Why are you a brony? How did you get into ponies and why have you not lost interest in them? Just a small discussion thread on why we are who we are today. [SUB](NOTE: I looked through the General MLP Discussion, and I saw nothing dealing with this.)[/SUB]
Heh, simply 'cos I like the show. :3 I got into it... Kinda accidentally. When I was browsing 'round the "Suggestions" sub-forum on the Minecraft forums, I happened to bump into a user with a Twilight avatar- A picture of her from episode 3 season 1, where she's being thrown into the air, with her arms crossed. I thought the user was a Girl, but after a while, a realised he was a guy in his twenty-somethings. Kinda confused, I just ignored it, dismissing it as some new le maymay face or something. Within a few weeks, I started noticing it around the forums, more and more- Those bloomin' ponies were everywhere, it seemed! I turned to Google for help. Well, Google threw me a review of the show, which was, to my amazement, rather positive. So I gave it a lil' watch, and here I am. … Strange to think that was almost 3 years ago! I'm still interested because, as a result of the show, I've met some very like-minded people in my community, people I now call friends, whom I wouldn't have otherwise met. I will admit I was starting to lose interest during the transition from Season 3 to 4, because season 3 ended on what I still believe to be a bad note. It just felt very rushed and... Eh, to me. Up until recently, I've been quite neutral about Season 4. But this season's looking to be great, so I eagerly await the next episode! But whether I'd have stopped watching or not, I'd still be in the fandom. I love the community wayyy to much to quit on it.
I wanted to prove that you dont have to be a girl to like girl things you could also be a boy and like girls things not that im saying that mlp is a girl thing it can also be a guy thing is why there are bronies so pretty much im saying I wanted to be part of the fandom so I can make a point
My brother got me into it. It's just fun to watch, especially since there's something thrilling about watching a show I know isn't meant for me. Also, and this is a bit out of left field, Bronies are the first social movement to really hit the U.S. in a while. In the 60's, there were the hippies. In the 80's, there were the metal heads, etc. Now, the culture seems so bland. Bronies may be the start of the next big social movement (or at the very least the start of the start of the next big social movement if it inspires something).
>implies everyone here is a brony. >Implies it's a social movement The main issue here is that you don't get new bronies because people are either put off by the show or by the fedoras.
I'm in the fandom because of trolling on 4chan. I jumped on the bandwagon when MLP was the premier new way to annoy people.
I browse TV Tropes a lot and I kept coming across MLP references, so one weekend when I was home alone I decided to see what all the fuss was about. I went on YouTube and watched a random episode (Lesson Zero) and liked it so much that I immediately downloaded the first two seasons and ended up marathoning it until I was caught up. I love MLP for the same reasons I love Fraggle Rock: it's a fantastic example of world-building done right, the lessons are usually presented in such a way that it doesn't clobber you over the head with the message or insult the viewers' intelligence, the music is usually extremely well done, and the characters are likeable enough that you keep watching simply because you want to see more of them. It doesn't matter who the target audience is supposed to be, it's a great show, period.
I think My Little Pony helps me see what friendship is truely about and how it *actually* works (i'm an aspie and i tend to forget a lot about things like love and friendship cuz of....stereo types in my head and stuff ). I hope this show ends up special to me someday; Even if my obsession with it kinda just begun (like, actual obsession). Help Her Win The Crown is also like my favorite song ever now and i'm concidering maybe getting a dvd of Equestria Girls for Christmas But I feel a little shy about asking about it for some reason....but i'm sure my mom would understand if she relizes how much that song helps me emotionally. Yeah.
Not sure if there's a better way to say this so ... I feel completed having watched the show. I don't feel a lot of things. I'm normally very cynical and narcissistic (terrible combination) so it's hard for me to believe in things like love, friendship, kindness, etc. I do have friends and loved ones but I don't have the normal feelings for them as most others would. I'm pretty compassionate and I'd give you the shirt right off my back but it's mostly for self gratification. I don't have a lot of faith in humanity. Watching FiM gives me some of those elements (see what I did there?) that I don't get or see in real life. It's a sense of fulfillment or completion to finally be able to find those missing components that most normally have. Watching the show, being a part of a fandom like this, seeing what bronies can do when they come together gives me hope for humanity again. Having watched the show and became a brony myself I feel less cynical and narcissistic. I don't look at the world as much like I used to (thinking that everyone is evil and I'm all alone). FiM brought me a different kind of magic. It brought me the magic of hope in both myself and the world. I can honestly say that in all the nineteen years of my life, nothing has influenced me more than the show. It took nineteen years to twist my mind into the insanity that it is and only one episode to undue all that damage. I came upon the series while viewing another forum. I had been seeing a lot of ponies around but hadn't thought much of it. While I like the style, the artwork, I didn't have much interest to actually watch the show. One day a friend of mine changed his avatar to a pony and I asked him what he liked about the show, why was it worth watching. He said he couldn't tell me as it was a bit too complicated to explain. He sent me a link. I had nothing better to do at the time so I watched episode one to get the feel of it. Didn't feel like I got enough so I watched episode two and then three, four, five ... Two seasons later I sent him a message saying, "Thank you." That's pretty much why I am and how I came to be a brony.
I'm a brony because I enjoy the show, a friend of mine sent me the first episode and just enjoyed it when i first watch it. I haven't lost interest in it because every episode is fun to watch even more than once.
[video=youtube;fyDr-aO7CpM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyDr-aO7CpM[/video] I am a brony because, quite simply, I enjoy the show and the community behind it. As in Nights's case, becoming a part of this great thing has vastly improved my outlook on humanity and life in general, splashing color into what used to be a dull, gray world for me. To a degree, of course - for every brony who makes me marvel at how awesome my fellow man can be, there's at least a dozen D-bags out there clinging to dated gender norms whose blind and irrational hatred for us brings my growing hope for humanity back down a notch, but I'm fairly optimistic that the collective good will of people like us will eventually win out over ignorance.
why did i become a pegusister, huh? um it was the savior of my life i was in a mega bad time and pony were a start and that lead to an bright light of great people. and i wont change it
Well, back in 2011, when I first transferred to my current school, I aquiantened myself with a group of Bronies/Pegasisters in my German class who introduced me to the fandom, explaining that it shouldn't be judged before actually taking the time to watch at least a single episode. I was skeptical that I would find pleasure in a show that was deemed for children by society, but I had trust in these people that I had grown fond of and decided to watch it despite my views. It was this incident that transformed me into a loyal Pegasister. I'm actually quite glad that I gave it a chance. I continue to be a Pegasister simply because I still find My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic to be appealing.
Why: The show is really likable and the fandom is a barrel of fun. How: At first I just heard bronies were on the internet and I thought, cool they're just... there. Until curiosity took me completely and decided to watch the first two episodes. I watched the third one thinking they connect together on a path of a story line [found out they kinda dont] and just kept watching from there until I found myself completely enjoying it. Not lost interest: Simply because everything is still continuing and new experiences are everywhere you look.
