(scroll down for the feature if you don't want to read this)Yaay, today it has been one year since I became a brony
So how did it all start?
I don't consider myself to be girly girl and when I heard 2009 they were re-making the MLP franchise, I criticized it as another lame re-make the toy companies use to sell more toys to a younger generation. Not only that but most MLP series well... sucked big time(example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGlaR_… ). To be honest I did watch one or two episodes 80's series when I was young and that was sort of okay although I wasn't a fan of it. I did however enjoy watching 90's Spiderman, Batman the animated series and X-men
Although I didn't like the MLP television series I did absolutely adore the ponies, I had a several of them with my favourite being Dainty* from the Sweetheart Sister Pony line. She's probably the only one I could remember clearly, I think I also had Seabreeze* who is bright orange, I had a little pony with wings that was yellow and had a pink mane (Dibbles or Nibbles*) and a sea pony, I can't remember which one though. We used to have 'adventures' in the garden or they would go 'swimming' with me in the bathtub, such sweet memories. Of course when I grew older my mother gave them away. I feel kind of bummed that I didn't keep them since they are worth quite a lot now
Anyway back to how I became a brony ^_^ I didn't hear much from the latest MLP series until about late 2011 when on the internet I started to notice more pony art and suddenly a few pony memes. I was like "pfff... lame". Then I came across the word 'brony', when I looked it up my first reaction was: "wtf, adult's that love the TV show MLP. That's so messed up." I admit I started off as a hater. I guess I used to hate because I was ignorant, I used to think that a brony was: a sad basement dwelling guy with no social life and finds watching a show about friendship the closest thing to experiencing real friendship. I used to troll youtube and post comments on brony videos calling them wimps, pussies, and some of the other usual sh*t haters post. This I also how I know what day exactly I first watched episode one of MLP, I left a comment criticizing the show for being: predictable and having a stereotypical female cast.
This brings me to the part of the story as to why I actually bothered if to watch the first episode of MLP if I hated it so much. Well simple: APPLE.MOV I came across the video by chance on youtube while browsing. I found it rather funny. So then I watched DRESS.MOV, and in the side bar on youtube there were some MLP parodies. I started to think, hmmm... maybe I should just watch one episode just to see if I don't like it.
Fast forward a bit and I watched episode one and two of season 1. I was like okay, it's not as bad as I thought. A couple of days later, I was bored, so I thought about watching another episode just so see what a typical episode was like. Before I knew it I had watched the entire season one in two days! And the rest is as they say, history
What I like about the brony community the most is the creativity, like the music and art (I'm not really a fanfiction reader). I also like the slogan: love and tolerance. The world needs more love and tolerance
I particularly like the episodes because of the important moral lessons they teach kids(I feel not enough cartoons have morals), it's a cartoon I can sit and enjoy with my son together. He likes the bright colours and the cheerful ponies while I can enjoy the subtle adult references like for example the big Lebowski and Discord. I grew up watching Star Trek the Next Generation so I love Discord because his voice actor, John de Lancie, played Q.
All in all I can say is I'm glad I took the time to clear my ignorance and get to know Twilight Sparkle and her friends. The brony community has some very talented people from all walks of life (so not the 'no-life' people I initially thought). I even have met bronies in the most unexpected places, I didn't suspect they were bronies until they 'came out' about it.
Rainbow Dash learned not to judge a book by it's cover and I guess I learned a similar thing
PS Discord for best pony
*I looked up the pony's names, the ones I recognized I had as a child anyway. From the site
www.strawberryreef.com/ Super Pony Feature
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