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'''My Little Pony: The Show that Changed my Life'''

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Ok, so I know you read that title and are thinking wth did I just read but hear me out. So in the end of 2020, I had a lot of free time to myself since I was at home. Looking back, I was pretty much chronically online cause what else is there to do during a global pandemic? I was scrolling through a bunch of YouTube comments and I saw a couple with a Rainbow Dash pfp. And I was like, you know what, I've seen so many pony pfps and I've heard about the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP FiM for short) so many times for years, I think it's finally time to figure out what this show is about. Fun fact: My first exposure to the fandom was the [https://townsquare.media/site/393/files/2013/09/Redmon-Resume.pdf MLP Resume project]!

So I watched the first three episodes and I was like "Hey, this show isn't that bad!" Going into the show, I expected it to be a very girly show with a lot of feminine aesthetics so I thought I wouldn't enjoy it that much since I'm a dude. But as I watched the show, I realized it's actually pretty entertaining. I love how the show depicted that despite hte personality difference among the Mane 6, they can still get together and be friends. I also adored the songs and really loved the instruments (shout out to my man Daniel Ingram)!

Once I watched those three episodes I kind of put it away for a bit until I randomly remember it in Spring 2022. By this time, I was back on campus and staying in an appt on campus. I decided to revisit the show picking off from where I had stopped and I literally watched the rest of S1 in that one night. It's fair to say I was completely glued and genuinely liked it.

It took me about 3 months to watch all 9 seasons of  the show mainly because I was busy with school and my internship and was exploring the MLP community at the same time. I remember one of my first eposures to the MLP fandom (aka bronices) was with the RC88 8-bit pony covers. At the time, I was trying to get into chiptune music using software like LSDj and famitracker. So when I searched up 8-bit MLP covers on YouTube, his vids were the first to show up. I was super impressed with them cause they sounded so clean and the effects were really well done. I later found out that RC88 did some music for the game Them's Fightin' Herds which is the game that is based on the fangme My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic with original character by Lauren Faust herself!

And since then, it's fair to say I waent down the rabbithole. I qwatched so many MLP fan content like animations, gaming, music, etc. and lowkey I found the fan content so good that in some ways it was even better than the show! It genuinely was so high quality and I could tell the fandom is some of the most dedicated fanbase I have come across on the internet.

Here's a short summary of the top stuff I've seen from the fandom:

* Animations: Snowdrop, Lullaby for a Princess, Friendship is Witchcraft, Minty Root, pony.mov series, 15.ai tax break (last two are parodies)
* Music: '''Vylet Pony''', PrinceWhateverer, 4everFreeBrony, Wooden Toaster, The Living Tombstone, chi-chi, PonyPhonic
* Gaming: pony.town, Them's Fightin' Herds/Fighting is Magic, MegaPony, '''SLHRPG/SLARPG'''

Notice how I bolded Vylet Pony. She's basically my fav artist of all time with Antonymph being the best song she's produced so far. And notice how I also bolded SLHRPG and SLARPG. That's because that is the game that intorudced me to the furry fandom.

I was so hooked. It was such a fun, lighthearded show. Never thought I would become a brony but here I am today. The more I delved into the fandom, the more I enjoyed it. I watched some of the coolest fan animations, fan music, etc. I have ever seen from a fandom. It genuinely has changed my life

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Here's a playlist which I've been saying vids over the years that shows the highlights of the stuff I've watched through in the MLP fandom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB4GkDOY4iI&list=PLzcHTYb1B0-hgMqAtlGoxR3NCjSg2lga-&pp=sAgC