Hello everyone!

A few days ago I just started wondering if other bronies "evolved" just like me.
Who got into the depths of the internet and than overtime they changed into something else furry or something other nameless (such as myself).

Because some of the old brony youtubers evolved, and they changet thier theme, but they are keep making videos just in other subjects.
So im just curious did most of the old bronies turned back to "Normal" or they become part of something else. What do you guys think?

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I used to be pretty into MLP back in high school. It had nice visuals, a decent story, and a lot of quality art around it, so why not? Sure I knew the bad rap the fandom got, but I always thought it was overblown. The longer I stuck around though, and with me going to and staffing an MLP con, the more things I saw that I just didn't want to associate myself with. So I dropped it

As far as others go, I've got friends who did the same as me, and friends who are still into it. No idea how the fanbase is doing now and how it's changed

I hated my high school brony crowd so much, I stopped watching the show halfway through season 3. I don't have the patience of a saint (or a special needs teacher), sorry not sorry.

My experience with bronies taught me that it is impossible to base meaningful friendships on memes and in-jokes alone. I've felt far more secure in social circles where people had the capacity to point out my flaws and offer to help me overcome them, than in circles where my rudeness and lack of social skills were "tolerated" and I was included out of a sense of obligation. Company is not worth mindless conformity.

aurel said:
Love and tolerate trait seems to have been removed by environmental pressures...

nice as that idea sounded at the time, that happening was likely just a matter of time.

I used to be a brony like some others, but then I took the arrow in the knee.

Well, in all honesty, I just simply grew out of the fandom like how I grew out of the Anime fandom a long time ago. I stopped watching the show after finishing Season 3 (Season 4 wasn't out at the time) then stopped following brony sites such as Equestria Daily eventually. It wasn't because of the negative stigma that surrounds the bronydom that drove me away but rather the simple matter of getting bored of it and moving onto other things (such as furrydom).

Knotty_Curls said:
I stopped watching the show halfway through season 3.

aurel said:
A timepoint I see often, ones say it went downhill from there, others say it was awful to that point and unbearable after that.
Though we all know that equestria girls left the fandom scarred.

I also bailed soon after the Canterlot Wedding;
I would refer to the content once Lauren Faust departed the show more as 'unsufferable' rather than 'unbearable', but yeah, semantics ...

Equestria Girls was just the sort of vapid, insipid nonsense specifically targeted at impressionable-princess-consumer-drones that, as I understand it, Lauren was trying to avoid from the get-go.

I would profess the best way for a Brony to evolve, would be to forget about the trainwreck MLP has become, and to fondly sing the songs of the past and reminisce about the times when the insecurities brought about by virginity and ostracization were mitigated by pony friendship.

My MLP fandom has been dormant. I haven't watched the fourth Equestria Girls film(?) and have only watched the first two episodes of season 6.

I'm also RIDICULOUSLY backtracked on the MLP IDW comic books and cards.

Tbh, I always thought the "love and tolerate" garbage was something the original fanbase (4chan members) made up to troll people.

I never called myself a "brony" because of how idiotic the word sounds, and the image it was quickly being associated with, but I did enjoy the show for the first two seasons. It was because of Lauren Faust's work. And like many others, I stopped watching after season 3 when they removed her.

I'll never forget 2010-2012 when the fandom was at its peak. So many great things came from it :)

I was the most obnoxious kind of fan. It was terrible.

I've never been a brony, and I won't ever be, but I can see some of the passion that goes into that fandom also going into the furry fandom as well. We all love something, but there's a point where people take their fandoms a little too seriously.

I had a frien-emy in high school (I hated them so much, but we both had a cocky attitude, so like-minds think alike or whatever). They were into Pokemon, MLP and AOT so much to the point that if you even mentioned any of those around them, they (they're transgender, so I don't want to be offensive by identifying them by one gender when they may or not be that) would freak out and give you a twenty-minute explanation of why that show is the best. They would take everything out of context, and I couldn't stand it.

I had another friend who was the complete opposite. He liked both furries and MLP, but he wouldn't get all up in your shit if you said something negative about it. Most of the time's he'd actually agree with you.

Moral of the story is don't be super anal-retentive about something. Unless it's programming. Then you kind of have to be.

As to the OP, while I haven't evolved, not being a brony and all, I haven't seen many bronies evolve at all. Not to be rude or anything (even though I know I'm going to offend someone), but I think it's the fact that the show is directed at the 5-12 year old audience that kind of slows that evolution and maturing that every fandom needs to go through.

meh, i think i watched the show up till the DBZ fight of warrior princess twilight sparkle vs tirek. don't think i watched much, if any, more than that.

past that, i haven't seen an MLP romhack in quite a while. plus i think that one fan game site eventually just went under as activity slowed to pretty much nothing with no new updates or anything being posted. :/

i think my main activity regarding MLP;FIM is reading the occasional fanfic whenever one i have gets updated or if i happen to go browsing for another to read. i try to keep the word count in the 10k+ range when doing a search though so as to find lengthier and...usually better stories.