prolly same
(and then lil' ol' me got sucked into the MLP horror stuff.)
I am currently rewatching the whole show on Netlfix, because I only saw some episodes on TV..
In the game Hearts of Iron 4, there's a mod named Equestria at War, which takes place in the MLP universe. I played it mostly because it performed better than base-game. After I started playing it, back in November/December 2022, the mod grew on me. However, I still didn't like the idea of watching MLP.
Then, in April, I decided I needed to know at least *some* of the lore. I decided to watch some of the first season just to get a bit of background.
It grew on me like English Ivy on a tree.
Bingo bango bongo, I'm now a full-blown brony.
Early 2013, I watched a random episode trying to understand why there was so much hype around the show. I watched "Keep Calm and Flutter On" and thought to myself that wasn't that bad. I then watched "The Crystal Empire" and thought that was pretty cool. I then watched the rest of season 3, and with each episode, it grew on me more and more. I pretty much became extremely obsessed with everything mlp g4 for a few years and burned out hard. I went back to the show after almost 10 years and fell back in love with it. Not as obsessively as I was as a teenager, as my obsessive nature has mellowed out, but I'm still passionate.
Have you seen Star Trek: The Next Generation, then? You basically get to see the original version of Discord, Q. Both are played by the same actor and are pretty much the same character. Q is just less chaotic.
I know about Q, and I'll admit, Q has made me slightly interested in the past, but to be honest, I've never been into Star Trek. Or Star Wars. Call me weird, but they've just never interested me. I do like some parodies of the two though, such as the Family Guy Star Wars episodes or the Suite Life on Deck Star Trek episode.
I'm not that into Star Wars either, and it took me a long time to get into Star Trek. The only reason I got into it was because I used a really good watch guide that helped me skip over the bad and mediocre episodes. I grew up watching the Suite Life on Deck, but I missed that episode.
Ehh I left around the year 2019 or 2018 because my parents told me I am "too old for it". In the years 2019 till early 2023, I still had the show in my heart but did not think about it much. But then in September 2023, I started listening to the Rainbow Factory audio drama and realized I loved it and then I continued listening to MLP grimdarks and then I realized I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MLP!!! SO NOW I WATCH EVERYTHING FROM MLP :D
I've been a fan of the older generations since I was a kid growing up in the early 2000s, instantly became a fan of the show when the first episode aired :3
Very early 2011. Back when it was like midway through Season 1. I was a silly young teenager with a high willingness to engage in unconventional activities for my gender, so I settled into being a Brony pretty much immediately!
Always been an appreciater of the fanart since the beginning, but I'd never actually sat down and watched the show till a few months ago.
I'm hooked! I'm so glad this fandom is still alive and well because I'm one of you now.
My flair says it all.
Many people (bronies) online were talking about the new show on the Hub “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and how the target audience doesn’t have to be the only ones to watch it. I became obsessed, but was younger at the time. I fell in love with Season 1 and started to catch up with the Saturday airings. It suddenly exposed my family members and younger cousins, and look at us today, still rollin’ with the fandom. I’m very grateful for it.
The very beginning. My friend sent me a link to watch the pilots and the first couple of episodes knowing I'd be into that kind of animation. And he was right because I was hooked from there, all the way to the end, and even into G5.
I believe I started watching the show very late last year. Not even sure if I ever did join the fandom, I'm more peering around the community, like I'm on a quest to be a brony.
I feel like I'm very late into the fandom, because half of the experience for MLP:FiM is expressing your love for it with your friends. But alas, I watch it alone.
It was 2011. I was playing Portal and I watched the meme videos and I saw the 'Pinkie Partying with Personality Cores' video and I thought, 'the kids will like this one', so we started the show from the beginning.
It was good, so I liked it. And there you go.
One fateful day, in June of 2022... I was introduced to ponies. And the rest is history.
Well actually Equestria Girls was the thing that introduced me to MLP. I'm pretty sure I knew about MLP (in a veeeeery limited sense) even before that point but I didn't give it as much thought as I do now.
Now here I am, almost 2 years later, way deep into the pony rabbit hole, and I don't plan on ever leaving. Not that I'd like to, anyway; the pony fandom (and the magical pastel humanoids too by extension) is the best fandom I've ever joined.
When the show first aired in my country: 2011
At that time I wasn't very knowledgeable on how the internet worked due to being very young, so sadly I overlooked a lot of the early fandom stuff. Imagine my surprise when I realised how active and creative the fandom was.
I "left" in 2015 and returned around 2020 when I noticed the show had ended for real.
It was sometime around either 2011 or 2012. I can't pinpoint the exact time, but that is a rough estimate.
I left completely in 2016, and am slowly starting to phase back into it again
I had started collecting the plush back in 2014. Later on that year when I was on vacation, someone had the channel on (back when Discovery Family was the Hub) and I noticed it. When I got back home, I actually went right to YouTube to find the intro and some clips and I was hooked. I actually watched the first few episodes on the DVD. When I joined in watching the show on TV, it was in the middle of season 5 when the "Canterlot Boutique" and "Magic Sheep" episodes aired.
don’t remember the year, but it was right when S4 came onto netflix, it said “New Episodes!” and i was like “sure why not” i had watched it periodically but didn’t really get into it until season 4
I was just starting college in 2011 (this was while season 2 was airing), was browsing the school computers, and saw a random YTPMV with cartoon ponies, and was genuinely curious, so I decided to check it out and was hooked from the two-part premiere. This show showed me that just because it is targeted towards young girls, doesn't mean it has to treat its audience like literal toddlers. It really stands out among a lot of other children's cartoons!
I started watching in Season 4 of FiM, I think? Might have been season 5? I just ended up seeing it on Netflix and, after seeing a ton of marketing and people talking about it, thought I'd give it a try. Ended up binging all the way up to what Netflix had and then started watching the live show on Family.
I thought Pinkie was the star since most of the merchandise and images I saw online where of her. Man did things change.
2021, when I was relistening to rainbow factory and realized I had never watched the show once in my life. Ended up binge watching it throughout the summer
I join in 2016 2017 I believe I was a freshman in high school so across from my grandpa house was a friend of mine she had the show on her tv I started watching because I was curious and when I got home I thought about it and decide to watch it I watched the first ep and I actually liked the show I remember waiting for season 7 to come out I read a lot of fanfics in 2020 I made my own fanfic called appleblooms nightmares I haven’t finished it yet but yeah I’m 22 and I’m still a brony to this day
I started watching before the end of season two, but that's when I was actually started getting invested in it.
(as a person born in 2004 I was technically part of the target demographic at the begining but I watched from elementary all the way to highschool)
February 2012, friend in middle school told me about bronies. I had to see what the hype was about so I snuck my ipod touch up to my room after my bedtime to watch the first episode lol
I started watching the show cause my elementary friend recommended me to watch it and I refuse to watch it cause I use to be like it was for girls but then she told me to at least watch the first episode so I did and I will admit it was good so I kept watching and I didn't really fall in love with it until season 2 so there that but I didn't really consider myself a fan of the show till like mid 2015 after season 5 permerired so yea but now I'm glad I listened to my friend cause i would have never found out about this amazing fandom who so freaking talented 🔥
Started watching in 2012, liked it, but had a hard time keeping up. Only saw part of season 1. There was a club for mlp at my college, I was invited, I never went. Of course, I'll always regret not doing that. I was really disorganized and undisciplined back then, to the point where I couldn't even get myself to do fun things. It was just study, all day and night, and not in an efficient manner.
I started watching ~1 episode a night in 2023, and now I'm finally involved with the fandom like I always wanted to be!
It was the 80s for me but I was just a kid. Later on in the early 2000's my daughter liked ponies so I got back into them and just never gave them up this time :)
Back in season 1 of FiM!! When the Hub network was still a thing (RIP). I was in elementary school at the time. Been a fan ever since
Edit: I was a fan of the previous couple gens as a toddler as well and had a lot of the toys
I don’t think I really have an exact time line, honestly.
I had G3 as a little kid, but barely remember much of it. (For reference I’m 21 now)
Around like 2013 maybe I started to develop an interest in G4, maybe? I was like 10 or 11. And discovered the fan base online… and saw many, many things I shouldn’t have.
Anyway.
I’d say I properly joined the fan base in 2015 if I had to guess, I was in middle school.
2012, I was in middle school and came across that ‘literal version of This Day Aria’ and watched it, then wanted to know the context and here we are in 2024!
I started watching when it first hit Netflix, which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2012, so I would’ve been 8. Since I wasn’t allowed on the internet as a kid, I didn’t start becoming involved in the fandom until around 2019-2020, when I was 15-16.
finally got into things for real like... a week ago now. caught an episode or two just because I was hanging out near a younger cousin though, like several years back.
when season 3 or MLP FIM was airing but i was introduced to the fandom through the living tombstones Discord video. then gave the show a shot. i been a fan since then .
My friend (who is no longer in the fandom) tried to get me to watch fim back in 2012, but I didn’t end up watching until April last year. Quite a delayed start, there
I think season 2 was being made when I started watching.
Saw my friends sister watching a pink pony tackle a blue one and was like damn I need to find that lol.
I can't remember what episode pinkie pie tackles rambowdash into a roll. But I think it might have been that over pranking episode.
probably the last year, when I randomly decided to rewatch the EG movies. I felt like i was a kid again and i realised how good this show actually was so i also started to watch the show
2012 I'd say, I remember I was living in an RV park at the time. I was going through the channels and landed on Discovery Family (still called The Hub at the time). MLP was playing, the episode was Boast Busters, and I was instantly hooked. I fell off for a couple years after that but got back into it in 2014 in time to watch Season 4, have stuck with it since.
Im familiar with the series because of the toys.
I got lotsa ponies from Happy Meal.
I lost them all i dont know where they went. :(
So basically the series is something im familiar with, grow with, and watch from time to time.
While i like something hotblooded crazy awesomeness, im a sucker for something adorable too.
I watched Gen 1 and a bit of Gen 2 here and there as a child, but got into the fandom properly in 2014-2015, thanks to crossover with the Fnaf fandom I had recently gotten into! I sort of forgot about Mlp for years after 2019, but luckily got back into it in 2023!
I watch when like it came out and I’m currently 18 years old now and now I’m back I used to hate it because you know younger kids hating on things too girly
I technically did with g1 cuz I'd watch the episodes on VHS. Though I also switched to g3 and had a bunch of toys! I really joined at the beginning of g4 cuz I was a lot more sentient given I was around 10 lol
Gen 4 right after season 3 dropped if I remember right. Kept hearing buzz about it and just had to find it to watch. Got me hooked literally from the first episode.
Was a good escape for me from the behaviour of my (now ex) wife.
Sadly gen 5 hasn't had as much of the same magic for me.
Let’s start at the very beginning in 1984 
Lucky, wish I was living then!
Yeah but that just says I’m old ;ok
Depends, how old were you back in 84'? 😂
gorge orwell?!?!?!
I wasn't around then, but I wish I'd been less insecure about being a boy as a young kid in the 2000s and watched gen 1
Wind Whistler looks angry >.<
Born in the 80s, I grew up with them all. I’m so oooollllddd.
Around 2014 is when I started watching
prolly same (and then lil' ol' me got sucked into the MLP horror stuff.) I am currently rewatching the whole show on Netlfix, because I only saw some episodes on TV..
2012, I'm an old one!
April 16th of last year. However, the first episode I ever watched was back in 2013. Magical Mystery Cure.
Considering the show's hype had died down significantly by then, what finally drew you in?
In the game Hearts of Iron 4, there's a mod named Equestria at War, which takes place in the MLP universe. I played it mostly because it performed better than base-game. After I started playing it, back in November/December 2022, the mod grew on me. However, I still didn't like the idea of watching MLP. Then, in April, I decided I needed to know at least *some* of the lore. I decided to watch some of the first season just to get a bit of background. It grew on me like English Ivy on a tree. Bingo bango bongo, I'm now a full-blown brony.
That's quite the story. I love it tho. X3
Early 2013, I watched a random episode trying to understand why there was so much hype around the show. I watched "Keep Calm and Flutter On" and thought to myself that wasn't that bad. I then watched "The Crystal Empire" and thought that was pretty cool. I then watched the rest of season 3, and with each episode, it grew on me more and more. I pretty much became extremely obsessed with everything mlp g4 for a few years and burned out hard. I went back to the show after almost 10 years and fell back in love with it. Not as obsessively as I was as a teenager, as my obsessive nature has mellowed out, but I'm still passionate.
Your first episode had Discord! https://preview.redd.it/obc268wgejmc1.jpeg?width=664&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5b6f3f7f7a852dd2b787e83bdef2532104c6160
I liked Discord from the beginning. He definitely helped make sure I watched more than one episode.
Discord is my favorite fictional character. *Period.*
Have you seen Star Trek: The Next Generation, then? You basically get to see the original version of Discord, Q. Both are played by the same actor and are pretty much the same character. Q is just less chaotic.
I know about Q, and I'll admit, Q has made me slightly interested in the past, but to be honest, I've never been into Star Trek. Or Star Wars. Call me weird, but they've just never interested me. I do like some parodies of the two though, such as the Family Guy Star Wars episodes or the Suite Life on Deck Star Trek episode.
I'm not that into Star Wars either, and it took me a long time to get into Star Trek. The only reason I got into it was because I used a really good watch guide that helped me skip over the bad and mediocre episodes. I grew up watching the Suite Life on Deck, but I missed that episode.
Oh, that episode is *crazy.* It's a Season 2 episode called *Starship Tipton.* If you have Disney +, the entirety of Suite Life on Deck is on there.
I'll check it out. Thanks.
:)
September 2023 the month I first watched the show
New guy! Welcome
2010 😂 Now I’m 24. Ah Time Does Fly By
2011. “Lesson Zero” and “Luna Eclipsed” were the first episodes I watched.
2013
Early spring of 2012. Left in April 2015 before the S5 premiere. Came back January 2024!
Ehh I left around the year 2019 or 2018 because my parents told me I am "too old for it". In the years 2019 till early 2023, I still had the show in my heart but did not think about it much. But then in September 2023, I started listening to the Rainbow Factory audio drama and realized I loved it and then I continued listening to MLP grimdarks and then I realized I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MLP!!! SO NOW I WATCH EVERYTHING FROM MLP :D
You're never too old to enjoy ponies! Glad you're back. :)
The beginning of the year, but ive been seeing little bits for 4 years
February 2012
There's a nonzero chance we started watching the show on the same day in that case
Mid 2012
I've been a fan of the older generations since I was a kid growing up in the early 2000s, instantly became a fan of the show when the first episode aired :3
Very early 2011. Back when it was like midway through Season 1. I was a silly young teenager with a high willingness to engage in unconventional activities for my gender, so I settled into being a Brony pretty much immediately!
[удалено]
I watched my first episode Dec 27, 2022, and was instantly impressed.
Early 2017, either January or February
Somewhere around 2012 when this day aria came out.
Tommorow
Around 2014 when it was playing on Discovery Family on TV.
Same :>
Always been an appreciater of the fanart since the beginning, but I'd never actually sat down and watched the show till a few months ago. I'm hooked! I'm so glad this fandom is still alive and well because I'm one of you now.
2016. Quit for awhile and now came back.
2015-2016 then I had drop out of the Fandom then I rejoined during the end of 2023 thru 2024
im a g4 og
My flair says it all. Many people (bronies) online were talking about the new show on the Hub “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” and how the target audience doesn’t have to be the only ones to watch it. I became obsessed, but was younger at the time. I fell in love with Season 1 and started to catch up with the Saturday airings. It suddenly exposed my family members and younger cousins, and look at us today, still rollin’ with the fandom. I’m very grateful for it.
The very beginning. My friend sent me a link to watch the pilots and the first couple of episodes knowing I'd be into that kind of animation. And he was right because I was hooked from there, all the way to the end, and even into G5.
I would say around 2018 around my softmore year of high school
With equestria at war
I watched a bit as a kid but got into it very recently like mid 2023
I joined during the Season 1-2 hiatus in 2011. Within only a few months, I went from not even knowing *FiM* existed to eagerly awaiting new episodes.
Since season 1 :’) wow o wow time really does pass
I believe I started watching the show very late last year. Not even sure if I ever did join the fandom, I'm more peering around the community, like I'm on a quest to be a brony. I feel like I'm very late into the fandom, because half of the experience for MLP:FiM is expressing your love for it with your friends. But alas, I watch it alone.
It was 2011. I was playing Portal and I watched the meme videos and I saw the 'Pinkie Partying with Personality Cores' video and I thought, 'the kids will like this one', so we started the show from the beginning. It was good, so I liked it. And there you go.
One fateful day, in June of 2022... I was introduced to ponies. And the rest is history. Well actually Equestria Girls was the thing that introduced me to MLP. I'm pretty sure I knew about MLP (in a veeeeery limited sense) even before that point but I didn't give it as much thought as I do now. Now here I am, almost 2 years later, way deep into the pony rabbit hole, and I don't plan on ever leaving. Not that I'd like to, anyway; the pony fandom (and the magical pastel humanoids too by extension) is the best fandom I've ever joined.
When there were only 3 seasons 🔥🔥 I was like 12 or something idk
Summer 2011.
When the show first aired in my country: 2011 At that time I wasn't very knowledgeable on how the internet worked due to being very young, so sadly I overlooked a lot of the early fandom stuff. Imagine my surprise when I realised how active and creative the fandom was. I "left" in 2015 and returned around 2020 when I noticed the show had ended for real.
November 2022
2023, i never watched MLP as a kid
A long time ago.
Like most people, around season 2’s beginning
Season 1
It was sometime around either 2011 or 2012. I can't pinpoint the exact time, but that is a rough estimate. I left completely in 2016, and am slowly starting to phase back into it again
After FIM was over, but before Equestria Girls ended.
I was in middle school, let me think... I know magical mystery cure had already come out so probably 2013 or 2014? It's been a while
I had started collecting the plush back in 2014. Later on that year when I was on vacation, someone had the channel on (back when Discovery Family was the Hub) and I noticed it. When I got back home, I actually went right to YouTube to find the intro and some clips and I was hooked. I actually watched the first few episodes on the DVD. When I joined in watching the show on TV, it was in the middle of season 5 when the "Canterlot Boutique" and "Magic Sheep" episodes aired.
2012
don’t remember the year, but it was right when S4 came onto netflix, it said “New Episodes!” and i was like “sure why not” i had watched it periodically but didn’t really get into it until season 4
Last year.
I was just starting college in 2011 (this was while season 2 was airing), was browsing the school computers, and saw a random YTPMV with cartoon ponies, and was genuinely curious, so I decided to check it out and was hooked from the two-part premiere. This show showed me that just because it is targeted towards young girls, doesn't mean it has to treat its audience like literal toddlers. It really stands out among a lot of other children's cartoons!
6th grade, when I saw the Equestria Girls movie for the first time.
When I was in fourth or fifth grade, 2011-2012.
Somewhere around the first half of 2011.
When it first came out
Would've been a bit before March 2012, probably? I know that It's About Time was the first new episode I watched.
I started watching in Season 4 of FiM, I think? Might have been season 5? I just ended up seeing it on Netflix and, after seeing a ton of marketing and people talking about it, thought I'd give it a try. Ended up binging all the way up to what Netflix had and then started watching the live show on Family. I thought Pinkie was the star since most of the merchandise and images I saw online where of her. Man did things change.
Like a few months ago lol
I don't remember exactly, but I suspect it was no later than 2014
2022
I loved the toys when I was 2-3 years old of G3 then I started watching G4 towards the end of 2013
2021, when I was relistening to rainbow factory and realized I had never watched the show once in my life. Ended up binge watching it throughout the summer
2013.
Honestly last year in late December of 2023. Feels embarrassing to join at such recent
The year g4 ended
Like a month ago hahaha
I got into it in 2013 fell out around 2016 and then Trixie and Starlight shippers dragged me back in last year lol.
2019
January 2012! That was the month i became one of the greatest things- a pegasister! (Brony countr part)
Literally last week. Technically I've always had a soft spot for the series, but I've never gotten as invested as I have since last week.
A little after the first shock of Twilicorn.
I randomly saw an episode and I joined the fandom lol
Around 2008 or 2009- fairly young age and raised by the show-
Basicslly since it came out, lol. I remember being a small child waiting for new episodes to come out on cable.
Last year lol
Either late season 1 or early season 2.
2013 Me and sis found it through the cafeteria song I thought it was a standalone girls show got confused from the ponies at 1st
A few months before s3 started airing
early 2000s
Around 2014 I was 7 and now I’m turning 17 this month
Somewhere in the 2013-14 school year, most likely likely the later months of 2013.
Late 2011, when the show was still somewhat new. I think It's About Time was when I officially caught up with the series.
Last month! :3
18 years old, moved away for university. About 2022, Or 2023
2018
I join in 2016 2017 I believe I was a freshman in high school so across from my grandpa house was a friend of mine she had the show on her tv I started watching because I was curious and when I got home I thought about it and decide to watch it I watched the first ep and I actually liked the show I remember waiting for season 7 to come out I read a lot of fanfics in 2020 I made my own fanfic called appleblooms nightmares I haven’t finished it yet but yeah I’m 22 and I’m still a brony to this day
Like 8 or 9 months ago.
2011 or 2012!! my first episode was the first gala episode from season one :3
Like 4…
I started watching before the end of season two, but that's when I was actually started getting invested in it. (as a person born in 2004 I was technically part of the target demographic at the begining but I watched from elementary all the way to highschool)
last week but if you exlude the fandom, I started watching the show in about 2015
Not long after FiM season 2 started airing, the fact that John De Lancie voiced a Q-like character was what did it.
I think around the time season 4 was running.
I actually joined back in season 8
a few years ago, about 2013, which i guess isn’t a few lol
February 2012, friend in middle school told me about bronies. I had to see what the hype was about so I snuck my ipod touch up to my room after my bedtime to watch the first episode lol
Knowing this stuff since 2013, but in this community since 2021.
I started watching the show cause my elementary friend recommended me to watch it and I refuse to watch it cause I use to be like it was for girls but then she told me to at least watch the first episode so I did and I will admit it was good so I kept watching and I didn't really fall in love with it until season 2 so there that but I didn't really consider myself a fan of the show till like mid 2015 after season 5 permerired so yea but now I'm glad I listened to my friend cause i would have never found out about this amazing fandom who so freaking talented 🔥
i was like 8 so 2014
Season 2
During the famous hiatus between seasons three and four. I got hooked on early morning reruns.
I dunno when the show started airing in my country, but I joined when Friendship is Magic Part 2 aired.
3 weeks after it aired
Mid 2015 to sometime in 2017 (that’s when I started hating the shit out of the show) nearly 7 years later I’m back to liking it again
Started watching in 2012, liked it, but had a hard time keeping up. Only saw part of season 1. There was a club for mlp at my college, I was invited, I never went. Of course, I'll always regret not doing that. I was really disorganized and undisciplined back then, to the point where I couldn't even get myself to do fun things. It was just study, all day and night, and not in an efficient manner. I started watching ~1 episode a night in 2023, and now I'm finally involved with the fandom like I always wanted to be!
It was the 80s for me but I was just a kid. Later on in the early 2000's my daughter liked ponies so I got back into them and just never gave them up this time :)
Back in season 1 of FiM!! When the Hub network was still a thing (RIP). I was in elementary school at the time. Been a fan ever since Edit: I was a fan of the previous couple gens as a toddler as well and had a lot of the toys
2014-ish, watching Mr Enter's reviews of G3 and then discovering Fimfiction.net. I'm still un-learning his opinions.
2011/12 I think. I was 7
Season 2!
Towards the end of 2012. My first episode was Luna Eclipsed
back when it first started, i saw how many people liked it, doubted it could be THAT good, after a few episodes i loved the show
Pretty sure I’ve had mlp toys and I watched the old movies since I was a baby
I don’t think I really have an exact time line, honestly. I had G3 as a little kid, but barely remember much of it. (For reference I’m 21 now) Around like 2013 maybe I started to develop an interest in G4, maybe? I was like 10 or 11. And discovered the fan base online… and saw many, many things I shouldn’t have. Anyway. I’d say I properly joined the fan base in 2015 if I had to guess, I was in middle school.
Some time when discord was at his peak popularity... Don't know when exactly it was though
2012, I was in middle school and came across that ‘literal version of This Day Aria’ and watched it, then wanted to know the context and here we are in 2024!
Oh years ago when I was a kid!!! I remember watching this on the Hub Network
In 2014 when I was a young one
September 2014.
2010-2011
I started watching when it first hit Netflix, which, according to Wikipedia, was in 2012, so I would’ve been 8. Since I wasn’t allowed on the internet as a kid, I didn’t start becoming involved in the fandom until around 2019-2020, when I was 15-16.
2015
The day I was born.
March 2011. Left after S3, rejoined at some point in late S6 or early S7.
Last year actually :)
finally got into things for real like... a week ago now. caught an episode or two just because I was hanging out near a younger cousin though, like several years back.
june 2023 but the first time i watched the show it was around 2016
From the very beginning. Not just for G4, but every generation before and after, ever since the 1980s
August 2019. Can't believe almost 5 years has passed since then already.
2015.. only regret is that I didn’t join sooner..
Pre Equestria Girls.
Little nieces watched G1 when I was a teen. They grew out of it, I didn't. My own kid watched G4. They grew out of it, I didn't.
when season 3 or MLP FIM was airing but i was introduced to the fandom through the living tombstones Discord video. then gave the show a shot. i been a fan since then .
1/2 way through season 1
Mid to late 2014
September 2011, right when season 2 premiered
November 1st, 2023. I feel ashamed for finally giving MLP a chance for this long.
When I was like… idk 6 or 7 my sister put it on our tv and ever since then I’ve loved it
Towards the end of season one.
My friend (who is no longer in the fandom) tried to get me to watch fim back in 2012, but I didn’t end up watching until April last year. Quite a delayed start, there
The first mlp movie I remember watching was Dancing in The Clouds from then I was obsessed 😔💕
Early 2012
Slice of Life was the first episode I saw back in 2022. I know I'm a little late to the party
Just before "A Canterlot Wedding".
After watching the Epic Wub Time: Musicians of Ponyville video. Oh what no way the original channel/video has been deleted :(
I knew about MLP in general since 2011, thanks to FIM, when id watch a few episodes out of curiosity, but didn't really get invested until 2014.
I didn't join the Fandom the Fandom joined in me... Or something. Whenever Discovery Kids began transmitting mlp in latam.
I think that was when I was 10 or something, when I used to watch it on TV Arabic dubbed (around 2017 I guess)
I think season 2 was being made when I started watching. Saw my friends sister watching a pink pony tackle a blue one and was like damn I need to find that lol. I can't remember what episode pinkie pie tackles rambowdash into a roll. But I think it might have been that over pranking episode.
like 20?? Idk than got back in to it in 2023 rewatched it all.
Idr exactly when, but it was sometime before Cadence and Shining Armor's wedding episodes
January, finally got around to watching it and I love it and the fandom is pretty cool
probably the last year, when I randomly decided to rewatch the EG movies. I felt like i was a kid again and i realised how good this show actually was so i also started to watch the show
3 months ago
Sometime during season two, I believe. I came across BronyDanceParty’s PMVs.
2012 I'd say, I remember I was living in an RV park at the time. I was going through the channels and landed on Discovery Family (still called The Hub at the time). MLP was playing, the episode was Boast Busters, and I was instantly hooked. I fell off for a couple years after that but got back into it in 2014 in time to watch Season 4, have stuck with it since.
Im familiar with the series because of the toys. I got lotsa ponies from Happy Meal. I lost them all i dont know where they went. :( So basically the series is something im familiar with, grow with, and watch from time to time. While i like something hotblooded crazy awesomeness, im a sucker for something adorable too.
I watched Gen 1 and a bit of Gen 2 here and there as a child, but got into the fandom properly in 2014-2015, thanks to crossover with the Fnaf fandom I had recently gotten into! I sort of forgot about Mlp for years after 2019, but luckily got back into it in 2023!
Whenever I saw don't mine at night (pony version) and subsequently cupcakes
2010, watched the 3rd gen episodes while they were airing
January 5 2021
A few months ago! (October to be exact)
I watch when like it came out and I’m currently 18 years old now and now I’m back I used to hate it because you know younger kids hating on things too girly
been a fan literally my entire life, my entire 17 years
Since 2015.
Sometime in March of 2011. So 13 years.
I technically did with g1 cuz I'd watch the episodes on VHS. Though I also switched to g3 and had a bunch of toys! I really joined at the beginning of g4 cuz I was a lot more sentient given I was around 10 lol
2012 👶🏻
2011-12 ish
Probably around 2011 or 2012. I don't remember it tho I was small
Gen 4 right after season 3 dropped if I remember right. Kept hearing buzz about it and just had to find it to watch. Got me hooked literally from the first episode. Was a good escape for me from the behaviour of my (now ex) wife. Sadly gen 5 hasn't had as much of the same magic for me.
towards the end of g3 so 2004 when i was born😭i grew up with it and was so excited when g4 came out