How did you first enter the fandom?

[NightHorse666]

All of this happened during the summer of 2012, when I was on a trip to Maine with my grandparents.

I was really into Happy Tree Friends at the time, and I also wanted to start making AMV's. So I made a youtube channel (xXTheHTFGodXx, if anyone is wondering). After I put out 3 or 4 videos, there were 2 people that subscribed to me (one of which I am very close friends with now).

Back then, I would subscribe to anyone who subscribed to me (I stopped doing that, as there's quite a bit of subscribers now). Anyway, this was when youtube still had the setup where it would show videos that channels you were subscribed to would like/favourite. Those 2 were heavily into the show, so every time I got on there, there would be a pony video of some sort in my feed.

I ignored it for a while, but I got interested by it. One night, at about 4 in the morning, I couldn't seem to fall asleep, so I decided to watch an episode on my phone. First episode I saw was Read It and Weep (Se2Ep16). There wasn't anything that immediately caught me, but there also wasn't anything that I hated. I didn't think too much of it. However, a couple of nights later, I was up again at 4 in the morning, due to my inability to sleep. I found myself wanting to watch it again, so I watched Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 (Se2Ep15). Again, nothing in particular grabbed me and made me love it, but I did want to see more. I then watched either Fall Weather Friends (Se1Ep13), or Party of One (Se1Ep25), I don't recall which. That's when I realised I was hooked.

After that, I just accepted that I was a brony. I didn't really want to admit it, due to one of my friends mocking me for it, but he soon got into the show (although he's an anti-brony now).

Anyway, that's my story. Ironic how a show about viciously maiming animals got me into a show about technicoloured ponies discovering the wonders of friendship.