In the beginning, Faust created the Heavens and the Earth.
And Equestria,
with these little horse thingies,
and all was peaceful in the world.
Then a website called 4CHAN got its little gremlin hands on it
and pictures of ponies flooded the metaphorical airwaves.
Ironically or unironically will never actually be determined,
but it got SO bad that the moderators had to ban users from ponyposting
just so that everyone else could get some goddamn peace and quiet.
So these newly-minted BRONIES decided:
"Fine, we'll make our own community."
[Bender]: With blackjack!
[Bender]:With blackjack! and hооkеrs!
And they did!
[Fluttershy]: Approved!
2011 began as the year of the horse
(not actually though,
because the year of the horse technically wasn't until 2014.)
and this funny little pony-related website was created by THIS person
you may not have heard of it though, cause it kinda flew under the radar.
[LOUD EXPLOSION]
March rolled around,
and THIS person started making Eurobeat remixes of music from the show.
I'm sure this will NOT set off a trend of horse music for decades to come.
Speaking of trending horse-related content for decades to come:
[LOUD NUCLEAR ALARM SIREN]
And, wouldn't you know it,
writing about equines started to become really enticing!
But what would happen if a bunch of these antisocial outcasts
decided to meet up in REAL life?
The pony takeover was well underway,
and every major new network and YouTube channel
wanted to take their cheap shot
because...
...well...
...it was easy.
easier than right-clicking an NFT from a cyptobro.
(Ah, it was a simpler time back then.)
In fact it was SO popular to hate on horse
that when the Internet reacted to THEM, they reacted back!
Aand everything was totally okay
and it totally didn't cement the hatred for bronies
for years to come or anything.
[DISCORD]
Huh.
Well, that sounded important.
And this is also important:
[Rainbow Dash]: Careful, Derpy!
[Derpy]: I just don't know what went wrong!
Because that means the RULERS OF HORSE recognise the Brony delegation!
Just don't let the delegation go on a filibuster about "best pony",
unless you wanna break the long-standing congressional record
of 24 hours and 18 minutes.
Then things went CRAZY, mostly after this happened:
[mischievous laughter]
and the FANDOM popped off;
so much music, art, memes and parodies
and loving and tolerating the FUСК out of people
that BronyCon literally exploded!
They even made a whole freaking episode that... wasn't an episode...
...but... was?...
...but... wasn't.
even celebrities got in on the action,
with fans attempting to play detective
to decipher whether their cryptic photos
meant that they were one of them!
after all it was trendy, and all publicity is good publicity.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end...
...and thus, the brony fandom died.
Except, oh wait: no it didn't.
around this time, fans really started THINKING about the show
which leads to the rise of the Brony reviewer,
which is kinda the fandom equivalent of the Greek philosophers of old
except with way more drama and way more getting cancelled on Twitter.
"Brony" has gone super critical!
[EUROBEAT MUSIC]
a deluge of DeviantArt OCs engulfs the Interwebs;
creativity and community is at an all-time high;
"nerd" is finally starting to become "cool"!
Nothing can stop the horse supremacy from-
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Oh, the fandom died again.
[BUCK]: Sadly yes...
...but I lived!
Despite Hasbro's best efforts' anyway.
Brony content creators were hit with more Cs and Ds than my college finals.
It is an era of volatility, yet the show must go on!
After all, there is money to be made.
Season 4 ends in May of 2014 and injects a new spark of energy.
I mean, what else would you wanna call this?
[LOUD BURST OF ENERGY]
OOOOOOOOHHHHH!
[Jules]: This some serious gourmet shіt!
And the pony train kept on rolling.
[DMX The Tank by Koolfox]
Seasons came and went like the rise and fall of historical empires,
conventions spread like wildfire across the globe.
The fandom and the creators crept even closer to becoming a singularity;
that fact became clear in June 2015 with the airing of the 100th episode.
[Dubstep cello remix]
As time went on, bronies became less of a meme fad.
Growth slowed as more casual fans left the community,
but that just meant only the die-hards were left,
the ones in for the long haul,
or those who had so much of their identity
forged by this fandom during their formative years
that they couldn't possibly leave.
Either way, the stubborn bunch of horse nerds refused to die.
New fans still saw a thriving collective, especially when this happened:
GAAHHH!
The herd was in steady state,
with plenty of content creators keeping the flame glowing.
Sure, it wasn't exactly the golden years, but no one was expecting it to last this long,
least of all the bronies themselves.
[assortment of text-to-speech "what the hay" lines]
But as stated before, nothing lasts forever.
BronyCon held its last convention in August 2019,
the largest brony convention in the WORLD with an attendance of over 10,000 people
over its four-day event.
Then after a nine-season run,
in October 2019, nine years after it all began,
the finale of My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic aired.
Many shears were shed, and thus, with the end of the show,
the fandom also came to an end.
BІТСН! AHUH!
Bronies are way too stubborn,
although the hiatus between G4 and G5 was incredibly arduous,
especially since the whole world ended.
[scream]
[more screams]
[LOUD NUCLEAR ALARM SIREN]
[EXPLOSION]
To survive, the fandom had to subsist off of nothing but sunlight,
online conventions,
and THIS:
Thankfully, in October 2021, A New Generation, G5, dropped.
[Gordon Ramsay]: Finally, some good fuсkіng food.
And the fandom saw a surge of new members to join its ranks.
new content creators came out of the woodwork,
and brony veterans returned once more to add to the hype.
That's right: the ride never ends.
After all, this community was supposed to have died
four... five times over by now.
So what does the future hold for the brony community?
If I were to hypothesize:
Probably something with horses?
I dunno, fu-
[door closing]
[Subtitles by Mister Pino]