If you went back in time, say 5-10 years, and told your younger self that you watch My Little Pony, how would they react?
I was going through a sexuality crisis at the time if I recall, so I'd probably sigh heavily and say "Well ****, looks like it's true."
My younger self would probably say: "Wait... you learned how to time travel, and instead of killing Hitler or stopping 9-11, you came here? What the hell, man?"
"Who the heck are you? Wait future me?! Do I ever stop getting bullied? Do I have a boyfriend? Wait, whats that. My little pony??!? That's a kids show though! Fine, ok I'll watch it!"
Ironically, I was planning to go back in time to meet myself at about that age, when I was that age. As for the pony thing I feel like that would be a far less important matter considering I apparently have the ability to time travel.
On a side note i'd probably be the same way when I told myself about Littlest Pet Shop except for the fact that I recently found out there was a previous show before the current one.
Since my younger self watched nothing for CN, Nickelodeon and Disney Cartoons all day, I think I would been slight confused but more accepting about it being no big surprised to me.
Well i've always done that too and still watch cartoons on all those channels and The Hub but my younger me would still think i'm crazy or weird or something because I knew about the previous shows and movies and heard how bad they were before watching and giving FiM a chance and as a result becoming the Brony I am today.
I would probably have gone into denial for a long time and refused to believe that anything that was touched by My Little Pony would be anything close to being entertaining.
Well based on that time frame and what I was doing at the time. I'd have to assume its just some bully trying to make life more difficult for me.
"Sounds gay but am I still friends with Doug I would reply "Yea but he acts like a stuckup jerk so be wary of him"
Past JR would say, "OK, that's weird but it kinda makes sense. I like Disney movies too so meh. Wait, Dad doesn't know, does he?"
If I used my time travel powers again to talk to my younger self, he would not only be dissapointed in such a misuse of my powers, but also confused. After all, he can read my thoughts, and knows I'm lying about having watching My Little Pony. Then again, I don't need to watch it to know enough about it, so I can present a reasonable facade to anyone else.
I'd be pretty confused, like: "Let me get this straight... You have this cool time traveling power and use it only to tell me that I won't stop liking cartoons? What?" Oh, and probably also "What happened to your hair?". But yeah...
