I'm pretty new to the fandom to be honest, I remember at first I tried watching a couple of episodes of it on youtube and I thought they were pretty good but they must not have resonated with me somehow because I didn't watch any more episodes afterwards for quite some time...
Eventually this year in June my friend told me she'd become quite obsessed with the show, after she told me this I think I was pretty skeptical at first as by this time I'd heard a lot of negative things about bronies (that the enitre fandom was full of perverts ect.) but after she showed me some parody videos and some of the fanart (I think I was particularly impressed with the art depicting Luna and Celestia, I was suprised when I learned Luna was actually a character on the show as I assumed she was a fan design) I decided to give the show a try and found myself enjoying it so much I ended up marathoning the entire series in a week. It just annoys me to think that I had such shitty misconceptions about the fandom in the first place as I could've discovered all this a lot earlier...
oh well glad I'm not missing out now