How I became a brony

Gilded Shield, a pony that I created

Hello readers! This is my first personal post! Hope you find this story interesting!

If you had read my recent update or the fanfic post I decided to take down, you probably guessed I was a brony. Yes, I have transformed into a pony loving abomination! Haha, but really this community isn’t as bad as you think or as I thought it was. I first heard of this several months ago. I think it was in July. I was trolling around on youtube, looking for a video to watch. I refreshed my sub box for the 5th time when a new video from rocketboom showed up:

I clicked the video with nothing else to do. When I finished watching the video, I thought that the whole pony thing was strange. I exited out the tab and forgot about it and the entire fandom for a couple weeks.

The next time I heard of bronies was on memebase. I was reading ragecomics when I noticed the new little tab on the menu bar of the site:

I had, as I mentioned previously, completely forgotten about the bizarre community. So I went back to youtube, remebering seeing a video on bronies. I watched the video again and was curious. MLP had become so popular it has its own page on Memebase? So I decided to give it a try. I went on youtube and searched for the first episode.

Here it is if you want to watch:

I watched it and was intrigued. The first episode had ended in a cliffhanger, and honestly, I wondered what happened next so I watched part 2.

I thought about it and I decided that it was actually pretty good. The characters were interesting and the story was engaging. I decided, “Hey, I already watched 2 episodes, might as well watch the third.” So I watched the third episode. Then the fourth. Then the fifth. Before I realized it, I had watched the entire first season in one night! I was addicted! Before I knew it, I was looking at fan art, listening to podcasts, and reading fanfictions. I had become a brony.

I realized that I, a seventeen year old male high school senior, was watching a show directed at girls ten years younger than me. I kind of fell into a little breakdown, believing myself to be wierd and wrong. I thought that when people were to find out, they would shun and insult the crap out of me. Then I saw this video:

This was an okay thing to be in to. So I continued to be part of the community until this day!