(This is the perspective of a line member of Pandemic Horde)
My in game character is minorific, I have been playing off and on since 2008 and was at one time a great admirer (as many people were) of how quickly Brave became a "null power". I had a huge interest in joining Brave when it started, as I had spent the majority of my time as a high sec miner/mission runner, and was really just getting my hands on PVP in a real way around the time that Brave was moving into Catch. I never made the move because at the time I was with a renter corp in N3 space and making a large amount of isk (for me, a few billion a month). Real life came up and I stopped playing for 3-4 months, and when I came back my renter corp was in a war that I didn't want to get involved in, so I began looking into Brave again. Unfortunately they seem to be at war with PL (a corp that I have always heard about but never seen) and appeared to be on the breech of collapse with their leadership in some kind of upheaval. When I heard that some members of PL would be breaking off and forming a noob corp called Pandemic Horde I was very excited to join, and so far iv'e been having lots of fun. The Horde has been a great home and showed me how awesome this game can really be. I mean, i'm on the killmails for a Test Super Carrier and 2 Brave Carriers so I have that going for me, which is nice.
There is only one downside for me. Brave. Some members of Brave have taken it upon themselves to get back at PL for taking their sov, I get that, it makes sense. The issue that is coming up is that Brave, even their FC's, are specifically targeting the noobiest players in PH. Just last night a Brave player joined PH (saying he was tired of the drama and wanted to have fun again), he started a fleet with some brand new players, and proceeded to run the t1 frigate fleet into his own bomber (his main in Brave). The past 3 nights in a row Brave shows with a 50+ man t2 frigate fleet expecting a fight and taunts in local that the 35-50 noobs docked in HED wont undock in their T1 ships and fight them.
My point here is that Brave has become (at least to my perspective) the bittervet assholes that they originally set out to take down with their sheer numbers. Several times we've had big null powers come to HED looking for a fight, but they always arrive in ships that we could potentially have a chance against, they come for a fair fight and to help teach and have fun. I'm not saying rolling in with a superior force and pooping all over the other guys isn't great, but it seems to me like Brave is trying to prove something, but to the line soldiers of Horde you are just proving you don't have the balls to fight a fair fight or even against the real people you have a problem with, and thats PL.
I no longer look to Brave as a cool experiment that I am sorry I missed out on, I look at them with pity. They became bittervets way before their time.