>>36596891>tfw there at the start around November 2010>tfw first live episode was Applebuck Season after watching pilot and being shocked that I genuinely liked itIt was awesome, I didn't even post on 4chin but I did enjoy hearing about how ponies almost made this site implode with rage. Mostly you got to enjoy the fact that only you and a relatively small amount of people appreciated this show, got to be pleasantly surprised by writing that genuinely wanted to be universally entertaining. Got to see the crazy shit people put on Youtube before everyone needed slick HD cameras.
https://youtu.be/NGSmdOlRokMGot to see greentexts appearing as legit fanfiction on Equestria Daily for fuck's sake, that's how desperate we were for more pony. It was all about the pony. Not about whether it was a "show for little girls" or not, not about the shame of appearing to be or even being a flaming gay faggot, not about whether or not we were still "cool" to outside eyes, or how we could improve the show, it needed no improvement back then, it spoke for itself and didn't even need our shitty fandom, bronies could have evaporated into dust and the show would still be fine, which is why we loved it. We truly did not give a fuck about anything except MOAR PONY.
Basically if you joined after 2011 you'll never really understand what it was like, seeing that little nucleus evolve into a proper fandom. It was a true phenomenon for a few years, until people's shame caught up with them and all the other shit happened.
