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gender-euphowrya · 1 year ago

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i know i was there in that era but. how did bronies even happen. who was the first grown man who decided to watch little girl horse cartoon for a laugh and went "wait a minute. this shit rules". rushing to The Forums frantically trying to tell the other lads "no you gotta believe me man the magical pink ponies are awesome"

#like it could have been a very niche fandom of a few guys either secure in or comfortable with stepping away from their masculinity #but. it got SO BIG. it got HUGE. there were millions. there was so much #the show tried to incorporate more 'general audience' themes and easter eggs BECAUSE of the large adult fanbase #roleplaying and ponysona creation was off the roof. fan theories. fanfiction. fanart. fangames. fan merch.#some. well. that maybe shouldn't have been (hello lyra plushie). but this whole shit might as well have been A Country #like the amount of fans + the intensity of the culture. THERE WERE DATING WEBSITES FOR BRONIES.#it could have been a joke. it could have been 4 weebs sharing the same 3 jpegs to each other. IT GOT ITS OWN CONVENTIONS.#there were fanmade episodes !!! THE FAN SONGS. every new song from the show got 200 remixes in mere Hours of the episode airing #all because one guy one day was like ''lol what if i a big tough manly manmandude watched a sparkle pony kids cartoon lmao''

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