What was your first view on Bronies

[TubeSock2018 325]

Nothing but a bunch of weirdos.

[Twiggy 2,965]

They were alright. The threads on /co/ were fun. Then it got out of hand and I despised everything about them (still enjoyed the show). Things have calmed down now and all is good.

[cider float 2,535]

I thought bronies were just another group of weird internet people that I'll never get. Look up MLG (Major League Gaming) and you'll know what I'm talking about when i mean weird. 

[El Duderino 878]

Well, I first was introduced to MLP because my little sister watched it. I actually had collectively seen about the first two seasons just by being in the same room as my sister while she watched TV (which made it easy to catch up on Netflix later when I started watching it myself). This was before I was aware of such a thing as a brony, so by the time I found out about Bronies, I was like "OK, I see why they like it". Even though I had seen a bit of the show, I hadn't actually watched it in my own time, nor was I a real fan until later on, but I was familiar enough with it to not think that Bronies were completely crazy.

 

I forgot about it for a while, but eventually regained some interest and, well, I think you know the rest.

 

Now that I am one, I can honestly say that I was wrong. Bronies ARE crazy. But you know... in a good way.

Edited February 8, 2016 by El Duderino

[Grepper 3,192]

Well, that's rebellious.

Sign me up, I want to be edgy!

 

I'm only half-joking.

[Veil 259]

My 100% honest opinion. I thought it was a gimmick for men to get girls to like them.

[Redacted321 105]

I knew before there were adult male fans of the show and I thought it was childish, I guess I considered such people to be "man-children" but said with a lot less hate and a lot more of "ehhh that's too weird" but I never heard of the 'bronies' until i finished the 3rd season and was thoroughly enjoying the show.

[Gestum 2,493]

"Jesus Christ, bronies are super weird". A couple of years later and it hasn't changed a bit.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

I thought they were probably just adult males who were interested in seeing pony butts.  I was initially kind of disappointed and put-off when I discovered that wasn't always the case. : /  I don't f****** understand you people!!1!!1!

[Denim&Venöm 16,461]

That they were an odd mix between the Otaku & PowerPuff Girls fans, that were partially into it due to the popularity of all things retro at the time, but before things went full blown hipster (this was back in 2011-2012). 

 

Honestly, I learned of Bronies pretty much after I became one myself. 

Edited February 8, 2016 by Denim&Venom

[Detritus 258]

I admit, I was actually somewhat fond of ponies before Friendship is Magic even existed. I even tried to make a 3D model of a G3 style pony once.

 

For the record, I never watched the G3 cartoons or had any interest in the toys (still don't). I just liked some of the character designs.

 

 

That said, it would have been rather hypocritical of me to hold a negative opinion of Bronies. I was more curious about them than anything else.

[VengefulStrudel 1,486]

The very first time I heard of the term "Brony", I thought it was some national demonym or some sort of food. When I found out, I was a little puzzled but not too much. From what I knew up to that point, MLP was "eh", so I didn't pay any attention to it.

[Melted Dog 161]

Didn't care. I thought that this fan base was - well, just a fan base, no different than, say, Whovians (apart from the shows).

[Invincible 2,090]

I'd say I didn't judge bronies, but i'd be lying.

 

Truthfully, I found them odd at first. Fate is ironic, isn't it?

Edited February 8, 2016 by Tarnish

[Riganthor 483]

I did think it was strange at first but after a bit of thinking I was like eh who am I to say what people can and can't like.

[Dan. 1,825]

Not entirely positive at first..now they're just regular people to me.

[Not_active 731]

From the very first moment I thought they were being ironic, like it was another meme/joke on the internet. I didn't really mind them, I thought it was kind of fascinating actually.

[BPCannon 193]

I already thought it was a pretty decent kids show before I knew there was a fandom, thanks to my kids watching it long before I ever did. When I first found out there was an adult fandom, I thought it was good that other people recognised it as a quality show, however when I found out how... enthusiastic, many of them were, I did find it way over the top. Some of the creative elements of the fandom were appreciated right from the start though so my feelings were mixed

 

I think in the end Bronies are like any large group of individuals, some people are awesome, some are complete asshats and/or weirdos, and many are somewhere inbetween. I did see a couple of youtube vids from people who were apparently "clopsexuals" and while I always maintain that people are entitled to their own likes and dislikes as long as they're harmless, the whole concept actually put me off watching the show or anything MLP related for some time. Likely because I appreciate it as something I can enjoy with my kids, so it's not an element of the fandom that I want to be reminded of.

[AngelsNight 164]

As my profile says i made fun of them when i would see them on games and such i gave it a fair change and uhh... one does simply not watch one episode of mlp fim

[Johnny1226 14,674]

I only learned about bronies after I started watching the show and found comfort in that it wasn't as uncommon as I thought for guys to like the show

[WindShear 532]

I think at first I thought Bronies were just trolls, who posted pictures of ponies in forums and other places just to annoy people. Then I when I found out that the fandom was actually real, I suppose I thought it was a bit odd, but didn't really have any feelings one way or another.

[Saroth 102]

Frankly, I'm not actually sure when I found out about bronies. I remember seeing my brother watching My Little Pony and me and my friend thought "What the hell are you doing."

I think I started watching it before I even knew that the bronies existed. I had no idea it was this huge until after I started watching the show.

So I guess my first view on bronies was "This is pretty cool!".

[BlueBrony 388]

I didn't even understand what brony meant. I just thought it was another fun variation of bro (like bro-sef, bro-skis, and brah)

[Miles 2,512]

Honestly, I didn't even know such a fandom existed before I started watching the show.  Thus, I never had any view on the bronydom itself until I started watching the show.  

Before watching the show I think that I had only once ever seen a picture of an MLP pony once... (Rainbow Dash)... and I thought nothing of it whatsoever.

When I found the show through ironic means, I was hooked after watching the first two (pilot) episodes.  Sooo...

I guess you could say my first view on the fandom actually came after I had already seen the pilots!  And, that view was super positive   

~ Miles

[Gearbox10mm 794]

If it wasn't for the existence of Bronies, I likely never would have watched a single episode of FIM.

 

I had heard of Bronies before and that they were grown men that really liked the newest generation of My Little Pony. I dismissed them as a bunch of weirdos, I mean a girls show couldn't be that good, could it? Then one day I stumbled across a Youtube video that was discussing the Brony phenomenon and it's impact on our changing definition of masculinity. For whatever reason it peaked my interest, so I watched a couple documentaries about Bronies on Youtube and Netflix.

 

I realized that I had more in common with these people than not and if they liked the show, then maybe I would too. The art looked good and the animation seemed to be well done so I figured "what the heck, I've got nothing to lose." The first 4 seasons were on Netflix, so I watched an episode, and then another... and another.

 

The rest is history, as they say.