When?
As I said in my introduction: "Since childhood, I love MLP. I had the VHS tapes, the toys, pretty much everything that could be linked directly or indirectly to our ponies!" I grew up and I detached myself from the old gens during a while... But one day, when I was just watching TV, the "10 years old me" saw a sort of trailer about the arrival of the gen4. I was simply absorbed again, exactly like when I was little.
How?
I discovered the fandom very late (exactly 7 years after the beginning of the show!) and I joined the herd, the French one. I was going through a difficult period and I was looking for friends with whom to discuss common passions (like Disney / Pixar, Ponies, Harry Potter, etc). The fandom was very important to me at this time because I met my fiancé thanks to MLP. Sadly, Time passed, MLP: FiM stopped and a lot of people gradually detached from the fandom but the friendship, the passion for MLP, sharing and talking about the show miss me. So here I am back!!