In October of 2010, a show premiered on a new TV station. What once was "Discovery Kids" is now the new Hasbro owned "The Hub" Show casing such shows as G.I. Joe, Based on the Toy, and Family Game Night, a game shoe revolving around the various Hasbro board games. The Show in question is titled "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" At first glance these shows all seem to be huge advertisements to sell brainwashed kids toys. This was, in fact, the original plan. However, the direction of the MLP:FiM show changed when a certain cartoonist was brought on board. Lauren Faust, the creative force behind such hits as "The Powerpuff Girls" and "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" Was asked to make the MLP:FiM show. Refusing to let the show become a huge advertisement, become the stereotypical "Little Girl Show" It was intended to be, and compromise on her values, Faust managed to make it into a show she was not ashamed to show.
In that same month, an author on a website titled "Cartoon Brew" wrote an article about "The end of the Creator Driven Era" stating that the cartoon industry lost a great cartoonist when Faust agreed to make a show that was essentially a huge advertisement. Members on the 4chan board /co/ (Cartoons and comics. /b/ isn't important yet in this story.) saw this article and found it funny due to its alarmist tone. as a joke they went and watched the first 2 episodes just to see what was so bad about it. That's when it happened. Deep within the souls of these 18-30 year old men, a single terrifying truth made it self known. "This show's not half bad..." Some were to afraid to embrace this truth. Others embraced it in full 4chan style, comeplete with the obligatory image macros and Rule 34 (which they then became ashamed of as the show engulfed more and more of their soul, driving them to be better people.)
Turn to present day and they have become their own movement of "Bronies" The opposite of the "Legion of Anonymous" that resides in /b/. The Pony threads became "cancer" to the furious anons. The Internet Hate Machine had finally met the Internet Love Machine. Yin and Yang. Light and dark. Good and Evil. With the creation of the bronies, Balance was brought to the internet.
I'm not ashamed to be a brony. I have watched all 19 episodes and I'm accumulating a folder of funny pony images. I have decided that admiting this to the internetz (with my identity forever attached to it) Makes me manly as F**k. So It brings me to the challenge.
Challenge: Watch the two pilot episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and come out completely unaffected.
You don't have to admit it if you don't want to. I don't need you to post "0h, 1 w4tch3d 1t and st1ll th1nk p0n13s are g4y." Just let me know if you watched it or not. You will know the truth yourself and thats all I need. To those to come out changed.: Welcome to the Herd *Brohoof*
The movies I had originally posted were taken down along with their author when their account got shut down by some people claining to be "Hasbro Inc."
Stages of Brony. (I'm at Twilight and will never reach Pinkie Pie because thats just a bit too far for my tastes.)
One last thing, all gathered information for the history of bronies was acquired through http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic
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