MLP fan watches the awful Brony Documentary 

I was a gay kid watching this documentary and this made me feel so bad I had to trick myself into thinking I was Bi

Funny how they made being gay an insult and then half the fandom comes out gay or trans, so many bronies have come out it’s actually funny

5:57 back then being called gay was indeed the worst thing to happen to a straight Christian male who was not following their Father's workout routine

Mostly unrelated but that brief pic of a dad in a genderbent Rarity cosplay holding his baby in a little Spike onesie is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.

"I'm not gay. I'm not gay!" i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a rainbow dash keychain

''babe wake up our goddess Shunks just posted''

I believe the GAY thing in the earlier one, is because back in 2012, and earlier, most people thought that only GAY people and little girls could enjoy a franchise that it's “for girls”. Like the stereotype of a Gay man, who enjoys Barbie and MLP, it always existed. Maybe because I'm in my 30s now, and I was in my early 20s when the show started, but many heterosexual men were too afraid to openly say they enjoy it, fearing a lot fo be called gay to enjoy something that was created for “little girls”. It happens a lot with media that it's targeted for women, many hetero-cis man feel conflicted about enjoying, the fear to be called GAY it's too strong in them. It happens a lot in “girly” fandoms, and I'm saying this as a cis-woman who enjoys both girly and boyish stuff. But you never see a woman who openly enjoys something like Batman, and other women calling them GAY, usually the men call us FAKE or TRY HARD, but they never question our sexuality. Our society tends to scoff at feminine media, regardless of quality. MLP was a surprise, because it was one of the first franchises that a male audience gave it a chance and saw-hey, this is not bad? Because they were conditioned to view feminine stuff as inferior.

I love how they specified that those were "brony psychologists". Like bronies are so special that they need their own line of therapy. Not the brag they thought it was.

This documentary also made me want to go to Bronycon sooooo bad as a kid. I remember getting into a debate with my brother on whether it would be cooler to go to Bronycon or Minecon. Which is maybe the most early 2010s argument anyone has ever had.

tbh there's probably a whole brand new documentary that could be made about how MLP and bronydom became a safe way for closeted queer people to experiment with "feminine" interests and presentation. it had a built in supportive community that didn't make fun of you for being "male" and enjoying the pretty girl horse show, and that probably made it a lot easier for some folks to come to terms with their own identity.

The beginning was extremely cursed DHDHFH

I saw this when I was in college and I remember feeling negatively about it. Almost all the bronies they interviewed were like “Hi, I’m a brony. But I’m not gay cause I like a cartoon for girls.” Which as a gay mlp fan, didn’t feel greats

Ngl when I watched it as a kid it made me embarrassed to like the show 😭

It was cringe when I watched it in 2013 and it's still cringe over a decade later. I only appreciate it as a strange novelty and it serves as a time capsule for how the fandom was during its infancy. This was when season 2 started and 4chan threads were still growing, this was when Equestria Girls was in pre-production and when brony con didn't hit their peak attendance.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I personally still like "The Brony Chronicles" I feel it had a lot of charm to it, and it really takes me back to when I was a kid and fascinated with the fandom. Just seeing how the fandom was back then. Also, it's just nice hearing a Saberspark who isn't scared to talk about how he was a brony, as if it's horrible. Man partially became the thing he disagreed with back in the doc. Still one of my favorite creators. I just find it sad how jaded he is with MLP now.

Vividly remember finding this on Netflix as a 9-10 year old and becoming oddly obsessed with it, watching it on loop with the occasional Shrek the musical break

I remember there was an era where it was common to post about one's "coming out" as a brony. I was a girl and thus left out of this but I felt the need to come out as a brony as well. People thought I was weird for watching a show made for kids and I suddenly realized there is like no reason for me to randomly "come out" that I watched a cartoon. Like, I always thought we shouldn't care what other people enjoyed watching but it doesn't mean I need to shine a spotlight on me and scream "I WATCH CARTOONS MADE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN" to everyone

People have laughed at me for constantly saying that many modern fandoms feel less like "people who like the same piece of art" & more like cults, but the Brony doc feels like the Patient Zero in that phenomenon, right down to trying to brush off the darker sides of the fandom.

5:02 "oh, it's just the living tombstone. The Living Tombstone? oh my God it's the living tombstone!" *Discord riff*

There's a joke here about how a lot of bronies insisting they weren't gay were indeed correct, and they actually ended up being lesbian trans women later in life, but I can't figure it out. (Also oh my God I didn't know there were THREE documentaries? I knew there were two, but THREE?)

Oh man, I still have these documentaries downloaded to my external hard drive. I was in my "download everything" phase, so there's a crazy amount of mlp fan media on there. Every time one of these released, my friend group and I would just go feral about watching and reviewing it lol I'll set a little stage: It's a regular morning in highschool. Kids are waiting with friends for classes to start and teachers are preparing for the first wave of students. An unsuspecting substitute teacher opens the computer lab door to find a group of 7 teens commentating on "Meet the Bronies" playing from the overhead projector. One of them is taking notes on a white board of how many times each of the mane 6 is shown on screen. Another holds a paper fan to slap the guy who keeps saying "hoof bump" whenever someone on screen touches something. It's not a regular morning in highschool.

As someone who was a brony in high school during this time period I honestly just remember being kinda awful, especially when it came to 18+ content and how brazzen people would be with it. I do miss some of the aspects and the community as a whole but there were so many creepy dudes who were VERY homophobic for a show about friendship and kindness

That intro was beautiful

The documentry really loves those rose tinted glasses,beccause it seems to only to talk about all the "good" things bronies have done, however considering all the harassment and grooming bronies have done i feel like portraying the entire fanbase as nice people is harmful

“Mr. 9/11” and his son went to my church. Very nice people. I remember when they were big into MLP and I didn’t get it. I talked to them about it a few times and watched the first few seasons.

On the "But I'm not gay" bit at the end, that is something that i am thankful has changed significantly since the show started. e.g. for all of my life, being called gay was among the highest insults a man could have lobbed at him .. more so than even rape or criminality. At least in the last few years among folks under 30, the sentiment has been more "so what" than anything else ,. at least in progressive circles. Can't speak for bigots as I don't keep the company of them. Which is good even in a MLP fandom sense as the early years were indeed very "bro" heavy in the fandom. At least between stuff revolving around 4chan in some circles, the abuse I suffered at bronycon as a transwoman early on and just the general undercurrent of dudes let loose from the frathouse while in Baltimare.

Good thing it wasn't the Brony documentaries that exposed me to the fandom, For me it was the FIM series itself. And besides I've never bothered to watch the full documentary nope and I don't think I ever will I mean I've only ever seen clips of it, And that's good enough for me.

It's clear 9/11 caused MLP gen 4. Idk how you could miss that.

I'm so glad the phrase "Mother bearing hips" is catching on in one way or another.

this video made me realize something. there are a lot of videos & stuff which are like "I SPENT A DAY WITH A FURRY???" or like "I WENT TO A FURRY CONVENTION????" & i always thought they were odd & otherizing even if people would post them & talk about them as being perfectly in good taste, because to me the idea of suggesting that furries were somehow different enough from a "normal" person & needed to be analyzed was odd. i'm not a furry, but like i have multiple friends who are & its such a small part of them, i really don't see it as different from any other fandom. to an extent even though i'm not a furry i understand the sub culture to the extent i don't otherize them, so to me these videos from an outsider's perspective feel weird & pointless, but not everyone is like me. these videos make furries out to be weird eccentric people on the surface because thats how they feel to outsiders who might want to otherize or be needlesly mean to furries. these videos catch their eye & since its going in with an outsider's POV its showing them how furries are in fact normal people at the end of the day. the first brony doc didn't do that & as a result arguably worsened the view of bronies to the ousiders who watched it.

Early 2010s was a weird time

I mean, yes, I get that it sounds a bit like 'We aren't like, GAY you know how yucky!' but I do also think that it's a lot of people assuming that one HAS to be gay to like ponies. Which is like, a big problem (or at least was back then). I mean, I'm gay and I do like funny lil horseys, but it does feel like if you admit you like toys at all, especially those for girls, you get 'gay' used as an insult. Arguably, some bronies were really overshooting it a bit - in an attempt to make it clearer to people who aren't in the group that it's not all weird... well, you know. IYKYK. - in an attempt to do that they just make it weird again. Like 'GUYS I AM NOT WEIRD!!! while grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them.

I feel it is important to point out how until shockingly recently, being closetedly gay was often seen as being "interested" in minors and that underlying homophobia along with the fact the show was targeted at children led to a lot of the online community being labeled as p#$ophiles, whixh could go a long way to explaing the staunch denile of being gay. Not to excuse it, just something i remember from being a fan back then that a lot of people don't ever seem to touch on.

in france a journalist made a ""documentary"" in like 2013 about bronies, and its like garbage its saying 90% of bronies clopping but its a sort of dark secret in the fandom and other things like that 😭

I’m genuinely curious how a Brony documentary would go these days, now that being a Brony isn’t as big as it used to be (and a lot of the fanbase is now prominently queer, trans, and ND AF)

that shedmov derpy toaster hat at 14:05 is batshit. a relic of the past

The opening is so funny it actually feels like something you would see in one of these.

I exist within the furry fandom more but the similarity between all of these and the furry docs are funny af

Oh the clasic catchphrase "It's brony don't question it".

when i was 9, i met dustykatt at a con in milwaukee (chaperoned ofc) bro got down on his knees and was incredibly kind since i was so shy. he gifted me his trading card from twilight’s secret shipfic folder tcg and i still have it lol. bronies were super kind back in the day.

Okay, but are you the gay?

I am honestly considering doing a video about the bizarre history of people going "no homo" throughout the history of post world war 2 media. Cause there is so much to cover. You got the Mccarthy era and then stonewall, the aids pandemic, seinfeld, the 2000s internet , the legelization of gay marriage and so on. Throughout all these decades did the context of "I'm not gay" change considerably. There is this old youtube video of two guys lip syncing to "The Gay Barbie Song" and at the end of the credits they included this little blurp that simply said "we're not actually gay" . It felt so silly that I had to consider what made them do that in the first place.

Shunks really just went "it's shunksing time" and shunksed all over the place

12:51 he attended a brony convention last year. I saw him. I wouldn't call that former

The only one I've seen is the first one, which I watched as a teen back in 2014. I'm a fan who got into MLP through G3 and G1, was a HUGE fan of MLP tales. I HAAATE the lines the song has about the older gens! Those were my childhood ponies!! It acts like they were all flops with no fans, when in reality there were a bunch of dedicated fan sites, fan art and customs in the late 90s/early 2000s. THOSE fan sites were my introduction to MLP fandom before MLP:FiM even existed! And yeah, the lack of representation for female fans also annoyed me when I watched it as a teen girl. It still made me want to go to Bronycon, but I had some gripes, lol!

Okay, so this is how I find out SABER FUCKING SPARK was a brony back in the day???

Thanks for mentioning SoCal Bronies meetups. We are still going and I have been hosting some meetups. Great video.

I’m so glad this wasn’t my first exposure to the fandom

I just find it really weird how in order for a bunch of men to like a cartoon targetted towards little girls, they had to make it edgy and masculine. Like why cant they just learn to enjoy feminine shows without making it all marvel humor, edgy and masculine. There is nothing wrong with femininity, there is nothing wrong with grown men enjoying a feminine show. But like jenny nicholson said, they basically took over the fandom and you had new episodes starting to cater more to these adult men rather than the original audience. I still enjoyed mlp all the seasons. But, its like women can enjoy shows targetted towards men and no woman takes over the fanbase, like a girl can enjoy marvel shows, and she can enjoy star trek ect. None of theese shows try to make things more feminine for the girl. And its seen as cool for a woman to like a masculine show. But its seen as weird when a man likes a feminine show so then they overcompensate by making the show as meme 4-chan worthy as possible. Its just misogyny at the end of the day.

My stepdad actually found the brony documentary when looking for something on cable TV and he recorded for me and I liked it then a year later I attended BronyCon in 2014 my first convention. After that I saw the Brony Tale doc on Netflix and watched it after learning about at that same BronyCon I attended.

NEW SHUNKS LETS GO

YAYY!! I love your vids

Dude I didn't plan for ponies to be the main thing to happen to me in my 20s. College is cool and new job is awesome same as career, but pony is what I tend to look back at. Its not something I was planning to do for so long, but it kind of ended up being that way. Life is a funny thing.

Still manifesting an Mlp theory retrospective video Also great video as always lol

that intro tho

I am in the documentary for like a fraction of a second in the crowd of the German Bronycon✨👌

queen shunks im so glad to see your channel growing

I adored and still adore My Little Pony and the fandom. I became acquainted with the fandom after reading the fanfic Anthropology, and I watched the show itself for the first time in 2015 when I was at school. I watched it and immediately fell in love with it and all the characters. In my opinion, they were well-developed and even alive, as if you wanted to get to them and communicate with them. I know it’s strange, but that’s how I felt the first time I watched it. I hope the fandom survives and continues to live, even after the end of the series.

Dumbsville is the reason I know this “documentary” exists.

I had no idea any of these documentaries existed before this video lol I did watch that first documentary and as someone who isn't a Brony I thought it was fine for what it was and I did like the bronies that made music around the show.

I have a derpy t-shirt

I remember watching that MLP documentary back in the day and didn't really see anything wrong with it but hey I was young back then and very convinced by the whole thing. I feel like something like this can be done so much better its heart is in the right place but over time it just hasn't aged all that well. But hey it did get me more into documentaries more so there is that. The other two are a little bit better for the most part and I do remember showing my aunt the documentary done by Saber and we both enjoy it for what it was at the time.

11:05 The sun being replaced by the clopper who called his Dad up was a very nice touch, had me cracking up

0:10 did they turn him into a lincolnlooker?

Was going to type a massive essay- Tldr- grew up as a teen liking mlp Suffering oh im trans and autistic nice I miss mlp :( “eeeyikes i cant just simply enjoy things like i used to” mlp being a cure for that it feels good being able to express just the raw innocence in me, bc most times in the world i just feel like being loving and goofy means nothing it should but the world kind of commands you to be selfish and bla bla im just grateful, and glad i can express it more now nvm it was still an essay. rip if anyone sees this silly comment and resonates cool uhm sorry and man certain things in the fandom grossed me out so bad i had to have breaks from seeing mlp stuff, so i didnt taint my nice feelings im still goofy like that. i dont want my lalala yippee times ruined by… 4chan moments 💀 But srs some of the shit i saw when i was like 12 i would actually be like crying like why did i have to see that oh well Sorry for this lengthy 4am comment youtube comments are a bit of an echo chamber anyways

This just unlocked a childhood memory of mine lmao😭 i remember watching this when i wad SUPER into mlp and wishing i could go to one of these conventions so badly😓

I’m a brony and a furry and I can say both fandoms are VERY similar and similarly hated

oh yo i sorta vaguely remember watching "the brony chronicles" i don't feel like "bronies" had any malicious intent, part of me wonders if it was intended to have the same cheesy vibe that seasons 1 and 2 had, but i still think it's definitely a product of its time like not intentionally homophobic, a lot of them not immediately equating being gay to being morally wrong (that one guy saying "smart heterosexual men" definitely put up a red flag, but a lot of the bronies themselves i feel like weren't very likely coming at it with that same lense) its not much improved nowadays, especially for me since i live in the southern US, but in that time it could potentially be dangerous to be outed as queer, which is part of why i feel like people were so defensive, it was a matter of actual safety since if their parents thought they might have been gay, they could be kicked out or face abuse. even still, there's people even just in my own group of friends that can't be out to their parents as a matter of safety, even now in 2024, for those very same reasons. (and having met some of their parents since we used to do theatre together, i can confirm that would NOT be safe, one of them is a raging alcoholic) i don't really know what the outcome would be, but i also can't safely be out to anyone in my family _except_ my parents and an aunt on my mom's side (extended family, super close friend of hers from hs who also stayed in the area) so if i was a macho masculine man in 2010 in contact with all my family, and i happened to become a fan of my little pony, i would kinda HAVE to get defensive for my own safety though i do think it says a lot how times have changed since then to the point a lot of people just don't really think about that, potential abuse for being queer wouldn't really cross a lot of people's minds, still got a long ways to go especially Down Yonder Yeehaw but idk, it's comforting to be like "oh dang where we are now is nowhere near the same as back then" lol tldr us _Queers_ were MUCH more of a punching bag a decade ago than we are now, but bc of that we now have the privilege of looking back and not even considering that "IM NOT GAY" was actually a matter of not getting beat, kicked out, or thrown in a camp

Being on the internet in the early 2010s, 2012 especially, was a very fun time, but I do remember that whole being gay is horrible thing back then, especially with a lot of people calling stuff gay as an insult, that was so popular!

The whole gay aspect of it was well intentioned at the time I just think they didn’t stop to consider how it would come across to someone who was actually gay. The point they kept trying to stress is that it’s silly to enforce these strict gender expectations and men can enjoy traditionally “girly” things just as women can enjoy traditionally “masculine” things. It was a very outdated mentality and the whole brony phenomenon did kinda challenge it, they just should have thought it through a bit more and not alienated their gay audience. Also fun fact, I’m pretty sure Ashleigh Ball’s documentary was actually filmed before the John de Lancie one. The convention she ends up going to is the second ever Bronycon which happened in like December 2011 or January 2012, a few months before the big Bronycon.

me when i have that exact same derpy is best pony shirt

I didn't care for the Bronies doc as a kid, but I really liked Ashleigh Ball's "A Brony Tale", which I saw at a special screening in a Seattle theatre (with my mother), which was quite embarrassing but I still remember it being good. I haven't been able to rewatch either doc in many years now due to them not being on any streaming service I've had. It's well and high time I face the high tide and sail onto the high seas...

I've never seen any of those in full, but I absolutely hate that the John De Lancie has gratuitous older gens slander. I know "g3 is awful kill it with fire" was the general sentiment back then but damn does it feel bad to have an official documentary straight up joke about how g3 is so awful it made derpy go cross-eyed Also you just made me realize I have no clue what dustykatt did back in the day aside from being the token super masculine brony in bronies react

This doc came out when I was 13, and I loved it because of how it essentially sanitized the fandom. It made us look good, and non threatening to outsiders. Idk, I remember always justifying my prolonged interest in mlp by insisting that because men liked it, it was like, worthy, quality media. Even though I was literally THE target audience for the show, I had too much internalized misogyny to allow myself to like it without the validation of the brony fandom. As I got older I definitely separated myself from the label of "brony" and shifted my main fandom aspirations to furry shit, but I never missed a Saturday morning daily motion upload of the latest episode. At the time, this doc was a HUGE deal though, and I also have an overwhelming amount of nostalgia for that era of the fandom. Also, yeah the queerphobia back then was weird. We were all SO closeted back then. It's literally just like that stupid meme. If you were a brony in 2012, now you're either gay or a nazi lmaoooo

i'm trans and a lesbian wtf is this prophecy

i saw that bronies doc on netflix back when i was a kid and idek why i watched it 😭 i was still a girl and not online at the time so i had no idea what any of it was abt. my whole family thought it was weird but i just liked the animated bits. the only part i can really remember now is this dude talking abt how his gf got him into it and the part abt the military guy.

How interesting! From someone's point of view who casually (and secretly) liked the show as a kid, but never got invested enough to end up in the fandom; this video and the documentaries featured in it really show how closely the brony and furry fadom's treatment by the media paralleled one another. Seeing the conventions and early rougher documentaries trying to bring the fandoms to a better light is the icing on top. Though regarding that our fandom did manage to eventually make like the perfect documentary for that purpose, so if the brony fandom hasn't made one yet I believe in them producing a good documentary for their lovely sub-culture. Best wishes from a person in the furry fandom~ (Also sorry if the comment just sounded like a bunch of yapping, sorry i'm just like this lol)

The one thing I did like about the Brony doc is that it didn't make bronies into a sex thing. I'm totally nonsexual ace, and I've been a brony since 2010. There's so much to the fandom that 100% doesn't involve that side of things, and its a big part of why I like this fandom so much! Jenny Nicholson kinda disappointed me on that front, insisting that it is, or has become a sex thing, despite herself being right there, still liking them. ತ⁠_⁠ʖ⁠ತ I know its kind of her humor, but people aren't exactly wont to give this fandom the benefit of the doubt. And I know people definitely do clop and all that, and as long as its adults of sound mind, whatever. But I like not being a part of it!

Maybe it's cause I'm older, but the "not gay" thing was pushed back cause at the time mainstream media only major talking point was "bronie equal gay." Might not seem like it, but at that time, it was still heavily looked down on. 10 + years can make hell of a lot of difference

I wrote an essay for one of my high school English class on Bronies… I remember using these documentaries as some of my main sources…

I AM NOT AUTISTIC AND GAY IM COOL AND MYTERYIOUS

i've been a brony since i joined the fandom in 2013, when i was 13 years old! i remember watching the brony documentary! i think i've watched the saberspark one as well, because im a fan of his videos! i keep forgetting that saberspark started out with brony videos, but that would explain how i started watching him, and i have been a fan of him even since back then! god, i love the brony fandom, i wish we weren't a dying breed, modern mlp fans are sorta weird with how much they hate on us :0

As a fellow Brony I didn't watch the video because of how they mentioned clopping in almost the wierdest way possible, seeing clips online of it. Instead i shifted to other documentaries and watched them to show my friends so they can aswell can understand, wish I could remember which specific one it was. Great video! Explains alot of how it's good and bad in it's own ways. It didn't really age well but it can feel nostalgic to many people, i didn't know they had big Brony creators from back then and still now, very cool.

There could've been an interesting opportunity to add depth to the documentary if the creators behind it considered the fandom's harmful behavior being expressed in a unique way and/or motivated differently due to the connections it had with various of bronies' behavior being tied to their perspectives as adults, someone on/influenced by 4chan, and men. Of course for that to be possible, the people behind the documentary would need to consider a discussion about the fandom's faults, which is clear the documentary purposely avoided that. I also get people saying that talking about the common occurrence of grooming and harassment in the mlp fandom didn't have to be a priority in the documentary because it is normal in fandoms, although i would say that some harmful issues that mlp fandoms that are commonly in other fandoms are worth discussing as they are motivated differently, due to the background behind bronies (again, their behavior being influenced by their perspectives devloped from being an adult, on 4chan and being men)

Intro is peak

I came here hot off a YTP and thought "my name is Tony and I'm a brony" was sentence-mixed dhshcdbs

8:31 is that trisha paytas and social repose

Man I vaguely remember watching and participating on a random livestream (Livestream the website) where a group of bronies were streaming episodes of the show leading up to the season 2/3 premiere. No one was being weird, we were all just making quips and just chilling. I was just making dumb references to Asdfmovie. Fun fact: Legends of Equestria is still up. One of their servers is going to sunset though due to low player counts.

This just takes me back to when i was 12 on Facebook and most of the "bronies" were also pedos. nowadays i only enjoy the concept of the show and the cute pony fanarts, but not the actual show. I tried to rewatch it this year and it made me uncomfortable because of how obvious they tried to appeal to the male fanbase.

12:51 "Saberspark" Oh, yeah, I watch that guy

I find these kinds of vids so interesting as someone who, pretty much most of my life, has gone out of their way to NOT interact with any fandom 💀ive grown to be misanthropic in recent years, but even when i was younger, fandoms were always iffy to me. i loved certain things like mlp, warriorcats, furry art, etc. but i always just wanted to enjoy those things for myself. anytime i talked to other people who also enjoyed those things, somehow there always ended up being some bullshit to deal with in the community. but that's just how communities work i guess. wherever there's people, there's bullshit. well- on a positive note- this vid popping up in my rec reminded me that i have an mlp au story to finish 🙃

My dad showed me this when I was little and I didn't know what to think of it at the time. Fast forward to however many years later and I still don't know what to think of it, I'm a fan of FiM but I've kind of shied away from the brony community so maybe the docs contributed to that.

WHYYY THE MATTY B JUMPSCARE NOOO

I actually loved this show and I even showed it to my friends and they "eventually" gave it a go and loved it too. I didn't really talk to other people before that. Not a lot of people understand it. And that's okay.

@shunks You brought me so back to the good ol’ Brony days. I ran a convention in Sacramento to named Sac Brony Expo and I wanted to know if you’d like to set up an interview of sorts where we can dive into what the landscape was of being a Brony in the height of it? If you’re down, let me know! Being able to talk to someone about the olden days would be great!

Wait Ashley's theme from WarioWare is in this video so you're also a WarioWare fan along with MLP? Also if so have you played Gold, Get It Together, and Move It?

I turned 18 a few months ago dose that officially make me a bronnie and no longer a silly out there kid ? That kind of scars me

Ah yes, Bronies: The Unexpected Fans of My Little Pony, the doc that got basic facts about My Little Pony history wrong. They called MLP Tales G2 when it was actually a G1 cartoon, G2 has no animated anything. Then they implied male MLP fans were new and unusual when men had been part of the MLP online collector community since the 90's. In fact, we've always had a lot of both straight and queer men in the MLP collector community - a guy coming into the community and saying "I'm straight and I collect MLP" was not a giant deal. Oh and they completely left out that a huge fandom already existed completely independent of bronies and had been having ponycons and meets for decades. It was the worst bit of misinformation I ever saw and made me facepalm. Especially the G3 hate. G3... the generation Hasbro originally created to be aimed at both kids and the adult collectors.

Just within the first 10 seconds, I knew this would be good lol

I only saw the ‘let’s go and meet the bronies’ video n never the documentary itself. Further exposure to that side of things were the anthologies and brony reacts