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  • In his Amazons Attack review, Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall belts out "I AM A MAN!" and punches offscreen, only to pull his hand back and find he's holding an adorable teddy bear. Cue him gushing "Bear!" and hugging it.
  • Lester of The Awkward Compilation is a big fan of Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl.
  • The Cinema Snob is an unapologetic and unabashed fan of Sex and the City, his reviews of the films practically placing him in the role of an angry fanboy. His review of the first film attempts to excuse this interest by claiming Jay Sherman forced him to watch the entirety of the series, but by the time the video for the second film comes out, he makes no excuse for his genuine love for the series.
  • Discussed in CollegeHumor's "Crippling Levels of Manliness." The spokesperson for a Rated M for Manly beer commercial starts questioning why he's so insistent on being manly, and decides to start exploring his more feminine sides.
  • Arkada of the DesuDesBrigade, a Canadian Internet reviewer of anime that makes peanut butter by smashing peanuts off of live Narwhale's skulls, is a fan of Princess Tutu and Fruits Basket.
    • Professor Otaku tops him by being a Gals! fan. And it seems he enjoyed the heck out of Tutu as well.
    • According to them, "Real men watch Princess Tutu."
  • The "Pink Pulverizer", seen in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog wears a pink mask, boots and boxing gloves. His bedroom is also pink, and filled with teddy bears and lace bedsheets.
  • A pair of fuzzy bunny slippers are a part of Doctor Steel's lounging wardrobe. (He's also been photographed with a teddy bear.)
  • CR of Familiar Faces is a brony and proud of it, having done a two parter My Little Pony retrospective, drawing My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanart, and even starting his own segment of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode reviews called "Reviews are Magic." note 
    • The late Jew Wario was also a brony.
    • As has 8-Bit Mickey.
  • Game Grumps: Arin picks female characters as a rule. Power Rangers thwarted him by substituting a Palette Swap for Kimberly (or "Man Ass", as Arin calls her.)
  • Husky Starcraft will always root for the Starcraft II player who wears pink, and is a proponent of this trope.
  • When Inu and Basileus of Inu And Friends Gaming do a Let's Play Pokémon series, they naturally pick Pokémon FireRed just so they can use the Moemon patch and routinely comment on the adorable spites.
    • This is somewhat hypocritical, since during their Let's Play of Tales of Destiny they broke out into a laughing fit when Leon learned Pow Hammer/Piko Hammer, a move normally reserved for girls.
  • In My Hero Academia: Abridged, explosive musclehead Jerkass Katsuki Bakugo offhandedly mentions that he enjoys gardening in his spare time — which he then uses to threaten to kill Deku like he kills rabbits.
  • Metal of MyMusic is a brony.
  • Male Neopets are perfectly happy playing with girls' toys such as Usuki Dolls, receiving cutesy-looking Petpets, wearing feminine articles of clothing or even being painted girly colors such as Faerie or Pink.
  • PewDiePie says "Real men Scream Like Little Girls."
  • Real Men, a machinima of Dissidia Final Fantasy featured Squall and Cloud arguing over which one was the bigger man. Cloud attempts to use the shirtless, scar-riddled beefcake known as Jecht to make his point.
    Cloud: RRRAGH! Only a real man would talk like a man! RRRAGH!
    Jecht: RRRAGH!
    Cloud: RRRAGH!
    Jecht: I like ponies.
    *beat*
    Cloud: *hits Jecht with the Buster Sword*
  • The DeviantArt group The Real Men has this trope as its driving message and seeks to demolish the Pink Is for Sissies trope.
  • The Sanrio Boys are a group of boys who enjoy their school life and hang out, while also being big fans of Sanrio characters and outright wearing their colors.
  • The Spoony Experiment: Spoony, upon hearing the suggestion that he was a cheerleader in high school: "Fuck you, I was in the marching band! I played the fucking glockenspiel! You don't even fucking know what a glockenspiel is!" (Hint: In marching band at least, it's this thing. Not the manliest-sounding instrument...)
    • Pfft, glocks are so manly, they should be rated M.
  • Justin Carmical's signature article of clothing, other than his Wario hat, was a pair of pink high-top Converse sneakers. Fans and friends of his will often wear pink Converse to conventions in tribute to him.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: The rap battle between Yugi and Jaden have few moments of this.
    Yugi: "There's nothing girly about the Dark Magician Girl, and only Real men use Watapon..."
    Jaden: And oh, FYI, Yugi, I’ve been taking ballet for six years regardless


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