First MLP related thing you saw?

[Megas 27,675]

My friend's avatar and gif on another forum

[baltoist 303]

The Star Scream VS Rainbow Dash death battle.

[Snowbrezze 100]

watching transformers 4 then i saw rainbow dash

[Teen Buscemi 135]

A friend showed me the song "Apples to the core" and it made me love Big Mac...that cutie pie *Squee*

[Frostgage 7,975]

The "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" Rainbow Dash video.

 

 

I'd imagine a lot of people have the same answer.

[GONEFOREVER 518]

Looking up Offspring music videos. I found one called "Rainbow Dash sings You're gonna go far kid" Then it was a series of internet searches until what I found out about the entirety of MLP.

[Hovershy 3,814]

I was looking up a song by the offspring and I found this video,

 

 

I was like  , this actually looks really awesome, I'm gonna give the show a chance. So I did, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.

 

edit: lol, just noticed, everyone started with that video! 

Edited July 22, 2014 by Hovershy

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

Somebody on one of my old forums had a pony avatar and made a thread about them. Those images were my first exposure to FiM that I can recall. Might have seen a few pictures elsewhere before but thought not much of them.

[mars 4,862]

I stumbled upon this:

 

I had heard about the show prior, but this got me to watch the show.

[The Last Derp 113]

After seeing Avast Fluttershys A**, and a few other PMVs, I finnaly searched up the show, watched it and was instantly hooked.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,860]

Well, first thing I saw was an Applejack avatar on a Cr1TiKaL video - the guy with it was getting thrashed.

As for first thing to actually watch, I saw it on the sidebar of another YouTube video:

 

I was actually turned off by it. I didn't hold anything against bronies, but I didn't like it. Then I decided to watch an episode to see why the guys liked it so much, got hooked, and fell in love with Rarebear

[Cirrus. 1,089]

The first things I saw were pony avatars on unrelated stuff but didn't know or care what they were from.

 

In late fall of '13 I saw a parody of Powerpuff Girls on TV and recognized that Bubbles' voice was original. I found out it was Tara Strong. I looked her up and saw she was on My Little Pony and was kind of shocked and amused that they were still making that crappy show.

 

I decided to look it up just to laugh at how crappy it was and how dumb of a character she was voicing. I HAD NO IDEA what I was about to fall into.

 

after typing my little pony into YouTube I clicked on something that looked the most interesting. It was an animated video with Vinyl Scratch. I was like     ??????

 

One of the next things was the "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" video that a lot of people have posted already and I was still like   ??????

 

What REALLY got my interest was the "Children of the Night" video.

 

 

I was blown away at how well it was done by ONLY 2 PEOPLE!!!! I also like darker type stuff and liked the vocals in the song. For those who don't know- the singer recorded everything (including the instruments) in her apartment closet on a laptop!!! I also had more of an appreciation for it because I've always liked detailed/smooth animation and have worked with flash and know the enormous amount of work that would have been involved. But the question was still WHY- AND WHY THIS SHOW?!?!?

 

Eventually I figured that out and here I am.

Edited July 23, 2014 by steve88

[chanseychansey77 7]

I was a member on Serebii.net Forums, a Pokemon forum, when the whole thing started. Seemed like everyone and their brother had either rainboom or pony avatars/signatures. I had no clue what it was about back then, but now I have a better idea.

[ChangelingPhilosophy 45]

I think I fell across some parody of "Its about time" I tried finding more to it, and found other videos.

[Jennabun 1,579]

If we're talking about any gen here, the first MLP thing I ever encountered in life were some G1 toys at the local antique mall! I thought they were pretty and I played with them in the bath when I was very young.

 

As far as G4, the first time I encountered it and fully realized that they did a reboot was at the mall. I was at either Hot Topic or Claire's and saw a Rainbow Dash necklace. I was like "Ooooh, ponies! Yay!" and I bought it without even watching the show first haha. I later looked up the episodes online, and now I'm obsessed.

[Live Forever 316]

I was watching an AwfulFawfultheFalafe YTP based on the Krusty Krab Training Video, and there was a lot of MLP references.

[AveryGamerDude 4,640]

Are we talking about Friendship is Magic or are we talking anything, including G3 and below?

[\/ 651]

I remember, sometime as a 4 year old child (I think), I saw a part of an episode of My Little Pony. No idea what generation, no idea of anything. I remember one pony talking to another telling her not to move a muscle and to stay put until she came back. That is it, all I can remember. But still, that is my first experience, second being my sister's My Little Ponies.

[Denim&Venöm 19,063]

May 2011. While waiting for the Trigun/Phoenix Wright crossover panel, I was attending a "How to DJ" panel at the Anime Central convention. The dude had his wallpaper up on screen. 
 
It looked something like this. 
 

I was thinkin, "that's a pony from a little girls show. O.k., not too unusual. There are guys who still like powerpuff girls. And I'm at an Anime convention for crying out loud." 
 
 "But the pony, it's a DJ too? Since when do shows for little girls and children have DJ's in them? What is a DJ doing in a show taking place in the magical fairy tail land of talking colored horses? How do you even cram a DJ into a TV-Y toddlers show anyways?"

 
I had no frickin clue that I had stumbled upon my first pony, and my destiny...

Edited July 25, 2014 by Denim&Venom

[Rainblow H. Ash 5,091]

Speaking purely of G4...

 

The first I ever saw of it was on a forum back in 2011. I had been gone for a few months, and when I came back to the forum, everyone had pony avatars.

 

The first avatar I saw was this:

 

 

Rarity being a silly pony was literally the first I had ever seen or heard of the show.

 

I was... confused, to say the least.

[Spagem 505]

If I remember right, the first time I saw MLP:FiM stuff was from avatars on websites like Nintendo Life and Youtube. 

 

I assumed the people with said avatars were teenage girls or something... but the avatars were everywhere... so I thought something might be up.   I later found out about bronies, and that explained everything. 

[Skye 463]

If we're going by G4, then it had to be this video.
 

[Thunderlane 550]

Then after seeing this I searched for more my little pony and well, we all know the rest.

 

 

[FlutterFan18 4]

I saw this teens react video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FzozSSGETJo#

and ,although it was mostly negative, I kept an open mind and decided to watch the show before making a decision (not just the theme). Most bronies seem to have watched another episode first but I started with season 1: episode 1 and 2 and loved them, I then watched all the other episodes and I am now a brony. That was almost exactly a year ago.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

My first encounter with mlp was hearing about and reading the infamous fanfic Cupcakes bu Sergeant Sprinkles. it took a while to warm up to the show but I gained a lot of interest after reading that.