>>41489326Despite their being more websites back then, the "scene" on the Internet was actually a lot smaller. So a lot of people that played TF2 also happened to watch MLP (among other shows and anime). Or at the very least, they knew about it. If you played TF2 a lot, you were probably jerking it to anime or digital art in general. And the places that had a lot of digital art back in the day, also had a decent amount of pony art. This video is a good summary of pony art on websites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JRDPciTpgs. The shit that happens when it goes to year 2011 is amazing. Horses appear, and then just literally never start. Within a few years, it's not even fucking close.