My story as a brony · 8:18pm Oct 7th, 2012
After that failure of a blog post (1 comment [my own]), I thought I should post one which had at least some interesting content. Here is my not-particularly-amazing story of how I became a brony.
You probably don't know this, but I am a big fan of Vsauce. For anyone who doesn't know, Vsauce is a YouTube channel run mainly by a guy called Michael Stevens. He posts educucational science-y videos as well as various shows about other peoples creations, the best images of the week and more.
Anyhow, I've been a Vsaucer (as the fans are called) for around a year now. Vsauce has a Facebook page where ordinary people can post images and whatnot for everyone to see. As it turned out, a few months ago it was raided by quite a few pony pictures. Seeing these photos was what sparked my curiosity. From reading the comments, I realised that these pictures were from a TV show called 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'. Soon, I was introduced to the word 'brony'. I never took much of an interest in it, but as the flow of pony pics increased and I began to spot them on other websites, I knew that something had to be up with this. I watched the a Know Your Meme video on MLP; after a bit of thinking, I decided to find out what this was all about.
One day sometime around May 2012, I typed in one thing into my iPad.
"My Little Pony Theme
Unfortunately, it happened to be the G1 theme. After about 30 seconds, I quit the video and went about my daily business.
A few weeks later, for some reason, I tried again. This time, I only typed in 'My Little Pony'. My intention was to load up the first actual episode I spotted. Scanning the screen, I noticed one called 'Read it and Weep'. Since I could recall only one character's name at the time (Pinkie Pie), I didn't really know what to make of it. The storyline didn't seem to be too bad, but my masculine instincts told me exactly what I was doing (watching a show called My Little Pony). At around 8 minutes, I turned it off and once again went about my daily business.
Then, I got this urge to see what it was about for real. I can't remember the exact date, but it must have been near the 20th July 2012. I typed in 'My Little Pony Season 1 Episode 1'. It began.
"The night shall last FOREVER! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
The credits rolled on. I was, simply put, interested. I quickly found episode 2 in the related videos list and played it.
With that over, I watched episode 3.
I can't remember what happened next. I probably watched episode 4, but who cares? I was already hooked on a show within the space of two hours.
Over the next few days, I continued watching more and more episodes. Once I finished season 1, I felt it necessary to check out what the fandom had to offer. I had manys a time seen something called 'My Little Dashie' mentioned around the Internet. Feeling curious once again, I googled it. So began my intense love for fanfiction. Not much more than a month later, I created this account. Now, it is rapidly expanding, as well as my somehow massive knowledge of the show and its fandom.
In case anyone asks the following question:
"Have you had any embarrassing moments as a brony?"
Only one. I was recalling the characters to my brother when au was only a few episodes in, when I mistakenly said 'Applejunk'. He somehow corrected me. 
I hope that was an amazingly enticing story. Leave your thoughts in the comments. As an added bonus, how did you become a brony?
That seems like a typical story of someone getting into this show, Thoughtful! I myself do not consider myself a 'brony', and in fact, dislike the term. I'm just a fan of it, same as I am a fan of so many other things.
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Oh.
Well, maybe I just posted it out there so I don't have to dot again when I possibly become famous within the fandom?
Optimism levels maximum.
Anyway, my opinion on the term 'brony':
It seems to be widely accepted by most of the fans, so I personally just go with the flow, but when I think of the matter properly, I guess the initial word 'bro' doesn't really suit me… at all. Maybe I should rethink my way of addressing myself?
409477 I didn't mean 'typical' in a bad way! Just making an observation...
And call yourself what you want. Anything you call yourself is fine, after all.
DID I TELL YOU MY BRONY STORY ALREADY? I tell you this, I read Cupcakes (It was funny.) first on a one week laze in my bed, then I kept getting other stories read on Youtube, so I didn't hear about My Little Dashie, but when I did, I swore that I would never read it.