Did YouTube's related/suggested videos "get you" ?

[Cirrus. 1,089]

So just over a year ago (Christmas '13) I found out that Tara strong was in "My Little Pony" .

 

I just had to see this crap and laugh at how dumb her part was. I somehow knew NOTHING about the fandom and thought it was STILL the old show. So I watched the first two episodes on YouTube. I was very surprised that it was actually quite......Normal?   Oh- and the flash animation was actually well done too. For me that would have been the end of it. It was better than I expected, but I had no further interest.

 

Well, you know what happens when you type anything MLP into YouTube. You might as well have downloaded a virus.

 

 

So for 2 or 3 weeks after, I kept noticing pony things showing up on the side. I was just like, "what the heck, WHY?!?!" and ignored it. Finally I saw a thumbnail with some video with Vinyl Scratch by a DJ Turntable and it made me curious enough to click it because of "Its" hair and weird glasses.

 

I think it was this:

 

All it did was confuse me more. So I clicked on a few pony videos, getting more and more confused. I thought there was some joke going on making fun of the show somehow that I wasn't getting. Then I saw Children Of The Night.

 

It reminded me of Disney type stuff.

 

Now I just HAD to get to the bottom of whatever is going on. I watched the third episode...then fourth... and then all of them over a couple weeks until I caught up with the show by Rainbow Falls.

 

During this time I learned about the fandom, Lauren Faust, and the cast/crew on the show also.

 

 

So did YouTube do you in also?

Edited January 8, 2015 by steve88

[EddG 554]

Yep,

I found out about mlp:fim by watching a fan parody (this was when I was a huge sonic fan) on Sonic F a Sonic X fan parody I liked. The people who made it started making MLP fan parodies (Camaraderie is magic).

 

I soon started watching the actual show and I loved it.

[catnet 9,356]

I didn't even realise the show existed until I saw a related video (probably Fluttershy saying 'yay' or something), and after seeing one I decided to check the other related videos out. Soon enough, I was looking for full montages, and by then, there was no turning back.

[Ziltoid the Omniscient 286]

Nope. The TV got me into the show, YouTube did help further my involvement into the fandom though.

[epzik8 92]

Yes, YouTube suggested videos actually did play a huge part in drawing me to the fandom. I also thought Friendship is Magic sucked like the older generations and that bronies were silly and dumb. But I finally decided to check out some clips of it on YouTube because they kept coming up on my Google searches. That's how I discovered all of the works of this fandom and what led me to change my mind about bronies and become one myself.

[Justin_Case001 4,882]

Absolutely.  Youtube related videos changed my life.  I was watching Good Mythical Morning, which I only discovered by accident from related videos, and one of the related GMM episodes was "The Brony Controversy."  I watched it and became intrigued about the show.  About five minutes later, it was "welcome to the herd."

 

As a tangent, I love to play the youtube related game.  Just keep clicking related videos and see where it takes you.

Edited February 9, 2015 by Justin_Case001

[Lisa 5,553]

The first MLP video I ever watched was the "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" Rainbow Dash parody. I'm pretty sure it was in my suggested videos.

 

It was what got me interested in MLP.

 

Edited January 8, 2015 by Couleur

[lync 68]

I found about mlp after watching some parodys and seeing comments about bronys on both youtube and 9gag.

what i mostly saw was hate but my curiosity grew and i forced myself to watch it,  it was worth it and i love mlp now.

 

Stumbling across bronys and mlp on the internet is pretty much inevitable.

[Gadgetphile 11]

Nope. I got hooked by another forum and a friend of mine.

[CupcakeEmpire 58]

Nope, but it did help.  I believe one of the first pony videos I ever saw was Fluttersy saying "Yay!".  I at the time had no idea what episode it was from, who the characters were, or anything.  But seeing that clip made me even more curious than I was already.

[DubWolf 17,258]

All the related stuff eventually brought me to watch an episode; they seemed to be popular, so I checked them out .

[J.T. 1,843]

Yep, the first bit of MLP I ever watched was Epic Pie Time

[Silver Letter 1,832]

No, I did use youtube to when I first watched the show but not through suggestions. Although, after I watched my first episode, I didn't get back into that again for a while since I just wanted to check it out. But the suggestions reminded me to watch more of it.

[Tao 7,623]

I got lead down a 4 hour marathon of DBZ amvs one random night.....than got rounded to TeamfourStar......

 

Spend the next 5 hours laughing my ass off and woke up my room mate...

[KiwiPony 125]

Well... Sort of, I'm actually here because of YouTube I guess however I saw it through a video mocking bronies. Then I saw the ponies and wondered what's all the fuss I suppose, so I watched the show and now I'm the one that video is mocking Soooo sort of YouTube, but I'm not sure if that counts

[Cirrus. 1,089]

Yep, the first bit of MLP I ever watched was Epic Pie Time

That was one of the first things I saw too.

 

I was like Ummmm....that was. ...something......    What the hell did I just watch?!?!?!

 

It is a lot funnier when you know the show/characters. I didn't notice the Applebloom part until I watched it again few months later.

Edited January 16, 2015 by steve88

[ponylaces 1,870]

Sort of, yeah.

 

My friends and I were watching music videos on YouTube (online friends, since I'm kind of a loner now ) and I came across a PMV in the YouTube suggestions. I decided to watch it, and I actually liked it.

 

http://youtu.be/c0ftndHZq3g

 

I liked it because it was very simple, not overflowing with effects and pans like many other PMVs out there. Plus, I loved the scenes the creator of this video picked out. FlutterDash is clearly best ship.

 

I thought the scenes in the video were interesting, so I decided to marathon the show. I honestly thought that I would get uninterested after watching a few episodes, but I started to love the show.

 

I knew about MLP before I watched the PMV and marathoned the show. My friends recommended it to me in 2012. At first I thought the show was stupid, but I eventually watched it (since I found out Tara Strong was in it, and I was a huge fan of her and The Fairly Odd Parents back then) and thought it was surprisingly good. I didn't think the show was a major thing to me, just a show, and forgot about it until I watched the PMV.

 

Yep, that's my story. Sorry for the huge novel.

[Gearbox10mm 794]

Absolutely.  Youtube related videos changed my life.  I was watching Good Mythical Morning, which I only discovered by accident from related videos, and I one of the related GMM episodes was "The Brony Controversy."  I watched it and became intrigued about the show.  About five minutes later, it was "welcome to the herd."

 

As a tangent, I love to play the youtube related game.  Just keep clicking related videos and see where it takes you.

 

That is exactly how I got drawn in. I saw the GMM episode about bronies and then watched SaberSpark's documentary. The rest is history.

[Monsoon 1,662]

Not really it was a friend a long while ago

[cdx561 238]

Thats how i got hooked watching some MLP youtube poop or somthin i cant remember lol and it was pretty funny so i decided to watch an episode and i got hooked after that =D

 

Im glad i watched it 

[KatonRyu 1,033]

It was TV Tropes that got me into watching the show. I liked the first two episodes so I kept watching. After finishing the season I looked around for stuff related to the fandom but aside from Ponychan at the time most of it didn't really grab my attention. This was between seasons 1 and 2.