How did you stumble upon ponies and what made you decide to watch?
>>42614079I heard about a new channel in my cable package at the time and when I learned it showed stuff like Batman tas, GI Joe, and some other stuff I liked, I gave it a watch.>See a commercial about a my little pony reboot>"..That show I had to sit through with my sister all those years ago? Hahaha.">Somehow it looks strangely alluring, most likely the colorsI watched the first episode and was sold.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies?An old online friend in a cartoon community>what made you decide to watch?the first episode? Curiositythe five seasons I watched in just a few weeks? some boredom and a little bit of depression
>how did you stumble upon poniese621, which I regret ever going to that shitty site in hind sight.>what made you decide to watchI can't even remember, I just did, one online fag I knew was into ziggers. Despite my attempts to watch it, I was too "anxious" as underage b& if people found out. I didn't stick with it seriously until recently.
>>42614079They kinda were everywhere at the time
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies?Chance, really. Was browsing a small meme site back in like 2011 and made friends with a lot of at-the-time bronies. Good people, good friends. Watched like five episodes from season 1 and figured, hey, this isn't for me. I'm still good friends with most of them, so I've learned a lot about pony from cultural osmosis, but for me it was always that show my friends used to like.>What made you decide to watch?A bunch of friends and I made a watch list of shows to watch, mostly just showing each other things we like that the other never watched. Pony was added as a joke, but we ended up actually doing it. We watched all nine seasons (and the movie) over the course of a month. This was literally like five months ago, so I actually watched the show for the first time very recently, despite knowing about it and interacting with the fandom for the last 14 years.
>>42614079Was at a military weapons training school in the middle of nowhere. Totally bored and was watching cultural commentary videos. Saw one on bronies, and became curious because I found it so strange. Watched first episode, got hooked, and proceeded to binge watch the entire series. Been obsessed ever since.
>>42614079unironically cp, i used to frequent a cp sharing site like 8 years ago and a poster on there had dash as his signature and avatar, many cp imageboards had ponies posted to them and that got me interested. i owe my life to ponies because i am now cp free thanks to them and i only fap to ponies now
>>42614197Jesus christ bud.
Several artworks were recommended to me, so out of curiosity I decided to see what was so special about the show. It’s been four months since I started watching and interacting with the community, but I had to take a break from watching the show because of my new job.
>>42614079I was on /co/ significantly younger than I should've been.Now I'm a 24-year-old that's been here from the beginning. Thank you technicolor horses for ruining my life, and for giving me all of my friends. I will never recover and would do it again.
>>42614079On /tg/ since it was brand new. Ponies starting popping up all over the site immediately upon its airing, so I decided to see what the commotion was.
>>42614238Sure is a shame /tg/station is fucking garbage disconnected from its roots nowadays and is finally on the path to death (most of the time the lrp server only gets ~50 players).I was a mid-ssethtide fag, and the game's only gotten worse over the years, even when "2019" was a bad year for the game it still felt fucking great to have intents (not a retarded combat toggle) and old chem/cloning
>>42614079i never watched the hasbro show, i just followed tamers here
>>42614079i saw some ytp videos and the twilight vs tirek fight with guile theme on the background and gave it a try
>>42614271Here's that attention you wanted.
>>42614079Through the minecraft forums. A user on there had an Equestria Daily banner in their signature, and it seemed odd enough to me that I decided to check it out.I'm fairly certain it was around the time that FoE was first posted on EqD, I don't know why else I would've stuck around. I'm glad I did, though.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies?Family was watching ACW in the background, and I happened to peek over during Chrysalis' reveal. >what made you decide to watch?The bugs compelled me to. I've been bugbrained ever since.
>>42614079Someone used a clip from the show on flipnote hatena back in the day so I decided to check the show out on a whim.This was before I became a jaded faggot and didn't need someone to point a gun at my head to try new things.
>>42614079>mouseu
>>42614409What is it this time, anonymous? What could possibly be controversial about this artist?
Wife asked me to
I saw it around the internet. I ended up watching A Canterlot Wedding first in May 2012. I felt a bit of cringe at the girly moments, but that faded away. The twist with Chrssy got me hooked, even though I don't care for her too much now.
>>42614197Please let this be bait.
>>42614079I was watching something on YouTube that made a brief reference to the Friendship is Witchcraft series as a parody of MLP. I thought that sounded humorous and decided to check it out. I found it to be a lot better than I was expecting, then I checked out the source material because I was curious how much FiW changed things. I ended up enjoying that too and from that moment I was in.
>>42614079I had to share the remote with my sister as a kid.
>>42614079-browsing for mare pr0n in 2011-the show was cute and happy and made me feel happy, then wanting to be part of the community I found here
>>42614079>Way, way back in 1980...Bronies (and brony haters, I suppose) inadvertently got me into pony. I think it was around late 2011 or early 2012. Pony was everywhere on the internet, memes and clips and whatnot. Even people that didn't watch the show would take the time to flame bronies, which I think helped the show gain a lot more attention.I thought they were cute, looked into the show and caught a few episodes (I specifically remember watching Hurricane Fluttershy and May the Best Pet Win) and from there I was just kinda hooked. I wish I could find the desktop I used when I started watching. It was some FlutterDash fanart. I still think they're a cute ship.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies? Futa porn comics by Suirano back in 2018 >What made you decide to watch?I wanted to understand the world of those comics>What made you decide to stay?Memes and calmness of the ponies. Also great art
>>42614079Around 2010-2011 I was watching a fuckton of funny gmod videos having the time of my life. I found both lapfox trax and ponies through that, and bronies were *extremely* active and prevalent online in these years. Popular songs like Avast your ass or Intensive Care Unit got remixed a lot including pony versions. I came across Lullaby for a princess, Discord, hotdiggedydemon, cupcakes, smile and other popular videos at the time of their release. There's a bunch of lesser known animations and stuff I'm sure I watched but I have forgotten about at this point. I don't think I actually watched the show before like 2014-2015 and I didn't watch much farther than season 3. >what made you decide to watch?I figured it would make it more 'official' or something that I'm a ponyfag if I actually watched the show, even though I didn't and still don't interact with anyone but you guys. I was lurking and posting here like 10 years ago. Really weird to think about.
>How did you stumble upon ponies?Only knew mlp as the "bringe toddler and manchild show" till current year, guy on unrelated accord was posting tamers clips and it somehow piqued my interest>What made you decide to watch?Gut feeling? Now prefer the show due to character personalities. I still skip the intro and only have the mlp official youtube channel to go off of. First and probably only post here. Luna/Twi-fan. Have clopped. Unironically believe in a horse renaissance. Hopefully never gonna use lingo [Ignore the external platform rename]
>How did you stumble upon ponies?Early 2012, while looking for rage comics and creepypastas, I found some pony image macros and the Save Derpy campaign.>what made you decide to watch?Pure curiosity. I was expecting something absurd like the Spiderman 60s cartoon, but I ended hooked up with the world setting and the characters.
>>42614516its true and i was lucky, i was into that shit for over 10 years and lucky i didnt get caught by the freedom hosting js exploit. i was on the brink of killing myself and ponies saved me
What the actual fuck is this thread.Every other post is some guy proudly announcing he "joined the herd" in like... 2021.FOUR. YEARS. AGO.>bro I totally remember G5 hype!!>bro my first episode was Tamers!!>bro I found /mlp/ during the pandemic!!Or some shit, Jesus Christ. And now the board is 90% zoomer newfags who think they are hot shit. Imagine unironically joining the fandom in 2021 and thinking you have an opinion worth posting. WHAT THE FUCK happened to all the gatekeeping!I swear, if one more tourist tells me he joined this board in the last four years, I'm going to bite into my keyboard.
>>42615042I joined last year because I kept seeing cute mares on the 4chan index page
>>42614079My fist contact with MLP was a great German Youtube poop:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWb4UXSHfg
I joined the herd just recently as the utter slut whore harlot known as >>42615042 was sucking my cock and getting plapped screaming something about "zoomers" and "tourists" he had mentioned about gatekeeping this show called "My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic". I guffed at his words and decided to watch the show last week. It was good. Now i'm sharing this to my best bud at the rape dungeon down in the Belgian chambers.
>>42614485Great pic.
>>42614079/co/ in 2010Someone posted the episode, dont remember if it was mega or rapidshare or youtube or whateverNever looked back
>>42615042Nothing survives without new blood old man, so calm down and enjoy the horses. This is coming from a fellow geriatric.
>>42614079Stumbled upon Tridashie's pony hamster dance, then pic related and Fighting is Magic at some point during 2023, thought "something with this much soul put into it HAS to be based on something good", decided to give the the first episode a try, then it was all downhills from there.>>42614607>I wanted to understand the world of those comicsExtremely based.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies?Like many others, users with pony profiles were popping up around sites I frequented, and in my case they were proliferating around the rhythm game scene I enjoyed the most, and further crossing over with Touhou while my interest in it was at its peak.>What made you decide to watch?Simply rode the train of curiosity and chose a first-season episode at random, which happened to be Party of One. Was surprised at how solid the writing and characters felt - despite knowing the target audience, it felt enjoyable for more than just them. The rest is history.First favorite pony was Applejack.
i cant remember how i stumbled upon it but all i know is that in 2011 they were everywhere so i gave it a shotapplebuck season was the first episode and i actually said "wow that was actually pretty good im going to check out the whole season"rest is history
I got curious enough to watch the show after tamers started making mlp episodes. I gave in after bowling one released
>>42615191>tamersfags are secondaries Didn't see that one coming.
>>42614079came upon it around 2010 while flipping channels. It was the last 10 mins of the very first episode. Thought it was neat and decided to continue from there
>>42615212That's not what being a secondary means in this context
>>42615191may celestia hang all tamersfags all at once
>>42614079watched a pony thread sim back in like 2015 and thought "ha wow these faggots are so gay and retarded" so i visited /mlp/ and wanted to understand the context behind the jokes and stuff so i watched s1e1&e2, at first it didn't really click with me and i didn't think it was that good but then i watched the ticket master like a week later and ended up binging the whole show that was out at the time over like a week, now im the gay retarded faggot...
>>42615304and may celestia also hang all the barbietrannies and late season faggots, amen.
>>42615310>now im the gay retarded faggot...You up for some gay sex?
>>42614079>howOld sonicfag, extremely bored over spring break, got pranked by Camaraderie is Supernatural. >what made you watchI laughed and empathized when Fluttershy's sad squeaks were too much to bear, and felt I was missing all the context of the parody, so I jumped over to the first episode. Ended up binging season 1 in two days.
Seeing MOV as an edgy teen made me give the show a goI fucking hated itBut unlike most people who jump straight to Fallout: Equestria, I just moved on from ponies and didn't give them another shot until after the show ended
>>42615314so your making fun of people for actually watching the show and movies throughout?the jokes write themselves don’t they >t. s1-s4 coper
>>42615354so youre making fun of people for engaging with the community and making fan content?cozy glow flag btw, ofc you like the version of the show where all the character are in highschool, the jokes write themselves don't they
>>42615364I like everything but PL it’s all decent, at its worst it is OK what possibly could be wrong with that, anon? just enjoying the franchise i’m so autist about.
>>42615364>community engagement.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon poniesEpisode #936 of Gronkh's Minecraft series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQV3X-RCcMinecraft was pretty much the only thing I cared about online back during 2013. So never even heard of MLP until, that episode where he messed around with the animal bikes mod, which included ponies. I got curious what other ponies there were in this mod and looked up various mod reviews, this also lead me to find the Mine Little Pony mod that turns players into ponies.>what made you decide to watch15 year old me wasn't gonna watch some little girl cartoon that easily. This took me wanting to install the Portal Gun mod, but as it's installation seemed a bit complicated to me who had never installed mods back then. I picked one that had a more straightforward installation, that being the one to turn players into ponies. Liked that one a bit too much and got curious who those characters where.Watched Lesson Zero on YouTube and that's how it began.
>>42615796https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQV3X-RCc8Somehow I copied one character too few for the link.
>>42614079My sister made me watch an episode with her in 2011 and now she'll never have a niece or nephew.
>>42615806Yes she will, it will just be a foal instead of an ape.
>>42615806Yes she will, it will just be a black baby instead of a white baby.
>>42615806Yes she will, it will just be a skibidi instead of a fanum tax.
>>42615050kino
I had a vision from God.
>>42615040>mlp stopped a pedo killing himself
>>42615042I joined the board this March but was a horsefucker since Feb of 2011... am I fucked??
>>42616627How the fuck can you have been into mlp since 2011 and not known about this board?
>>42614079Uhh, GMOD. Bits and pieces around the internet. Maybe that initial announcement for it when it was on Boomerang and I decided to 'hatewatch' it to see how bad it was.Sealed my doom as an autist.
>>42616630>>42616627cause he's a /b/tard like me, and one of the first to mention it. I too started in feb 2011 and probably personally know him. /)~.~(\Minuette still my waifu.
>>42615040I bet you were at Salon 13.
>>42614079A friend talked about it, I looked into it and felt a great sensation overcome me, what once I had viewed as feminine I now recognized as a perfect harmony between the Masculine and Feminine, such show being good for the soul, I set my will to watching the show, and said will triumphed yet over the materialistic nature of earth rooting against the harmonic nature of the show, but such is the way of the world which in its evil acts against universal order, it seeks to destroy harmony, but that which is embedded in cosmic law cannot shatter
>>42616630I mean, I'm sure a lot of people between 2011-2013 joined the fandom through the mainstream way avoiding /mlp/ because "le 4chan is a hacker/dangeorus place"
>>42616627And here I thought I was late posting in 2017 as a 2011er. What took you twice as long?>>42616630I myself knew about it, but was in my own lonely consumer bubble of youtube, eqd, and tumblrpon.>>42616662I was more overwhelmed with learning the site layout and fitting in than afraid of that hacker bull. There was never a need for an image board type community, but as other sites were sanitized or taken over by sjws, I was compelled to seek unfiltered pony news and creations somewhere. So I took the dive here.
>>42616732>I myself knew about it, but was in my own lonely consumer bubbleSame here. I've been diving into the mainstream side of the fandom since 2012 (Facebook, DeviantART, Tumblr) without paying attention to /mlp/, until the series finale/COVID-19 pandemic when I started to lurk this board.
>>42614079>How did you stumble upon ponies?Back in 2017-2018ish I stumbled across EQG porn. I had no clue what is was but it was hot so I saved some of it. >What made you decide to watch?Earlier this year I went to pick my friend up to hangout and he was waiting in the living room with his mom and younger sister watching the first EQG movie. When I walked in his mom turned to me and said "don't mind *friend's name*, he's just watching My Little Pony with us.” Right there the core memory from high school of me jerking it to EQG porn came back. A few days later now knowing those characters were from some MLP spinoff, I looked the series up out of curiosity and in my free time I watched some of the EQG movies/specials and also decided to watch FIM. The EQG stuff was good but the pastel pony show was peak television.TLDR: EQG porn got me into FIM
>>42614431Mousew is a tiktok tranny, that's why all the '''''content'''' it puts out is short-attention span seconds long shit.
>>42616863>trannySaw him in person; he's a dude.>All fan artists are social media maxing whoresTell me what else is new.
>>42614431He is like 17 years old, which is too old.
