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Title: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aphex93 on 2012 Apr 06, 15:47:37
This topic has probably already been put somewhere but whatever, I always find these stories pretty interesting :)

For me my friend Danielle decided she wanted to stream some stuff so a few of us went on her channel and she was like "oh lets watch ponies" and put on the first episode. I was pretty skeptical of the whole thing and pretty confused. By the time the second episode finished I was actally enjoying it. Some other people were asking her to do a few more before she went to bed and I was just sitting there silently like "...yeah one more would be cool." now I'm a lot more open about it but then I still was only a secret brony haha
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Apr 06, 15:54:19
I was really bored one day, and I started thinking about all the pony meme stuff. I wondered what the big deal was about, since I thought it was really weird for all these teens to be so into the show. So I watched the first two episodes, then watched the third... and then the fourth... and then the fifth... and that's how Equestria was made.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Zygrograxgra on 2012 Apr 06, 15:55:57
Sister told me about it.
Older sister.
I was all like "Might as well try it."
First episode: This is decent
Second episode: Still decent.
Third episode: MOAR
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mr.Darkling on 2012 Apr 06, 15:57:56
I gave in to curiosity after it kept popping up everywhere on the internet.
It took a lot, considering I have grown up to simply disliking MLP as a whole due to whole the expectations of "being a man."
Expectations that are finally beginning to crumble in this day and age thanks to open minds.

I sat down one night and watched episode 1 and before I knew it, I was on episode 7 and was thinking "oh my  ovO"
That was pretty much it really; I still dislike the MLP theme a lot though.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Malkies on 2012 Apr 06, 16:01:24
"Why are there ponies everywhere?"
Then I watched the first episode on Youtube.
Then the second.
Then the third.
Then the rest of them over the span of about 2 days. It was awesome. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Night Pony on 2012 Apr 06, 16:02:12
I started to noticed ponies popping up here and there and they were cool.So one day when a friend was coming over we decided to watch the first episode because the stuff we usually saw with ponies was good.So we watched the first two episodes while laughing all the time.The rest is history.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: S_E_F on 2012 Apr 06, 16:11:11
weird friend: YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS!!! O:
me: umm okay...

falls in love with show*

normal friend: have you heard of these bronies? guys who watch mlp?
me: huh.. weird  :s

inspects community*

me: THIS IS AMAZING
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Rainy-Chan on 2012 Apr 06, 16:17:25
i was doing some regular 4chan anon stuff and say ponies one day. I thought it seemed cool at checked it out. I liked it so i started hanging out at ponychan at around October 2011 and the community at the time was amazing so i stayed.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dreadnaught 308 on 2012 Apr 06, 16:27:52
Pinkie pie cupcakes song  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Fudgemuffin on 2012 Apr 06, 16:28:51
I discovered about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic by... Yogscast videos. I decided to check it out  the show and by the end of the first episode I was craving for more.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lary on 2012 Apr 06, 16:32:39
Browsed random forum. Saw this.



Pirated what was released of Season 1. Episodes sat on my computer for two whole months before I watched it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nala Valor on 2012 Apr 06, 16:33:25
I got pression from my friend that is a brony and by the Internet.

Now, he says that I'm addicted to it and need to calm down. ((and I'm not going to "calm down" there is too much pony to watch))
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Vinyl light on 2012 Apr 06, 16:34:52
Memebase and Apple.mov ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Johannes on 2012 Apr 06, 16:35:08
I played a lot TF2 and saw a lot pony sprays.
(Oh, and I had seen few drawings in DeviantART!)
Spoiler: Some pony drawings I saw before I became brony • show
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/093/d/8/my_little_gas_attack_by_angusmcleod-d3d673g.jpg)
(http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/158/3/0/my_little_pony___1938_by_angusmcleod-d3ibrzw.jpg)
(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/192/9/b/it__s_one_small_step_for_a_man_by_angusmcleod-d3n2j75.jpg)
(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/079/0/d/my_little_addict_by_isismasshiro-d3c2s96.jpg)

First I didn't mind them. Then I started to see more and more so I googled My Little Pony and started to read in KnowYourMeme (It was beginning of September if I remember right).
There was a link to first episode so I watched it. I liked it and watched another one and third one and so on (I watched 4-6 episodes that night). Then I read about bronies. For long time I was like "No. I'm not brony. No. No. I'm just watching the show." Then I started drawing ponies and joined EO's forum and started to chat with bronies in EO's IRC channel. It was small shock when I realized I'm brony.

And it was my biggest secret ever but then I remembered these drawings (+So... You are a cartoonist?).
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: snarfgsnor on 2012 Apr 06, 16:37:45
was back when i was a hardcore mmo player. and a person in the guild started to sing the theme song over teamspeak. and after that day we asked him about it and he said he was a brony. since my guildmates were some persons that never judged by things in forhand they checked it out ( i didnt botherd it, just accepted it). and after a few days i entered the Teamspeak channel and everyone of them (drunk) were singing diffrent songs from the show. and it kept going for days and weeks. so i finaly decided to check what the fuzz was about. and yeah i got caught aswell. so thats how i became a brony. i never regret anything

brain: yo dude! aint something wrong here?!?!
me: what may that be?
brain: its a show for little girls
me: ummm
brain: you should stop watching it
me: NOO LOL! go away brain! ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Johannes on 2012 Apr 06, 16:43:46
Quote from: snarfgsnor on 2012 Apr 06, 16:37:45
brain: yo dude! aint something wrong here?!?!
me: what may that be?
brain: its a show for little girls
me: ummm
brain: you should stop watching it
me: NOO LOL! go away brain! ovO

I never thought I was watching a show for little girls.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Apr 06, 16:45:57
Quote from: Fudgemuffin on 2012 Apr 06, 16:28:51
I discovered about My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic by... Yogscast videos. I decided to check it out  the show and by the end of the first episode I was craving for more.

Sunshine of Israpony? ovO
I'm a pony, and I'm digging a hole... Diggy diggy hole! Diggy diggy hole!

Admittedly, Yogscast's Sunshine of Israpony led me further into becoming a brony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ozzy on 2012 Apr 06, 17:01:46


From this!
And /co/ ...shhh
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: snarfgsnor on 2012 Apr 06, 17:06:33
Quote from: Bakasan on 2012 Apr 06, 16:43:46
Quote from: snarfgsnor on 2012 Apr 06, 16:37:45
brain: yo dude! aint something wrong here?!?!
me: what may that be?
brain: its a show for little girls
me: ummm
brain: you should stop watching it
me: NOO LOL! go away brain! ovO

I never thought I was watching a show for little girls.

when i saw the intro and theme song i thought: "this is the girliest thing ever" but after several episode i started thinking it was immposible it was only for little girls. it had to be for familiys since much of the humor small girls woulndt even understand. so it was only the beggining i thought that :) but if i were to judge only by the intro i would never be here either  :')
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nameless on 2012 Apr 06, 17:14:10
So, it started in the first quarter of 2011. I was roaming Youtube as I usually do, and out of nowhere, BAM!

Spoiler: Spoiler'd due to a bad word. • show


I watched it and enjoyed it, but then my friend came and said he absolutely despised the show. I didn't mention the video, but I knew what he was talking about.

Around November, he told me he had become a brony. I was at a loss of words, because he said he hated bronies and raged at them over TF2. A few days later, I had finally watched the show myself for the first time.

So, there you have it. Nothing to special.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: the_hebster on 2012 Apr 06, 17:24:14
One of my friends started to watch it and kept talking about it. One day i was at his house O:and he had to watch episode 25 O.O.....first i was asking him if he was gay then he showed me the anthology.....i walked out of the room, went home and stayed up watching ponies and was a major closet brony til a month or 2 back when i bought some shirts XD
even if u told me i was going to be like this i would have said nope now im saying eeyup
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Soft Fang on 2012 Apr 06, 18:52:21
I was on Memebase going though some other area when i noticed the 'My Little Brony' section. I'm a child of the 80's as well as the 90's, so i knew about the old ones, but not this version. I like the fun stuff on there, so i did my homework about the show. Impressed, i finally watch the first 2 episodes. And i've been a fan ever since.

Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Little Judas on 2012 Apr 06, 20:03:23
It was the year of 2011 and on a beautiful summer-evening in July.
I was just on my PC watching some pictures on Memebase,
yet, my thirst for comedy was not satisfied.
Even though all the category's were seen, all but one, Bronies!

Intrigued by the colourful ponies, I spent the next 2 or was 3 weeks
laughing at all those comics, convincing myself that my interest was
because of boredom, denying myself the full experience.

Until one faithful night, I was visited by an old friend, he was the one
who made me realize I shouldn't be listening to my conscience,
something that made me feel guilty for laughing.

With great haste I began acquiring the entire fist season.
Along with my good friend I watched it every night of the summer
Since then I consider myself a Brony...

Spoiler: In loving memory to my good friend.
Your appearance might have changed but you're still the same to me. •
show
(http://www.blogsfeer.nl/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/palm-bier.jpg)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Firey on 2012 Apr 06, 20:05:20
I was on youtube and I saw EPIC PIE TIME and I'm thinking,
'Looks epic, I'm gonna watch it.'
Which led me into watching BronyCon which then led me into
watching MLP which THEN led me into joining the forums
which therefore makes me a brony.

                                                    ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Tiger on 2012 Apr 06, 20:11:40
On deviantart, me and my sister saw lots of people drawing MLP FIM.

So we decided to watch it.

End of story ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Legulus on 2012 Apr 06, 20:36:03
Well, some of my online friends began talking about how they loved My Little Pony. I was like: "what?". 'Cause I had no idea what the animation was like or anything, so I thought it was the old generations they were talking about. Then I inquired to them, and they explained that it was Friendship Is Magic. Without telling anyone, I watched the first episode. It wasn't that bad, so I tried the second. I wasn't a big fan of that serious plot in the first 2 episodes, so I went on to the 3rd. This one I liked and I decided that the show was good. From then I just started watching the series like crazy  :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ninkon on 2012 Apr 06, 20:42:16
A set of circumstances brought me to watch the show and I enjoyed it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: CyanideInsanity on 2012 Apr 06, 20:44:10
Saw a comic on teh interwebz. Later I saw it appearing more frequently, and thus curiosity led me to find it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Goldenrod on 2012 Apr 06, 22:13:59
Oh Youtube, where would I be right now if it wasn't for you?
Patrolling and stumbled across this video.
Spoiler: Spoiler'd cause of name • show
Spoiler: Now you can't say you clicked it by accident • show
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: R-Zack on 2012 Apr 06, 23:05:15
I probably started becoming a brony at halfway 2011 or something, but when I became a brony I remember that all of the season 1 episodes were out by the time I finished watching them, and the 1st episode had 1 million views before it was removed...

I was introduced by a friend in a chatroom at a gaming site during the first days of summer vacation,sent a link and told me and a couple other buds to watch it. I was in the living room, luckily by myself there, because when I clicked on it my mind starting thinking: "What the heck am I watching? Am I really watching a show about ponies?" And sat down through the whole episode, at parts thinking why am I still watching this, and secretly starting to like it!? By the end of the first 2 pilot episodes, I was hooked, yet ashamed I liked this show, not realizing how popular it was and the fans(and their fanon name.) No less than at least 2-3 days later, I discovered Equestria Daily (EqD), and secretly started going to it and enjoying its posts, learning about the large fandom and their name.

Bronies.  --How I became a brony stops here.-- Continue to read to find out how I discovered EO(Which eventually seperated into LoE.) If you actually care.

Soon I learned about Equestria Online (The Pony MMO Project, I call it at times) and never felt so excited that a Pony MMO was being made, and hanged out in the suggestion part of the forums, giving ideas. Never said hello in the Introduction Threads. A week or two later had the guts to click on the IRC, before thinking it was for team members only, and then ended there is the IRC, going there and the forums for months and BLAHBLAHBLAH. At this point you probably really don't care.

TL;DR: I became a brony from a friend at a gaming website.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: iAN on 2012 Apr 06, 23:17:00
My friend in the Navy always gave funny stories on how he single handily turned the crew into bronies, so I eventually was like, whatever I'll watch it.
Brony ever since.  :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 06, 23:58:35
Friend was like "ahh dude, new episode of My Little Pony is on tomorrow!"
I was skeptical at first, but decided to give it a try
LOVE THIS SHOW! :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 Apr 07, 00:51:58
saw a comment, heard it was good, never let my feelings cloud my judgement.  Instant brony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aphex93 on 2012 Apr 07, 13:42:07
Those are pretty awesome :D I agree with the intro, I feel this should replace it XD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2012 Apr 07, 15:16:28
Summer of '11 I discovered some pony/brony spoofs and decided to see what it was all about, and here we are!
((I have also converted many a pony into bronies in the past year. <3))
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aphex93 on 2012 Apr 07, 15:48:09
Unfortunately I dont think I have really converted anyone. If I did they definitely havent told me they watch the show. They should know I'd be happy about it my tumblr is mostly MLP spam haha
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2012 Apr 07, 15:54:42
QuoteUnfortunately I dont think I have really converted anyone. If I did they definitely havent told me they watch the show. They should know I'd be happy about it my tumblr is mostly MLP spam haha


Yes my tumblr, facebook, twitter, and rl are all spammed with ponies.


My theory is that MLP is unavoidable. I have yet to meet one person who has watched it, who does not fall in love. It's addicting, like as soon as you watch your first MLP episode, you just want more, and more, and soon enough what do you know, you're a full blown brony!  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lyana on 2012 Apr 07, 16:09:14
I really like horses and I was bored so looking for something online to watch. When I saw the new version of my little pony. I liked the look of it so I watched the first one. And of course had to watch the second one because of cliff hanger... after all it was all over. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 07, 18:55:39
It's funny when I have people watch it and they go all in denial about liking it, then I offer them beer + MORE PONIES! and It all works out :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Rainy-Chan on 2012 Apr 07, 19:09:42
Quote from: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 07, 18:55:39
[...]offer them beer + MORE PONIES! and It all works out :)

A well tested and reliable tactic.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 07, 19:17:59
More like a HEAVILY tested tactic, haha ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: videogamehunter on 2012 Apr 07, 19:36:01
Around August 2011 I was on nintendoage.com a site dedicated to Nintendo or anything retro collecting and I notice a couple of members switch there avatars to Ponys. I laugh a little and said what ever dude what ever you into I'm not judging because I use to watch Sailor Moon. But then one day a couple of days later someone made a post saying give ponies a chance. After awhile I said why not. However I had no clue what channel it came on and then I was like I just try youtube and surprising I found the first episode. It was ok and so was the second episode, then I watch the third episode and I thought it was kinda girly but the 4th episode. I laugh my flank off. It was amazing. But then I took a break from it them because I kinda forgot about the show exist but I found tons of great youtube videos and that when I heard the term brony. I watch many great fan videos and I even found scary images of Pinkie Pie which that when I discover the fan fic Cupcakes. I love that fan fic it was the first one I ever read and now I can't get enough of fan fics. A lot of those stories are amazing. 

I have no clue when I started calling myself a brony, but I'm Proud to be a Brony.

Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Shadow Mare on 2012 Apr 08, 15:00:55
I saw the "Know Your Meme" video talking about MLP, so I gave it a chance... I'm a brony now.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Explolguy on 2012 Apr 08, 15:23:44
>Randomly browsing the interwebs
>See pony discussion on some site
"Hey, I remember people talking about this show. Isn't it for girls or something?"
>Watch the episode because I don't even.
>Instant brony

True story. Used to be a big time brony hater.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Vick McBread on 2012 Apr 08, 15:57:31
We thought we already posted? Oh well.
Well when We got TF2 We logged into random servers and the third one We joined was a brony server. So there We were minding our own business when suddenly the people in voice chat were apparently talking about "My Little Pony" in mature and straight sort of manner yet still sounded serious about the matter, not one person said it sucked, NOT ONE! so We thought it was all a big joke. Somehow, somewhere deep down, We knew what the title was. So We set off on a journey into the internet and found a random video on Youtube. on the thumb nails there was a crazy yellow pony, screaming. We felt embarrassed to watch so we didn't watch them. Every time We clicked on one We simply clicked back immediately. But their was something familiar about this (NOT the 80's cartoon) somehow my subconscious knew about this for years. So We never clicked on one, ever. But then our little brother apparently was also going on the server and he found and showed us a video called: what Meet The Medic would sound like with Fluttershy. And We loved it, We loved the idea. However, it still seemed a joke to us. So We manned up, and watched a few clips from the show and then watch an entire episode... and then something happened. We realized what this show could do for all of humankind.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Iodine on 2012 Apr 08, 20:03:57
I knew about MLP:FIM for awhile and never really thought much about it, but a friend told me a few months ago that it was really good, and that there are references in season 2 for adults. I thought that was really cool that the show was acknowledging an older audience, so I watched a few episodes and then I was absolutely hooked after that. I'm a total pony nerd now. 8D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sunshinee on 2012 Apr 08, 23:35:57
I had been really stupid at first, and i didnt want to watch it because i thought it was just one of those little kid things that teenagers watch because they feel like it sets them apart from the "norm".... but then i figured i shouldnt judge something before at least watching it once...and as all the other stories go...
I FELL IN LOVE WITH MLP:FIM.  <3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 09, 00:56:30
Quote from: Sunshinee on 2012 Apr 08, 23:35:57
I had been really stupid at first, and i didnt want to watch it because i thought it was just one of those little kid things that teenagers watch because they feel like it sets them apart from the "norm".... but then i figured i shouldnt judge something before at least watching it once...and as all the other stories go...
I FELL IN LOVE WITH MLP:FIM.  <3

What's funny is when you're friend who's 26 years old tells you to watch a "little girls show" xD
Best. Advice. Ever.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sunshinee on 2012 Apr 09, 01:04:42
Thats funny... But really i dont find it that much of a little girls show... It
could be a lot more... Little kidish.:p
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wolfie on 2012 Apr 09, 01:06:32
it's a MAN'S show, haha X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sunshinee on 2012 Apr 09, 01:09:52
Oh totes.  :0
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: DerWerMuffin on 2012 Apr 09, 11:07:09
one of my friends saw some episodes of MLP then he talked the whole time about it. i thought if he likes it this show shouldn´t be that bad.
I watched the first episodes and didn´t like them really much but I somehow couldn´t stop watching them and now I love the show  :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Apr 09, 11:27:11
all i can say is that i found the fan videos then i thought ive wached strainger first ep ok not bad 2 parts fine .... 5 episodes later what happens next... start off sesson 2 holy  its back... present day how much longer ... and thats how it happened
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Moonlight Paradise on 2012 Apr 09, 13:33:49
They were on episode 2 of season 2 when I started watching it. I thought it looked like another stupid little girl's show, but then I saw a video someone posted of two bronies rambling on about Fluttershy and Rainbowdash and Scootaloo, so I decided to watch it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: kremsly on 2012 Apr 09, 13:44:35
i was a ragular on this TF2 server and so was this anti-brony. I never understood why people cared for mlp to me it was a tv show and just that.
as time went on he rambled on and i interpreted it as "blahblahblahevilponiesblahblahblahthoseeyesblahblahblahblahSTEALYOURSOUL"  :l eventually i thought "fine!, lets see is this show is really devilspawn" and since then i've been a fan since
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Teal Turken on 2012 Apr 09, 13:52:51
I saw a review for season 1 on youtube by Joshscorcher AKA The Fiery Joker.
I warn you, it is filled with a lot of criticism so if you can't take it don't watch it.
Also contains small amounts of foul language.

Spoiler: show
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: pinkfrosting on 2012 Apr 09, 15:37:32
i saw a commercial for it wile searching on demand and i told my friend i wanted to try it so i turned one episode on..........
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dreadnaught 308 on 2012 Apr 09, 16:36:55
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/My_5e9157_2847329.jpg)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: darkjohns on 2012 Apr 09, 17:23:03
i just notice mlp fim was on with nothing good on so i thought why not and liked what i saw(i didn't find out about bronies right away)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Derpy Toaster on 2012 May 08, 03:10:04
tf2: sandvichs
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 08, 11:34:15
Quote from: Derpy Toaster on 2012 May 08, 03:10:04
tf2: sandvichs
that does NOT answer the question.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 10, 18:22:29
I first came across some of my schoolmates talking about it and notice ponies where becomeing popular. I thought it was a joke and I didn't think I'd like it. Then I watched one random episode and...I didn't care too much for it. Probably because I didn't get what was going on. Or didn't know about the characters

Then my friends came over and one of my friends wanted to watch it. I watched the first two episodes ^-^ I really enjoyed it and had lots of fun

But what really what made me love it even more is the awesome and talented bronies!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 13:50:45
Quote from: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 10, 18:22:29
I first came across some of my schoolmates talking about it and notice ponies where becomeing popular. I thought it was a joke and I didn't think I'd like it. Then I watched one random episode and...I didn't care too much for it. Probably because I didn't get what was going on. Or didn't know about the characters

Then my friends came over and one of my friends wanted to watch it. I watched the first two episodes ^-^ I really enjoyed it and had lots of fun

But what really what made me love it even more is the awesome and talented bronies!
:D the talent in this community is AMAZING!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 17:45:50
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 13:50:45
Quote from: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 10, 18:22:29
I first came across some of my schoolmates talking about it and notice ponies where becomeing popular. I thought it was a joke and I didn't think I'd like it. Then I watched one random episode and...I didn't care too much for it. Probably because I didn't get what was going on. Or didn't know about the characters

Then my friends came over and one of my friends wanted to watch it. I watched the first two episodes ^-^ I really enjoyed it and had lots of fun

But what really what made me love it even more is the awesome and talented bronies!
:D the talent in this community is AMAZING!

Yeah, it is!  O:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:07:23
I especially like Ethereal Nebula's art and Sugarcup's art ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 19:10:17
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:07:23
I especially like Ethereal Nebula's art and Sugarcup's art ^-^

I have not seen either's art. O: But I would love to!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:26:48
look them up on the Arts section! ^-^  Ethereal drew my current avatar :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 19:30:04
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:07:23
I especially like Ethereal Nebula's art and Sugarcup's art ^-^

Oh wait! I have seen Ethereal's. It is very nice~
Not Sugarcup ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 19:30:26
Quote from: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 19:30:04
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:07:23
I especially like Ethereal Nebula's art and Sugarcup's art ^-^

Oh wait! I have seen Ethereal's. It is very nice~
I haven't seen Sugarcup ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:36:52
check out her art here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=10.0 ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 20:05:44
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:36:52
check out her art here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=10.0 ^-^

Oh! Wow! Her art is lovely. Too bad it's closed  :'(
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 20:11:20
Quote from: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 20:05:44
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:36:52
check out her art here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=10.0 ^-^

Oh! Wow! Her art is lovely. Too bad it's closed  :'(
she opens every now and then :]  you just have to make sure you catch her on time!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 21:24:28
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 20:11:20
Quote from: PrincessParfait on 2012 May 11, 20:05:44
Quote from: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 11, 19:36:52
check out her art here: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=10.0 ^-^

Oh! Wow! Her art is lovely. Too bad it's closed  :'(
she opens every now and then :]  you just have to make sure you catch her on time!

I'll try to!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: LemonDrop on 2012 May 11, 22:13:19
2-14-12 A friend told me about it, and I decided to download the entire first season.
Instantly liked it, iz here nao.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Wandering Magus on 2012 May 12, 13:20:27
Quote from: LemonDrop on 2012 May 11, 22:13:19
2-14-12 A friend told me about it, and I decided to download the entire first season.
Instantly liked it, iz here nao.
nice that you got it all the way down to the date too!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SOWTOJ on 2012 May 12, 13:50:37
Hmm, where exactly to begin. Well, I was definitely not a "hater" per say, but I didn't like the show even though I hadn't seen it. Being familiar with the previous generations, I didn't expect anything good to come from G4. Yet, a friend persisted that it was good. I made fun of him (lightly) for watching a girls show, but still never gave it a shot. One day, my daughter was watching TV and the Winter Wrap Up episode was on. I was kind of amused by Twilight failing at everything, but still didn't like the show. However, at my childs request, we watched some more episodes on youtube. Episode 4 had me laughing a lot more, and by the fifth episode I was hooked.  And just like that, I joined the herd.
I'm comfortable around any friend about watching the show, but I don't imagine telling my family anytime soon that I openly enjoy a show with brightly coloured ponies. They might not quite understand. However, they're all aware I'm a fan of many other kids cartoons (Spongebob/Fairly Oddparents in particular), so I don't think it'd be a shock that I watched a cute pony show as well. Besides, it's a family show and I can always wield that in my defense.  And it's not Jersey Shore, something I'm apparently suppose to be watching for someone my age.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ezio Auditore da Firenze on 2012 May 13, 01:06:27
I could have sworn I have seen this topic somewhere....Regardless,

I was introduced in TF2. I wasn't a brony at that time, and a guy was yelling out some nonsense about some Celestia. So after asking myself "What is that guy smoking" I asked him what in the world was Celestia. Turns out, it was the princess from MLP. I watched the first episode, and BAM! Brony conversion successful.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Starfly on 2012 May 13, 02:34:43
A friend encouraged me to watch it on Skype... I hesitated for obvious reasons against the pony fandom but when I finally watched that one episode, I realised... This is actually pretty good! Then I went through the whole of season 1 up to season 2 today and I suddenly caught the Brony.

Converted, I now love and tolerate the internet.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Diamond Sky on 2012 May 13, 10:18:58
I started watching it on youtube I think and got addicted to it, now I download the mlp fan songs xD  lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ründo on 2012 May 13, 11:45:48
Boredom / curiosity. I had nothing better to do and figured that since some people I knew seemed to like it I'd give it a shot. and well here we are.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Twisted Shadow on 2012 May 14, 05:34:47
My friend (Sea Foam) told me about the show. I did not believe him at first. I had grown curious over a couple days and I had an open mind when I watched it. Ever since the first episode my love for the show snowballed :) (I also pictured other show characters as ponies  lol)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lord of Madness on 2012 May 15, 21:40:58
truthfully i don't remember at all.. which must mean i have always been one  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: lichmewtwo on 2012 May 15, 22:01:42
friend:my little pony friendship is magic is awesome!
other friend:totally
me:never heard of it
friend:you should watch it.
me: ok
*watches every episode
me: this is almost as good as pokemon!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Saturnine on 2012 May 16, 23:33:03
This video.

Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dark Pumpkin on 2012 May 17, 02:28:47
I have a friend who was very out spoken about how much he disliked MLP(at least toward me) despite never having watched it. I never noticed it until he started bringing it up to me, and eventually I decided to watch an episode just to see how bad it was. (just a week before season 2 was starting)

First episode: This isn't so bad.
Second episode: I think I can stand another episode
Third episode: Ok, no denying it, I like this.

My friends reaction to this was not so great but I eventually convinced him to watch it by repeatedly annoying him by using the "You've never seen it, so how can you know you don't like it?" reasoning. He watched the first season backwards and wouldn't quite admit that he liked it yet, but has since watched every episode in season 2 and decided to say that he likes it.

In short I got into mlp because of a hater friend who I then turned into a brony. Without him I probably would have never bothered looking at mlp.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Link on 2012 May 18, 09:28:30
Well it all started about halfway through season one to the beginning of season 2; I was chatting with a friend on skype who hadn't yet admitted to me that he and his brother were bronies. After a few minutes of him nagging me (after confessing he liked the show - no I didn't criticize him for it!  >.<) I was convinced to watch the pilot episode(s) (I give into peer pressure too easily  lol).
Throughout the entire pilot I randomly screamed to my computer monitor; "Why am I watching this?!?!  O:"
But I kept watching.
By the time I had to get off the computer I had finished the pilot, my bro got on and re-called them on skype. Upon them asking what I was doing now, my brother found me sitting in front of our Wii and watching the next episode on the internet channel through youtube  :3.
Hence, after a fair amount of time of self denial, I'm in the sprouting stages on transitioning out of closet brony mode!  :D
And that's my brony story.
I use emoticons too much.  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aphex93 on 2012 May 18, 12:34:58
Haha the most open brony place for me is my Tumblr but I have Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Roseluck on my desk as well as cycling pony backgrounds and a roseluck desktop pony on my computer so I'm sure more of my friends are aware but they never bring it up.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: QuickLizrd on 2012 May 19, 17:37:09
My story is simple. I made a friend who was a brony, so after finding that he was a brony, I watched the first episode with, no idea why, my heart pounding in my chest (nervousness, giddyness?). After the first episode I saw it was a continuation, and I hate being cliffhung and surprises, so I watched the second episode, and then I watched the rest  ^-^.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Fluffy Cloud on 2012 May 19, 22:32:41
Trixie.

Or technically, Not a Clever Pony's All Powerful Trixie.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Silver Snake on 2012 May 19, 22:40:33
I was told to watch ponies by a freshman in my band class that I don't like very much. She insisted that I would like it, and with nothing to do that afternoon, guess what I did? I was hooked and continued to watch it even after my dad had picked me up.

I still have problems loving and tolerating that freshman...
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: CptWaffles on 2012 May 20, 01:00:05
Well I don't know if anyone else had it like this, but what the hay maybe someone did.

I had been seeing a lot of popularity growing in the show and my curiosity took over. I started watching a few episodes and decided it would be a fun little thing to watch. For a LONG time I'd only be a very quiet brony, I wouldn't really check on anything other then episodes, I wouldn't read any ponyfic or any other kind of pony media.

But around the beginning of March, I don't know why, but I decided to read a ponyfic. I can't remember how I found it, but I kept it in my bookmarks, it was called "A night (to try) to remember". After that it all clicked. I started reading EQD everyday, I listened to more and more brony music, watching PMVs.

I think the biggest reason I became a full blown brony was because after I read the ponyfic, it sort of sparked my creativity again, like I use to have when I was younger and I had created a world in my head. I hadn't had that kind of feeling for so long, and I liked it. Before I knew it I had created my own OC, a back story and I had my own story in my head. From there I create other stories, creating different versions of my OC for each one.

So the reason I became a brony is because it gave new life to the world in my head. It also made me feel and see that there are a LOT of good people on the planet, and that the world isn't as dark and grim as I thought it was.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Teritha on 2012 May 22, 12:05:39
I had seen a growing amount of ponies on some websites I visit which caught my curiousity at first, but I decided not to watch it. It's not that I didn't like them (I used to watch G1 My Little Pony when I was younger), it's just usually hard to get me into watching any show series. But in July last year, a friend told me he'd been watching it and said it was good; I tried it and I liked it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: byndbored on 2012 May 22, 12:19:51
I first saw that mlp was on Know your meme and my first reaction was lol I did not expect that so I studied it for a while and then i saw an oc called nyx and decided to read past sins and thats what made me like the show. :]
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: hyper drive [HD] on 2012 Jul 07, 13:34:25
i actually watched apple.mov and i looked at rarity. and in my mind i was thinking. wow the show must be good if rarity is in. at that time i didnt know her name but you get it
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lord of Madness on 2012 Jul 08, 18:10:34
OH my gosh I remember now!! I was watching shows from my childhood just to see them again. All of the good ones too, but mostly the ones I never saw the end to. An example might be winnie the pooh. Now as I searched thru I saw the MLP. I thought I should not look at it sense it is for young girls BUT maybe it will make me feel like the older shows from my childhood did. Needless to say I loved the show.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Iodine on 2012 Jul 10, 10:07:05
It's funny, my friend who introduced me to the show... I turned out to like it way more than he did, haha. I even turned into a pony collector.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lunar Eclipse on 2012 Aug 13, 13:24:55
I was looking up social conventions and new fandoms for my paper. Finished with some generic anime/manga from a very disturbing section of the bowels of the internet. I decieded that maybe a lighter type of fandom would be nice to recover with. I looked for some less soul consuming fandom and found ponies.How this came up as less soul consuming I'll never know I tried to look at it in a observant light, but it was too good of a fandom. It took me in. I never left.    x3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Salveon on 2012 Aug 13, 13:38:17
Well, one day at school my buddy came up (guy buddy) and said,
"Hey ___ have you seen my little pony?"
MY honest reply was "No, I won't watch a show for little girls" (I though this because I saw one minute of the series right before FiM (Don't ask if you don't know *Shudder*)
Then for the rest of class, he and the girl next to him kept on trying to get me to watch it. Telling me all about bronies and stuff.

Well, later that day at robotics most of the people their watched it, and tried to get me to watch it. After resisting for the next week or two, I finally got bored one night when I couldn't sleep and watch the first episode, followed by another 12 episodes that night. Thanks goodness it was a friday xD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Weatherboy1 on 2012 Aug 13, 14:52:00
Bro showed me
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Flamestriker on 2012 Aug 13, 16:20:12
I decided to watch it after seeing so many other people as fans and now I'm a brony. Then I showed my sister and brother and now we are all bronies.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Julius on 2012 Aug 13, 20:22:30
Well, I'm a very curious guy. I was online one day and I noticed how a lot of pony-related stuff started to show up, everywhere!

Then, at night, I thought "There must be a reason for old people to like this so much, so why not?"

When I saw the intro I was laughing my muffins off because of how girly it was! But I kept telling myself, "There MUST be a reason!"

So I made it past the intro and I was reminded of the beggining of Wind Waker, which I loved. Then I saw Twilight, and I laughed again. It was so silly! "What did people see on these ponies that was so good?"

"Oh... That's interesting" I thought, when Twilight noticed the comeback of Nightmare Moon. I felt the story was intense already, and those were only the first couple of minutes. I had to watch the whole thing.

So I did, laughing at how silly it was - Puns and everything - Excited because of the story, loving the different characters, enjoying the awesomeness!

And OH that cliffhanger! I just HAD to watch more. And more. And MORE!  ovO

I just loved it and enjoyed it, laughing along the way. I didn't stop there, I kept watching several episodes that night. Then i started watching several more every night (This was little over a month ago I think, perhaps less than a month ago).

After I finished watching them all, I was sad it was over untill the start of season 3 (At that point, I had read MLP's Wiki), so I decided to look for more. I found out about EQD and the EverFree radio. That's when I was introduced to MandoPony's music, which I absolutely loved!

I started passively checking EQD untill I found about the voice acting auditions for Legends of Equestria and Fighting Is Magic.

Now I'm a brony, little over a month (Maybe less) after watching the first episode. Now I want to buy a lot of clothing (I need about a thousand dollars just to buy them all lol), I check sites like EQD and these forums daily on my iPhone, and I've downloaded a lot of music, not only from the show, but also from this community's amazingly talented artists.

Slowly becoming open about it. I don't mind if I'm seen watching something pony-related, I told my cousin about it and I will sometime apply that awesome Everypony theme I downloaded for my iPhone. I may buy the There's A Pony For That case too!  :]

Thanks for taking your time to read my story, if you made it this far please go ahead and Smile! And just for you, Brohoof.  :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Stitchin Time on 2012 Aug 13, 20:36:07
It's simple, I was born.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nonnavlis on 2012 Aug 13, 20:52:14
I became a brony by natural progression. I've been into ponies since G1, and I've just kept on riding the train XD.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Firefly on 2012 Aug 13, 20:58:01
Quote from: Stitchin Time on 2012 Aug 13, 20:36:07
It's simple, I was born.


LOL  lol

I can't exactly remember how I became one  :I

though I'm pretty sure that MLP FiM was just one of the few cartoons that I get really obssessed with after coming upon it on one fateful day when I was bored :P

Yeah I'm a secret brony pegasister even now XDD but I'm open to other brony/pegasister fans  X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: LaptopCommandStation on 2012 Aug 13, 20:59:17
I friend of mine online showed me a PMV(I remember exactly which one, but it's....Wutang, so imma not post it), and I was curious how the show really was.

The rest is history, although I haven't really talked about ponies at all until these forums, i've been a brony in secret since last october.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lord of Madness on 2012 Aug 13, 21:33:54
Quote from: Stitchin Time on 2012 Aug 13, 20:36:07
It's simple, I was born.


you win. Congratulations :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Blade The Protector on 2012 Aug 13, 23:56:36
I remember seeing a bunch of jokes and other stuff mentioning the show on webcomics.  So I finaly decided to check it out and see what the fuss was about.  i couldn't believe how good it actualy was.  I instantly fell in love with the show.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: LaptopCommandStation on 2012 Aug 14, 12:50:32
Seeing this show instantly reminded me of childhood shoes from the 90's.  You know, when cartoon TV programming was actually decent/had morals.  I think that ALONE made me love the show at first, knowing there are people out there who can still provide shows like this, 20 years later.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Star Striker on 2012 Aug 16, 16:17:52
Browsing "Know Your Meme" One day I noticed a new MLP page. Devoid of much aside from reaction images and a written blurb of the show and how it became meme status.

So I was like
"Whoawhoawhoa this can't possibly be true, surely this is just some horrible trolling joke going off it's rocker again."
So I watched the first episode. I was like
"Alright, so, that was pretty neat. I'll just... click.... into this... next episode..."
Shared the video with some friends, and uhh now four of my friends are converted bronies. yupyup.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Doomguy on 2012 Aug 28, 02:04:25
SIT DOWN, KIDS! IT'S STORY TIME! >:O

Back in the olden days (Early 2011) I used to frequent 4chan, and I was seeing a whole bunch of pony stuff on /b/ and /co/.  There were people posting pony stuff everywhere and it eventually got to the point where the mods would ban you for posting ponies, giving birth to the mods are asleep post ponies meme. I thought it was a joke.

Let's dip into summer. I was just chilling out in a chatroom on deviantArt when someone was going on about ponies, thinking he was either a troll or a very easy target, I decided to say that ponies were for little girls. We got into an argument and the guy told me to watch an episode; So I did. For 2 minutes. And I thought it sucked and was like some stupid wanna-be anime reboot of an old franchise nobody cared about with a plot that looked like it was going to be one big story the way it played out. And then came the plethora of memes and '/b/ronies'.

I tried to resist, the memes were funny and the fan content was really good and I tried to avoid it like it was a zombie virus, and I was doing a good job of it too. Skip to mid-august, one of my non-brony friends links me to the pony creator and tells me to create a pony with the pony creator. So I created one and  I liked what I did. Later that evening, I decided to turn on an episode of MLP:FiM as hesitant as I was... And then I watched episode two... Hey, this is pretty decent, maybe I'll flick on episode three and see how it plays out... alright, after episode six I'm going to bed... Holy bajeebus it's five in the morning and I'm about to click episode eleven. There goes my sleeping schedule.

Once School started, I kept the brony thing to myself since most of my friends there were hoods and that wasn't something you wanna tell your hood buddies. When I officially became a brony, I spent my nights listening to brony music, watching the show, reading the fanfiction, the pmv's, all of it. I had become... A BRONY! Happened literally overnight I hated the fact I became a brony, but I accepted it quickly. And now I'm happier than I've ever been, I slept through school most of the time, I only had two classes left to complete school so I took the classes online to allow myself to pony pony 24/7. Becoming a brony helped me become a better person all around. And I still got my diploma if you ask.

tl;dr, Found it on 4chan, resistance was futile, the addiction messed with my education but gave me enightenment.

:3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Princess_Luna on 2012 Sep 01, 02:37:17
memes started to pop up and i knew a brony and thought "he is ill or gay" and when i turned on the TV. the channle was stuck on the hub and EP.1 was starting so i wached it and loved it! i take back all the bad things i said when i was a anti-pony  >.< i say sorry to everypony  >A<
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Little Star on 2012 Sep 02, 10:55:36
My friend told me about it and I was like  :l Its a little girl show. You are soooooo gay. So I was forced to watch one episode. I watched it and was like  >:/ I um.... will see how it ends..... Then I watched the two seasons in one night.
THERE!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Sep 02, 11:13:37
I wonder how many people on this forum were open-minded like me? Though, I wasn't completely open-minded. X3 Like I've said before, when I found out about bronies, I thought it was weird, and I thought that they were weird.

However, unlike a lot of people, I didn't automatically assume it had to do with the people, for some reason. I don't know why I didn't come to that assumption. Instead, my blame was directed at the show.

"What is it about this show that all these guys like? So weird. Do they really like it, or is it actually that good? Eh... I've got nothing else to do, so I guess I'll see what the hype is all about."
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2012 Sep 02, 11:19:00
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Sep 02, 11:13:37
I wonder how many people on this forum were open-minded like me? Though, I wasn't completely open-minded. X3 Like I've said before, when I found out about bronies, I thought it was weird, and I thought that they were weird.

However, unlike a lot of people, I didn't automatically assume it had to do with the people, for some reason. I don't know why I didn't come to that assumption. Instead, my blame was directed at the show.

"What is it about this show that all these guys like? So weird. Do they really like it, or is it actually that good? Eh... I've got nothing else to do, so I guess I'll see what the hype is all about."
I was 10000% open minded about it.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Little Judas on 2012 Sep 02, 11:44:20
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Sep 02, 11:13:37
I wonder how many people on this forum were open-minded like me?

Nope, booze was needed.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TCDubstep on 2012 Sep 09, 02:38:34
WARNING: This storyis long andtyped without a proper spacebar so try to stay with me as i try to put spaces between my words.

Anyways my story seems like pure luck  and chance to me.
It all started in I think  2008 when one of my friendsshowed me a game called Blockland. But im not going to go into much detail other than that. In Febuary 2010 I discovered  minecraft, and to this day that is one of my favoriate games.

I over-played minecraft andgot bored when i disscovered Terraria.

I played my guts on this game, im just say i have put 600 hours into that game. But anywho, I was on Terraria Online, the fourm over there I saw quite a few people with ponies in their sig's. I didn't care, its the internet, your gonna see weird stuff I told myself.

About one week later i stayed the night at my grandmothers house to helpher babysit in the morning. I was bored but I couldnt go to sleep, so I got on TO on my phone to pass the time. I and then i got bored of that. Then I read the MLP topic and decided watch the show to pass the time.

So I watched episode 1, then 2, then 3, and marathoned the whole series in one night. Speaking of that I even remember the day I became a brony, 9-20-11. There is one reason I remember that date, it's my birthday.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SapphirePony on 2012 Sep 09, 09:33:48
The day MLP:FiM came out, I was going to watch it just to see really what it was about, at that time I was watching lots of little kid shows.. I guess it was a phase where I'd watch lots of little kid shows... plus I watched a lot on the hub  X3 So I watched it... I fell in love with it instantly, and that's how I became a brony pegasister. And I just feel like telling you about how my friend became a brony, because she doesn't know about this yet. I. Forced. Her. To. Join. The. Herd.  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Vertigo on 2012 Sep 10, 22:39:12
I never heard of my little pony my whole like I was bored and I liked horses and so I got a really bad first impresstion on Rainbow in fall weather friends the first episode I watched(it took a year but I like RD now). But I thougt the show was dumb before I watched it I admitted I liked it like rainbow admitted she liked reading. My dad came in the house. I was not watching my little pony!!! I dident want him to know cause he makes fun of me and now he knows I it like and he doesnt make.fun of.me but ponies still made my life worse and better somewhat happy ending
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: CometSwirl1 on 2012 Oct 01, 09:16:14
I was really confused about why people loved the show so i sat down and watched some episodes one night and, voila. ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: MurphyMcFiddle on 2012 Oct 01, 16:00:07
 Ah,questions that start with ''how'',the quintessence of knowledge gaining...My little brother forced me into his room on a stormy night because he was scared,then since we had nothing to do we turned on the tv,MLP was playing and it was instant love!Awkward,but instant bronyfication!I ain't even a bit ashamed...
X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Billow Pillow on 2012 Oct 01, 17:49:42
Hmm, quite the interesting question.  Well in comparison to your guys stories i presume my story wont be as exciting, but all the same should be just as informative as the others.  Just like most, one day was simply just bored and happen to randomly run into one of the my little pony videos (In this case Season 2 Episode 2) Saw the episode, and well was rather interested in it, however at the time was still rather busy with my life so at the time i just put it off for awhile.   :]

Thing's really didn't start to kick off intill the day when i was randomly searching through my channels and saw the hub on and saw that a new episode of my little pony was coming on (Season 2 Episode 11) and the rest is history, became heavily interested in the show just from that one episode.  Inspired me to watch the rest of them, though at the time i watch backwards from episode 11 to episode 7 before i went to the start and watch from the begging of season one.  Till this day, i am rather uncertain as to why i watched it at first in such a strange manner, though i suppose it really doesn't matter.  :s
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: AAA13 on 2012 Oct 01, 17:50:55
I've loved ponies since I was 4 when my mother bought me a pony toy.
I have followed most different versions of it since then ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Princess_Luna on 2012 Oct 01, 20:58:10
i can tell you how i turned my friend B)
she said "no in NOT waching a show for 3 year olds!" soooo long story short i tied her down in front of the tv pinkamena style ovO (it was a sleep over so it was easy... very hard to wake her up) and turned on SE.1 EP.1 and she was like "no no no no no no!" so i covered her mouth with ducktape! (the ducktape part is a jk! i would NEVER do that!) when it started she said "im going to be stuck in this s***... may as well get it over with :c " we wached the first seson and she said "meh... i would wach it if i HAD to... but not if i wanted to" next day i found her in her room waching seson 2 singing "my little pony... i use to wonder what frie-" then she screamed when she saw me :] 'cus im just evil like that... the next day at the bus stop i asked her what her fav pony is and she said "flutershy... your so mean..." SHE. IS. IN. THE. HERD.

:] 'cus im just evil like that ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Flinckie on 2012 Oct 02, 14:09:59
I finally decided to investigate why there were ponies all over 4chan. This was around mid-December 2011 and I constantly beat myself up over not checking it out sooner. I could've caught the show months earlier, but it all worked out in the end.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Shining Armor on 2012 Oct 06, 11:21:24
I was looking through the channels and I believe it was episode 16 that was on, and I said why not, nothing else is on and tried it out. Fantastic decision on my part. Then after a while I found out about the bronies just from being on the internet is really enough.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Oct 06, 11:44:00
Generic story wahced deathbattle on screwattack thought why is this a thing had a look

bit of time later wached it for bordums sake

True reason: fell in love with the style and animation and the charater development and it escolated from there eventuly found this forums then I loved it here as you can see you cant get rid of me now  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Julius on 2012 Oct 06, 17:18:31
Quote from: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Oct 06, 11:44:00
Generic story wahced deathbattle on screwattack thought why is this a thing had a look

bit of time later wached it for bordums sake

True reason: fell in love with the style and animation and the charater development and it escolated from there eventuly found this forums then I loved it here as you can see you cant get rid of me now  ovO


But... Why would we want to get rid of you? :]
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Silver Snake on 2012 Oct 06, 17:40:14
Quote from: Julius on 2012 Oct 06, 17:18:31
Quote from: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Oct 06, 11:44:00
Generic story wahced deathbattle on screwattack thought why is this a thing had a look

bit of time later wached it for bordums sake

True reason: fell in love with the style and animation and the charater development and it escolated from there eventuly found this forums then I loved it here as you can see you cant get rid of me now  ovO


But... Why would we want to get rid of you? :]


Julius brings up a valid point. *climbs atop a soap box* I haven't needed one yet, but a Dueling Pony is a worthy ally in times of trouble. While all the forces of the Decepticons may fall, those ponies who have banded together in a bond that can only be described as bronyhood will beat back the forces of evil and disunity. One is always a brony, and their allies shall never stray far from their side. An ally and fellow brony is a treasure that must never be scorned. *hops off soap box and salutes*
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Julius on 2012 Oct 06, 17:55:33
(http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/164/2/d/rainbow_dash_salute_iphone_by_aarocka-d3iv1zn.png)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Oct 06, 17:59:37
Quote from: Silver Snake on 2012 Oct 06, 17:40:14
Quote from: Julius on 2012 Oct 06, 17:18:31
Quote from: Ryo_D_Disk on 2012 Oct 06, 11:44:00
Generic story wahced deathbattle on screwattack thought why is this a thing had a look

bit of time later wached it for bordums sake

True reason: fell in love with the style and animation and the charater development and it escolated from there eventuly found this forums then I loved it here as you can see you cant get rid of me now  ovO


But... Why would we want to get rid of you? :]


Julius brings up a valid point. *climbs atop a soap box* I haven't needed one yet, but a Dueling Pony is a worthy ally in times of trouble. While all the forces of the Decepticons may fall, those ponies who have banded together in a bond that can only be described as bronyhood will beat back the forces of evil and disunity. One is always a brony, and their allies shall never stray far from their side. An ally and fellow brony is a treasure that must never be scorned. *hops off soap box and salutes*


Well  :I Im honourd to feel needed to be fair i tend to be a quite forgetable pony at the best of times
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Midnight Breeze on 2012 Oct 06, 19:30:38
The first time I ever found out about My Little Pony was when I randomly stumbled across Kyrospawn videos while browsing YouTube in late 2011. Looking at some of the comments I realized that these clearly weren't little girls and that they kept using the word 'brony' I had never heard of. So I googled the word and found out about the community. At that time I just said 'Meh, to each his own.' I never thought that I would actually get into the community myself. Over time I started seeing more and more ponies all over the place and my interest started to grow.

Finally in April 2012 I got Netflix for the first time (Yeah, really late to that party I know lol) and discovered season one of the series while browsing. I thought 'Eh, whatever, might as well see what all the fuss is about.' And started watching the first episode.

At first I didn't even make it past the intro theme song before facepalming and saying 'Oh my God, what am I watching?' and turning it off. But a couple of days later I decided to give the show a fair chance and made myself watch the 2-parter pilot. I thought 'Eh, I guess it's an alright cartoon' but I still didn't think I would wind up getting into it.

The next day I decided 'What the heck, let's watch another episode' Then I watched another, and another, and another... and from there I wound up watching the entire first season over a span of 3 days.

After the first season, I was pretty much hooked. Every brony has their own reason for liking the show, and for me it's the character development. 99% of cartoons today are just a hodgepodge of unfunny slapstick humor and lack any actual continuity. FiM wasn't like that. The characters were well written and relatable. Over the series they grow, develop and learn from their experiences.

So yes. That's my brony-life story. At this point it's hard for me to believe that just 6 months ago I wouldn't be caught dead watching ponies.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: akirawind0 on 2012 Nov 11, 07:03:54
How Did I become A Brony?
Well It pretty funny story
it was 13.7 this year I was in my computer doing something it was late at night.
that day I was in youtube looking  at creepy pasta in one of the  Luna game I heart "At The Gala" Music it was remix.
Anyway It was too quit that nigh so Put my headphone and star listening that song after that I look other videos there was I press Becoming Popular (The Pony Everypony Should Know) it was the MV but I did not continue what I was doing I keep watch and next think I was saw 1 and 2 seasons now I am Brony
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ChocolateRain on 2012 Nov 11, 07:40:59
Some time ago out of curiosity (have noticed ponies around the internet and other places) I watched s1e01 on youtube but it didn't get me though.

Later then I watched that video (didn't even know the original back then):

Spoiler: show


Then sometime I listened to a German podcast (normally not pony related), discussing Fanfiction and MLP:FiM:

Spoiler: German Podcast • show
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cr178.html (http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cr178.html)


After that I somehow had to watch season 1 + 2. And now I'm addicted...
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: GuitarBrony on 2012 Nov 12, 11:24:33
Oddly enough, i have a video about how i became a brony... made it almost a year ago... Don't judge... skip to about 2:25 to ignore my rambling intro.

Spoiler: show
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Julius on 2012 Nov 12, 11:59:02
Quote from: GuitarBrony on 2012 Nov 12, 11:24:33
Oddly enough, i have a video about how i became a brony... made it almost a year ago... Don't judge... skip to about 2:25 to ignore my rambling intro.

Spoiler: show



Best wrap up to a video ever. lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: GuitarBrony on 2012 Nov 12, 12:10:16
Quote from: Julius on 2012 Nov 12, 11:59:02
Quote from: GuitarBrony on 2012 Nov 12, 11:24:33
Oddly enough, i have a video about how i became a brony... made it almost a year ago... Don't judge... skip to about 2:25 to ignore my rambling intro.

Spoiler: show



Best wrap up to a video ever. lol


yeah... it was like... 2 or 3 am by that point... my brain had long since ceased to cooperate with me.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2012 Nov 12, 14:52:31
Quote from: GuitarBrony on 2012 Nov 12, 11:24:33
Oddly enough, i have a video about how i became a brony... made it almost a year ago... Don't judge... skip to about 2:25 to ignore my rambling intro.

Spoiler: show

Stay....thirsty? *shrug* broooohooooof!  :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Skardan on 2012 Nov 13, 16:34:05
Well I found MLP through an artist.
I'm not saying his name because most of his art is "not for kids". ^^
Anyways I really like his drawing style so I watched him for quite a long time.
But then he suddenly started to draw some ponies.

I thought it looks interesting and watched some funny vids on YT (sadly I can't remember which vids).
Then I watched every single episode that existed (1-13) in one day.
Oh btw. thanks to NegimaP (http://www.youtube.com/user/NegimaP) for the ger sub. :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: CrabApple on 2012 Nov 26, 23:39:23
I started likeing the pony stuff because my friend made me come over to her house and watch it. At first i was like, "this is stupid i dont want to watch this!" but i realized it was pretty adicting. also Flipnote Hatena had a lot of pony flipnotes posted on it. thats how i think i really got into it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: super_chris85 on 2012 Nov 27, 16:22:53
I always thought my brony friends would get me to watch but my brother showed me and it turns out my older of 2 sis is a pegisister too  ovO it makes me happy to watch this show
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jenzy on 2012 Nov 27, 20:03:10
Searching through one of my favorite artist's (YoshiMan1118's) deviantART page.

Ponies started appearing. I actually thought it looked interesting. Later, I got curious and let myself watch the first FEW episodes. I ended up continuing, having found out Lauren Faust created the show. And the characters/animation/writing/music are all brilliant! :D

I didn't enjoy the songs fully until my 2nd re-watch of the full 1st Season. I was 'uncomfortable' at first listening to the MLP songs, but now they're so freakin' catchy and amazing! Music is awesome! :nod:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Julius on 2012 Nov 27, 20:16:17
Quote from: Jenzy on 2012 Nov 27, 20:03:10
I didn't enjoy the songs fully until my 2nd re-watch of the full 1st Season. I was 'uncomfortable' at first listening to the MLP songs, but now they're so freakin' catchy and amazing! Music is awesome! :nod:


I think that's how it was for every new brony, myself included.

I now have all of the show's songs I like on my iPhone. (Including "Oink, Oink, Oink!" and the Theme Song). lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: AAA13 on 2012 Nov 28, 17:30:08
Quote from: Julius on 2012 Nov 27, 20:16:17
Quote from: Jenzy on 2012 Nov 27, 20:03:10
I didn't enjoy the songs fully until my 2nd re-watch of the full 1st Season. I was 'uncomfortable' at first listening to the MLP songs, but now they're so freakin' catchy and amazing! Music is awesome! :nod:


I think that's how it was for every new brony, myself included.
Since I started my brony life with Gen 1 MLP, that sentance does not affect me in any way as I was two years old and have loved it from the start.
Apart from Gen 3, I love anything pony! :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Rikaria on 2012 Nov 28, 17:54:30
Can't believe I didn't notice this sooner x.x Anyway, so initially I saw MLP pics on an imageboard I frequent but didn't think about them too much. Probably like 1-3 months later I was watching a video on YouTube showcasing the Mine Little Pony mod. I got interested and tried it out. (Oh, and I've been a Minecraft player ever since Beta 1.6. Anyway,) I found the model change cute and liked some of the characters in the skin pack. I later looked up more info and saw... well... My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I started watching the show (in chronological order, like I do everything else). The rest was history :P

I've been a brony ever since December 2011 :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Floral Essence on 2012 Dec 06, 00:13:45
One day around the beginning of this year, I was watching some Ed, Edd, n Eddy amv's by ScamMasterEddy2010 on YouTube. I commented on one of them and we had a pleasant discussion about the show. Then, I found out he was a brony, so out of curiosity, I watched the first two episodes. They were not as girly as I expected, so I decided to show my siblings. My brother became instantly hooked while I watched the show casually, however, I officially became a Pegasister after listening to the fandom's epic music and looking at the art...

You know, Bronies are unique. They can create so much from so little, and I definitely support the "love and tolerance" them.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Doctor Light on 2012 Dec 06, 07:22:47
I was on Memecenter, derpin' looking at hate at bronies and the war.. Then I was like "Might as well see it." And here I am
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: kenan89 on 2012 Dec 06, 09:43:26
well....
i watched A FEW clips and stuff... then the season 1 episode 1 video started following me since 2011 dec 28 then on january 2012 i clicked it, i was amazed and couldt resist watching the other ep and thats how i became a brony :D now i am watching every live stream i can
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cobalt ZERO on 2012 Dec 19, 17:35:31
i used to be a hater actually..wondering WHAT THE HELL GIRL SHOW kinda stuff.. got stuck googling random stuff one day..came acrosss the cupcakes creepypasta fanfic..or whatever its called. next few days i was like. im gonna see what this pony stuff is about...watched first episode almost stopped there.cause alot of the ponies seemed childish and annoying..but continued on anyways..kept watching episodes and i was thinking..wow...MUST SEE MOAR PONIES!! and here i am.. i also converted my brother and now he cant get enough of dashie  :3 ..the place i used to work..saw this one guy with a fluttershy t-shirt and talked to him quietly about it and we had a good time..theres bronies in my area although not many unless theyre hiding it.  :]
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Stardust Dragon on 2012 Dec 20, 23:19:46
I remember when I was a lot younger, my sister would watch one of the G1 pony movies quite frequently, the one with the Flutter ponies vs the Smooze.  I was hesitant to say I liked it, but I frequently watched it with her, and played the G2 game "Friendship Gardens".  I personally remember neither me or my sister could get our ponies across the bridge  X3

After that I sort of just lived my life as normal, never really giving a passing thought to My Little Pony.  I wasn't for or against it for a long while, until I started to hear about Friendship is Magic and the boatloads of Bronies that followed.  I thought it was weird for a while, but one day, and no I can't remember the exact date, I decided to at least try it, see what the fuss was about. 
By the time Twilight activated the Elements, and even with me calling exactly what she'd done and how, I was too entangled in the characters and story there was no hope of me not watching the entire first season.  It took a while to warm up to the intro, and for about a month it was the only thing I could skip through.  :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: cloud flicker on 2012 Dec 22, 19:51:33
Long story short I watched SHED.MOV and I thought it was pretty funny lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: alexandas on 2012 Dec 22, 21:11:17
my friend introduced me to bronyness, my first episode that i ever saw a second of ((only saw for like 4 minutes)) was over a barel, the first i completely watched was bridle gossip
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: hedjeroo on 2012 Dec 22, 22:07:01
A friend of mine at university was really getting into ponies, and I had to check out the new series because I was really curious about Rainbow Dash - who I didn't actually know the name of, but all I knew was she, for some reason, looked a lot like said friend.

I had MLP toys as a little girl, too, so I've always had some pony enthusiasm. I used to be like an older sister to one of the kids on the street when I was younger as well, and we would play a MLP game on the computer that I barely remember.

I really like pretty cute things so it was sort of inevitable that I would come back to MLP at several points through my life. xD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: RainCloud on 2012 Dec 25, 17:34:20
I was watching a vid on Youtube, and it had a brony song on the background. And i was like: 'hm, catchy, where is it from?' So after watching a lot of brony stuff, i decided to watch the show as well  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Enstramentall on 2012 Dec 26, 05:28:06
I was a fan of MLP when I was a little girl, I had coloring books, figures, an ornament for christmas. Okay, I still have them. ^-^  X3. It happens that when the new show came out, I'd only heard a little about it. BUT THEN my friend showed me Epic Pie time, and I thought it was funny, so we watched Epic Cupcake Time... :P It all took off from there, and a whole lotta Netflix and Youtube browsing.  It's now part of my life regularly.  I got my brothers into it, too, because they saw it and thought it was funny. *shrug* MLP: FIM is boss. Just flat boss. 8) :nod:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: acidic1101 on 2013 Jan 03, 02:38:38
I used to be a hater because I despised the idea of liking something "girly" because I hate the way people link "girly" stuff with being a clueless makeup hoarder who loves Twilight, One Direction, and Justin Bieber. Somehow someone convinced me not to judge something without giving it a chance, so I looked it up on Youtube. For the first 5 minutes I was making myself hate the show, but I eventually caved, I loved the show... and Derpy x3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: lupe on 2013 Jan 06, 04:51:50
i went on youtube and found double rainbow syndrome :p
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TL_Yarr on 2013 Jan 06, 09:49:03
My best friend told me about the show, at first I was like skeptical that it would be good, (I was remembering what little I saw of the previous cartoons and adverts) and after MUCH nagging from her I finally youtube'd the first episode and, well here I am a year or two later.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aria BIaze on 2013 Jan 07, 18:38:47
Well i was just bored looking for some cartoons to watch and i was browsing on kids on demand and saw My little pony. I was thinking the G3 version or something because i never saw G4. So i was thinking "I'm going to check this out..." And so i watched an episode and it was good!  :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Legion495 on 2013 Jan 09, 15:05:47
I see it on Nick(german version) than I beginning watching online ^-^. After that I beginning to search games and found "Equestria Online" played 3 day's these game(pre-alpha). It was EPIC! Game was broken...WHY??? :I (that http://www.equestriaonline.com/)
One month later I found out that a friend of me like it too than I beginning again to search a game and found out that a Equestria Online switched to LoE but the pre-alpha was over. Now I wait for Alpha and looking every new part of MLP(now the american one because nick starts now with season2...). ^-^
I hope derpy get uncut again!(iTunes cuted derpy you should know!)

sry for gramma mistakes if there are one X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ArtVeigar on 2013 Jan 09, 15:33:49
Musics. I became addicted to brony musics, starting with The Living Tombstone, and started thinking: "Just how people who like a kid's show can do music this awesome?"
After a little research on the matter I discovered it had a huge fandon, with lots of awesome artists from all fields of art, and decided to give it a try and see if the show was as good as they said. It was better.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Svenp09 on 2013 Jan 11, 20:44:21
I saw rainbow dashs face ( :3 ) and i was in love with the ponies my favourite pony but is now Rarity and Princess Luna
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dark Hooves on 2013 Mar 20, 11:24:40
i just gave the show a try ad i liked it ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Siphion on 2013 Mar 21, 07:15:42
I was just curious and had nothing better to do so I watched one episode and it instantly cured my depression
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Virtual on 2013 Mar 21, 08:17:10
Well, the entire internet was talking about MLP so one day I noticed My Little Pony was on TV and I decided to watch it
One thing lead to the other
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chack on 2013 Mar 29, 22:49:56
Early 2011, I saw some clips of DJ PON-3, and thought they were cool. Didn't have the slightest clue what I was looking at. A few months later, I totally forgot about the DJ.

Late 2011, I was browsing Deviant Art. Please note that it was very late and I was really, really tired. I saw a poll from a respected artist asking who was best pony. Still didn't know what was going on. Luckily, there was a link to none other than the MLP Wiki page character list. Guess what? I still had no idea what I was looking at, even with MY LITTLE PONY plastered all over the page. Fluttershy, Rarity, Luna, Celestia, and Dr. Whooves were the only names that really stuck out to me. I scrolled to the comments, and there was some arguments going on. I ignored most of it. One of the comments compared the show to PowerPuff Girls (and I really like that show), so I decided to go to Youtube and watch the episodes. After 5 seconds into the video, I finally realized what I was doing, but I tried to remain open-minded about it. Then I got hooked. I watched all of season 1, then moved on to season 2. Only season 2 had just the 1st episode out at the time, so I waited excitedly for each new one.

Even so, it took me a couple of months to even notice the word "brony" was hanging around.

By the way, I hope I'm not the only one that reads everyone else's responses.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Charizard_2 on 2013 Apr 05, 18:28:09
I used to think the show was made for exclusively young girls, but when I saw Fluttershy beat the heck out of that bear...

I learned the true meaning of bronyhood.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Thundasius on 2013 Apr 06, 05:11:13
I first came in contact by watching the fanmade Phoenix Wright MLP FIM crossover. Link of first part here below.

I found the hairjokes pretty hilarious in the fanfiction by the way and the fact that Phoenix entered a fantasy world. lol
At firts I did not know what MLP was. But I just watched it anyway because of that phoenix wright (because I liked the video games) was in it. A half year after that I started to watch MLP to be curious about it and since I am a Anime/cartoon fan and found about the brony fanbase then I became a brony too. The story is really great to teach moral for children but I like it too. And i never saw such beautiful animation before.

Edit; Did I say something wrong? Nobody posts anymore in this post.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cotton Ball on 2013 Apr 24, 16:07:53
It was a normal day browsung on demand then i came across the hub and found mlp a old favorite watchd the first episode I was hooked
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ice Burst on 2013 Apr 26, 11:37:17
my friend was like "dude theres a really good show i want you to see MLP:FiM" i was like "WHAAA" he said "my little pony friendship is magic" i was like "oh...WHAAA!?!?!" so i wen't to go see it on youtube strangely enough i saw one of the older episodes of old generations specifically "sweetiebelle's gumball house surprise" me being open minded as hell at that time watched the real pilot the i watched episode 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 all that way up to a canterlot wedding i went back to my friend
friend: "soooo how was it like?"
me: "PPPPOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS :3"
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aria BIaze on 2013 Apr 27, 23:13:09
 One day i was SOOOOOO bored. So I looked for stuff to watch on Kids on Demand. (Because i like to watch cartoons) and then i found My Little Pony. "Whats this? G3?" I thought. I watched it. I loved it. That episode I watched was Sonic Rainboom. I looked on youtube for more episodes and i got to watch them all before they got removed!  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Tekner on 2013 Apr 29, 05:07:37
Despite being on the internet and computer nearly all my days in school, I never came across any, and I mean absolutely, 100% no pony stuff on the web. I have no idea how, but I missed it all. I finally started figuring out which social group to hang out with my senior year of high school (a tiny bit over a year ago) and occasionally at lunch, they'd mention ponies. Now, I'm used to being more of an outcast and doing societally awkard things, so I never really hassled them about it more than asking them why. They said it was a good show and that the reactions I had to their (before I knew what to call it) brony-ness were typical and if I gave it a chance, I would like it too. I gave it no second thought and watched several episodes that night.

The next day I told them that I didn't like it because the first few episodes didn't really do anything for me. The truth was that I was in denial that I liked the show. I knew I was in denial too and the only struggle was how to let them know that I actually liked the show. So I told them, "Fine. I'll watch more episodes." I don't think I slept quite well the rest of that week; too many pony-filled, restless nights.

Eventually, I realized that I had no reason to try to be "tough" with my friends, since they already went through what I did, more or less, and I just gave in. The best part is that Pinkie Pie emodies one of those three guys perfectly, while Rarity emodies another, Rainbow Dash the third, and Applejack me. I'd always been the in the position of being the "words of wisdom" amidst our always zany conversations.

Eventually, I stopped eating my lunch alone and looked forward to eating it with some of the most understanding and tolerant people I'd ever met at that point. It's funny to think of it being only a year ago, but I can honestly say that I'm a completely different person because of them. In the least cliché way possible, I've learned so much about friendship from them and the fandom. It's been an amazing year.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: super_chris85 on 2013 Apr 29, 15:45:11
When my bro first showed me the show I liked and admitted it but I denied it before I watched the show is that weird
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: KireiameJin on 2013 May 30, 13:32:52
My story is pretty simple, but also has a couple of coincidences. I had a friend which was a declared "Brony", at first, i use that as an excuse to laugh at him, and make some funny jokes about his tastes (which is a bad thing kids, so do not do it EVER). He kinda introduced me into the world of the poni memes, but i actually never shown much interest on it, i just though that the faces of the ponies and the texts where funny, nothing more, i also saw 2 chapters of the series with my little brother, and it was really funny, but the spanish voices for the cast is soooooo bad that it didn't catch my attention, at least i got some interest in "Pinkie pie" and her randomness XD, and also got interest in the developing and animation team, because it was impressively well animated for a "Girly" show.

So, i had the idea that the series was actually funny, and the ponies were cute and neat, but it was a couple of months later, thanks to "Living Tombstone" when i get in contact with the fan work community of MLP. I was just checking his Youtube channel after watching a chapter of "ASDF movie" for he 5th time, in search for the song of the video, when i saw the "Poni Rock anthem" video, then, one song lead to another one, and that song lead to "Saberspark"'s "Top ten broni songs of July" and the work got done, i just got pretty amazed on how hard this community worked into fanart and media developing like that awesome songs, and there i just began to get more interested on the world of the fan community of MLP, and for now, i'm pretty happy to have saw that "ASDF movie" again, checked the "Living Tombstone" channel and find the courage to click in the Top ten broni songs of "Saberspark" that day, now i feel a bit bad for being so mean with my old Broni friend  X3

Well, and that's my story, is not very cool, and i just wrote a lot, but i have nothing else to do now, and i had the opportunity to write the whole thing sooooo.... have a nice day bros!  :D (and Sis!)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cotton Ball on 2013 Jun 01, 17:12:42
Here is my friends story.  I was talking at lunch and brought up ponies. Eventually I sang the theme song and told her to watch it and then well. Instant brony :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: super_chris85 on 2013 Jun 01, 17:21:00
Quote from: Cotton Ball on 2013 Jun 01, 17:12:42
Here is my friends story.  I was talking at lunch and brought up ponies. Eventually I sang the theme song and told her to watch it and then well. Instant brony :D

wouldn't she be a pegasister


I felt so weird when i figured out my sister was a pegasister for a few months before me
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cotton Ball on 2013 Jun 01, 18:12:21
-does facehoof- I always mess it up. Oh well back to my stuff
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: LadyInWhite on 2013 Jun 09, 17:31:50
I adored G1. Despite all it's faults it was nice seeing magical candy colored talking horses go on fun adventures. Wind Whistler was my favorite Pony because she was really intelligent compared to the other ponies.

Somebody in early 2011 told me there had been a reboot of MLP on the Hub (what the hell is that?) that I might like so I found the first episodes on youtube and at first I was just appalled at what had become of my ditzy chubby ponies (the heads! OMG THE HEADS!!! Anime eyes, small muzzles, large ears, thin bodies and legs, ugh) but the story just engaged me so I continued to watch it and have been a fan ever since. Lauren Fausts Pony styles have slowly grown on me but I still cringe occasionally.

Now I'm a brony (or pegasister, I don't really use the label, I'm just a fan).
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dark Hooves on 2013 Jun 09, 17:34:17
if you haven't guessed already bronies are the guys and pegasisters are the girls
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Azure on 2013 Jun 09, 17:34:53
Saw some guys on a forum talking about it in like March 2011.
Thought "Eh, why not?".
Watched a couple of episodes and I thought it was pretty cool.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wintera on 2013 Jul 11, 09:13:06
I was bored and decided to watch mlp fim on the hub for no reason and it was pretty cool so I continued watching it and was like nooooo its on season break (season 2). Eventually I watched all the episodes and finally got a computer so I went on youtube and watched some mlp songs (very well written fanmade songs) which lead me to discovering the word brony. I was like ohh okay so i guess i'm a brony. Twas awesome!!

Everytime I think about the great work everypony does in this fandom it makes me feel even happier being a brony.

Luna is absolutey my favorite pony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Minor-T5 on 2013 Jul 11, 11:55:16
I heard tons of things about the show like how good it was, so I gave it a try. When I started watching it, I kept asking myself why I was watching the show for some reason. Once I got to the final episode of Season 1, I needed more, and I watched all the other seasons. And from that day on, I was a Brony (such an obvious story lol).
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Fmafanclub on 2013 Jul 11, 13:36:54
I think it was when I first saw a very cute fan-made video with Rainbow Dash  :3
I still love to watch it!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Minor-T5 on 2013 Jul 11, 14:39:17
Quote from: Fmafanclub on 2013 Jul 11, 13:36:54
I think it was when I first saw a very cute fan-made video with Rainbow Dash  :3
I still love to watch it!

What a short but nice story. XD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: super_chris85 on 2013 Jul 11, 15:15:56
well i said before my brother was the first one to show me the actual show but My first encounter with MLp is my friends two years ago showed me some videos on youtube and I will not go into detail about those videos here
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jack_Daft on 2013 Jul 11, 16:50:57
Kicking and screaming.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Randam Saiko on 2013 Jul 11, 18:12:25
I was browsing my usual forum 2 years ago. While I was browsing the off topic section, i noticed that we had a new member. So, he walked into a chatroom thread that I always use and he posted alot of ponies. At first I was skeptical, but I didn't think it was anything big going on. Over the next week, about 25% of the forums switched their avis into Ponies. I thought it was some kind of joke and I joined the other 75% on the flame fight on ponies.
About 3 weeks into this pony avi and meme thing, i got curious. I decided to watch one MLP ep, thinking, "well time to see what the fuss about this show was." I came out satisfied. I wasn't a Brony at that point, more of a neutral opinion on ponies now. Then someone made a share your music thread and i decided to post in it. And guess what, that new member who started the pony waves joined in. Then he posted some music made by Bronies.........My curiosity and opinion was hooked, lined, and sunk straight into the Pony fandom and I gave the show a 2nd shot, I came out very impressed. Only 1 1/2 weeks after that, I watched all 2 seasons of MLP and browsed through tons of fan produced content. First ponies invade my forums, then my MP3, then my wallpaper, and now parts of my rl computer desktop.


TL;DR  All it took was 1 Brony to invade my forum and giving me a taste of the music.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ChrisMusix on 2013 Jul 11, 19:34:16
My 3 year old daughter  made me watch some Pony.  I glanced Applebuck season a bit while she was watching it, and then decided to give it a chance.  Needless to say, I made through all of seasons 1 and 2 back in December 2012, and started watching season 3 mid-way through.  Then I discovered some of the youtube content with songs, PMVs, animations, convention panel coverage.  Then all the rest!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Bluebell on 2013 Jul 11, 20:22:07
It was December 2010, and I was stuck at home with a rather nasty stomach bug. Flipping through channels, I found an episode of FiM ("Look Before You Sleep") playing, and decided I might as well watch it. I thought it was actually pretty entertaining, and as soon as I was well, I looked up the show on the internet, thinking I was weird for liking such a show.

Found about bronies. Ponies are now an integral part of my day. Fin.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: KirbyFluttershy on 2013 Jul 11, 22:15:10
Good Question, Well I became a Brony since 2 years for now like about 2 days away from secret of excess Episode so like around 12-8-12. It's most likely that there was a MLP: FiM Fan Club from another forums I came from and then took a look at it from youtube and I thought the show was girly and I was wrong about that so Pretty much that most people and fans proved me wrong about it as well and then I started watching it every weekdays and I never stop watching it and I never get tired of it. I just love everything about the show, but mostly the cuteness of the show also learning about Magic of Friendship as well.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Suicune on 2013 Jul 11, 23:09:55
(http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/030/3/a/suicune_as_a_mlp_by_visiouscatlovet-d4o3aw3.png)
Yep. That was all I needed.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ründo on 2013 Jul 11, 23:20:01
early 2011:    a mixture of boredom and morbid curiosity.  It pretty much escalated from there.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SunlightStream on 2013 Jul 13, 17:22:00
I, personally, found a video of it on Youtube and began watching. I was kind of like; ":/ What is this stuff?" And so I watched the first episode.
Then the second.
Then the third.
...and eventually I watched the entire first season in one day. It was pretty ovO ing awesome xD.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ISuppose24 on 2013 Jul 14, 11:19:58
I first learned about My Little Pony as a child when Generation 3 was on. It wasn't until I was in 7th grade that I learned there was another My Little Pony show, and after my brony friend, who told me about it, closed his account, I started watching the show myself, and that's how I became a pegasister.  :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Pipkin on 2013 Jul 15, 06:30:25
Hold on, i posted in this before right?
Quote from: LaptopCommandStation on 2012 Aug 13, 20:59:17
I friend of mine online showed me a PMV(I remember exactly which one, but it's....Wutang, so imma not post it), and I was curious how the show really was.

The rest is history, although I haven't really talked about ponies at all until these forums, i've been a brony in secret since last october.

Seeing this show instantly reminded me of childhood shoes from the 90's.  You know, when cartoon TV programming was actually decent/had morals.  I think that ALONE made me love the show at first, knowing there are people out there who can still provide shows like this, 20 years later.

Thought so.  But I wasn't very thorough back then was I?
The person who showed me that PMV wasn't a brony, so technically I became a brony without the help of another brony, yay.
Also I watched a few PMVs before I actually watched the show.  During one of those PMVs I saw the scene where Fluttershy was trying to trap the animals in the Royal Gardens during the season 1 finale, and I though she was in a battle scene of some sort, which got me thinking, what kind of little girl's TV show would have a battle scene so I watched the show looking for that one instance, starting with the 2 parter thinking that's where it would have happened.  Well I was wrong both about the fighting scene and when that clip happened but I don't care, either way awesomeness ensued.
And that's how Bronyness was made
Maybe next time i'll tell you about how Pinkie Pie overtook Rainbow Dash to become Best Pony, that one's a gem
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Discord. on 2013 Jul 16, 02:57:10
This is what happened to me....

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/67873_445151095538561_26489382_n.jpg)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2013 Jul 16, 05:55:20
Quote from: Discord. on 2013 Jul 16, 02:57:10
This is what happened to me....

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/67873_445151095538561_26489382_n.jpg)
This is kind of...really accurate for many people.  lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: DNAwesome on 2013 Jul 16, 06:24:46
I watched markipliers series on the mlp mod for scp containment breach.
ZeOUNqYHLezOTuc (btw scariest ponies ever) I heard him say brony, I was curious so I looked up what a brony was. I found this site http://www.whatisabrony.com/ and watched the video explaining what bronies were. So on Saturday or Sunday right before spring break of this year, I watched the first episode. I thought that the theme song was a bit girly at that time, but overall it was good. Then I had to find out if Twilight would be able to save Equestria from eternal darkness, so I watched the second. By the end of spring break I finished the whole series so far.

And that's how I became a brony, went from scary ponies  ovO to the ponies from Equestria  :D.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 16, 07:16:11
one day I was browsing videos by the yogscast and I came across something called sunshine of isirapony I was thinking wtf is with that title so I watched it was just so interesting so between videos I looked up the mod and found out guys who like the stuff call their selves bronys so I heard there was a show about it on Saturdays so I went into my TV's channel guide and recorded it and I was hooked a few nights later I had a dream after they didn't put out a sunshine of israpony video the dream was about the series accept I was Simon and when they put out a new sunshine of israpony video Simon said he had a similar dream.....I knew it was meant to be
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Gusty Gears on 2013 Jul 16, 09:34:43
I was introduced to it by my younger, male cousin. We were playing on a Minecraft server with another friend and through skype he told us that he had started watching the show. He said he had been "bronied". My first thought was of "oh no, he's gone to that side", but then I thought " what's in this show to get these people?". So I watched the first episode, thought it wasn't too bad, and watched the next. Before I knew it, I've watch all of the videos and was dieing for more.
In short:   >:/ :/ o.O :D O: :3 ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: blobking156 on 2013 Jul 19, 10:59:03
well, I saw a story while looking through fanfiction.net, and I read it. I was curious about it, and watched the show. I was immediately hooked
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aziz on 2013 Jul 21, 17:40:08
Well.. my story, my story. I've seen a video from an Anime-fantasy convention. There was a MLP Marathon. Guy, who made this vid, tried to make another marathon, with friends, on Livestream. I  was there, I've seen first ep.. Second.. Third.. About ninth I said "Wow, this is good!" I gave up after.. I don't know, 18 episodes? I went to bed... Next day I watched the rest. And ta-dam! Magic of friendship took over me.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 21:42:08
How i became a brony eh? Well it's kinda a long story...

I shall start with first, my friends are bronies before i was and when they asked me to watch mlp i said... no. Well, it stayed like that for a bit. Then i got minecraft. Eventually i joined a server called Cookiecraft from one of the admins i made friends with ,zZDerpyhoovesZz. I played that server for a while and eventually both me and zZDerpyHoovesZz became Co-owners. As you can probably guess zzDerpyHoovesZz is a pegasister. I learned that both She and the owner (Younggunna123) were bronies. I did not care nor did i judge them. But then, the two owners made the server a Full On Brony Server without my consent. My first reaction was WTF that was too far. They nicely asked me to watch at least the first few episodes just to understand all the new pony stuff in the server. Again, i said no.... But then, one rainy day i had nothing to do, me and my friends could not hang out and i was a bit bored of minecraft so, i was going to watch at least the first few episodes of MLP ;probably just the first two... So, i did. I watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then to the 5th, then the entire 1st season, then the 2nd season, then the 3rd season! I LOVE IT. It was fantastic! Then well i quit cookiecraft... i learned that zZDepryHoovesZz was actually a stallion lying about who he was and such... and young became a jerk... etc.. but, that gave me even more time to join the fandom Happy I'm on a minecraft server called Mine Little Crafty. And there is just so much talent.. it's amazing!!!!

BRONY FOREVER (\
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 22, 21:45:10
Quote from: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 21:42:08
How i became a brony eh? Well it's kinda a long story...

I shall start with first, my friends are bronies before i was and when they asked me to watch mlp i said... no. Well, it stayed like that for a bit. Then i got minecraft. Eventually i joined a server called Cookiecraft from one of the admins i made friends with ,zZDerpyhoovesZz. I played that server for a while and eventually both me and zZDerpyHoovesZz became Co-owners. As you can probably guess zzDerpyHoovesZz is a pegasister. I learned that both She and the owner (Younggunna123) were bronies. I did not care nor did i judge them. But then, the two owners made the server a Full On Brony Server without my consent. My first reaction was WTF that was too far. They nicely asked me to watch at least the first few episodes just to understand all the new pony stuff in the server. Again, i said no.... But then, one rainy day i had nothing to do, me and my friends could not hang out and i was a bit bored of minecraft so, i was going to watch at least the first few episodes of MLP ;probably just the first two... So, i did. I watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then to the 5th, then the entire 1st season, then the 2nd season, then the 3rd season! I LOVE IT. It was fantastic! Then well i quit cookiecraft... i learned that zZDepryHoovesZz was actually a stallion lying about who he was and such... and young became a jerk... etc.. but, that gave me even more time to join the fandom Happy I'm on a minecraft server called Mine Little Crafty. And there is just so much talent.. it's amazing!!!!

BRONY FOREVER (\
mc bronys/)(\
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 22:30:14
Quote from: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 22, 21:45:10
Quote from: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 21:42:08
How i became a brony eh? Well it's kinda a long story...

I shall start with first, my friends are bronies before i was and when they asked me to watch mlp i said... no. Well, it stayed like that for a bit. Then i got minecraft. Eventually i joined a server called Cookiecraft from one of the admins i made friends with ,zZDerpyhoovesZz. I played that server for a while and eventually both me and zZDerpyHoovesZz became Co-owners. As you can probably guess zzDerpyHoovesZz is a pegasister. I learned that both She and the owner (Younggunna123) were bronies. I did not care nor did i judge them. But then, the two owners made the server a Full On Brony Server without my consent. My first reaction was WTF that was too far. They nicely asked me to watch at least the first few episodes just to understand all the new pony stuff in the server. Again, i said no.... But then, one rainy day i had nothing to do, me and my friends could not hang out and i was a bit bored of minecraft so, i was going to watch at least the first few episodes of MLP ;probably just the first two... So, i did. I watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then to the 5th, then the entire 1st season, then the 2nd season, then the 3rd season! I LOVE IT. It was fantastic! Then well i quit cookiecraft... i learned that zZDepryHoovesZz was actually a stallion lying about who he was and such... and young became a jerk... etc.. but, that gave me even more time to join the fandom Happy I'm on a minecraft server called Mine Little Crafty. And there is just so much talent.. it's amazing!!!!

BRONY FOREVER (\
mc bronys/)(\
YAH!!!! :D /)(\
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 22, 22:50:39
again /)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 23, 18:46:16
The fanfiction did it for me.  I thought the show was ok at first, nothing I'd go bonkers over.  It was when I read Anthropology (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4656/anthropology/) that pushed me over as well as other fanfics (mainly HiE's,  Project: Sunflower (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/5170/project-sunflower/) is my favorite right now).  Does it make me less of a brony that the fandom hooked me first than the actual show itself? Hope not  X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chack on 2013 Jul 23, 23:06:02
Quote from: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 23, 18:46:16
The fanfiction did it for me.  I thought the show was ok at first, nothing I'd go bonkers over.  It was when I read Anthropology (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/4656/anthropology/) that pushed me over as well as other fanfics (mainly HiE's,  Project: Sunflower (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/5170/project-sunflower/) is my favorite right now).  Does it make me less of a brony that the fandom hooked me first than the actual show itself? Hope not  X3

'Course it doesn't! You're just as welcome to be a brony as anyone else! ;)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 23, 23:28:30
Quote from: Chack on 2013 Jul 23, 23:06:02
'Course it doesn't! You're just as welcome to be a brony as anyone else! ;)


yay im accepted  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: bauccgia0 on 2013 Jul 24, 10:46:19
Not gonna lie, Rainbow Factory.

Really.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aziz on 2013 Jul 24, 11:43:55
Quote from: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 22:30:14
Quote from: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 22, 21:45:10
Quote from: ColdStar on 2013 Jul 22, 21:42:08
How i became a brony eh? Well it's kinda a long story...

I shall start with first, my friends are bronies before i was and when they asked me to watch mlp i said... no. Well, it stayed like that for a bit. Then i got minecraft. Eventually i joined a server called Cookiecraft from one of the admins i made friends with ,zZDerpyhoovesZz. I played that server for a while and eventually both me and zZDerpyHoovesZz became Co-owners. As you can probably guess zzDerpyHoovesZz is a pegasister. I learned that both She and the owner (Younggunna123) were bronies. I did not care nor did i judge them. But then, the two owners made the server a Full On Brony Server without my consent. My first reaction was WTF that was too far. They nicely asked me to watch at least the first few episodes just to understand all the new pony stuff in the server. Again, i said no.... But then, one rainy day i had nothing to do, me and my friends could not hang out and i was a bit bored of minecraft so, i was going to watch at least the first few episodes of MLP ;probably just the first two... So, i did. I watched the first episode, then the 2nd, then to the 5th, then the entire 1st season, then the 2nd season, then the 3rd season! I LOVE IT. It was fantastic! Then well i quit cookiecraft... i learned that zZDepryHoovesZz was actually a stallion lying about who he was and such... and young became a jerk... etc.. but, that gave me even more time to join the fandom Happy I'm on a minecraft server called Mine Little Crafty. And there is just so much talent.. it's amazing!!!!

BRONY FOREVER (\
mc bronys/)(\
YAH!!!! :D /)(\

I am always wondering, why lots of Bronies are connected with minecraft.. So am I! I've been on a MC forum, and I found lots and lots of Bronies there.  (And.. that guy who made a Marathon, is a Minecraft player, too.)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Asterian Starfall on 2013 Jul 24, 15:35:49
     I had heard about it all the time on Team Fortress 2. Seen the sprays, the weapon names (Like Derpy's Muffin Launcher), and heard the conversations, so I asked, "What's this all about?"

     They all said the same thing: "Watch the show, you'll love it!" At that point, I thought they were messing around with me, dodging the question as if they didn't have an answer. At the time, I though MLP was something for little girls. Merchandise and shows alike didn't interest me. I assumed is was another children's education shows and I dismissed it as such.

     But I kept asking the question and after some time of hearing it, I finally said to myself, "Okay, fine. I'll watch the first episode..." It started out as what I thought it would; the intro was just to catch you up on 1000 years of events in about 60 seconds. Then the theme song came, and I nearly punched my laptop, but after the first chorus came the rock ballad. "Okay, this isn't too bad." After the intro, I began to somewhat relate to Twilight Sparkle. "She's like me...", so I kept watching.

     That first episode captivated me, so I decided to watch the second part. With each one I watched, I related more and more to each of the characters, finding ways in which I was like them.

     Today, I have seen every episode to date at least five times, can honestly say I love the show, and that I can't wait for season four!

     P.S. Although I don't own any merchandise, I want a Rarity plushie so badly but... just can't afford it. No allowance and no job. :'(
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 24, 22:06:37
Quote from: Aziz on 2013 Jul 24, 11:43:55
I am always wondering, why lots of Bronies are connected with minecraft.. So am I! I've been on a MC forum, and I found lots and lots of Bronies there.  (And.. that guy who made a Marathon, is a Minecraft player, too.)


Notch is a brony, isn't he?  Coincidence? I think not!  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mystery0123 on 2013 Jul 25, 08:02:37
Quote from: Asterian on 2013 Jul 24, 15:35:49
     I had heard about it all the time on Team Fortress 2. Seen the sprays, the weapon names (Like Derpy's Muffin Launcher), and heard the conversations, so I asked, "What's this all about?"

     They all said the same thing: "Watch the show, you'll love it!" At that point, I thought they were messing around with me, dodging the question as if they didn't have an answer. At the time, I though MLP was something for little girls. Merchandise and shows alike didn't interest me. I assumed is was another children's education shows and I dismissed it as such.

     But I kept asking the question and after some time of hearing it, I finally said to myself, "Okay, fine. I'll watch the first episode..." It started out as what I thought it would; the intro was just to catch you up on 1000 years of events in about 60 seconds. Then the theme song came, and I nearly punched my laptop, but after the first chorus came the rock ballad. "Okay, this isn't too bad." After the intro, I began to somewhat relate to Twilight Sparkle. "She's like me...", so I kept watching.

     That first episode captivated me, so I decided to watch the second part. With each one I watched, I related more and more to each of the characters, finding ways in which I was like them.

     Today, I have seen every episode to date at least five times, can honestly say I love the show, and that I can't wait for season four!

     P.S. Although I don't own any merchandise, I want a Rarity plushie so badly but... just can't afford it. No allowance and no job. :'(

I became a brony via "Beyond her Garden" and other Youtube videos... At first I loved Rainbow Dash's character... B)
But then I noticed Fluttershy a bit more and noticed I could relate to her...
These days, I'm less of a brony and more of a furry though...
Btw, I also have the same problem, but I'd perfer a Fluttershy plushie :(
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Fmafanclub on 2013 Jul 27, 16:03:25
Ah there it is http://swomswom.deviantart.com/art/MLP-Cerulean-sky-FLASH-320672783  :3
I couldn't resist becoming a bronie.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Azure on 2013 Jul 27, 16:04:48
Some forum I use was crazy for it back in March '11.
I took a look.
It was okay.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Zedd on 2013 Jul 27, 22:42:20
I first heard about it from a Youtuber I really like who strongly dislikes ponies. The notion of grown men and women enjoying a children's show boggled me for a while and I just kind of went with the flow. I wanted to be open-minded so I watched the first two episodes without taking them seriously and just dismissed it.

However, after about six months of talking about how silly bronies are, someone on a server (Minecraft server) convinced me to watch an episode. Being an open-minded person (again) I said sure. It was only a waste of twenty minutes. I watched a random episode and took it seriously. It was kind of humorous and was very well-written for a children's TV show, so I watched the next one. Soon enough I had watched the entire second season. Then I went back and watched the first season.

However, until recently I've only been watching the episodes as they come out. After seeing the movie, I started getting a little more involved in the brony fandom and after going to a summer camp with quite a few bronies I started looking at the memebase and I decided to come on here for a bit of roleplaying from time to time.

Anyways, I consider myself to be a brony for certain now. There was some doubt for a while, but after watching and really enjoying the movie I said to myself, "I'm definitely a brony."
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ellowee on 2013 Jul 28, 07:25:19
Well, I was introduced when a friend of mine told me about a really great show, and she wanted me to watch it with her, so I did. I thought the characters were really realistic, and the score was well-produced. I've loved the show ever since!  0:)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Asterian Starfall on 2013 Jul 28, 12:02:37
Quote from: Ellowee on 2013 Jul 28, 07:25:19
Well, I was introduced when a friend of mine told me about a really great show, and she wanted me to watch it with her, so I did. I thought the characters were really realistic, and the score was well-produced. I've loved the show ever since!  0:)

That's about how all these stories go!

But I'm a little intrigued here... What happened in particular? I must know!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Night Pony on 2013 Jul 28, 12:10:37
Quote from: Asterian on 2013 Jul 28, 12:02:37
Quote from: Ellowee on 2013 Jul 28, 07:25:19
Well, I was introduced when a friend of mine told me about a really great show, and she wanted me to watch it with her, so I did. I thought the characters were really realistic, and the score was well-produced. I've loved the show ever since!  0:)

That's about how all these stories go!

But I'm a little intrigued here... What happened in particular? I must know!


Isn't Ellowee a mascot? Like non-existent-person-that-was-made-by-the-devs? Why is she posting anything besides news about the game?  o.O
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Azure on 2013 Jul 28, 12:13:30
IT'S GAINED SELF-AWARENESS
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: narwhaliagames on 2013 Jul 28, 12:16:04
run for your lives
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chishio Kunrin on 2013 Jul 29, 15:40:18
Quote from: Ellowee on 2013 Jul 28, 07:25:19
Well, I was introduced when a friend of mine told me about a really great show, and she wanted me to watch it with her, so I did. I thought the characters were really realistic, and the score was well-produced. I've loved the show ever since!  0:)

Silly Ellowee. What're you doing here? You can't be a brony. You're a pony! You already live in Equestria!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 29, 21:36:29
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2013 Jul 29, 15:40:18
Silly Ellowee. What're you doing here? You can't be a brony. You're a pony! You already live in Equestria!


Maybe she watched the show and became a fan. 
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chishio Kunrin on 2013 Jul 29, 22:04:20
Quote from: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 29, 21:36:29
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2013 Jul 29, 15:40:18
Silly Ellowee. What're you doing here? You can't be a brony. You're a pony! You already live in Equestria!


Maybe she watched the show and became a fan.

Ellowee is just our mascot, not an actual user. The team member who posted probably forgot they were on the Ellowee account. :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BerserkerBrony on 2013 Jul 29, 23:04:35
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2013 Jul 29, 22:04:20
Ellowee is just our mascot, not an actual user. The team member who posted probably forgot they were on the Ellowee account. :P


I was playing along, guess that failed
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mystery0123 on 2013 Aug 02, 03:28:03
Still funny to think that maybe the mascot became a brony :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TeaKay on 2013 Aug 04, 12:44:37
My friend showed me the episode where Rarity gets captured by the diamond dogs and a while later I watched all of season 1 and fell in love.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: The Gedge on 2013 Aug 09, 19:02:34
Friend told me to watch it. I told him "hell no" but he kept insisting. I watched the first episode and didn't know what to think; however, my friend kept telling me to watch it and I gradually started liking it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: blobking156 on 2013 Aug 09, 20:08:37
I've already posted mine but I made a song. Here goes:
When I was little colt and it was season threeeee
I followed an author whom's fanfics made me sqweeeee
I looked into his favorites, i'll tell you what I saw,
a MLP Parody fic that had me in awe.
so I said "Hey me, what's this show I see is it even real?
maybe it's plot was just made up, so that's the deal"
not-at-all
so I D'awwed at the Dashie,
Lol'd at the Pinkie,
Sympathized with the Twily
Liked the character depth of Rarity
andeveryhaterimetfromnowonwasmyenemyandjustthethoughtofjoiningthemmademejustwantto BWAHAHAHA
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lightning Twist on 2013 Aug 10, 04:08:52
I was really bored, and decided to watch because why not? In the first episode I was like "Ha, it's funny" and in the second "Oh my God, this Read the forum rules. is great".
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Grizzly on 2013 Aug 10, 11:59:26
Aw, i got recruted  X3

A friend of mine made me watch a few episodes with him, and well i did think of it as one of the better shows but nothing that special.

After 2 years he finaly figured out how to win me over, with fanart  lol
He showed me a few stuff (drawing, stories, games and so on)  after wich i really wanted to know more, and here i am  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Shadow Blitz on 2013 Aug 14, 00:15:41
I saw ponies everywhere on the internet.  I wanted to know what all the hubbub was about.  I saw a few clips from some episodes (including the Fluttershy yay scene) and I thought they were amusing, so I watched the first episode.

I remember sitting through the theme song, thinking to myself, "I can't believe I'm sitting here watching colorful ponies prance about, but whatever; I'll give it a chance." :/

Oh my Luna I love this show! :3

I was hooked from the first episode.

Before I knew it, I had watched every episode, researched the history of the show and fandom, familiarized myself with pony memes, made an account on this website, etc.  I pretty much indulged myself into the culture of My Little Pony.  I couldn't be happier :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: DJPurplePON3 on 2013 Aug 18, 00:46:16
Just posting to check my gif dont mind me.-.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: z3nith on 2013 Sep 11, 14:41:39
I had known that MLP had become a thing again on dA and various other internet places.  I was in college at the time and my roommate and myself were (and still are to an extent) internet trolls so we just left it alone.  Then one day my roommate comes into the dorm after hanging out with some of his friends and tells me that he's watched some of the episodes...and had instantly become addicted.  I kinda blew him off and ignored his constant badgering for me to watch the show, and this kept up for three weeks.  Eventually he mentioned that the very first episode was free on iTunes and after class I gave in and thought to myself 'alright I might as well see what exactly all the hype is about...and I might as well get the best quality possible.  The most I could lose is half an hour of my time.'

So I downloaded the first episode off iTunes, watched it and thought 'okay so the animation is decent, the voice acting is excellent, the characters are believable and dynamic.' And then the end of the episode came and with it the 'To be continued'.  My only reaction was 'well great now I have to watch the second episode'.  So I did.  The end of that episode came and then I thought to myself 'well what happens now?'  Next thing I knew I had watched six more episodes and was hooked.  lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: L. Pondera on 2013 Sep 18, 04:32:54
Believe it or not, I actually wasnt a Brony for some time. I was even a forum mod for the longest time, and even with all the pony memes and alike, I never even tried to watch the show. I was more content to waste time on other ventures, besides there is a part of me which hates commercialism, so I naturally avoided MLP because of Hasbro. But, one day, whilest trying to girlify my niece a bit (since her "father" was trying to make her into a violent tom-boy) I decided on some of the most girly shows. So it started by showing her Strawberry Shortcake on the Hub, which was crap to me and her both. Then came on this colorful show I had heard so much about. Well, the rest is easy to guess.
She actually payed attention to it, and so did I. I watched a girly show that actually had a plot! I was amazed. And then I saw the names of those who made it. I saw so many familiar names, names that made my childhood. I knew I had to see more of this. And once I got to Party of One and a few other favorites of mine (Lesson Zero is one, but I saw it after I joined) I knew I had found something I was into. And once I dove into the fandom, I found a nice warm home.
A show this good, and a fandom this pleasent (gore fic writters aside). It has become one of my most favorite fandoms, next to some other shows and stories. And as of late, its been an obsession in a way, considering I dont have much on my plate that isnt pony related. But once I get my fix of produced projects, I'll be back to my other things. But thing will always remain, I am proud to be a Brony. And I'll carry that friendship with me always.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: EEvEE889966 on 2013 Oct 01, 17:17:48
I have no idea-- i just saw the show and "WOOPWOPWOPWOPWOP."

~Eve
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Rarity Rose on 2013 Oct 08, 00:34:17
So i was watching ben10 (ikr) and i saw the werewolf episode, then i started liking wolves. I started playing wolfquest, and i heard someone talking about transformice on the forums. I went to transformice and made a account and started playing, then i heard people talking abut ponies on there, searched up my little pony, and yeah. Btw this went on for over a year, i was 7 when i watched ben10, 10 when i found out about my little pony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Flagwaver on 2013 Dec 05, 15:07:38
My first experience in the MLP:FiM world comes from the 'Meet The Bronies' video on youtube.  After that, I was kind of dragged into it kicking and screaming.  Okay, more like tied to a chair and gagged.  But, after the first few episodes of season 1, I saw something special.  Unlike all of the other programming for children, this one was well animated and actually had a healthy message for the kids.

So, with that, I became a Moderate (by Meet the Bronies standards).  However, recently, I have marathoned all three seasons and the movie (that sound you heard was my former muse hanging itself) in preparation for an upcoming journal project.  Check my signature around the 1st of the year to see what I mean.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Syphor on 2013 Dec 06, 18:13:59
This is awesome, nothing like telling your first experience of becoming a Brony.  For me, well it was awkward you might say.  When I became a brony it was near the beginning of last summer.  It all started with SCP-173 too!  One day when I was watching Ratchetness (Woo!) playing SCP with the pony mod.  I always wondered why Pinkie was considered crazy, looked at the wikipedia on her, found the episode watched it.  Next day looked up why Twilight was also considered insane, found Lesson Zero and loved it.  After that I kept watching the show and got more and more into it.  So this is my story on how I became a brony.  And I'm glad it happened.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: dynamite on 2014 Jan 07, 18:32:59
I was bored one day...
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Bubble Cat on 2014 Jan 08, 03:13:30
I had a friend who was obsessed with the show, and actually showed me the grimdark Cupcakes before I even watched the show...

I love animated shows so naturally I went to check it out, as it was becoming a pretty big thing. Watched one episode, then another, and so on.  lol

It just sorta happen, like most things i get really into.

:o
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ramisha on 2014 Jan 08, 07:29:23
It was like this. [shadow=gray,left]*poof* [/shadow]See?
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ateren on 2014 Jan 08, 14:46:37
This topic is funny by having off and on activity throughout a few years. I never did bother to explain fully how I became a brony here on the forums. Now for a few paragraphs.  :P

Back in April of 2011, I had a friend of mine that was always crazy and into weird things. He was one of those guys that would think earthworms would one day take over the world crazy. After a minecraft server breakup he messages me one night saying, "Make sure to have your daily dose of pony before bed!" My first reaction was a double take and spouting out "Whut?" Soon he gave me a link. I shrugged and clicked the link to reveal the Eurobeat brony mix of the CMC concert song. Being late at night and half out of it, I looked at the CMC and figured, "Oh okay, a music artist with a pony persona." I didn't pay much mind since I've listened to people like Renard way back before this and didn't think it to be strange.

However, I came enjoy the music that was created and went on just assuming differently. The next day my same friend kept laying down a bread crumb trail to the actual show. Soon as I connected the dots and realized there was a show and what not about it I just watched from the beginning onward. I've been known to only be picky and entertainment that exceeds the bounds of how much vulgarity I can take. (Thus pretty much stopped watching TV after the nostalgic shows died out.) Familiar with the previous generations of MLP and the comedic video splicing variations. (Although hard to come by good ones.) I went in with a different forethought than most going into the show. I'll be honest, I had this awkward grin and chuckle through episodes 1-6, but ended up watching all of season 1 in... one day. Quite unhealthy, and weirded out even my weird friend from before. It was an awkward breath of fresh air. A mixture of "You kidding me?" and "Finally, something clean and entertaining!" A rare breed imo. About... one month later I got a steam notification about LoE. (Equestria Online at the time.) And dropped my gmod video creation like it was a bag of hot coals. But that, is another story.  ;)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Myponyisepic9991 on 2014 Jan 09, 23:13:59
Oh great this kind of thread again...  :c anyways I became a brony when... well first my mom was watching a little girl for a day and she wanted to watch mlp so my mom was ANYTHING BUT MLP PLAEASE NO MLP and she said nooooo I wanna watch it!!! and then a couple days later me: Ughhh nothing to watch Mom: you should try watching my little pony. Me:.... No mom Mom: Its actually pretty cool...*she walks away* Me: why not...  >:/ so I watched it and then I'm like \first ep.-well its ok I guess... second ep.- why not third then I guess :/ third ep. HOLY CRAP MORE MORE MORE/

till this day I still watch mlp when going to bed, eating dinner, mid day for no reason, boring weekends, and... when I'm holding my Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Pinkie Pie plushies and when I'm holding my Derpy, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy Vinyl Figures and when I'm wearing my mlp RainbowDash Hoodie. also I have a mlp Bookbag I wear to school every day!

peace  B)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SaipphireConstella on 2014 Jan 17, 02:06:07
I become a fan of things so easily, it didn't take me long!
I noticed a thread on a different forum site was titled, MLP. I had no idea what it was, so I checked it out. In the thread people were claiming ponies for themselves. Saying things like 'I've got Apple Jack!' and 'I got Nightmare Moon, does that make me messed up?' That was the first time I heard about it. A few weeks passed, then while wandering through Youtube, I noticed an episode. Since I was already in the middle of a mind melting Youtube marathon, I went for it. S1 E1 P1....omg...@.@ where has this been all my life.... I didn't stop watching the episodes until I had gone through them all. And I've been keeping up with them since!

Vinyl, Derpy & Dr. Whooves, and Princess Luna are my favs <3 But Luna will always be best pony!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: GoldenTerrabyte on 2014 Jan 19, 07:20:43
Ah, early 2012. We(my older sister and I) were scrolling through lists of things acaliable to watch on Netflix instant streaming. We come across My Little Pony on there. She decides to try watching it, so we watch the first episode. As soon as we started watching, we could tell this was going to be amazing. We both started watching the show a bunch(me a little more than she). Eventually, it started to escalate. I started drawing ponies, eventually leading up to me drawing a character design I made up(who eventually evolved into Rainstorm). I started creating more characters, including my ponysona Yellow Light. I started participating in roleplay, because I wanted to use these characters for something. And it all led up to where I am today.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: albedoequals1 on 2014 Jan 24, 03:23:19
I watched Screw Attack's death battle video "Starscream vs Rainbow Dash" on YouTube and when the pony trashed the transformer I thought, "Huh, I should look that up."  I wasn't sure about it until Sonic Rainboom, and then I knew I would have to watch them all.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jusey1 on 2014 Jan 24, 03:53:55
Kept seeing bronies and pony-related stuff everywhere... Like literally. So was like "Okay... Wtf is with all of this?" and ended up watching the Season 1 premiere. I even told my mother that "Oh don't mind me... I'll most likely hate this and will only be watching it once..."

Well... Ye'h. That did not happen XD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SuperCody64 on 2014 Jan 24, 18:56:39
Well, it was another normal day on TF2, i was pretty much doing nothing, but a friend called me for a duel, and i accepted... after i accepted, he said "If you lose, you'll watch the whole series"... What could i lose? So we fought and i lost, now im here telling y'all about how much i loved the series and how thankful i am to my friend
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: OmnipotentChocolateMilk on 2014 Jan 24, 19:54:04
It was actually a family member that introduced me to FiM. Before then, I came into little to no contact with the Brony community and didn't even know they existed; I did see a brony video way back in '11 (Solrac's At the FU*KING Gala song): I didn't know what was going on and the only thing I thought was "Someone got a hold of his sister's DVDs." - I gave little to no notice to that due to that. I continued my (sad) life as always, eventually moving up to secondary school.

Now, in April, 2013 (was it really nine months already?) I saw my five-year old cousin watching My Little Pony and I decided to watch it with her because I was bored and I normally watch cartoons with her on a regular basis (everything from Johnny Test to even Barbie) and I caught sight of The Canterlot Wedding; after watching the same cartoon series for a week; it had to be one of my favourite episodes of FiM at the time (I had ignored the inconsistencies that I perceived from my second watch and from reviews) and I had decided to watch FiM in my leisure time instead of just with my cousin.

Shortly after I started viewing MLP: FiM myself, I was introduced to the beam of light in the internet: I met the Brony community. After I finished Season 3, I saw a bunch of non-show music videos propping up and they were pretty well made - way better than what a little girl is capable of. I beginning watching a-many videos created by these older fans and eventually had a pretty good understanding on the Brony community and I became a Brony.  <3 you guys.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Blackened on 2014 Jan 26, 15:20:48
I made a post about it on MLPForums, but I shall copy it here.


I became one around June 2011. I was browsing Youtube, when I decided to check a Youtuber that I had been following since 2006 (Masterlinkx), and I noticed some MLP videos on his channel. I was only 13 at the time, so it doesn't surprise me that my reaction went something like, "What...Seriously, are these men gay? Why are men watching My Little Pony?!" but then I took an arrow in the knee watched some clips of the show and I was rather shocked to find it was just amazing! It wasn't until January 2012, however, until I watched the first two episodes of the show with my friend. We then watched the entire show in a matter of weeks, finally catching up with one of the episodes in season 2, which if I remember correctly, was Putting Your Hoof Down.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Zodia195 on 2014 Jan 26, 16:28:28
For me it was a slow process.  I knew about the show before it even came on because I have satellite and they always announce when new channels were coming.  The Hub was one of those channels that got announced when I was watching one of the other cartoon channels.  MLP was one of the shows they mentioned.  I was not excited at the time.  I think my reason was that I was a fan of Gen1 (yes I am that old lol) and knew that Gen 2 and 3 were horrible so I didn't have a lot of faith in this new series.  That was over 4 years ago.  Well this time last year I was watching one of my favorite youtube channels, Josh Burner's Fiery Joker Channel.  One day out of the blue he covers an MLP episode.  The man is known for his video game countdowns and reviews and he's in the military.  He liked MLP?  I was like, "Wtf?"  It started getting me curious.  Finally a few months later, one of my closest friends put Pinkie Pie's Welcome song as a greeting for new members in a group we're in.  That song got me hooked and I checked out Josh's MLP reviews.  The rest they say is history.  I am a fan of the Brony Analysts and have started doing my own fan art.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: bauccgia0 on 2014 Jan 26, 17:59:32
Did I mention Sweet Apple Massacre the first time I posted here? I'm sure I did.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: VinylScratch3 on 2014 Jan 26, 20:59:34
The way i became a brony or i call myself a pegasister but whatever i became a brony while i was eating lunch with my family at the mall and the episode griffon the brush off was on the mini tvs i saw it i watched it and i thought wow this shows good i wonder what it is i did some reaserch at home and found out it was MLP i was shocked beacuase i'd always would have thought of MLP as girly until i watched it now i ony known about the previous gens of MLP and so my friends at school are all tomboys and well i kinda shed my skin of acting all tough so i started watching my little pony and i liked it the first episode i ever saw was grfffon brush off but it was 2 years before i started watching the show on netflix
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Crimson Tail on 2014 Jan 26, 23:26:47
I supposed i'll put my little story here.

Back in May 2011
It was a normal day of browsing the net, i was considered a 'neutral', it was out of curiosity that i checked out one those threads mainly pointing to the show in general. Didn't say anything about that and went on with my day. At least a few days later, i got curious about watching one of the episodes, i watched at least two episodes during one night(I forgot what they were..). I started liking it, i had to hide the fact that i like it, because i don't want to be made fun of.

And for the first two months, the opening theme kinda makes me feel weird like i tend to mute the sound during that, but i got used to it.


Curiosity, is what made me into the show  lol

Currently, no one knows the fact that i watch the show, except for my little sister who started watching it as well about 6 months months ago.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Toast on 2014 Jan 27, 20:26:29
I came across some pony videos in my related videos on Youtube. Having heard of the ponies before and being somewhat curious, I decided to check it out. I believe it was the "you're going to love me" clip from the Season 1 finale. I laughed and checked out a sparta remix, then some other pony videos. I decided to watch the first few episodes, though going in I was certain I was going to like it at this point since I enjoyed the clips so much. And I did. Been two years since then and still going strong.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PiokLial on 2014 Jan 28, 05:40:03
Last year in January, a friend of mine made me play MLP : Roleplaying is Magic as a "surprise RPG" (I had no idea what I was gonna see when I decided to play) in a convention. I decided to go along, thinking "hey, what's wrong with playing My Little Pony ?". So the night passed, and we kinda ended in the civil war between the New Lunar Republic and the Solar Empire, and we may have killed some important ponies... War is war, y'know that kind of thing.
So later that week, I decided to give the show a try, since I had fun with the RPG. I watched half of season 1 in one sitting, so I realised that I was hooked, and found out about this community a few days later. Been happy to be a brony ever since !
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sutekh94 on 2014 Jan 28, 09:42:31
I became a brony in mid-2011, when I started seeing pony-related stuff on a couple of Sonic the Hedgehog-related forums I was on.  And, of course, I was kinda skeptical about it at the time.  However, curiosity eventually got a hold of me and I decided to watch a couple episodes on YouTube.  Let's just say that "Sonic Rainboom" started me down a path to where I am today.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrizePossession on 2014 Jan 28, 18:05:23
Became a brony in early 2011.

I often browse the favourites of a good friend's YouTube channel, and when browsing through his latest, I saw this rather colourful thumbnail and wondered what it was. I clicked it open and read the title: "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Episode 1".

We both spent our fair share of time bashing a lot of the shows that were being produced at the time, and how they weren't anything near the standards of 90s cartoons. It was obvious! He'd put this in here as laughing-stock material for one of our conversations we would inevitably have later on.

So I started to watch it... And then I watched some more... I was waiting for the laugh-out-loud shockingly bad moment to come, but it didn't. I'd reached the end of episode 1 by this point and had noticed a strange thought in the back of my mind. This show that I'm meant to be rolling my eyes at and laughing at has me oddly drawn in by what had been happening. I thought I'd better inspect episode 2. Maybe I'd find the fodder there.

That didn't work either. The second episode finished with a very satisfying conclusion and I ended up having to take a step back.

"Wait a moment. Not only did I not find that awful, I found it good. VERY good... What's wrong with me here?!"

I watched both parts through a couple more times to make sure, but nope. I still left the episodes feeling satisfied, having enjoyed all and everything that had happened. The cast of characters was wonderful, the animation style was simple, but effective and aesthetically pleasing and its writing was the best I'd experienced from animation in a long, LONG time.


I eventually chatted to my friend later on, and the conversation pretty much went as follows.

"So... This My Little Pony thing."

"Yes?"

"Something's up... Why do I find myself really liking this? What's wrong with me??"

"...Oh thank god. I thought I was the only one! Ponies are awesome."


Things pretty much snowballed from there really.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Altonator on 2014 Jan 28, 19:17:27
One of my friends showed me flutterwonder, I had just watched the most wonderful song ever and from that point I just needed to see the episodes of MLP for myself to see what I was missing out on. I watched all of season 1 in a single day.
<3

Then I heard there would be a season 2 coming out soon and I couldn't wait for it  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Redthebrony on 2014 Jan 29, 14:18:55
I watched the whole show up to season three until I found out about bronies. I had to watch it with my little sister and at first I thought "ok, this is kinda cool" but then I went like "OMG this is AWESOME!" :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: happyalm on 2014 Jan 29, 15:11:33
I became a brony in February 2013, so I joined the fandom pretty late.

Anyways, one of the people I was subbed to on youtube became a brony, I didn't really care that much about though. Shortly after that though I found some pony pics on deviantART and seen 1 or 2 clips on youtube, but this wasn't enough to convince me to watch the show.

It was around the time that season 3 had ended and people were complaining about the alicorn twilight. I saw twilicorn rant videos and such, And a little clip from the last episode of season 3. So yeah I kinda spoiled some of the show for myself there.

I decided to watch the show about a month later, on youtube, I watched the first few episodes of the show and said to myself in my head this show is actually pretty cool. I then proceeded to watch the rest of the show all the way to the last episode season 3, browsing some of the fan-made content during and after that time too.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Hoofstin on 2014 Jan 29, 15:51:40
no reason
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PlatinumJoystick on 2014 Jan 29, 22:56:26
I had known about FiM for a long time before i became a brony. In October, I had a friend over at my house, and while we were watching Netflix I said "Hey, let's watch My Little Pony." I just wanted to see what the buzz was about, I didn't think I would really like it. I could tell it on his face, he wasn't so sure, but he didn't object. So we watched the first two episodes. Then some more episodes. Then we were halfway finished with the first season. Two new bronies were made. This Christmas, this same friend was staying again, and he got me a Derpy Hooves FunKo toy. I wasn't sure how to react, since it was my first piece of pony merchandise, but I grew attached to the figure. It was a gift, after all.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Lauren Rarity on 2014 Jan 30, 13:47:31
My life was empty and boring for a long time. Then i came across the show. At first i hated it but i gave it a fair chance and i liked what i saw. Then while searching for images i came across many sites. They brought colour into my life. Rekindled fires that i thought were all put out. In a way, discovering the community freed me from who i was. It allowed me to become better and it gave me a chance to fully express myself. I was brony before that though. I became a brony when i came across Molestia's tumblr. I thought it to be really funny and i got hooked.

Lame story but, whatever.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Verdant Tome on 2014 Jan 31, 00:25:58
I had first discovered the fandom's existence sometime around July-August, 2011. I saw a couple pony-related memes on the interned. I didn't know what they meant or why they existed, but soon found out it was due to the "brony" fandom, an internet following of the semi-recent My Little Pony reboot. After a bit of mild confusion, I took a non-judgmental neutral stance on the whole matter and left it out of my head for much of the next three or four months.

Sometime in September is when I first decided to jump on the curiosity I had. It led to a few pages of meme-browsing - I didn't have much of anything to do on the internet back then, except visit Memebase and its subsites. Despite finding a few enjoyable, and taking a shine to the visual quality, I didn't feel compelled to jump in the fandom.

The next couple months had me discover the "status" of a few close friends of mine to be bronies. Since they were really good people, I didn't feel the need to judge them for it, nor did they feel the need to force the show on me. I can respect that, and their influence contributed greatly to my eventual turnover.

Speaking of said turnover: it was midnight, February 19th, 2012. I was on the internet, bored. So, what would someone like me naturally do in a situation like this?
Compulsively browse a hundred pages of pony memes, of course. And with that action, there sparked a chain of events that set the course of history. Thirteen hours later, I was able to tell one of my aforementioned brony friends about my decision to become a brony, a decision he supported greatly. I watched the episodes in secret for five months before I was accidentally found out by my brother, who, thankfully, was as non-judgmental as I was.

In the next month, I joined a small group of bronies on the internet, many of whom are still my friends today. I watched the epsidoes online - when I could - and live when I thought nobody else was watching. And I made sure nobody was watching. And then it was last weekend, and I decided to branch out on these forums after the free weekend ended. And then it was now, and I was telling everyone the saga of how I became a brony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Stalephreak on 2014 Jan 31, 02:07:37
I became a brony last year.  I had been playing MechWarrior: Online with House Jurai, and one of my lance members was really into the show, and the MWO forums have great brony posts as well.  I figured I'd check it out, as it's really odd for guys who are THAT into big stompy robots to be into MLP.  I remembered the gen 1 pony show, and I was expecting that.  I was pleasantly surprised to find how close to Power Puff Girls it really was.  The most recent MLP is intelligent, and has plenty of references that you have to pay attention to get (Rarity's annoyance at the obelisk when she discovers her talent...  the exact antithesis of the reaction in 2001: A Space odyssey ).  I saw some random episode on youtube, and just kept watching.  My wife heckled me for a bit, then I got her to watch a couple episodes, and it just kept going. 

I never had to worry too much about the stigma.  My supervisors and direct peers don't know, but it's not like I've gone out of my way to hide it.  I've mentioned party cannons and all sorts of weird things like that...  My subordinates on the other hand all know, and they know I'm a huge Rarity fan.  As for my family and friends, who cares?  Same with most strangers.  I mean, I have permanently discolored knuckles from MMA, I bmx and ride motorcycles, so nobody thinks to question my masculinity over my choice in entertainment.  (speaking of which, I'm seriously considering a Nightmare Rarity cutie mark for my bike if anybody has some decal ideas) 
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nerine on 2014 Jan 31, 07:44:19
I can't say that at any point I decided to become a pega (no, can't bring myself to use that) brony.

I only became aware of the show last summer after a friend at work (not a brony, just a regular ol' troll) kept setting my desktop wallpaper to random pony pics.

When I saw them I squeaked "I really like her mane!" - Well maybe not but I did really like the art style. Before long I started noticing ponies everywhere. It was like a veil had been lifted from my eyes! *cue angelic chorus*

I soon discovered that the noble house McCracken were responsible for this most glorious of visual distractions which resulted in me watching an episode of the show. It doesn't take a genius to guess what happened next... as somepony somewhere once said 'the rest is history'.

I'm now hopelessly in love with these Faustian ponies but have resisted going near any merchandise 'cos we all know what lies down that road. I swear as Celestia is my witness that I will never be the cat lady of tiny brightly coloured ponies!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Selects on 2014 Jan 31, 21:40:27
One of my friends heard about the show and said it sounded gay, then he watched it just to see how gay it was, then he was all like, O: "Holy balls dis a gud show." Then I'm all like, :s"How gay are you?" Then he nags me to death with all this, "Give it a chance," bull crap till I'm like,  >:O"ILL WATCH IT KK?" Then I did and I was like,  :3"This shows rlly gud." That's basically my brony origin story.


(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Watch%2BMLP%2Bthey%2Bsaid....%2BThis%2Bis%2Bthe%2BMLP%2Bphysics%2Bguy_3012e3_3333428.jpg)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mayapple on 2014 Jan 31, 21:50:02
>Generic response

My friends got me into it; I was in a club at school, and they made me watch it.  I just grew to like it from there.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Luminescence on 2014 Feb 06, 17:12:59
... Well, it was around halfway through first season, when the ban-hammers were falling like rain. I accidentally got smacked by one, despite the fact I didn't post anything. Eventually, I started to wonder what it was I got banned for. After .017 seconds (according to Google) I found it all. Then came the "I wonder why everyone likes it?" followed by "I'll just watch one." and then by the death knell of "... well, it said To be Continued so it won't count, Right?" Since then, I've been lurking about and seen some pretty awesome stuff.

All in all, totally worth it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mysteli on 2014 Mar 25, 04:08:46
Nyan Cat, which was fairly new at the time, lead me to this (found it in early May):

and that introduced me to ponies. Within a short time after leaving that site I started seeing ponies everywhere, so I decided to check the show out. Everything rocketed off from there.
Ohey, my third year anniversary is approaching in a bit over a month.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: OfficerShields on 2014 Apr 10, 21:25:43
I discovered MLP:FIM in late 2012, after watching the full length episode "Its About Time" on YouTube, and very much enjoyed what I watched. However I placed my curiosity aside and got more into compelling single player video games such as Fallout 3, New Vegas, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, and Skyrim. So over the course of 2013 I had kind of forgotten about the show.

Sometime during January of this year however, I decided to re-download and play DC Universe Online, a game I had abandoned since summer of the previous year. While gliding around Metropolis I saw a message from a user in Chat advertising his MLP-themed league. The first time I saw his advertisment I ignored him, but the following day I was once again in Metropolis and saw his message again.

This time I took him up on it, and joined the league as Applejack  :]. It turned out that he was the only member of the league and was being viciously ridiculed by other players for being a brony  :c. I decided to take on the challenge of recruiting the rest of the MLP cast, and after a month of doing so, I earned my position as second in command.  8)

It was during this time I joined the fandom and, about a month later, found out about Legends of Equestria.  <3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chromastone64 on 2014 Apr 16, 14:29:22
You can thank a YouTuber called Joshscorcher (Commander Firebrand) for my discovery of this amazing franchise.

I think it was about two years ago. I was browsing through his channel, watching most of his vids, but i stayed away from that certain corner labled "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Reveiws" (I was a HUGE hater before. Didn't know that there was a fanbase, just the typical "Ponies are girly" stigma). Eventually, i decided: "Ok, I'll watch his review of the pilot episode, and that's it." One view later, I decided to watch the rest of his reviews, because they were really funny, plus Pinkie had started to grow on me. Then i watched and episode without commentary. Then another...then another...and soon i had watched every episode in the whole seiries over about a month. Imagine my shock when I found out this "little girl's show" had such a huge and awesome fanbase.

And now I can say I am proud to be a brony, and throughly regret EVER hating this show.  :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: LightningDart on 2014 Apr 17, 13:13:44
I never even knew they had made another generation or anything about it until I found this video


After that I got interested because I thought that was a normal joke.  It wasn't, but I got hooked after the first episode.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: NovaDash on 2014 Apr 17, 14:28:41
Saw a video review which made the show look quite good so I decided to give it a go starting with the first episode on youtube, then watched the next episode, then the next, by the time I knew it I watched all of season 1. Then saw season two opener, Discord two parter which to date is my favourite episode (even though its two).  I then started watching season 2 as it came out on-line and as a result became a full fledged brony  :3 
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TieDyeGirl42 on 2014 Apr 17, 15:15:19
Well, about 3 years ago or so, I saw the video 'Sunshine and Celery stalks' by PinkiePieSwear. I soon forgot about the ponies until a year later, when I saw a huge amount of pony memes and decided to watch episode 1 & 2. I soon fell in love with the show about halfway into episode 2.  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Pegasus_Name_Goes_Here on 2014 Apr 17, 21:26:35
 A few songs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRP1DUdU3d0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjso2HmQqo
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: lazygizmo on 2014 Apr 17, 21:43:20
i dont remember how i got here. i only remember that i got to watching the show right as season 1  was ending. then watch everything and got caught up before season 2 started. i dont think ill every leave. people think the whole fandom thing act as one and is a reflection of everyone who likes the show. i enjoy any content they put out. when everyone says the fandom is dead and all that, ill still be here regardless.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Itzmattxd on 2014 Apr 17, 23:58:20
I didnt. I just liked a few of the episodes and thought it was funny. Im much more into the fanmade stuff.

Then flufflepuff happened and this was me :  :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Astral_Tigris on 2014 Apr 18, 01:41:49
Well let's see... I remember seeing ponies all over the place in 2011 and thought it was some kind of joke, and decided to see what it was about.
When I pulled up the first episode I stopped right after the intro and thought "what are you even doing", closed it and went about my day, but once I had started watching it just stayed on my mind til I finished the episode. then the second, and third... next thing I know i'm waiting along with everyone else for the next season to start up.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Firemane Dreamcaster on 2014 Apr 18, 10:05:05
pretty much,
I met this girl for the first time trough friends ^-^, we noticed we had some shared interest  :D and we ended up cuddled on the couch watching MLP  :] and I was hooked to the show from that moment xd
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: perryunicornboy on 2014 Apr 18, 15:26:31
I loved G 1 when I was young and I actually watched it at first worried it would ruin my childhood it just turned out to be the best thing ever   <3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jiggnfm on 2014 Apr 18, 18:51:57
I remember I became a brony by just curious of what the show looks like, then after the 1st episode, I fell in love with it...  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Creme Tartar on 2014 Apr 19, 15:38:38
The airfield where I worked was being shut down, so there wasn't a lot to do but for whatever reason we still had to go in and be there.
They basically left us to do whatever we wanted (within reason) for a few months while they argued back and forth about various things, that left us with a lot of time to derp around.

I went on "wiki walks" and various "internet safaris" and I kept running into these tiny horse things in random places, so having nothing better to do I went looking for more of them just to sate my curiosity.
Eventually I found my way to youtube and various clips of said tiny horses doing really quite witty things. It was then I thought that I wanted to see some more of this stuff, so I went digging for links to complete episodes, and the first one that turned up was (the then newly released) Sonic Rainboom.
I was hooked.
All the rest followed in short order, and I've been happily watching ever since.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Leika Silverpaw on 2014 Apr 19, 16:04:16
I was over at my friends house back in october 2010 and his little sister was super-excited about the new series of my little pony that was going to premier.  She managed to convince both of us to watch the first episode with her, and we were both surprised to find that we kind of liked the show.  We waited a week, and when we liked the next episode we decided that we were hooked, and then the brony community started to grow on the internet throughout the first season and that led to where I am today.  Watching most episodes of the show, reading fanfiction, buying merchandise, and soon to be playing LoE with my friends.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Corgii on 2014 Apr 19, 17:26:30
To be honest it's kind of a blur. One day I was enjoying a YTP by one of my fav YTPers and noticed his new upload was using MLP as a source. The next day my father found me hunched over my desk watching the second season, having just finished the first one, at Five thirty in the morning.

I wish I was joking about that last part.  :l
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: NeonLights9212 on 2014 Apr 21, 17:54:04
for me it was when i was introduced to it by a childhood friend of mine.  i watched it and thought it wasnt anywhere near as bad as all the haters were making it out to be...  ^_^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Act One on 2014 Apr 21, 18:16:13
Well, I refer to myself sometimes as the "Tsundere Brony" as when I heard about it, it was from my brother chatting to friends online. I didn't give it much thought and did my own thing. But one night, my bro was watching the first 2 episodes in his room next to mine, while I was relaxing, reading.
Then-
Her-
Voice-
Was-
Herd! (See what I did there? Ahem! Sorry.)

Hearing Pinkie Pie doing what she does best, and chuckles from his room I went to investigate and saw he was watching the 1st episode. I looked at him and then back at the screen and then raised an eyebrow. I then returned to my bed with the book and the episode continued. Competing my reading with the noises in his room was too difficult, so I just reserved myself and walked on in to see what the heck was this all about.

Boom! Mind completely blown on how entertaining it was, and as much as I was confused with it, I loved the colour, the acting and just the humour of the show. But then after the 1st series, I was prodded to Equestria Daily and saw the different animations and drawings there-
Head completely blow to the stratosphere!!

I actually became more obsessed with the fan-base of the show compared to the series itself! But as the series came and more entertainment arrived, more inspiration was given to the community and I was hooked to see what the surrounding universe created in it's wake. And I've yet to be disappointed. *Applauses the fan base.*
Just don't do a "Princess Twilight" rage again please? One was bad enough, even if I originally thought the idea was a bit quick and final myself.  lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Scribble_Slash on 2014 Apr 25, 14:27:39
I actually started out hating MLP before I became a brony. The very mention of it somehow made me a little mad, so I never gave it a chance. My friends (are now in college) told me about then and what the show was like. I still told them I would never try watching it. This went on for a year until November 2013. I saw an advertisement about MLP:fim and saw Rainbow Dash. I thought she looked to cute, I started thinking about the show. About midway through the month, a friend told me about its premise and how good the show was, so I decided to watch the first and second episodes. I instantly fell in love with the show and I watched season 1 - 3 in a couple months, as well as bought a Rainbow Dash plushie. I'm not ashamed of being a brony, and nobody has ever made fun of me for being one.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Archaeopteryx Tipota on 2014 Apr 26, 02:41:27
I was one of the /b/ros on 4chan that witnessed the great pony explosion of the internet. Before anyone realized it, 4chan's /b/ board was being uncontrollably flooded by pony content from all directions. Soon, the content would flood a large portion of the other 4chan boards as well. During this time, and in the initial explosion of the first bronies, there was a huge flame war on the internet between bronies and anti-bronies. I was aware of the fact that My Little Pony had an actual flourishing fanbase for quite some time, but I knew little about it until my little brother started watching the show and identified himself as a brony. I remember him showing me members of the fandom getting angry over Derpy being taken out of the show, and I thought it was ridiculous. For quite some time, I told my friends about the brony fandom, explaining it as being a group of large neckbeards that dwell in the basements of their parents. I also heard about the... innuendos side of the fandom and broadly generalized all bronies as being that way. About half-way through season two, I was on a random video spree on YouTube and found a pony music video. Curiously, I watched it, and found myself wondering how something as girly and simple as My Little Pony could possibly support such a massive and diverse fandom. I decided to do some research in the hopes of finding out why my brother and millions of other people had fallen for this show. I moved from one pony video, to the next, to the next, and to the next, until I stumbled upon Mike The Microphone's read-along to My Little Dashie, which is a known emotional fanfic within the fandom. I listened to the whole thing, and to my complete and utter surprise, and despite the fact that I had never watched the show and didn't even know any of the characters' names, it still managed to tug at my heartstrings.

Finally, I decided to go in and watch the first episode of the first season. I looked it up and made it through. The first episode, the second, the third, the fourth. Despite the fact that I wasn't necessarily amazed or in awe at some aspect of the show, but it still managed to keep me watching. It wasn't something I was necessarily enjoying, but at the same time I just kept going, watching them one-by-one, slowly beginning to understand MLP: FiM even more. I came to the eventuality as I pondered how I was able to watch the entire first season of My Little Pony, a little girl's show, without turning off my computer, that the characters were not as one dimensional as most other cartoons. These characters felt real, because they had dreams and hopes of their own. They had weaknesses, weaknesses that they would stumble upon and learn from, but their weaknesses were also their strengths, and their development as characters was something that I found attractive.

I watched the entire second season, joining the brony fandom in the week after week wait for the newest episode. And then came the off season before season 3. Then I exposed myself to the amazing fandom. The art, the music, the talent, and everything else. I found out that DHX was aware of the MLP fandom, I found out that John De Lancie, the man who played Q, my all-time favourite character from Star Trek other than Data, was aware of it, and supported it. I found out about the Brony Cons, the friendships that have been made through the show, the culture behind it, and everything else. Suddenly, I realized that I went from being an ignorant /b/tard that hated on an entire fandom because it broke social norms to being a huge fan of MLP and supporting the fandom. I continued reading fanfictions, posting on forums, exposing myself to the brony community's content, and watching the show wholeheartedly.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Benict on 2014 Apr 28, 13:47:39
For me, I had noticed the pony thing popping up everywhere and I was starting to get annoyed by it. So, I wanted to know what made this variation so special and fun so I reluctantly sat down to watch the first two episodes. I say reluctantly cause I grew up with knowledge of the older versions of this show and honestly they caused physical pain to watch. But, I was pleasantly surprised by this version and just kept watching and three seasons later I'm still watching it.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: AaronMk on 2014 Apr 30, 00:43:16
I came in sometime shortly after season 1 ended. At that time I was in the MineCraft forums and I was noticing people with pony avatars posting about.

I excused them as being another furry fad and moved along.

Later some people I followed on dA started posting pony content and one had a "guide" on how to give the show I thought. At this point I was snickering at them, and I figured if I was going to argue they're silly people I should give the show a shot and get the points for trying.

And, well. One thing lead to another and now most of the stuff I draw is pony in some way, shape, or form.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TwilightNight on 2014 Apr 30, 00:48:10
There was this one PMV with Nightmare Moon and the song Angel of Darkness. I thought it was pretty cool, so I decided to look up episode 1 on youtube. Then I looked up episode 2, then 3, then... well, I looked up most episodes that have been out so far.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Zhai on 2014 May 02, 00:50:40
ah, im so new from this year.
(im spanish so forgive my english btw >_<)

these later months on tumblr there's a lot of hate againts bronies, then that first brony documentary came out and tumblr made fun of it/them. i was curious so this january i watched it and i found it lovely.

then i watched equestria girls (yesss before watching the main show ahaha i didnt know that it happens after season 3 finale so there's the twilight alicorn spoiler but i didnt care cause i just was watching because i was curious and i really didnt pretend to watch the show anyways) but i like it so then i watched MLP ep 1 because i was more curious and that intro explained like an old legend is EPIC. then ep 2 and i really like it.

then ep3&4 and i was like "ok it seems it isnt as epic as the eps 1&2, meh" but for some reason i keep watching and then i didnt mind those "unepic" episodes and i started liking more and more and i watched all the seasons in one month. MLP all night long  ovO

i still think that seasons premiere/finales are the best episodes tho. (and the worst imo the CMC ones)

me at first: ok its cool
then: l-ol no plot now this is worse and childish than i thought
later: ok i dont mind its very cute i like it.and pinkeeey is crazeeey.  still dont like that they sing tho
more later: omg i love the show and i love that they sing. woah i love the songsssss  O: but no way im gonna buy merch or anything -.-
now: omg i love it more i want merch and read the comics and ponies ponies ponies ovO


ps: actually some years ago i thought at first that MLP was an adult fanmade cartoon show with black humour ahah then i watched like 5 seconds and i was like "nope thats not adult l-ol".
so then i started thinking that bronies "liked" it ironically and laughing at it, but then again i saw that i was wrong so i was "wtf l-ol whatever i dont care" and i forget about the show till tumblr starting hating bronies last year
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Griffon on 2014 May 13, 05:05:32
I was buying The Ticket Master in our toy store after seeing the show intro.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Greyscaleisme on 2014 May 16, 21:35:43
I became a brony thanks to Eurobeat! (Him and the fact that my sister was a huge fan)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sook on 2014 May 19, 11:56:02
One Friday evening, I was like, "OK Michal, our parents aren't here right now. You remember Tom, the friend of mine who was so obsessed with ponies?"
"Yeah?" he replied.
"Today I found out that Patrick also loves ponies. So you know what? Why don't we see what the big deal is?"
"OK"
*5 episodes later*
"Don't judge a book by it's cover."
*3 seasons later*
"EPIC!"
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SnoWidget on 2014 May 19, 17:38:15
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Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Zsaszz on 2014 May 19, 19:33:39
To this day I don't even know how, I never thought that a show like MLP would ever be of my liking, but here's the story.
I spend most of my internet time on YouTube, over the time I started to see comments on different videos from ppl with Ponies as avatar picture, I didn't really have any problem with that, but I saw a lot of other people just...bashing them in the comments, that did annoyed me, one day i posted a comment in a video an got a response from a user with a mlp image, we started a chain comment talking about the video and then suddenly, someone came out of nowhere and started to insult the guy that I was talking to cuz of his profile pic, well... I can't even say here what I said to the guy, it angered me the fact that he just insulted him for what he liked, at the end, the hater got mad and didn't respond anymore, the guy told me about the show n I said to him that i was going to check it out.
I did checked it, but at the first second that i saw the intro theme I almost turned it off, I thought that it was way too girly, after I passed the intro theme, i watched it completely, that episode was Party of one, I really liked that one, then I saw that it was the episode 25 of the first season, I saw the first season, then the 2nd, and the 3rd, and already saw the 4th completely. For someone as Skeptical as me, that reminded me to not Judge a book by its cover.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sunny the pony on 2014 May 25, 01:17:03
My classmates were buzzing about it and I was like "Hey, might as well give it a chance" then I went crazy about it when I saw the sisters reunite I cried  8D :')
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Blitz Freeman on 2014 May 25, 18:20:37
I love this topic!   X3

I was at my high school, hanging with my friends in a classroom before first bell. One of my female friends was on a computer, looking up MLP images on Google. It seems she had been following the show since it began nearly 5 years ago. That moment was probably my very first introduction to the show. I thought to myself, "Wow, what a unique art style! Too bad it'll probably be dead in a year."

A few weeks later, I noticed it all over the web. I became very curious. So, I google imaged "my little pony". I really liked the way it looked, and the general feel of the pony world. I thought to myself, "I MUST watch this! Just once to see if it's any good or not."

One day after getting home from school, I noticed that no one was home yet. This was my chance. I went to Youtube and watched the pilot. The next day, I watched the second half. From then on, I watched 3+ episodes, every day I could until my parent came home. I really had to pace myself, or else I'd run out of available episodes.  >.<

Even today, I can't really nail down why I got so curious one day, or why I still follow the ponies now. There are, at most, 2 other bronies who know (or remember) that I am part of the herd. And for now, I prefer to keep it that way.  ;)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mizuki on 2014 May 27, 05:28:22
I can't tell you when I became a brony, (probably 'cause I don't consider myself a brony) but I can tell you how I joined the MLP fandom lol

I didn't grow up with the franchise 'cause I kinda missed out on the 80's, but I was too young to remember the early 90's. So the only exposure I had to MLP were maybe the toys and any pop culture references. (like Dexter's Laboratory)

But I was a pretty big Lauren Faust fan; and when I found out she got put in charge of rebooting the franchise, I was really excited! (Though when I found out it would be a flash animated show for 4 year old girls, I got cautiously optimistic)

Sure enough once the first episode was put up on youtube, I became a fan :) (and apparently, so did the /co/ board on 4chan)

To put this in perspective; I was basically the ONLY PERSON on the entire internet who became a fan of the show over night but wasn't already a 4channer. (At least it sure as heck felt like it o.O)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BanesBloom on 2014 Jun 16, 08:56:13
I actually ended up putting 'watch the first episode of MLP' on my bucket list funnily enough  :P

I had seen some of the controversy and hype over the show so - as I like to form my own opinion - I put it on my bucket list. Which was really kind of pointless 'cause I had nothing else to do as I was kinda friend and project-less at the time, so I ended up watching it in like the next half hour.

My first reaction was 'Huh. This... actually isn't all that bad. Why do I like this??' But after watching all of the show and getting involved with the fandom I'm pretty sure I know why I like it.  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Diffidence on 2014 Jun 16, 15:46:07
Huh.. I got into the fandom from a musical aspect and then I started to realize I loved the art style, and so I started to draw a lot and now it's a pretty big thing in my life. I met most of my good friends through the fandom (I'm 16 and extremely introverted.) and that just gave me more reason to get into it all. I wouldn't really say that having friends is the only reason though. I like the characters, the music, the art, I like a lot about it.  But it started from the musical side. I remember because the first song was by the living tombstone and I started looking up other brony musicians. It never really felt weird to me, though, the only awkward aspect of it was that my dad really disapproved.   ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: hazardtime on 2014 Jun 16, 19:30:15
I was a pony hater up until about a year ago.  I was in a cinema server on Garry's Mod when I walked into a private theater playing the Mare-Do-Well episode.  I decided to stay and watch it and was actually a bit awed at how good it was, both in animation, voice acting, and writing.  However, at that point I still didn't consider myself a brony.  I had a new-found respect for the show, but still held some minor prejudices towards the fandom.

I would stay a closet brony for another few months, making small forays into My Little Brony on Memebase and youtube tumblr ask blog dubs.  Finally, during christmas break of 2013, it was late at night and I was bored.  I decided it was now or never and booted up Netflix.  The next morning, I was a brony :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: WolfKomoki on 2014 Jul 03, 02:14:27
I grew up on G3 and decided to check out G4 on youtube. The rest is history.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: necrostar on 2014 Jul 11, 05:43:25
at the first i was thinking that mlp was a baby show. but one day i was bored and i have watched an episode. i was thinking: "what? what is this? i will never watch this again." but then another day i was bored too. and then i watched an episode. after watching a few episodes i was thinking: "hey...this isnt so bad..." and the i watched 1 episoder per day. after watching reaaly much episodes, i was reading about "the bronies" i was thinking: "that means...im a brony too? aewsome!" and then i was thinking about ponies. all day...after some time i was creating videos and fan arts from ponies too. so this is my story ^-^ when there are any failures with my writing, then sorry, cuase im german :/
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: winxwinxyu on 2014 Jul 11, 06:45:36
My cousin came for sleepover a weekend, and she said she loved ponies and wanted me to watch too.
I watched the first episodes and my expressions:
1st Episode: -.- this is boring and INTERESTING!
2nd Episode: Wow, Tia is so ugly. (xD lol that was real.. I am a Tia hater)
3rd Episode: GIMME MORE!!!!
And that continued. When I came to 3rd season, the season was over. I waited for Season 4 and watched it.. Now waiting
for EQG: Rainbow Rocks
P.S I am not really a pony hater, I am a pegasister, I just think Tia is ugly.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Metal_Beat on 2014 Jul 12, 02:32:01
I was thinking "I bet this show will just be like any annoying girl show" because I was wondering what's with people liking a show for girls, then I realized it was really awesome so I eventually fell in love with it. P.S.: I'm not an early brony, I actually started when season 2 was about a quarter in.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Grizzly on 2014 Jul 12, 02:34:09
lol

Well, i guess i can say that too, i watched it in 1995 :P G1 rerun :P and loved the show. After G1 i forgot all about it until a friend in school told me there is a G4 XD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Metal_Beat on 2014 Jul 12, 02:41:16
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 Jul 12, 02:34:09
lol

Well, i guess i can say that too, i watched it in 1995 :P G1 rerun :P and loved the show. After G1 i forgot all about it until a friend in school told me there is a G4 XD
yeah I knew the show before I knew about G4 and for years I was just not bothering to care about the show, I guess this is how most people feel about a strange show that you wouldn't think a certain type of person (in this case men) would watch.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Grizzly on 2014 Jul 12, 02:43:18
does that make me weird that i watched G1 and loved it? X3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mizuki on 2014 Jul 12, 05:49:42
Quote from: Grizzly on 2014 Jul 12, 02:43:18
does that make me weird that i watched G1 and loved it? X3


Nope not weird at all! :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Luigiten1 on 2014 Jul 23, 21:52:52
One of my real-life friends suggested that I watch the show since he thought was really good. I went to look it up on Netflix since I remember seeing it on there wondering why would a person like him watch that show?


The funny part is that I watched the movie My Little Pony: Equestria Girls first....


And then I watched what was available at the time on Netflix....

I got really hooked!!!!



I would have never been into Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney if it wasn't for the Brony Community!!!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: DarkSpectre on 2014 Jul 24, 09:22:26
I guess you could say that technically one of the classes I took a few years ago indirectly caused me to become brony. In this class, known as Intro TV, we had to watch 5 episodes of any television show and write reviews/summaries on them each week, but you couldn't review any one show more than twice. This was a royal pain in the backside for me, considering that I never did (and still don't) watch TV very much. You may be thinking "Oh so you watched MLP episodes and reviewed them" at this point, but you'd be wrong. I actually recalled hearing about Dr. Who, so decided to watch/review that. In the process, Youtube's sidebar gave me "Doctor Whooves and Assistant". I was curious, but it wasn't until a week later when I saw it on Newgrounds that I decided to give it a go, as I had reviewed more Dr. Who and was curious as to this whole pony thing. And the rest, as they say, is history. Still a secret brony and not likely to change, but when you have 79 fanmade stories in your read later bar? Perhaps I got a little too into it.  X3

Also of note is Phoenix Wright: Turnabout Storm. Who knows, it might just get you into the Phoenix Wright games, which I find to be pleasantly entertaining to just watch people play on youtube.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: luna264 on 2014 Jul 30, 15:05:14
My first encounter was anything FiM related was 'Story of the Blanks'. I remembered enjoying the older show when I was a little girl, so I played the game a bit, got frustrated because I couldn't get past a certain point, left, and forgot about it. I didn't have another FiMcounter until the following summer, when I got a deviantART to look at Digimon pics, found some DisPie pictures, and started shipping. Later that summer, I noticed a meme site I frequent(Cheezburger network) has a section called 'My Little Brony'. I began to look there often, in secret, until my sister one time walked in on me. I was, frankly, a little embarrassed, but my sister just stood there, so I kept scrolling. After a while, she asked "Have you tried watching this yet?" and I said "No." and she said "Let's do it together then." and I said "Okay." and we grabbed Netflix and marathoned the first 2 seasons, which were the only ones out at the time. After that, I started looking up pony stuff on YouTube, which I was mainly using to watch Minecraft videos, and now I watch a lot of pony analysts. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Bro1997 on 2014 Aug 01, 22:08:10
I became a Brony because I've heard a lot about them through YouTube and throughout DeviantArt. I noticed how a lot of avatars on YouTube were brony-related and knowing the fandom for nearly three years now, I was starting to get interested in MLP. I did for a while watched LPS, but recently got of it because of MLP and how great it is. I tried back in 2011 I believe to watch the first episode, but didn't get passed the scene where Twilight and Spike were in the Canterlot Libaray only because I wasn't truly interested and not because it had ponies in it. Only in January 2014 did I start to watch the Flutterbat episode and I decided to watch the three previous seasons. I did enjoy however the Canterlot Wedding episode somehow when I first watched it back in 2012 so I probably made a mistake right there. That I think was when I should've considered watching the rest of the episodes and joining this fandom. I was only 13 when it started though.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Reginald27 on 2014 Aug 09, 01:36:11
I became a brony probably when i kept on seeing pony references all over the place, even on the internet and games where i go. I met someone who was a brony, he was a mod for a blog "time master pony" and he helped me get followers on my tumblr account almost immediately overnight with just a reblog.

It helped me out  to get confidants in what i drew, because i found that many people were interested in my drawings, so i did free requests and a flood of pony requests came in. i decided i need to understand the characters better for this so i watched the first few episodes. then episode after episode i began to enjoy watching mlp, and it just gave me a burst of inspiration that i made an ask blog for a story i am still working on to this day.

i hope to gain more followers tho, but im stuck on how i can get help to get the blog noticed so i am still trying to branch out and find ways.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: rhg135 on 2014 Aug 09, 13:56:19
I'll add my story.

It was 2013 and since idk chemotherapy, whille successful, had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for life, I didn't do much. Hence I had never heard of FiM.

Earlier that year I was on IRC hacking on a phone with other people. A friend mentioned he was a brony a few times, but that was it until mid summer. He said something implying that you can't mock something unless you know what. Even though I wasn't involved I somehow clicked on the YT link, then the next.

That's how i became 20% cooler. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SovietTwi on 2014 Aug 15, 03:01:14
its was like that:
"My little pony becomes popular.i think i ll watch 1  episode!"
*after 1 episode*
"Ok,i liked it, lets watch another episode"
*after another episode*
"  :3 :3 :3 OMG I CANT STOP !!!"
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cormac117 on 2014 Aug 15, 10:49:38
My story.... Well here you go.

My sister mentioned one of her friends having a party based on the show. My sister being Rarity. I thought nothing of it. Then I walked in on her watching an episode. I watched a little bit. I told myself it was just stupid. But it started to grow on me. Telling myself it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. So one day I was on Youtube. Saw a pony video, got me to finally become a brony. You wouldn't believe the video..... Smile HD  :l.... I wish it wasn't that, but it still got me to watch the show. So I'll give it that at the very least.   :D  :nod:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nuserame on 2014 Aug 17, 07:10:48
Alcohol! Boredom! Of all the places those two have brought me together, ponies was one of the better ones :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: cloudwilk on 2014 Aug 17, 07:33:22
Hmm.... Well, it was at a time when I watched cartoons for the heck of it. I get in those moods from time to time and noticing this show was gaining traction, I decided to see a clip. Season 1 still hadn't been completely finished yet and I remember the first clip was of the mane 6 taking Apple Jack's tree to Appleoosa. I didn't find anything super appealing about it. Seemed like a very average cartoon.

I later caught up on the first season, but then just stopped. My random cartoon watching mood had ceased. You see, I had just recently finished getting into the Hamtaro fandom and was finding myself out at the time and searching for another show I could get into with characters I'd be really drawn by. MLP was good... but I wasn't really motivated enough to keep going.

By the time the second season was soon to premier, I figured I might as well catch up on the episodes I missed and make it in time for the occasion. Well, after watching the Discord episodes... I felt differently about the show. I was more intrigued. I found there to be more world building and stability. Before it was no different than a cartoon that just did things for the sake of doing it, but for some reason after the Discord episode I realized they had a respect for timeline and characters.

Later, I went to search up pony related things on youtube. That's when I got into Super Pony Beat. I didn't feel like a Brony at the time, but I did feel a sense of community that I liked. Then the song Discord came out. The very first one, not the LivingTombStone's remix. That started my 'Poneh~' playlist. It was... so good. My trek in the fanmusic community is really what ended up drawing me in the most. Didn't care for LTS much then... with the first song I heard being 'Rainbow Nukestep'. Later he'd become one of my fav. Brony artists though.

I fell out of watching the episodes shortly in season 2. Still hadn't considered myself a Brony throughout the whole season, but it did set up all the circumstances that would eventually make me consider myself so. It was beginning of season 3 I can really say I felt like a Brony. I was pumped up for the premier because of all the content I was seeing on My Little Brony, had been listening to fanmade songs, and was getting into fancontent such as the Magic Shards game and purchasing ILoveFine wear and pony cards. Season 3 is when I began to watch every episode on time and was into it.

Rainbow Factory. I remember Rainbow Factory really escalated my interest in MLP. Then, which is now my favorite song, Awoken. They were just so... good.

With Twilight becoming princess at the end of season 3, I had become more excited than ever for the show. Big things actually happened and stayed! It was a story but with all the charm of any cartoon I grew up with.
... And here I am now. Finally on an MLP forum, stating how I actually did end up getting into what seemed like such an average show.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Yuriski on 2014 Aug 17, 10:09:33
A couple of online friends mentioned that they were bronies, so then I checked out the show a year ago, and since then I've considered myself a part of the herd  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: dr.induction on 2014 Aug 25, 17:22:59
CrabApple showed me this place, curiosity got to me and mlp fim sealed the deal, now i'm getting into the fim fic's. i feel like im catching up on lost experiences i didnt get to have as a kid. So what if i'm 27 and i have a RD plush. under my arm.. right now :ajshifty:
I feel there's more to being a brony than just mpl fim.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Bro1997 on 2014 Aug 25, 17:27:23
Quote from: Cormac117 on 2014 Aug 15, 10:49:38
My story.... Well here you go.

My sister mentioned one of her friends having a party based on the show. My sister being Rarity. I thought nothing of it. Then I walked in on her watching an episode. I watched a little bit. I told myself it was just stupid. But it started to grow on me. Telling myself it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. So one day I was on Youtube. Saw a pony video, got me to finally become a brony. You wouldn't believe the video..... Smile HD  :l.... I wish it wasn't that, but it still got me to watch the show. So I'll give it that at the very least.   :D  :nod:

Jeez, the reason you became a brony was all because of a fan made video that has graphic violence in it? You couldn't have just watched the first episode and given it a chance?

Post Merge

Quote from: rhg135 on 2014 Aug 09, 13:56:19
I'll add my story.

It was 2013 and since idk chemotherapy, whille successful, had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for life, I didn't do much. Hence I had never heard of FiM.

Earlier that year I was on IRC hacking on a phone with other people. A friend mentioned he was a brony a few times, but that was it until mid summer. He said something implying that you can't mock something unless you know what. Even though I wasn't involved I somehow clicked on the YT link, then the next.

That's how i became 20% cooler. :D

When did you have chemotherapy, or don't you remember? What kind of cancer exactly caused you to lost enthusiasm for life? And how on Earth didn't you see or hear anything about FIM!? It premiered in October of 2010, almost 4 years ago! I mean, didn't you see a advertisement in a magazine or television about FIM or MLP G4 in general?
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Tiger on 2014 Aug 25, 22:59:08
Quote from: Bro1997 on 2014 Aug 25, 17:27:23
Quote from: Cormac117 on 2014 Aug 15, 10:49:38
My story.... Well here you go.

My sister mentioned one of her friends having a party based on the show. My sister being Rarity. I thought nothing of it. Then I walked in on her watching an episode. I watched a little bit. I told myself it was just stupid. But it started to grow on me. Telling myself it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. So one day I was on Youtube. Saw a pony video, got me to finally become a brony. You wouldn't believe the video..... Smile HD  :l.... I wish it wasn't that, but it still got me to watch the show. So I'll give it that at the very least.   :D  :nod:

Jeez, the reason you became a brony was all because of a fan made video that has graphic violence in it? You couldn't have just watched the first episode and given it a chance?

Post Merge

Quote from: rhg135 on 2014 Aug 09, 13:56:19
I'll add my story.

It was 2013 and since idk chemotherapy, whille successful, had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for life, I didn't do much. Hence I had never heard of FiM.

Earlier that year I was on IRC hacking on a phone with other people. A friend mentioned he was a brony a few times, but that was it until mid summer. He said something implying that you can't mock something unless you know what. Even though I wasn't involved I somehow clicked on the YT link, then the next.

That's how i became 20% cooler. :D

When did you have chemotherapy, or don't you remember? What kind of cancer exactly caused you to lost enthusiasm for life? And how on Earth didn't you see or hear anything about FIM!? It premiered in October of 2010, almost 4 years ago! I mean, didn't you see a advertisement in a magazine or television about FIM or MLP G4 in general?

Dude, you don't have to go criticising every single thing you see...

Anyway, I'm not sure I posted in this thread yet, so I'll just post. If I already did, then oh well ovO


I first herd of MLP FIM in early 2011 if I'm not wrong, seeing artworks of them on deviantart. My elder sister pestered me to watch the show, which I eventually gave in to. Now I'm even more crazy about ponies than she is xD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nuserame on 2014 Aug 26, 12:10:30
Quote from: Bro1997 on 2014 Aug 25, 17:27:23
Quote from: rhg135 on 2014 Aug 09, 13:56:19
I'll add my story.

It was 2013 and since idk chemotherapy, whille successful, had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for life, I didn't do much. Hence I had never heard of FiM.

Earlier that year I was on IRC hacking on a phone with other people. A friend mentioned he was a brony a few times, but that was it until mid summer. He said something implying that you can't mock something unless you know what. Even though I wasn't involved I somehow clicked on the YT link, then the next.

That's how i became 20% cooler. :D

When did you have chemotherapy, or don't you remember? What kind of cancer exactly caused you to lost enthusiasm for life? And how on Earth didn't you see or hear anything about FIM!? It premiered in October of 2010, almost 4 years ago! I mean, didn't you see a advertisement in a magazine or television about FIM or MLP G4 in general?


Ill give your the benefit of doubt since you probably don't know any better, and meant no offense, but that first question could be seen as incredibly rude and inconsiderate. Chemotherapy is poison that kills cancer slightly faster than the patient. No matter the 'kind' of cancer its an utterly miserable period of agony that lasts for months and takes years to fully recover from. Its actually pretty common for patients to lose the will to live during all that.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chromastone64 on 2014 Aug 26, 13:06:47
Quote from: Nuserame on 2014 Aug 26, 12:10:30
Its actually pretty common for patients to lose the will to live during all that.

I've been there.  :c
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nuserame on 2014 Aug 26, 14:45:50
Quote from: Chromastone64 on 2014 Aug 26, 13:06:47
Quote from: Nuserame on 2014 Aug 26, 12:10:30
Its actually pretty common for patients to lose the will to live during all that.

I've been there.  :c

Glad your still with us then :]

Its also nothing to be ashamed or shocked about. Its a completely natural response of your brain to long-term, unabating trauma (be it physical or mental), since in the environment we evolved that invariably meant death. Thing long since got better but that deep part of the animal brain still flatly ignores rational explanations.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: kuhwala on 2014 Sep 04, 18:17:29
Well to start off i never knew what a brony was till a little bit before i became one. iv seen all the memes and everything but never thought anything of them i just thought there were memes for everything (wich is kinda true) but anyway i was visiting some family members that live 2 states away from me and me and one of my cousins started looking thru eachothers tablets just cuz so as i was looking thru his i come across a pony meme and my cousin says really fast "im a brony dont hate me" im like what? (like i said i had no idea what a brony was at the time) i kinda just figured it was a weird way of saying hes gay but i didnt say anything and kept looking thru his tablet till i came across another pony meme wich i didnt think was weird at all cuz he had lots of memes i figured he just thought they were funny. anyway when i came across the second one again he said real fast "im a brony dont hate me" i said whats a brony? he said nevermind. (still thinking that hes just choosing a really weird time to tell me hes gay cuz id heard rumor that he was anyway) so anyway i keep looking thru his tablet and i start seeing alot more pony pics not just memes anymore so i ask him why he has so much pony stuff on his tablet and he says its a really good show and he loves it. it was then that the whole brony thing clicked so anyway we kinda leave the subject for a few hours and i start thinking about it and i get curious like why does he like a show that my mom used to love when she was a little girl so i ask him why he likes it and he just says its a very good show and starts talking about how good the story line is and the animation and stuff. so after we get done watching a movie(at this point the only ones up are me my 2 cousins that live in town and my 2 cousins that we r visiting) the one that i found out was a brony said i want you guys to give this show a shot (of course i knew he was talking about my little pony) so im like really dude my little pony? it turned out both of my cousins i was visiting were bronies so anyway after a conversation i dont really remember very well (i just know i was kinda mean) i agreed to just watch the show. so the show started and all i can think is wow i cant believe im watching this this is so stupid well when the first episode ended it said to be continued so he put on the next episode and to be honest after the first episode i was just as against enjoying the show as i was b4 we started. one of my cousins fell asleep in the middle of the first episode so at this point the only ones up are me my 2 brony cousins and one of my cousin that came on the trip with me. so anyway we watched the 2nd episode at this point im just like whatever im watching a show about colorful horses with my cousins ok whatever big deal. i didnt like the show nor did i understand why my 2 brony did. then...  in the middle of episode 3 when twilight got rainbow to close the raincloud and it started raining on her, it happened... rarity says "twilight.. its raining". and twilight says "no... really?" it was then that all my doubt went away and i thought to myself "this show really isnt that bad" so i started enjoying the show more and more and after i got home from my trip i got on netflix and started watching episode after episode (still not considering myself a brony yet) so i went to my cousins house (the one that wasnt already a brony that watched the episodes with us) and i found out he liked the show as much as i did so we started getting together and watching episodes together. he never was my favorite cousins in fact i thought was a little annoying and didnt care much for him but now we are best friends thanks to the magic of friendship  ^-^ anyway uhh yeah sorry this was so long and to whoever actully read this whole thing i feel bad for you  lol :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: dr.induction on 2014 Sep 05, 12:15:36
Well said John De Lancie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just awesome, watch it!!! --> http://youtu.be/KI7ZRBHA4uA?t=22m50s
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mazead on 2014 Dec 12, 09:03:30
I was bored one day...
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2014 Dec 12, 12:38:50
Quote from: Mazead on 2014 Dec 12, 09:03:30
I was bored one day...
I guess this is pretty accurate for a handful of Brones, actually.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Quizzicall on 2014 Dec 24, 08:10:53
"Alot of hype about this show let's watch a episode and see what it's about."

*2 Seasons later*

"Oh look it's 5 in the morning  ovO"
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Artsy Crafters on 2014 Dec 24, 13:59:55
I was surfing the net like normal and the pony hoopla was up and about so one of my friends posted the first episode on facebook and I was like "I'll just watch part of it to see what it's about since everyone is talking about it." I watched the opening then I just kept watching and watching until it finished then I was like. O.O??? What happened? I sat there confused for a second then realized I needed to watch the next episode. >.< That's what happened.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: legoboy17 on 2015 Jan 03, 22:17:13
At first I'm an "Anti -  brony" me and my friends thought the show was for younger crowds and not for ... well teenagers.
But last year (2014) one day I'm going through Youtube looking for the Offsrping's "You're gonna go far kid" and then
I saw "Join the herd" by Forest Rain so I clicked that... The first episode I've watched was Season 4's Episode 23 "Inspiration Manifestation"
after that I changed and I've "joined the herd"  ;)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Meno on 2015 Jan 06, 22:44:27
i like renards music. he released a pony remix. (march 2011!)  i liked it. gained interest to the whole pony thing. watched.

4 years soon  :nod:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BeebarbX on 2015 Jan 07, 20:24:00
Perhaps it is time for me to tell mine.

It all started with a plush bear. A 'Care Bears' one from the 'Welcome to Care-A-Lot' series. I was really into collecting bears at one point in my life, an extension of a developed habitual need to hold something at night.

Anyway, it didn't matter what style or colour the bear was in, I just got them. This particular 'Care Bears' plush I had acquired came with a DVD. On it were two things, the episode "Show of Shyness" from the 'Care Bears' series, and the episode "Ticket Master" from My Little Pony: Friendship is magic.

For the longest time I left the DVD be, and thought nothing of it. Until the day I got the news I might be an uncle. Then my thoughts shifted to something else. I used to be able to draw fairly well, so I thought that a nice picture might suit as an appropriate gift for the child's room.

Anyway, I began to watch the episodes of both shows, and found them pretty decent, but nothing to say they were my cup of tea, I was more concerned with getting some references for the drawing.

Skip ahead a bit, some time after my niece was born and some unpleasantness I'd rather not get into for personal reasons practically destroys all motivation.

I still wanted to try regardless, as despite it all my thoughts were still with my niece, and wanting to do something nice for her. In a desperate attempt to try to recapture that spark of motivation, I seek out more episodes of the shows.

That didn't have the effect I was hoping. Instead of rekindling my motivation to draw, one of the shows (I'm guessing it's pretty obvious by this point), gets my mind off the unpleasant situation and I find myself liking it by the time I watch the end of "The Return of Harmony".

To my upmost regret, I still haven't been able to draw that picture, and my niece is now two. Still, everything has worked out in it's own way.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chack on 2015 Jan 08, 00:06:25
I'd already given my story a while back, so I'll tell you the tale how I turned my brother to a brony.

During my early brony days (Fall 2011 is where it started), I hated the fact that I liked the show so much. "No one will ever know!" I said to myself often. Unfortunately, it got increasingly more difficult to hide my pony love as time went on. I have 2 younger brothers, you see. The middle child hates everything and thinks that everything I or anyone else does is stupid and annoying. He's been angsty since 2nd grade, and I knew that if he found out, I would never live it down. The youngest one, however, is stubborn as a mule, but he respects me more than the middle. I thought, "Maybe, I could convert him!" and I devised a plan. An awful plan. I had a wonderful, awful plan.

I decided to act as a hater for the time. I would mention how I "found out about bronies" and said it was a stupid thing to exist (I know it was horrible for me to say that, but I wanted to be convincing). Sometime in January 2012, when me and the youngest were home alone, I got him to watch some videos with me. I came to some videos where there was pony stuff in the suggested videos, and I "complained about it being shoved in my face" Totally convincing. So we searched videos of people destroying pony toys and other merch. I tried my best to hold back the tears of sorrow, and instead replaced it with evil cackling. My brother joined in on this. We eventually got to the point where we were watching short clips of the actual show. I commented on how good the animation was, faking the belief that they were fan videos, but almost sure it was actually part of the show. I showed him the clip of Rainbow Dash's Atomic Sonic Rainboom, and "admitted" that it looked pretty awesome. Then it was time to put my plan into action. I told my brother that, "If there's a clip from the show of one of these ponies actually snaps a neck, I'd watch an episode". Everyone knows, of course, the moment Fluttershy snaps the bear's neck, yes? I did a vague search for it, found it, and watched it with feigned awe. "Oh... I have to watch it now..." I said in "dismay". My brother was laughing. I shot an angry look at him and then pleaded, "PLEASE, watch it with me! I can't do it by myself!" He agreed rather quickly, surprisingly. If I didn't know my brother, I wouldn't have thought that might've worked so easily. So we watched the first episode; a cliffhanger, if you recall. Then I said, "That's it, no more!" shutting my laptop and asking my brother that we should never speak of this again.

But I knew my brother well. A cliffhanger is too deviously clever to leave unresolved. I knew that eventually his curiousity would consume and overthrow him. I giggled evily as my plan was in full swing. (Wow, I am a psychopath.) Two weeks passed. I went to my brother while we were at Quiznos and whispered to him, "Hey, you know that My Little Pony thing? I kinda wanted to know how it turned out," and he admitted that he too wondered what happened next. At that point, I knew I had him in mine and the fandom's grasp. We agreed that we should at least finish that two-parter. The two of us waited until we were home alone again (which didn't happen for a while, and I assumed that his curiousity burned even further). Then we watched it. I admitted it was pretty good, and so did he.

So the two of us watched more episodes together. Unfortunately, he barely started Season two when he was caught by my other brother. After he was harshly ridiculed, he just plain stopped watching MLP. He never wanted to see another episode because my sociopath brother told all of his "friends" about it (I put "friends" in quotations because he sure doesn't act like one to them). I felt guilty and responsible for this. He never deserved that sort of humiliation. So that was the end of that.
Or so I thought.

Eventually, the middle child discovered that I was a brony. He didn't say anything for a while, because by that time I had a new gaming computer and he would have done anything to play on it. Blackmail is a funny thing. The slightest annoyance could have deleted his precious Guest account. It eventually did come to that, and he would beg me to give him another guest account. I told him to stop making fun of the youngest for watching MLP because he didn't do so anymore. We came to an agreement.

After some time had passed, my youngest brother started watching the show again, and this time he was more careful about being caught by the middle. Also, the middle brother stopped playing on my computer in favor of a brand new PS3, but he was so busy playing Call of Duty and screaming at the TV that he had no time for us "inferior brothers". By the time me and the youngest had some friends who we discovered became new bronies, my brother was a bit more comfortable with himself. And so was I. I now wear pony shirts in public and pony pins on my backpack, and I care little about what the middle brother has to say, because all he ever does is spout garbage. It's a wonder he still has any friends at all.

Of course eventually, I had to tell the youngest the truth.

While the two of us and a brony friend were at Wendy's, the friend brought up the topic of how he became a brony. After his short'n sweet story, my brother told his and "mine". He said, "We just lost a bet with each other."
"Umm... About that..." I began, and I told him how I actually tricked him into watching the show. He was kinda mad about it, but hey, I got him to where he is, didn't I? He got over it pretty quickly.

And so ends the tale of happiness, sadness, my vague understanding of psychology and curiousity, my weird obsession with laughing maniacally like a cartoon villain, and my next-to-perfect plan of converting my youngest brother.

I still do read everyone else's stories to see what kind of unique answers we get.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: FrozenSkies on 2015 Jan 08, 00:10:41
lets just say the show saved my life. it was fall of 2010, i was out of highschoool and i was really depressed. my friends didn't want to hang with me, i had no job, no money. ono i wouldn't be here if my friend didn't introduce me to this franchise and i thanked him kindly for it ^-^.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: xXPonyMusicXx on 2015 Jan 17, 01:08:38
Well I found out about MLP 2 or 3 years ago by an old friend. I didn't know about the whole fandom thing for a while. After my friend showed me it I was hooked. Then a bit later I was playing minecraft, cause that what I did.A year later, I saw somebody talking about mlp and "WoodenToaster". I was confused, so I said, "How would a wooden toaster work? that makes no sense XD", or something like that. Then I found woodentoaster's channel, after a quick google search. Then after that I started to get really into the fandom. Then after a bunch of crap nobody cares about, I started to make music. Never heard that one I bet.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: atarumenchi on 2015 Jan 24, 05:25:24
Quote from: Chishio Kunrin on 2012 Apr 06, 15:54:19
I was really bored one day, and I started thinking about all the pony meme stuff. I wondered what the big deal was about, since I thought it was really weird for all these teens to be so into the show. So I watched the first two episodes, then watched the third... and then the fourth... and then the fifth... and that's how Equestria was made.

this statement pretty much sums up how I found out about this gen.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Emperor on 2015 Jan 24, 18:49:33
To be honest I was a hater.. Then I was ... like.. err...... let's just.. watch it because im down.. THEN BAM!  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: BobTheFloof on 2015 Jan 26, 19:04:46


This exact video, actually
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Becky on 2015 Jan 26, 21:16:40
I'm not a brony, but I am a pony lover. I've always loved My Little Pony since I was given the G1 toys when I was 6 years old. And then my mum started buying G2 toys for christmas and birthdays. And then I saw the G4 show because I was begged to watch it on my deviant art page Discord. I had the name before the actual character of the show. So I started RPing as Discord.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Bardsworth Brony on 2015 Feb 01, 10:51:30
I had actually been browsing /b/ (a habit I've more or less grown out of) and I noticed a rash of "pony threads".  My curiosity eventually got the best of me and I found the shows on YouTube.  After the first episode I was like, "...huh, that was pretty good."  After watching the whole first season, I waited impatiently for the second to air.

Then I fell into the fandom.  I started browsing Ponychan and even started reading some fanfics.  Most were terrible, but a few were so well-written that they inspired me to write my own.  So I think that was around the time I "officially" became a brony.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Peace Keeper on 2015 Feb 01, 15:26:01
How I became a brony? Well... I like to thank my little niece for that :P

Before MLP, I see MLP stuff around and was both puzzled and kinda annoyed of it, though some were good and funny. Then the day my carpet was getting changes, my sister put Netflix for my niece, and they put MLP:FiM. So I checked to see why it's so popular, then it hit me after the very first 3 or 4 episodes "This is the show people are raving about!?... it's pretty good. No wonder people like it.". Yea, I was shocked to see the battle of Nightmare moon and the Mane 6. Did not expected to be that hardcore for a children's show. Every other episode was funny and it gives good lessons.

Though I wouln't call myself a brony just because I just saw a couple, I decided to see every episode all the way up till now. I look at some artworks, comics, and even memes that gave me good laughs here and there. At there I was just borderline brony.

I think the point that I finally entered the brony status was joining this forum. Here is where I joined the brony community, and this forum is one of the greatest brony communities I know.

Thank you all, and that's my summary of my origins.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: YINYANG232 on 2015 Feb 01, 15:45:05
Looks at deviantArt  :s
look at fan art
watch show
MOAR
your welcome :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Honorary Aperture on 2015 Feb 01, 17:40:59
One day a steam friend became a brony and sent me the first episode. I kept talking to him through steam because it felt awkward to just be watching it at first. I just got into it and continued on until the last episode avaliable.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: lightspeed_flash on 2015 Feb 01, 18:29:11
Lets see what is my brony story? hmmm
Well I suppose it starts with bronies talking about the show and me shrugging it off for a while. Then one day I had to see what the fuss was all about so I watched the first few episodes online and after that I understood where the broines were coming from and why they like it but I left it alone for a while. After a few weeks I found the mysteriousmrenter youtube channel and watched his videos then while I was looking at his playlists I saw reviews for the episodes. I watched the first season's reviews and after that I was hooked I just HAD to see how those episodes unfolded then I watched season two reviews and then the actual season two, but after that I saw the rest of the series blind and loved it even more. Next thing I knew I was looking at fan art and watching fan videos and playing fan games then I joined this site and met some really wonderful people who showed me what true friendship should feel like. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Nuserame on 2015 Feb 01, 18:57:08
I like how this thread revives every time the OSW comes up. These stories are kinda fun to read.

Quote from: Chack on 2015 Jan 08, 00:06:25
Spoiler: All this! • show

I'd already given my story a while back, so I'll tell you the tale how I turned my brother to a brony.

During my early brony days (Fall 2011 is where it started), I hated the fact that I liked the show so much. "No one will ever know!" I said to myself often. Unfortunately, it got increasingly more difficult to hide my pony love as time went on. I have 2 younger brothers, you see. The middle child hates everything and thinks that everything I or anyone else does is stupid and annoying. He's been angsty since 2nd grade, and I knew that if he found out, I would never live it down. The youngest one, however, is stubborn as a mule, but he respects me more than the middle. I thought, "Maybe, I could convert him!" and I devised a plan. An awful plan. I had a wonderful, awful plan.

I decided to act as a hater for the time. I would mention how I "found out about bronies" and said it was a stupid thing to exist (I know it was horrible for me to say that, but I wanted to be convincing). Sometime in January 2012, when me and the youngest were home alone, I got him to watch some videos with me. I came to some videos where there was pony stuff in the suggested videos, and I "complained about it being shoved in my face" Totally convincing. So we searched videos of people destroying pony toys and other merch. I tried my best to hold back the tears of sorrow, and instead replaced it with evil cackling. My brother joined in on this. We eventually got to the point where we were watching short clips of the actual show. I commented on how good the animation was, faking the belief that they were fan videos, but almost sure it was actually part of the show. I showed him the clip of Rainbow Dash's Atomic Sonic Rainboom, and "admitted" that it looked pretty awesome. Then it was time to put my plan into action. I told my brother that, "If there's a clip from the show of one of these ponies actually snaps a neck, I'd watch an episode". Everyone knows, of course, the moment Fluttershy snaps the bear's neck, yes? I did a vague search for it, found it, and watched it with feigned awe. "Oh... I have to watch it now..." I said in "dismay". My brother was laughing. I shot an angry look at him and then pleaded, "PLEASE, watch it with me! I can't do it by myself!" He agreed rather quickly, surprisingly. If I didn't know my brother, I wouldn't have thought that might've worked so easily. So we watched the first episode; a cliffhanger, if you recall. Then I said, "That's it, no more!" shutting my laptop and asking my brother that we should never speak of this again.

But I knew my brother well. A cliffhanger is too deviously clever to leave unresolved. I knew that eventually his curiousity would consume and overthrow him. I giggled evily as my plan was in full swing. (Wow, I am a psychopath.) Two weeks passed. I went to my brother while we were at Quiznos and whispered to him, "Hey, you know that My Little Pony thing? I kinda wanted to know how it turned out," and he admitted that he too wondered what happened next. At that point, I knew I had him in mine and the fandom's grasp. We agreed that we should at least finish that two-parter. The two of us waited until we were home alone again (which didn't happen for a while, and I assumed that his curiousity burned even further). Then we watched it. I admitted it was pretty good, and so did he.

So the two of us watched more episodes together. Unfortunately, he barely started Season two when he was caught by my other brother. After he was harshly ridiculed, he just plain stopped watching MLP. He never wanted to see another episode because my sociopath brother told all of his "friends" about it (I put "friends" in quotations because he sure doesn't act like one to them). I felt guilty and responsible for this. He never deserved that sort of humiliation. So that was the end of that.
Or so I thought.

Eventually, the middle child discovered that I was a brony. He didn't say anything for a while, because by that time I had a new gaming computer and he would have done anything to play on it. Blackmail is a funny thing. The slightest annoyance could have deleted his precious Guest account. It eventually did come to that, and he would beg me to give him another guest account. I told him to stop making fun of the youngest for watching MLP because he didn't do so anymore. We came to an agreement.

After some time had passed, my youngest brother started watching the show again, and this time he was more careful about being caught by the middle. Also, the middle brother stopped playing on my computer in favor of a brand new PS3, but he was so busy playing Call of Duty and screaming at the TV that he had no time for us "inferior brothers". By the time me and the youngest had some friends who we discovered became new bronies, my brother was a bit more comfortable with himself. And so was I. I now wear pony shirts in public and pony pins on my backpack, and I care little about what the middle brother has to say, because all he ever does is spout garbage. It's a wonder he still has any friends at all.

Of course eventually, I had to tell the youngest the truth.

While the two of us and a brony friend were at Wendy's, the friend brought up the topic of how he became a brony. After his short'n sweet story, my brother told his and "mine". He said, "We just lost a bet with each other."
"Umm... About that..." I began, and I told him how I actually tricked him into watching the show. He was kinda mad about it, but hey, I got him to where he is, didn't I? He got over it pretty quickly.

And so ends the tale of happiness, sadness, my vague understanding of psychology and curiousity, my weird obsession with laughing maniacally like a cartoon villain, and my next-to-perfect plan of converting my youngest brother.

I still do read everyone else's stories to see what kind of unique answers we get.



Man my story is a lot less interesting than ones like this though. I basically just got very bored and somewhat intoxicated and figured there might be more to this pony meme than just a meme, since most of them last a lot less long than 2 years. (but still too long most of the time... man did those Chuck Norris jokes start to grate)

I was never particularly bored by all the memes, had no reason to hide anything since I live on my own. What I said, pretty bland story.

What did catch me off-guard is how large this fandom is. Not just the sheer number of bronies but the amount of content artists put it pretty spectacular!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chack on 2015 Feb 01, 21:22:27
Quote from: Nuserame on 2015 Feb 01, 18:57:08
Man my story is a lot less interesting than ones like this though.

I was being a bit devious. Desperate, but devious.

It's fine if your story is interesting or not, just as long as you end up here. :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SafyneBlossom on 2015 Feb 02, 14:09:59
With me it happened like this...
I kept having friends come up to me saying I was so much like Fluttershy (which come to realize I am very similar) so one day I finally decided to look some things up on YouTube and my fiancé was on his laptop next to me as well as my brother walking by with his friend...my fiancé and brother seemed ok with it along with myself but my brother's friend was less than happy with us (mainly me) he said "don't wipe their minds with ponies"
Few days after me, my fiancé and my brother all went shopping and I ended up buying MLP socks (which are so amazing) when we got home we were talking more on what we watched on YouTube and we decided to watch MLP:FiM and we were hooked the second we started watching
It became an every day thing, make or order pizza after my fiancé got out of work and we'd all watch the show for the last hours of the day
After we watched all 4 seasons we noticed a movie which was Equestria Girls so naturally we watched that too
We then fooled around with pony creators, bought pony vinyls, watched Rainbow Rocks, etc...
All of us are hugely into MLP and we never thought we would be and my brother's friend still hates on ponies hahaa
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Mrs.Darkling on 2015 Feb 03, 15:25:26
Welp, I'm not any more but I do occasionally like to check up on how the whole pony business is doing.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2015 Feb 03, 15:51:42
Quote from: Mrs.Darkling on 2015 Feb 03, 15:25:26
Welp, I'm not any more but I do occasionally like to check up on how the whole pony business is doing.
And what do you find when you check up? c:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ComeGetSome on 2015 Feb 08, 22:19:16
I  don't know how but I was salty when it became popular during 3 months of it being around but then I somehow got attached to it.
Being a Fallout fan, people think I became one by reading Project Horizions or the original FO:E but that's definitely not true. I DESPISED it since I've heard of it back in  late 2013 via a Fallout New Vegas mod by Riven. Nowadays, I tolerate it and  the main character of the first story became my internet persona when I am allowed for her to be. Now that I am a game designer and I am adding that character as a playable character in my fighting game and Kkat herself giving a personal endorsement for adding her character in my game, there's pretty much no reason for me to not despising it.

But really, I don't know how. But I know fondly about the rage and butthurtry I had when it was popular.

Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sunshine Smash on 2015 Feb 09, 12:21:46
I was just kinda walking around my house. Don't remember why, sometimes I just kinda do. It was the summer of 2013, so we were back at my old house in New Hampshire. I heard some TV show coming from my sister's room. Which was odd, since she didn't have a tv in there. Because I had nothing to do, I decided to see what she was watching. What do you know? It's My Little Pony. She was watching it because her friend was planning something, I don't remember, and she wanted my sister to dress up as Rarity. I was kinda laughing to myself, I was kind of critical towards the show, and didn't really give it a chance. But I stuck around long enough to see Rainbow Dash perform the Sonic Rainboom.

I thought that was pretty awesome, but decided that I didn't care. Over a couple weeks it just kinda kept growing on me to watch an episode. I always pushed it out of my head. But one day I just came across some YouTube video (Can't remember which one.) about MLP, I thought it was pretty great. So I finally decided to sit down and watch the series premier. I didn't think it was amazing, but I wanted to see how it would end, so I watched the 2nd part. It wasn't amazing (to this day it's still my least favorite two parter.) but I wanted to watch more to give it another chance. The first half was decent, and it kept me going.

Then I came to the first episode I saw, Sonic Rainboom. It was awesome! I got really into the show after that episode and starting getting into the community. Though, I'm still not sure how I came across this website in the first place.....
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Vick McBread on 2015 Mar 11, 15:18:57
I remember my first days being a brony. So many things (that are in the fandom, and my daily life) have ruined that.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: electro-blitz on 2015 Mar 22, 09:11:23
My little sister showed it to me, and i was hooked after watching some of it on youtube.
Animations were always my favorite, so yea, no regrets  ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ScarletInk on 2015 Jul 16, 12:27:25
If I have to be honest, at the beginning I didn't want anything to do with My Little Pony: you know when you don't care about something but everyone else around you do nothing but praising it? That was the same for me  >:O
But, still, I admired very deeply the fanworks about the series: this is one of the most talented and creative fandom I've ever met and I was aware of this even before joining it.
Then, a very tenacious friend of mine practically threatened me (she's a nice girl, I swear  0:) ) to look at the first two episode.
I was starstruck: it wasn't just a somehow glorified primary- school cartoon.
It had deepness. Significance. Characters I was feeling near to me, similar to me, with whom I could relate.
And it was beautiful, colourful, fluidly animated, always evolving.
And then, I came in contact with the fandom: creative and active as I had guessed, but also full of incredible people, passionate, sweet, gentle, like the characters they loved.
I was already in love with the series, but I fell even more deeply thank to the fandom and today I'm proud to be part of something so big, ever-changing and wonderful.
I love you all, guys!  D:  <3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Necroceine on 2015 Aug 19, 17:09:22
On another forum, where I used to play games of Mafia, someone linked the first episode in a video thread. It took a few days for me to go back and actually watch it, but when I did I spent all my free time watching straight through to the newest episode, which was 19 at the time. I liked it that much. Over a Barrel was the first episode I watched live, and I pretty much kept up with it ever since. Pony avatars took over that forum for a while.

From there I went to spending most of my time on /co/ and then to synchtube until it shut down. I still talk to the people I hung out with on synchtube over skype.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Baokros on 2015 Aug 21, 15:56:24
I believe I heard of it, but I tried to avoid it...after seeing a youtube link to something, I was surprised at how funny it was.

That something was the Evil enchantress song...sung by Fluttershy in that voice.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sylvian on 2015 Aug 21, 16:39:01
Sit down my friends, and listen to the tale I shall tell!

It all started about a year ago, I was sitting in the art stream of an artist I enjoy watching draw and talking to others who commission her. One day, a rather famous member of the Furry Fandom by the name of Goldfur. He was getting a comission for one of his stories, but low and behold it was a pony! I was curious, so I asked about it, and someone pointed me to FiMFiction. I looked up Goldfur's stuff, and started reading....and reading...and reading.

So, after basically spending two days of late nights reading all his stuff, I decided to watch a little bit of the show. First few episodes were good, I sat there thinking "Okay, this isn't so bad." Then I dropped it for a while because I was in college and thus got busy.

Well, I graduated about a year ago now, so I started hanging out in the art stream again. And, yet another person was getting a pony drawn for their story! So, I asked again, and was pointed at the writings of Calm Wind, also on FiMFiction. Well, after spending an entire week of late nights reading his stuff, I said screw it and watched the entire series on Netflix.

Then I started writing on FiMFiction....and...yeah after hitting the "Publish" button on that first chapter I sat up and said "Huh...uhm...guess I'm a brony now..."

And that, Mares and Gentelcolts, is how I fell face first into this fandom.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jcfraven on 2015 Aug 21, 17:02:50
My sister decided to load it up and try to get me and my brother to watch it(she's older, we're younger), because of my negativity towards the idea. I initially refused, instead going to play my games in the dining room. Seeing my little brother go in there, I groaned to myself and said "Hang on, let me see it as well".

The interesting thing to note is that I got into the show not because of the characters or anything normal, I got hooked basically by the book intro, but primarily clouds at the start of the episode. I have no idea what appealed to me about those clouds, but it hooked me on the show. Thus, I watched all of the episodes of the time(to Mid Season 2), and watched episodes live with my sister.

What kept me interested in the show, I think, was the pain I had to go through, and the eventual triumph over it. It was due to the show that I was bullied, ridiculed, and made a relative outcast, apart from a couple of my true friends, and one who would eventually become my friend as well. The show has led me to where I am today, and I'm a stronger person, with a lot better of circumstances than before I learned the true nature of friendship, and perseverance.

Proud to be a Brony <3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: tonman3509 on 2015 Aug 22, 07:30:13
I watched Turnabout Storm.


I literally didn't care for the show or anything else related to MLP until I watched Turnabout Storm, THEN I watched gameplay of the ill-fated Fighting Is Magic (Which the dev team is STILL making btw, just now its an original game instead of being a pony game).


The rest is history.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: StarHorder on 2015 Aug 22, 22:56:07
I was severly depressed. My girlfriend had to move away because her father got a better job on the other side of the country, a friend had died from a brain tumor and my uncle had been riding his motorcycle when a semi-truck runs a red light. My uncle was DoA.

It was the week season 2 started, so I decided id binge watch the show, wether it sucked or not. Turns out that the show is amazing! Its the only show that interests me, and im hard to please when it comes to tv. My parents watched and still do watch sports and nothing else. I have no interest in sports other than auto-racing.

"Oh wow, they're giving backstory to what is going on. OH GOSH THAT THEME SONG AAAAHH!

Ooooohhhh! They're so cute! I want one! Because this show is made to sell toys."...

"Oh my god she has a baby dragon! Thats awesome!"

Pfff ahahahahaha! She is too oblivious!"

I imagine everyone having the same reaction to mine, so nothing special other than 'why'.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: OtakuMegane on 2015 Aug 27, 21:19:22
I had actually been randomly linked to the pilot episode not long after it aired but at the time didn't find it that immediately impressive and I went back to whatever I'd been doing. Well, come around the June after I'd been seeing pony avatars around and such and figured might as well give it a real try. Got through the pilot, it wasn't too bad so decided to start on the other episodes. My free time the next 2 days was almost nothing but marathoning season 1. I was dealing with depression and some big disappointments at the time so it really helped put some positive light into life.

Then I found the fan stuff. :D Came across Night of Pony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftvZFUg4HPc) and it was awesome. Soon after stumbled across my first fanfic The Circle of Friends (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/125/the-circle-of-friends) and there was no stopping things after that. I had been a fan of MLP back in the G1 era and been into magical girls anime for ages so those kind of barriers were never a thing for me. I liked ponies and if someone had issues with that... meh. I'm not as hardcore into ponies as I was at the start but still a brony for life.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Broug7 on 2015 Oct 05, 01:32:38
Back in 2012.

I was suggested pony videos, lets say I was making fun of it at first and ignoring it you know.

Later on though out of curiosity I looked at a video.


THEN MAGIC CAME OUT OF MY SCREEN KALJKLFAJFKLAJSKDJALKDJSAKLJDKLJDKLAJDKL

no just kidding I just became addicted to it. and became a brony   :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ZeroOfTime on 2015 Oct 09, 04:11:12
At first I was a rabid hater. I thought "what the heck do they see in that show?" and then I watched like, 4 episodes and thought it was meh... But then I started discussing it with a friend of mine and he convinced me to give it a second chance. And that's when I got addicted. I believe I became one just after S3 ended. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Light-Trainer on 2015 Dec 25, 23:33:42
Hey guys long time no post!

Anywho how I came to be a brony is just by randomly watching Josh Scorcher's reviews on YT and soon I fell in love with the ponies <3...for almost a year and a half now ;)!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: AH PyrotechNick on 2015 Dec 27, 13:14:57
It was a little thing called the Internet Box Podcast. Be warned; if you want to check it out, it contains a LOT of very adult content.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: moonbeam16 on 2016 Jan 11, 22:01:13
Two good friends of mine (both male) mentioned they watched it on separate occasions, and at that point I had to try it.  First episode I watched was "The Last Roundup".  I liked it right away.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: pasglop on 2016 Jan 17, 05:00:04
I saw the music Rainbow Factory popping in my YouTube suggestions, it got me intrigued, I watched an episode, then I wathed 5 seasons
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Jet Streak on 2016 Jan 17, 16:34:21
I've typed this out before somewhere but oh well. :P
Any it all started a long long time ago (Only 2 years in reailty.) in house not far away. (Considering I live in my house.)
Any who, my mum enjoys watching crime solving programs. After meny months of hearing about that kinda thing, I started to get quite depressed. (I won't get into detail due the risk of little fillies but those programs. >A<)
So, one random night I was sitting down looking at random vids on youtube. Suddenly though I thought about my little pony. (I'd always been curoius about it but lived with 3 older brothers, So yeah.) I also noticed that everyone else was asleep that night so I decide to watch an episode. Come the next day I'm having a bit of mentle breakdown because I had just watched a show for 8 year old girls and not only did I not dislike but I wanted to see the next episode. (This was before I knew about the brony fandom.) A few days later, I'm watch 2 to 3 episodes a night, I find out equestria daily happened at some point. This was amazing because I suddenly relised like it was normal(ish) to like my little pony.  Since then I've been a bit crazy about ponies but I'm glad I did watch our beloved ponies and even happier I joined our brony fandom.
So yeah, thats how I became brony. Also after writing all this I feel like I should thank all you guys and girls for being so awesome so
THANKS EVERYPONY. :D
Yeah, I'm done now.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Malphy on 2016 Jan 18, 07:06:24
Blame the Internet. And my sheer curiosity.  lol

Back on 2012, where the fandom was destroying everything in its wake with rainbows and ponies, i used to despise it and stay clear of it. But a realization hit me:

What is making them liek dis  o.O

So yeah, i watched a couple of episodes from season one, and i rather got fond of what i saw.
And it proceeds to ruin my life until this very day  ovO
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: IsingMLP on 2016 Jan 18, 12:53:57
Is this a brony only website? Because  I am a proud PEGASISTER!!!! >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PrincessButton on 2016 Jan 25, 13:00:03
Quote from: IsingMLP on 2016 Jan 18, 12:53:57
Is this a brony only website? Because  I am a proud PEGASISTER!!!! >:( >:( >:(
The term "brony" can be applied to anyone, it doesn't necessarily need to be gender specific.  Think about the term "guy."  If someone walks up to you and your friend and says "Hey you guys!"  Do you get offended? Do you ask them to call you "gals"?

I prefer to think that "brony" is a gender-neutral term, despite its origins. :)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Crimson Tail on 2016 Jan 25, 13:33:31
Ah, I remember I once posted in this thread explaining how I started liking the show back in May 2011, the post just fell somewhere deep in there..

Generally it's the curiosity, so I blame that.

Quote from: IsingMLP on 2016 Jan 18, 12:53:57
Is this a brony only website? Because  I am a proud PEGASISTER!!!! >:( >:( >:(

Nah, there's no gender restrictions on the site.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Dreemurr on 2016 Apr 26, 16:49:12
 <3 <3 <3Nah I don't enjoy ponies that much but I do like them
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Rasy (Flanniest Flan) on 2016 May 05, 19:05:20
That one day in 2013 when a friend showed me... I don't remember it all but... I just couldn't help but keep watching more and more episodes.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Wheatni on 2016 Jul 08, 13:32:55
Well, just walking around in High School, hear the discussion of, bronies and pegasisters and how that the school decided to treat them as Outcasts more or less.  Although, I return home one day to computer friends!  Because my computer friends seem to be a lot more understanding than people where I used to live!  My friend tries to talk to me about the show the same day I hear that and wants me to watch the first few episodes with me so he can share it with me, which.. I'm kind of nervous because I'm already 'The Quiet Person' or 'The Sleeper' in High School.  Although, after much thought, I gave one of those heavy internal sighs, and said yes.  After the first three episodes, it just sort of stuck to me like glue.  I was in the closet with it throughout High School, but once I got home, it was a magical journey of stress relief!  Although, I do need to catch up with it.  Work has been keeping me down as well as roommates looking over my shoulder to see what I'm doing and I only have up to season 3 finished.

Buuuuut I do know one thing.  No regrets!  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: FeverishPegasus on 2016 Jul 18, 15:57:21
A watched the first two episodes about 5 years ago. For some reason I was smiling. I've been involved since.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: NapalmStyles on 2016 Jul 31, 06:33:55
Hilariously enough, I started fresh with Gen 1... It came on between Transformers G1 and 80's Voltron, two of my personal favorites among the classics, so naturally at that young age I figured I could just sit through MLP G1 no problem... Who knew it'd stay with me for so long?
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Pastel Cupid on 2016 Sep 11, 10:56:38
I'm one of the younger fans so back in the early days of MLP when I told people I watched it most people were like "Aw how nice! Do you like to play with the toys?" I was only about 9 and I'm also a female so people found it normal. How I became a fan of MLP was all the way back when the Hub was only half way through airing season 1. I came home one day from school to see my siblings watching something on our computer so I walked up to them and saw that they were watching MLP. At first they thought that I would think that it was weird but I was actually really excited that there was a new generation because I collected Gen3 ponies (although most of them were fake) and I like ponies so yeah. 5 years later and I'm still a fan and although I'm not as a hardcore fan as before I still watch the show and enjoy it all... mostly the fan stuff though. Love from the Princess of books. ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^ ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: OldenEmpire on 2016 Sep 12, 14:38:41
In a word, guilt. 

Back in high school one of my associates I played tabletop games with was big into the show (and, I have learned recently, was only pretending to be into the show for a girl he liked, talk about bad reasons), and while we were playing these games with others, and would usually fall asleep, even while involved in a critical role. Well, I took it on myself to try to fix this so the group, and me, would be able to have him actively contribute to the party and stay awake. So, I did some light research into the show and wasn't that impressed with the walls of text.

Next time he was falling asleep, I brought it up and made some light fun of it. It didn't work however, as he fell asleep anyway and everyone was looking at me like I was crazy. Regretting wasting my, and everyone else's, time I let him and put the incident out of my mind.

After I had finished high school and college was drawing near, I was reflecting on what I had done during high school and that incident came to mind. I decided to pull up the show, might as well see what he found interesting, or, at least justify myself my previous behavior, and promised to myself to watch the entire first episode. Well, the first episode wasn't anything to write home about, though it did provide interesting lore. I moved onto the second half of the episode, and, while it was better now that the exposition was out of the way, still wasn't anything to go crazy over. At least until Her Majesty walked into the picture, and forgave Luna of her actions, without serious punishment. The part where Celestia hugged Luna sealed the deal for me. (The story with Celestia is something worth a post all by it'self, but that isn't relevant to the thread)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Kat the skeleton on 2016 Sep 18, 07:13:23
I became a brony by watching kuledud3 and my own curiosity.I now am a BRONY FOR LIFE. :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ScribbleStitch on 2016 Sep 22, 01:56:18
I was at my aunt's house and my 7-8 year old cousin turned on the first episode.
I was half asleep on the couch so all I really remember was thinking "they still make this show?", random bits of diolog from the first two-parter, and a strange image of the cmc's at their talent show(you can imagine my confusion lol). But my sisters loved it so my mom download the first episode on our phones for them to watch

One day my mom was taking forever to pick me up so I went "well how bad can it be if I still thin the Backyardigans is adorable"

The next time I spent the weekend at my grandmas I watch all the way through season three on Netflix.

[move]NO REGRETS!!! 0:)[/move]
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Eggy on 2016 Sep 22, 15:18:03
My transcendence into "bronyhood" (well, I dunno if I could call myself much of a brony) was something that happened overtime.
I saw the pony stuff as early as 2011 (I think), but it was more or less just like the rest of the unexplored media for me; just a TV show that I barely even noticed and had absolutely no clue about, even though it was insanely popular at the time. Then, if my memory serves me correctly, I slowly began watching it on a TV channel called Pop and one day I started watching BronyState streams starting from somewhere around halfway through season 5.
Since then, I've been a fan of the franchise for the first time since I last saw the original G1 series as a kid (which I found interesting, yet a bit kiddy back then).
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Cogsworth Wingthrop on 2016 Sep 23, 08:31:38
Robotech.

How about that for an answer? Ok, I was game master for a Robotech RPG, after doing some work on a game I was in the mood to read some stories. So after some looking for Robotech fanfics I find one I enjoyed. Like many stories I like I checked out the author link for others. One of the author's stories was a Robotech / MLP crossover. I thought should be good for a laugh.

Well, no. The previous story I was familiar with the Robotech universe, and the author gave no back story for the ponies.

I had seen MLP advertised on Netflix so I figured why not watch the first show. Ok first is a two parter so I watch them and at the I am thinking "that was a lot less girly and a lot funnier then I thought it would be." So I watch the next " ticket master" when the ponies are chasing Twi around to the Benny Hill music I was laughing out loud and hooked.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: brobrobippy on 2016 Sep 25, 16:58:09
Bored one summer, had nothing to do. Saw mlp, wondered why it was so poular. Fell in love  :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Asriel on 2016 Dec 10, 18:43:47
One of my friends (actually a guy who tended to be pretty "macho" told me that he watched it with his sisters, and really liked it.

I still don't know if he knew about bronies.

But I was just "Huh. Weird." since I had a vague idea of the sort of show I thought it was, but what he said was so different, it got my interest.

Still, I didn't actually start watching it until a lot later, watching reaction videos on YouTube.

But he planted that seed. I still don't know if he knows that or not.


I started with the first episode, and it seemed kind of hokey, but the animation was good, and I liked horses anyway. It definitely wasn't what I expected, though.

Also, it might have helped that the reactor had already seen the later seasons, and was talking about how it got better later.


But by the third or fourth episode, I was enjoying myself, and I was pretty much hooked.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Aqua Fire on 2016 Dec 10, 18:58:14
It was because of Brony notion, then cannedcream, but what really pushed me was lightning bliss. Also, how I came up with my oc, well... I woke up at 5:00 to make a drawing for my sister, which had ponies. Then, at school, I made a pony with a griffon tail. She had a rainbow dash/daring do hair style. I then decided to have her have fire and water powers. I finished her, came up with her name, and BAM!! Aqua Fire was made!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TiaEtterna on 2017 Sep 13, 00:27:52
Mid-early 2012, I was very unwell and very alone.

Spending my days playing call of duty I stumbled upon a clan of bronies and they were unlike anyone I'd met before.
Polite, courteous and supportive. They gave me hope and help, and I could not thank them enough.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ShadowHoof on 2017 Sep 13, 17:39:27
Seems I never replied to this thread?

Anyway, like a lot of people I heard about the show when it was first airing, a lot of posts about it.  Back then, I visited the /b/ board, and every time I refreshed the main page, there was a pony thread.  Being someone who liked cute things, as well as cartoon/animated works in general, I gave it a go.  I was pretty much hooked after just a few minutes of watching it.  It seemed a pretty well made cartoon, and the community was generally quite good.

It's the only fandom I've really latched onto, even moreso than I ever did with Disgaea.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Ferro_the_King on 2017 Sep 16, 12:21:06
Cherchez la femme!
I was always into cartoons. One of my friends used to talk about MLP, but I used to think like "Well, it's a girl's show." One day, when we returned from the pub, she showed me the parodic videos by hotdiggedydemon on youtube. I quite liked them, but I said something like "Well, but I don't understand a few things." So she tried to explain some things about MLP universe, ending up saying "You need to watch the show to understand it."
So I started watching the show from S01E01. At first I was like "What the buck is that thing?!", but then came the Winter wrap up episode, mainly the song, and I knew there was no going back  :D

Then a strange thing happened to me just about half a year back. I had nothing to do and was just browsing the interned to spend some time. I came upon a video about evolution of MLP opening songs and there I found out about older MLP generations. Out of pure curiosity I found and watched the Escape from the Midnight castle episode of G1 MLP. About falf way through I realized I know the thing! It was the show I used to watch with my cousin on Austrian TV (I didn't speak German at the time) back in early 90's! So maybe I was a Brony all the time, just didn't know about it  lol  lol  lol
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ~RainCloud on 2017 Sep 16, 19:12:40
Oh boy oh boy! STORY TIME!  :D

     When I was 14-15 years old, I was quite the depressed, shut in Hermit Crab. I'd never really talk to anyone other than some of the friends that I've made online on my PC. I never really was the person to talk to anyone or ever come out of my bedroom and go interact. I'd go to school, talk to some of my school friends and do my classes, come home and sit on my PC. But, I was never sure why I was depressed.. maybe so cause I was trying to figure out what my purpose in life was.

     I needed to find something that would make me happy and find something that would get me out of the shell that I was in and be a more open individual. So, one day, I was browsing around Youtube when I discovered the "Save Derpy" Video. I watched it. I got really upset that even though she was just a cartoon character, the reasoning behind it was so horseapples. So, I did some research and found out she was attacked just because she was a "Special needs" character. I watched the episode "The Last Roundup". Needless to say, I was intrigued and felt happy. So, I went back to the beginning of Season 1 and watched it all the way to the end of Season 2 at the time and I felt joy, happiness and it taught me a lot of life lessons. I opened up more and I knew from then on, I owe my life to MLP:FIM. I'll be forever grateful.

I opened up to others, made more friends and I became confident enough to speak my mind and not give a feather on what people thought about me and my interests. I am who I am and I'm proud of the person I am now and a proud brony. I'll always forever be a brony.

I've been a Brony since August 2012, right around the same time I found Legends of Equestria and have been playing and following this game since.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Loonna on 2017 Sep 21, 14:50:30
In my past I really enjoyed to draw ponies. And I thought "ok maybe I should watch my little pony?" and I watched first episode. Than I watched next and next episode and now I'm pegasister xD
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Sky Arrow on 2017 Sep 22, 15:33:53
For me, I was completely oblivious to the fandom. Sure, once in a while I saw some random pony pictures, but I never put two-and-two together that that was mlp. I grew up with a sister who watched the old mlp, so I assumed that G4(though i didn't know that term then) was the same thing as the old one ("Childish shows where kids learn how to count or something"). Gradually i began to see pony pictures around the internet much more frequently, though apparently not enough for me to pay attention to. At one point I watched a youtuber named RarityDash react to Pokemon 'Bridged. I noticed many people mention mlp around many parts of the internet, nevertheless, I still didn't pay too much attention to it and dismissed it as an ironic enjoyment of the show. Eventually, a few months later, I saw that RarityDash had reaction videos to mlp and seeing that I enjoyed his commentary for Pokemon 'Bridged, I thought "If this guy likes it genuinely as well as so many people, maybe I should check it out." I watched the first episode, and then the second, and third, fourth.....*ahem*. Anyways, I enjoyed the show like an addiction  ovO  and here I am today.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Heebie Jeebies on 2017 Sep 24, 17:33:56
I was like 15. Already liked G1. Saw new!ponies everywhere. Lots of pretty horsie art. Wanted to know the context. Watched the first two seasons. Decided the show was decent.
I don't consider myself a brony anymore since I'm not really involved with the fandom and my interest for the show isn't consistent, but when I was a brony I was majorly into it. Now I just watch the horse show when I work out LOL
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: ViktorT on 2017 Dec 09, 12:15:35
I learned about the "MLP" in 2012. I was interested when I saw the topic discussed on the Internet once again. I was advised to watch. The animated series I liked, but soon stopped. A year and a half passed and I started to look again, but already in the original voice acting (english + subtitles). Thus in 2014 it's a new period, when I was very fascinated by the ponies and it was already final. But I don't considered myself a brony. Only at the end of 2015 i have finally recognized ourselves as brony. In 2016-2017 i played on the Russian server, until the release of "LoE". ;)
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Master Masher on 2018 Jan 08, 21:33:10
it was a few months ago September to be exact.i was looking for something to watch then stumbled on the show. i thought i would give it a shot. i could not get out of my seat until the episode was over.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Honey Bell on 2018 Jan 09, 00:18:04
Well welcome then..

For me it's easy.

21st of October 2010, was one of those trolls that laughed at it on 4Chan, but then it grew on me. Never stopped sice ^-^
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Psykai on 2018 Jan 11, 00:37:58
I used to collect MLP toys when I was a kid (much to the teasing of, well, everyone...) so I knew of the franchise overall but never knew they'd made any shows based off it until Friendship is Magic got big and I didn't even hear about THAT show's existence until years after it aired (which considering I'm online 24/7 I don't know how I missed it for so long).

I had heard that adult guys were getting into it and that they were called Bronies and that it was supposed to be an amazing show but I didn't want to watch it because I knew I'd probably like it and be a 'freak' all over again (though to be fair I'm freaky enough with being an MLP fan).

At the start of 2017, however, curiosity gave out and I watched the first episode. And then I couldn't stop, and now it's practically my number one passion in life and I don't care who knows it XD I converted my best friend too so now we're both obsessed. So far I've watched the entire series 3 times from start to finish and will no doubt do it at least once more before Gen 5.

Of course it's bittersweet because I've joined the fandom right as it's about to end and make way for Generation 5 (which is shaping up to be... risky, at best) so I'm a little heartbroken that something I just found that means so much to me is about to die.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: TecFox on 2018 Jan 13, 18:14:50
I stumbled on MLP completely by accident. I think it was in September 2011, a few weeks before the German premiere of the series. I was browsing through random YTPMVs on youtube and came across a video called "Myskinsoft Pony Remover". I got curious so I decided to watch the first episode (in English of course), then the second, and after the third one I came to the conclusion that I found a new favorite show.

I still can't really describe it but there's something about it which other shows don't have that makes it very interesting for me. Maybe it's the message behind it or the relatable characters or the community. No other show was able to hold my interest for that long yet which still amazes me to this day.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Onyx Quill on 2018 Jan 13, 18:20:55
 For me, it was fan-made videos. They were a gateway drug... :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: chrome thunder on 2018 Mar 05, 03:00:55
Long story.

 My seniority date is December 24, 1983. Yes, I've been into MLP since almost day 1 of G1. What happened was wan I was a kid, I was absolutely gonzo about horses,  and unicorns. Not sure how it happened,  but I imagine I saw a commercial for MLP and said I wanted one. And for that Christmas I got 2: Bubbles and Glory. By the end of the 80's I had 8 brushables, a Firefly plushie, and a couple other things. I remember renting a video of Rescue at Midnight Castle over and over in 1989-1990.

 Around 1993 interest started to fade rapidly, and was pretty much gone by the mid 90's. But there must have still been an ember burning inside because in 2005 I discovered G3, and bought one. Suddenly it started to come back, and I wound up getting more G3's. Then in late 2006 I finally got an internet ready computer and found Ebay. I was able to get the G1 brushables I wanted back then, but never did. And I discovered a MLP group on Yahoo where I discovered custom brushables, and decided I wanted to get in on it. My first was this one I made in 2007. (https://lonewolf3878.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Pony-Maverick-124071180). In 2008 I got into Ace Attorney and made almost 2 dozen based off of the characters.

 When G3.5 appeared I didn't go anywhere near it. :I  Then in 2010 Dish Network got Discovery Kids and I saw the new MLP show. Was hoping it was the G1 show, but it looked like 3.5 so I didn't really pay attention to it. Then I started seeing memes of it on the Newgrounds forums. I decided to take a look at it again. And this time it grabbed me and pulled me in.

 So here I am. It's safe to say I'm more into pony now than at anytime in the past. I'd have never thought when I was a kid I would one day be going to cons, cosplaying, making art and fanfics, and have hundreds of pony toys from all 5 generations (and get me to go to a movie theater for the first time).
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: DERMYDORM on 2018 Mar 05, 06:12:29
IDK HOW TO LOGIN IT SAYS ERROR AND ITS LONG TO LOAD! D:  :nod:
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Chocolate Munchies on 2018 Aug 11, 08:18:53
I got caught up in the fandom first. I saw a bunch of pony YouTube parodies and song which peaked my interest, then heard about Fallout Equestria. Read through that and gave the show a shot since I wanted to know the backstory. Turned out to be a good decision.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Night Striker on 2018 Aug 16, 03:11:41
My story is a really short one: I was browsing through Netflix, and say MLP FIM among their selection. I was bored and curious so I decided to watch a couple episodes, then that turned to watching every episode that they had lol Granted this was when MLP FIM was still fairly new, I believe only about a year after it released so Netflix only had one season on it, but yeah that's the story of how I became a brony for a bit :P
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SapphireCookie on 2018 Aug 16, 14:33:10
Wow, so many cool stories...

As for me, back in 2011 I remember a lot of people talking about MLP on this rhythm game I was hooked called Osu!, so I said "Hey, let's give this a shot". I watched the entire season in one day. Been a brony since then.

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Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: littleskitten13 on 2018 Aug 23, 01:18:14
   While I don't call myself a Brony, I became a MLP fan when a highschool friend introduced me to it. At first I was like "Ok, this is dumb." "Wait, why am I crying?" "RAINBOW DON'T DO IT!" and I found myself lost in the pastel and jewel tone world of ponies. I later went on to explore more into the fandom but really didn't like what I found..  >A<  I'm talking about back about... 5/6 years ago when there was a ton of toxicity about and whatnot. So I took to just enjoying the show alone. Though now my boyfriend and I are fans and even have cute plushes and bedsheets from the show.  :D 
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Azure Stain on 2018 Aug 23, 11:46:53
Youtube recommended to me the animatic of the Moon Rises fan animation from Duo Cartoonist. Yeah, youtube is wierd, I watched only DC comics stuff before.... So, than i found the finished animation too. It was interesting and i tought that is was originally from the series untill i watched a few episodes from the first season. I realized that it was the series i used to hate when it first aired in my country (okay...i watched only 1 random episode and it was a big change back then because i loved the older generations so much...And the design was soo different). But i liked it at this time, so i countinued watching  :3
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Travists on 2018 Sep 03, 22:25:25
Couple years ago now, I was doing my usual look for something mindless to watch on TV while I wait for my brain to come online before work. It had been for a while "Worlds Dumbest" but I think I watched every one ever made twice..... looking for something new and being a long time animation fan I figured what the heck.
Though I consider myself more borny light..... A Twilight PEZ dispenser is the only merch I have (my fave by the way  X3 )  and cons aren't worth a trip of a thousand miles, nor can I recite from memory every line of every episode.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: PoserPanda on 2018 Sep 23, 18:26:04
I started watching "Army Bronies React" to episodes of my little pony. Then I moved on to YouTube channels that reviewed episodes of my little pony, and that was before I started watching the episodes. I finally got into being a brony just before I married my husband, who is also a brony. I haven't given up on it since. There's even a Discord channel that I frequent pretty often, though only to get the leaked episodes. As much as I enjoy talking with bronies, there tends to be a pretty heavy focus on which character is being "shipped" with whom. For me, if it isn't canon, then it kind of makes conversations a bit difficult to have. So for the most part, I'll be randomly posting and then disappearing again for a short time.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: bloodyangel on 2019 Jan 16, 07:51:17
there was nothing on tv wirth watch untill i came across mlp after the first episode aired iwas instintly hooked brony since 2010 :P
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Post by: TrixieLulamoon on 2019 Apr 04, 18:03:08
Hey my name doesnt show up anywhere on the forum pages so im posting just to see what my username is. lame.
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Post by: Oreo the CookieAnimator on 2019 Apr 05, 11:19:58
I actually became a brony because of my close friend. She told me about Rainbow dash and I didn't seem interested. Until she had to move to highschool, I decided to give it a try just for her. Found out I actually LIKED the show!! I think I found it out 2 years ago... Ah, never will I forget her getting me into the show  :D
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: Little Sheep Selene on 2020 Dec 13, 21:06:52
December of 2012.
My aunt bought some My Little Pony toys for Christmas. She gave me my present a little early and when I saw the box containing the little pony figures, I immediately logged-on her laptop and did some research on the show; I watched the first episode, then the next one, and the next... I fell in love with the show, the story, the characters and the songs!
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: SuperSpaceMan34 on 2022 Aug 19, 23:58:04
I started watching FiM some years ago before I was even 10, but I don't think I'd consider that me a brony, since I stopped for who knows how many years after a week or two(I think).

Cut forward to mid 2022 when I'm 20 and my sister starts watching FiM again and a guy I play War Thunder with is playing the Equestria At War mod for Hearts of Iron IV.
After a few weeks of this I think to myself: Y'know what.. The world needs a little more friendship. Let's go." And I start watching from Season 1. That's when I officially became a Brony. To an extent. I wasn't actively browsing MLP content until midway through the series, I believe.

And now here I am finished with Season 9, slowly making my way through the Equestria Girls movies, and making a virtual pony in LoE stand sideways on the side of a tree for whatever reasons.
Title: Re: How did you become a brony?
Post by: MxPaint on 2022 Sep 04, 17:07:53
An old classmate introduced me to it through like science safety posters we made in class. he drew derpy and dr hooves and i asked him what the characters were. I found some rips of the show online and ive been a brony ever since! i like the show and when i found all the fan projects it really sealed the deal!