Did you first get into FiM as a child?

[Ponyboy sodapop 6]

I mean like if you started to watch the show when you were a kid and now you are older, like you Star at 7 and now you are 14 (just an example) and how do you feel about that ?

its the show growing with its audience 

[Snow Frostflame 3,567]

Star? you mean start?... if not I have no clue what you're talking about. Anyways I began watching the show when I was 15, currently 20. Not as young as your example, but still pretty young in my opinion compared to where I'am today.

Edited September 3, 2017 by Snowflake Frostflame

[Tiny Hoofs 200]

I started watching the show at age 16 back in 2011. That was during season 1 and the inception of the brony fandom. I lost interest for a few years after season 3, but I got back into it somewhat recently. I'm 22 now (nearly 23).

Not sure if that counts as really young though. I'm pretty sure most people here started watching the show in their teens and early twenties.

Edited September 3, 2017 by Tiny Hoofs

[GeekySonic 1,150]

I started when I was 15, and now I'm almost 18.

[StormBlaze 991]

little babus in here. 

i remember MLP being on TV back in the gen 1 days. bleh! way too girly for me. i was 21 when gen 4 first aired. 

[Foxy Socks 2,596]

Not really, I started at 15 if I recall. Don't think that counts, but I'm not as old as others in the fandom.

[gamecubeguy214 2,511]

I started watching some time before season 3 and I was around eight years old.

[Savygriffs 5,018]

I've watched since like 2011, so... around 12 years old maybe?

[ronibrony 40]

all i know is i am pretty sure i began watching it at 7-8 years old, a year or two after it came out, i got hooked ever since i first saw the colorful bunch of ponies on TV lmao

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

I was seventeen so I wouldn't call that young.

[Cash In 21,465]

I've been aware of the show since it first became a thing, but I didn't get into until I was 14, so yeah, fairly young.

[Orchid_Fiore 199]

Start*. I met MLP (G3) when I was a little girl I don't regret of it.

[Octavia Heartstrings 28,394]

I started watching the show when I was 14, a young teenager, so I guess that would count?

[Mandalagan 154]

I started watching mlp when I was 5 years old and becamw a brony today

[Splashee 28,537]

I played with G1 ponies in the 80s, so.... yea, but don't tell my parents!

[That Friendly Brony 10]

I started in 2016, at that time I was 9 so I'm still allowed to watch MLP. But as I age, things just got worse.

1 hour ago, Splashee said:

I played with G1 ponies in the 80s, so.... yea, but don't tell my parents!

Nah I won't lol

[Reality Check 627]

I didn't watch MLP as a kid, mostly cause I thought it was a girls show at the time. I only started to become a brony a few years ago

[RainyDash 255]

I watched the show back in 2012 when I was like 9-10, so quite young , I feel like I would've known about it before though since i was on the internet a lot (mainly the sonic fandom back in 2011 or sometime before that )

[They call me Loyalty 1,941]

I was always a child at heart. But, no. I was 22. Or around there.

[Prospekt 10,984]

The show itself didn't start until I was 12 and I began watching it when I was 16

[Orgazoid 50]

i started watching in late 2017, so i would've been 11 years old

so yes

Edited February 15, 2022 by Orgazoid

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

G3 came around when I was a kid and I dismissed it for being too girly for my tastes, which deterred me from G4 for a while. I didn’t get into FiM until season 3.

[Scarlet02 492]

2 hours ago, ExplosionMare said:

G3 came around when I was a kid and I dismissed it for being too girly for my tastes, which deterred me from G4 for a while. I didn’t get into FiM until season 3.

I think the first time I watched anything MLP related was the first movie of G1 called "My Little Pony: The Movie", a very original title indeed. I would still watch for the nostalgia since that would really take me back to when I was a kid but I have a preference for G4 since I Iike the art design more than G1, G2, and G3. I was first introduced to the the FIM part of MLP when the "Hub Network" TV channel was still a thing back in 2013 or 2014. 

Since I'm a lady, I was able to watch the show without too many weird looks but I avoided jumping into the show too much or anything else MLP related after hitting my teens due to fear of harassment from my family and other people at school which was unfortunately also happening at the time. Eventually after I left my ex-boyfriend, I decided that I wouldn't let fears like that rule my life since I have a right to like what I want. 

[AppleButt 8,669]

Nah I was 18 when I started watching it in 2011.  
 

I do often wonder what I’d have thought about it had it come out earlier when I was a child, though.  I doubt I’d have gotten into it as much as I did.  

[Pony Flutters 530]

That depends on the definition of 'child'.

I got into it when I was a teen, although I was still a minor so I guess that probably qualifies.

Edited February 17, 2022 by Pony Flutters