One of my friends,
called me on Skype on day and said, "hey, have you seen this show? My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's so good."
And I was like, "Isn't that like a show for little girls?"
I wanted to have a show about six characters,
six girls, six ponies who were friends with one another.
And next thing I know I was kind of leaning forward into my monitor and I was like, "This show is amazing."
The show itself, is extremely well done.
The art is fantastic. The writing is wonderful,
and the voice acting is just impeccable.
"Dear Princess Celestia, today I learned."
There's this huge movement of guys that are just so into the show.
"Ponies!"
It's not a show that you'd expect a lot of people my age and older to watch.
How you doing?
♪ "I'm not a fan of puppeteers but I've a nagging fear someone else is pulling at the strings. Something terrible is going down through the entire town..." ♪
We have musicians,
we have artists, and they're all professionals.
There's like armies of professionals, it's crazy.
♪ "He was different, from the rest of the world" ♪
I was just sitting here, I was just living day to day.
I didn't really have anything to look forward to. As soon and ponies came into my life I was like, "Wow, I never want the day to end."
If you choose to be a Brony in the Appalachia Mountains you're gonna have problems.
They had tire irons, baseball bats.
They're all laughing and calling names, gay, girly, queer.
Sometimes I'll just listen to a lesson and go, "Oh yea, why didn't I think of that?"
Before I watched the show I was kind of sad and lonely.
And he said, "What would you think mom if I said I really liked My Little Pony?"
Here initial reaction was a bit like, "na..."
"I'd be worried about you Lyle." I'm not interested in watching My Little Pony.
Well, when I heard about BronyCon I decided that I really wanted to go.
My son was hell bent on going, so I feel like I got roped into it.
Just being out of the norm.
Well, out of their norm.
They just don't like that. I'm going to be who I am and nobody is going to tell me otherwise.
Now I'm here 900 miles at the biggest con
Four times the population of my town is in this builidng
Before i was a Brony I had about seven friends.
When I become a Brony,
I had about a few hundred.
Bronies are some of the nicest
most accepting people that I've ever meet. It doesn't matter your age, your gender. No matter who
you are you can find a place in this fandom and you can be accepted.
I wouldn't be surprised if My Little Pony has
a hand in changing how people see things.
I think it makes these little tweaks on people to sort of go "oh, okay."
These Bronies are taking these lessons to heart.
We need to allow men to be
sensitive and to care about one another and not
call them weak for caring.
♪ "Come on everypony, smile, smile, smile. Fill my heart up with sunshine, sunshine. All I really needs a smile, smile, smile" ♪
♪ "from these happy friends of mine" ♪
♪ "We're a long way from Equestria. Long, long way." ♪