Curious about how the rest of you found MLP
I found it through a brony on deviantart back in 2011, pirated the first full season of MLP and binge watched it
>>11905When I was in college back in 2012, I walked by a dorm room where someone put a poster of the canterlot wedding. I didn't think that much of it, it seemed to me to be on the same level as watching disney films as an adult, which seemed more or less normal. Some weeks later I was watching youtube and found a PMV of "A Complete History of the Soviet Union Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker." It was the song with a few scenes from Winter Wrap up to go with the music. Some weeks after that I was walking with a friend and mentioned the poster. He mentioned that he watched a few episodes and that it had powerpuff girls like fights, calling it "bad ass." Then Christmas night, 2012, I saw it on Netflix. I decided to watch an episode. Then two, then five. I didn't watch it for a few weeks, but then I binged all of them on winter break. When I went back to college the next semester in study abroad, I discovered that almost all of my friends were already secretly bronies.
>>11906Whats your favorite episode? What was it that got you hooked from the few you saw way back when?
>>11907It was Luna Eclipsed back in the day, but there have been many good ones since. Maybe Pinkie's Pride.
I'm not really sure what it was. It helps that the ponies are cute
>>11908Good taste anon. I got to see Luna Eclipsed years later after a trip to Arizona. You really cant go wrong with a good Princess Luna episode
Howd you get to this place?
>>11909When I was in professional school back in 2017, a friend who figured out that I was a brony mentioned that for April Fools Day, 4chan merged the my little pony and /pol/ boards. So for the first time ever I clicked on 4chan, and what I saw was absolutely glorious. I was there on April 1, April 2, and then after the board was frozen, when the action moved to /qa/. I was there for the fights on /qa/. Then when it moved off of 4chan to other websites and ultimately to here, I came here
>>11910Ahhhh a fellow 4chan refugee.
Gosh that merger was such a damn fine thing, bronies and poltards working and mingling together into a new kind of community
makes me glad this place exists away from 4chan.
You ever had pony OCs or did you just enjoy the show and fandom?
>>11911Sort of, but I do enjoy the show and the fandom. Probably especially ponycons
>>11912What experiances youve had with the fandom? Gone to any cons yourself?
Gosh it used to be so big back in the day
>>11913Yes. I've been to... well it's a decent number of cons. Last year I missed out on Hearthswarming Con, but otherwise made it to every con in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, as well as Ponycon Holland. This year I can't do as well (There are two weekends where there are cons in both the US and the UK so I can't do both) but I'm trying to go to as many as I can given work obligations.
I would say it's still reasonably big
>>11914Seen or done anything interesting at the cons? I imagine theres usually lots of activities
>>11905Saw a lot of pictures with ponies on imageboards (discovered them in 2017) and decided to watch MLP in 2020. Watched first two seasons and stopped after S2E10 (because I found plot, where Spike grown up and then reduced to small vyrm after sad monologue by Rarity, utterly stupid). Then, in December 2022 found CharacterAI with pony bots, played with them and already in 2023 came to /mlp/, Ponerpics, etc.
I came to this board after 4chan down in April 2025.
>>11926Howd you find out about this board?
>>11927Found link on Desuarchive (in april 2025 there was one few threads where anons could post).
For example, I'm OP of that thread
https://mlpol.net/poner/361 >>119054cuck /pol/ board and the merger of boards.
Heheheheheeh
>>11931Feels like ancient history these days, good times