what was your first encounter with anything brony related

[Jesse20 81]

mine was a few months after tf2 went f2p and i had stunbled upon a mlp themed server i had no idea what it was then someone under the username vinyl scratch told me about pretty much everything about bronies

[Evilshy 5,090]

Pony threads on 4chan.

[Lady Rarity Pony 4,892]

"Bronies" being called "gay" on other forums.

[mrmcsavage 34]

Garry's mod movie theater, good times. I was wondering why there were so many rooms playing full episodes of MLP, so I gave it a try after being very skepticle.

[DashPony 359]

All the pony memes on memebase. It made me curious enough to give the show a chance

[Otter 1,942]

Blunty3000's video on the subject.

[Random User 249]

Pony threads on 4chan.

 

[letterone 1,204]

My first encounter...

 

Well, I was watching a Jacksfilms livestream and people kept asking him if he was a brony. I repeatedly heard that word all across the internet until I finally figured out what it meant. Eeyup.

Edited June 8, 2012 by <letterONE>

[Haven Celestii 9,385]

Team Fortress 2 brony server......

It was epic, even back then when I wasnt a brony.

My friend didnt take too much liking to it though lolollolololol that was the best part.

[~Chaos~ 3,967]

This was the very first thing that i saw that had to do with ponies, if i'd never have seen it, i probably wouldn't be a Brony right now.

 

[~Sugar Sprinkles~ 638]

my friend lol, he got me into it

[Radiance64 7,053]

Early last year, I saw some people with pony avatars on a Pokemon forum I used to go to. At least I think that was earliest... could have seen something unknowingly earlier, but idr.

[KakeiTheWolf 652]

A site called Darkspyro. I've been banned no less than 4 times from it (29 if you count alts), and I ended up in their Skype Group. And... lo and behold, they were all bronies. To be fair, I thought bronies were fags because these guys acted like fags. Some to an unnatural degree.

[go away seb 367]

I found these creatures lurking around in GMOD Theater. They took over theater 2 at a set date every day. Eventually the owner went 4Chan on us and banned bronies. Now I am here.

[RBDash 176]

The earliest I can remember is seeing random MLP avatars and posts in the minecraft forum. I'm pretty sure I saw ponies before, but I just wrote them off without thinking about it.

[Rizoel & Crepuscule 491]

The earliest I can remember of FIM would be avatar and signature pictures from the Minecraft and Terraria forums. I didn't become a brony a few months later though, till I realised that these guys were serious about their liking of the show. I found that out because I eventually noticed that the Minecraft and Terraria pony topics in the offtopic board were about 1500 PAGES long.

 

Yes, pages. (And that's not counting the 2 old mega threads they apparently both used to have when they got too full of posts, which were also 1500 pages long.)

 

Then one thing lead to another and then 3 months upon becoming a brony, Twilight would be my waifu up to now.

 

Yeah...

 

I need help.

 

My first encounter with anything brony related in real life? Just a few days ago of this posting, me and my family were travelling on the motorway, when I noticed a red car drive past us.

 

But this was no ordinary car.

 

On the door of the car was a paint job of rainbow dash's cutie mark.

I had some trouble trying not to squee from pony awesomeness. I was surprised no one in my family's car noticed I had my face almost pressed against the glass for about 5 seconds in the direction of the manliest car in the universe.

[Pinkazoid 3,493]

My first encounter was this:

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/wtf-facebook-fan-groups

 

I hadn't watched MLP, and I didn't even watch the show because of this, I forgot about it, and not until 3 days ago did it show up again and I recognized

I started to pay attention when I saw the youtube comments

[caesar15 231]

One word: Forums.

[Count Paradox 3,548]

my friend, who is probably the biggest brony I know, would not keep quiet about it. now, years later, i have become a brony.

[Derpy Hoops 19]

I heard all about it from Youtube

I heard about guys watching MLP and I was like "WHAT?"

 

Then I watched the show and the rest is history....

[pyro pie 68]

I don't remember, mainly because I saw them EVERYWHERE on the internet. No matter what site I went to , there was someone posting pony pictures, so I decided to look at the show, and see what all the fuss was about. Needless to say, it was probably the best decision of my life

[Confetti Nova 58]

This I believe, It was like late summer 2011:

 

 

But I didn't actually watch the show until November.

[Rizoel & Crepuscule 491]

I don't remember, mainly because I saw them EVERYWHERE on the internet. No matter what site I went to , there was someone posting pony pictures, so I decided to look at the show, and see what all the fuss was about. Needless to say, it was probably the best decision of my life

 

That's funny, cause just before I clicked on the play button of the first episode that I decided to watch(Ep1 and 2 of season 2), I literally said out load: "I'm about to make probably the biggest mistake of my life."

 

And I was right. Biggest. Mistake. Ever.

 

...And I wouldn't want it any other way. Because I realised something; I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

[Loona 287]

I don't remember - I just remember seeing bronies on websites.

 

Having never seen any previous generations of My Little Pony , I didn't know what to think of this. I knew My Little Pony was a show aimed for little girls, but I watched it anyway.

 

And I think everypony can figure out what happened next.

[The Tainted One 69]

This is a green text story, so listen, well, read up!

>friend invites me over for game night

>says no games until I watch ponies

>he can't get the videos to work

>I say just forget it and lets just play Halo

>4 hours later

>watch ponies

The rest is, pardon the common usage of the phrase, history.