if this guy had a big following in his circle of fandom; why does not being in that circle of fandom mean she’s not a “real fan” of the franchise? Even if we were to accept that there were “fake fans”, not knowing about a fandom element doesn’t make you less of a fan of a franchise. The “logic” of the argument is baffling to me.

[Arisusa]

Wow, it sucks that gatekeeping is still such a thing. I feel bad that Jenny has had to run into that on so many occasions. That last guy reminds me of the time I went to an anime con and cosplayed as Mikuru from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, only for some dude passing me in the stairway to stop me and criticize my outfit because "I should be wearing my hair in pigtails because the's how she wears it and my boobs need to be bigger to really look like the character." She only wears her hair like that in the first episode while wearing a totally different outfit than the standard school uniform she wears for almost EVERY EPISODE AFTER that I was cosplaying. Also, sorry that I was a flat-chested teenager who could only stuff a D-cup bra so much. I politely nodded and agreed at the time rather than call him out, because I had no idea how to address that sudden weirdness.

[madelynsmith]

Bailey's face at the end is killing me