bet you never thought about this · 5:11pm Jul 2nd, 2015
"They feel that they put so much time and effort into this niche collecting community, and then all of a sudden bronies come out and start getting all this attention," Hayes told Collectors Weekly in 2012. "And it's like, hey, well, what about us? We've been here forever, and nobody seemed to care. But now that there are all these guys in their 20s that are crazy about it, it's suddenly important and it means something."
fucking wow
http://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/my-little-pony-ponyville-bronies-schaumburg/Content?oid=18177842
I like this article because it explained the Shake-Ups in Ponyville to me.