Something along the lines of "This isn't the stereotypical girly show I was expecting." I was pleasantly surprised by how good it actually was. - - Auto Merge - - I love your avatar. It's like Applejack is looking at all your posts disapprovingly.
I honestly don't know what my reaction was, my friends converted me and it just sorta happened. Anyways in my opinion the show isn't really JUST for girls, in some episodes i kinda think to myself "this was meant for little girls?!?" Lol
Both joy and fear. I went from being an anti-pegasister to a pegasister back in June 2012. I was kind of happy to discover this show and to learn what it's about. But was also scared about how others would take it (family, friends, people around me). I slowly told my mom, and at first she seemed to be upset or uninterested (to m dismay), now she's ok with it. She watched some episodes (mostly on her own) and is learning the characters (still says Rainbow Bright or Flutterfly instead of Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy). She seems to like Granny Smith a lot (not really a surprise), and I assume Apple Jack is her favorite M6 pony. I really avoid Chris Forte (an old friend from TYA) cause he is apathetic and aggravating and causes more stress than joy. I was kind of worried about my best friend Khrys Stephens (who I start back talking to him in mid-November of 2012), and now he is almost more of a brony than I am, and a lot of the bronies I became friends with was through him + he makes MLP/brony references in his songs and has a Twilight Sparkle avatar for at least a month or two. My other friends are either ok with it, or became bronies themselves. I don't talk to any other family members, but my mom and my aunt, my aunt is ok with it, but doesn't care to say anything about it. As far as in public, I often wear my Brony hat with Rainbow Dash on it. Nothing real bad has came from it, when I went to Whole Foods one Saturday about a month ago, 2 of the employees complimented me on my hat (where my mom heard it) and since my mom is currently borrowing my car she said like 2 or 3 guys (in their late teens and 20s) complimented her on the MLP sticker I have on my dashboard, so she see that even though the cartoon seems to be for little girls, most viewers are adult men my age. Now, I am in the whole (do what you want as long as it isn't illegal, harmful, or offensive stage) and where my hat with little fear, cause I am beginning to refuse to let what people think bother me (still have ways to go though).
"This is the best show in the world I love this... Ah $%^& I'm a brony arent I" Regardless I'm proud none the less and as soon as my redbubble shirt gets in... I'll be buying womens shirts and not wearing them -_-
1 year ago: "an adult male who watches My Little Pony, they have to be trolls latching onto this because it's cute" 8 months ago: I find out that one of my brother's friends is a brony. "Hmm" goes deeper into show "it's just not my thing" 6 mounts ago: one of my close friends becomes a brony "is the show really that good?" 3 weeks ago: he connives me to watch the show. 2 weeks ago: watches the show "oh my god! th-this is AMASING!" declares himself a brony!
Liking a children's cartoon is by no means the weirdest thing I have ever done. I don't really remember what I thought when I started getting into the show. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal two years later.
I was on Flipnote Hatena when I saw some MLP flips and I instantly started watching the show then, I was a little freaked out by myself though... oh well View attachment 7058
Considering I've never stopped having a fondness for weird cartoons, i wasn't really suprised at all when I realized the show was fun and worth watching. I maybe felt a bit self conscious about it, and still generally do, but most of my friends also are either bronies or don't care that I guess I am one. I've never even really accepted the term brony - I don't self identify as one - but i have watched all 3 seasons and have an account here so idk what else i am if not a brony xD.
Honestly, I was surprised. I watched one episode and before I knew it, watched 9 more. I denied it and stopped watching for around 2 weeks, but not watching mlp left a hole in my heart, so i continued watching it 2 days ago and now i'm just proud to be a brony, because I am who I am!
Merely just this: I mean, I was in a deep depression, and I still was for over a year after I became a brony, to me, it was just something to fill time.
I watched the show on my own initiative after hearing people complain about it on 4Chan. I liked it and kept watching.
Me and my sister were bored one day watching Netflix. Then I saw a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and decided "Hey, I'm going to be a jerk and torture my sister with this really cheese stupid girly cartoon." So, I started the first episode, and within 5 minutes I was hooked. Then after sitting and watching the first two seasons, I decided to look and see when the third season would be released, and that is when I discovered the term "Brony". The more I looked into what that term meant the more I realized that I had become one. Now that I've given a little back story, my reaction was, "Oh, crap I like a little girl's show... -_-"
My reaction? I didn't give this title too much attention. My reaction to "I like Ponys and i know ist not very usual to like colorful sweet ponys as a grown up man" was mainly extreme unsureness. And like everytime i'm not sure i "investigate" the problem, means i searched others with the same problems. This was done by Internet and google, so i found some brony forums and throughout that i realized throughout discussions that you can live with this "problem" without declaring it a "problem". Later i participated in some brony meetups and since them i'm pretty sure i'm not ashame anymore to like and love MLP. So it turned from a identity crysis to a part of my life(-style).
I realized I was a brony after watching only the first episodes. I don't remember how I felt before I watched but I probably was thinking "whatever, I'll just see what it's like" because my cousin had convinced me to watch. After I realized how awesome the show was I stood up and said, "I am a brony..." I felt really excited and watched a few more episode before I went to sleep, I was so excited to tell my brony friends and cousin! So ya there is my story.
I was quite shocked, to say the least, but then I got ahold of myself and I realized that there was (and still is) nothing wrong with it!
my reaction doesnt even exist. if by brony you mean what the majority thing a brony is, which is what matters, i don't think anyone really is.
