#mylittlepony - #An anniversary question: What originally got you into the fandom?

An anniversary question: What originally got you into the fandom?

As we now tick past eight years of the glorious madness that is this fandom, our gazes inevitably turn back - to our first moments of discovery, to the delightful revelation that not just did we enjoy this, but that there were others who enjoyed it too. Or perhaps you found the fandom before the show?

Now, wonder, what did originally draw all of you to this? Some of you, of course, are varying degree of "new" - though with our run now this long this can mean anything from "a few weeks" to "a few years". Others of you have been on this ride since the earliest seasons and from-nowhere explosion of popularity we rocketed skyward with.

So with this I ask: Without using the hindsight of things you've grown to appreciate now, what did you find promising or attractive about the show or fandom when you first found it? What made it stand out, at the time, to you? A character? A fanwork? An opinion, theory, or sub-group in the fandom?

EDIT: Stories about how you stumbled on the show are fine, but I'm mostly curious about what appealed to you when you did find it.

Submitted October 11, 2018 at 01:00PM by Logarithmicon
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