How Bronies TRAUMATIZED The Internet.

[@Raymundo_2112]

Hey everyone! I see some people are confused abt this vid and I just wanna be clear that its a mashup of my prior vids on the topic and also includes over 40 minutes of new content! If you've already seen the Originals and don't wanna watch them again, go to 1:06:27 for all the new stuff :) (also 29:28 for the new Polybius song!!)

[@NeurozombieX]

Ty for the timestamp I thought this was a re-upload mashup with no new content lol

[@quinnhouk5369]

Ah thanks for explaining. I was confused

[@Sailor-Khione]

Thanks, I was confused about this because I remember seeing this.

[@davidarvingumazon5024]

Are you going to review Conversion Bureau? It's underrated in MLP.

[@OverlordZeroULTIMA]

Legit, I've never seen MLP in my life, nor do I like horror content...BUT THIS SONG???? I LOVE IT. >:D

[@mangareader8318]

I dunno how a fnaf, a game about child murder, traumatised me less than the my little pony fandom as a kid

[@laikathestar174]

Tbf none of the murders were ever shown with all the blood and gore, it's all speculation and you watched or played fnaf games knowing there'd be jumpscares

[@mangareader8318]

@laikathestar174 yeah it's weird that the kiddy show had more explicit fanworks than the kids show fanworks

[@emptyteardrops]

i once saw a tweet/meme about how shows with darker themes have cute wholesome fanbases meanwhile wholesome shows have dark gruesome fanbases. and that is SO true. fnaf has those funny sfm animations and cute fancomics that characterize the animatronics meanwhile mlp has gore and fetish stuff.

[@mangareader8318]

@emptyteardrops literally, breaking bad is another good example like that fandom is so silly while the show covers intensely serious topics

[@lelecatbaby9340]

RIGHT

[@shiruotakuno28]

The sheer willpower to not bury your childhood KZbin account and instead display the cringe for all to see is a very admirable thing

[@Raymundo_2112]

@@shiruotakuno28 I have nothing to hide. I am become cringe

[@shiruotakuno28]

@@Raymundo_2112 I salute you good sir

[@sarahthesarah2850]

Thank you @Raymundo_2112 We each do cringe or embarrassing things at sometime or another. If I gaff up and then bring it up with humor or am chill about it then I can do better easier. It makes a safer environment for people to be accountable and grow. Doing this online takes extra courage. Respect 😊

[@fguerrero8]

Eating some Kentucky fried pony

[@jeffery9543]

Honestly the intentions of changing Derpy around to be "less offensive to autistic people", ironically just genuinely upset many tens of thousands of autistic people who loved the character.... Can't have SHIT in Detroit istg

[@fuzziestoffrawgs]

Bro FACTS

[@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix]

“We don’t want to offend autistic people by making a character that represents them WEIRD & STUPID & ANNOYING” All of the autistic people who specifically related to the characteristics removed: So what you’re saying is you think my traits, traits I partially or in whole attribute to my autism, are shameful, embarrassing, offensive, etc?

[@RC-vk1oo]

Ditzy Doo was an infinitely better name for her. The fans messed it up :/

[@SaintCharlos]

Social justice warriors and Karens always being offended for us.

[@kayleighmarchant600]

Growing up autistic I loved derpy, I felt happy seeing a silly mostly non verbal character that I could relate to. Still upset that they changed her because people said it was offensive

[@lusiana_ren]

For those who are equally confused, this is a compilation of all previous Brony videos! Would be more helpful to include that in the title, though.

[@Raymundo_2112]

It’s got 40 mins of new content too!! So not just any regular comp

[@xerneas8841]

@@Raymundo_2112 still good to include that in the title

[@richi3035]

@@xerneas8841 How could you realistically make it so that people know it's a comp while simultaineously indicating that there's 40 mins of new content?

[@caileyrookids]

@@richi3035 "Compilation + New!"

[@NertNeverlander]

​@@richi3035 literally "full compilation +40 mins"

[@Meemaster334]

That Rainbow factory cover is such a masterpiece, I love it.

[@Wberdly555]

THAT'S MAMA LUIGI TO YOU, MARIO!

[@Meemaster334]

@@Wberdly555 HEE

[@theopulentone1650]

@@Wberdly555 *wheeze*

[@JustaRandomCatholic]

WE GOING BACK TO 2014 WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@AfterthymeGaming]

The bronies refuse to extinct so we're digging their sins out with this and expose their filth. Expose their bad influence on children by using a show that's targeted towards them.

[@SawyerJensen69]

Yeah like Fr tho IMAO lol!!!

[@blastbeatthefolf1052]

For like 2012

[@honeybabes2017]

theres always people who ruin everything in every community. i genuinely don’t understand why people have this fascination with taking innocent children characters and distorting and destroying the image in the most deprived ways they can

[@hornetsilksong]

Honestly, the people who refused to add content warnings probably got some kind of sick joy from traumatizing kids

[@JLacay]

I'm not sure if you can people ruin the MLP Community when most people back then were all on board with it.

[@petermen_2005]

@honeybabes2017 for most reasons, its ignorance and being edgy. A lot of these edgy mlp fan content were made by people who were teens or young adults. These demographics tend to spend the most time on the internet and are more likely to care less about the consequences of the content they produced, so as a result, explicit contents appear. And with the Improper warnings, it's mostly that they didn't think much of it. It's something that isn't their first concern until somone points them out.

[@pluto-kl5od]

@@JLacay the real MLP community (CHILDREN) were definitely NOT on board with this content. GROWN adults need to stop trying to infiltrate children's spaces & turning them into pure degeneracy. i was a kid during this era & diving into MLP videos on youtube was a one-way ticket to childhood trauma. years later , finding out this content was most likely created by GROWN MEN. god, protect our children,

[@JLacay]

@@pluto-kl5od What if some kids were on board with it? I was a kid during that era, and I enjoyed some of it. Some were shocking and gross, but they didn't traumatize me. Also, I'm sorry to break this to you but most cartoon fans consist of adults like The Owl House, Steven Universe, Bluey, Gravity Falls, LMK, Voltron, and SVTFOE.

[@Neku628]

Bronies are probably one reason why we got stuck with COPPA.

[@kekeandtofo]

Elsa Gate being another reason.

[@SawyerJensen69]

@@kekeandtofo Yeah Fr IMAO it never should've existed in the 1st place lol!!!

[@punkysnarks]

No, dude. COPPA existed BEFORE bronies. I'm so fed up with that misconception. That said, bronies are definitely part of the reason you can't make darker parodies of kids' shows without the owners of the IP having something to say about it, they permanently damaged fandom culture, they're the reason you can't say you're a fan of a kids' show in public without getting funny looks, they helped in the ever growing issue of kids being groomed online, and they're probably part of the reason parents want to censor the internet to protect Billy and Sally.

[@_kaleido]

@@kekeandtofo the Brony fandom walked so Elsa Gate could run let's be real

[@Ninjozata]

Kids watching and enjoying mlp aren’t bronies imo. Bronies are specifically grown men, that choose to build communities with other grown men, that don’t disallow underage girls. THATS why it’s weird. Even when children self identify this way, children cannot be bronies bcs of *the implications* being the issue

[@skootergirl22]

I wasn't a kid. I was around in my 20s in 2010

[@0b13F4st3]

@@skootergirl22 - Same here.

[@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460]

I always thought of brony being something of a mashup of bro (slang for dude) and pony. You were just a man. A boy. A human male. You didn't have to be an adult man to be a brony. I think the issue stems from weirdos infiltrating the community and shoving their gross shit into it.

[@supotter377]

And then a lot of them bullied the little girls who were the target audience for enjoying “their thing.” That was always fun when it happened to me 🙃

[@Crusticon]

I associate bronies with pedophilia to be honest. It’s not normal for a man to be so deeply invested in a show meant for younger audiences.

[@TashiPixelz]

47:07 its weirdly comforting to see someone with a similar experience as me? I unfortunately had this happen to me and developed a porn addiction and hypersexuality at a VERY young age(like 7-9) which took a big impact on my mental health. I am much better now but that stuff absolutely damaged the way I act and think

[@AqueerianLeo]

This happened to me too, it was so awful for my mental health to be seeing dark things i didn't fully understand and feel like it was completely inappropriate to ask questions about it, like I had a dark secret at the age of 9 I'm glad mlp helped a lot of men reject toxic masculinity and embrace something traditionally undervalued for being girly, but there's no arguing a lot of really sick minded people became so prevalent in the community, and most of them did not care if children saw their nsfw/gore creations (and most predators WANT children to find it) At the very least my experience has given me hindsight, and I try to educate my younger siblings and hopefully future children about these dangerous internet circles. Especially since it seems to have transferred over into KZbin kids animations.

[@Skeksistential-crisis]

You’re not alone, I had a similar experience

[@teenymite8358]

same, i discovered that stuff when i was 11

[@sarahthesarah2850]

I hear y'all. Sometimes the hurt stays, we just get better at dealing with it as we can.

[@MichelleRodriguez-s2u]

Same and it was 6 when I first watch it

[@Pixielocks]

Thanks so much for having me on for this!! 🥰💝🌈💗✨

[@PhoenixSS]

You look like boy not girl

[@mattyangelz]

pixielocks mentioned!!!!

[@bellajenkins5669]

Woooo go jill

[@bellajenkins5669]

Yes at 1:24:00 !!!

[@fairesmashysmash]

Common Pixielocks dub

[@Luna23479]

My older sister saw all of this when she was younger, and she never let me onto KZbin to watch mlp, I’m so grateful for her lol

[@Spencer7718]

Oh yeah I refused to let my sister watch this crap because I watched it and it made my mental health worse and still is unfortunately

[@lrguenani2854]

*i love your sister*

[@HandheldGamer1991]

I dont know what to say. Either your parents are crazy for letting a child online or your sis for letting you online buy not allowing you watch mlp XD

[@xhypiseepyx]

your sister is a real one

[@art.ificer]

I remember how Rainbow Factory was one of my favorite mlp videos in like, second grade and I thought that the video was so intriguing that for our 2nd grade book writing project I went into Microsoft word, and put in all the lyrics, then added clipart and printed it out and turned it in to my teacher 💀

[@DuckyDoesSmth9517]

You can't just drop that without giving your teacher's reaction 😭

[@Hypercube2017]

OP get back here and tell us the rest. Please? Though if it’s anti-climactic I understand not wanting to, since whatever we come up with in our minds would be a lot more legendary, and some people may be “let down” by the normal world… wait what? Since when have I talked like _that_ ?

[@Drdoodoot]

how did it go?

[@art.ificer]

Ok I wasn’t expecting people to want an update so bad but I’ll reply with what I remember (may not be 100% accurate it was YEARS ago 😭) But when I brought it in we had this thing called independent class book reading time where we read each others books, and I don’t think teacher proofread them bc I was reading it to my friends like it was some sacred ancient scriptures (my ahh didn’t understand the independent part of independent reading) and we all thought it was the coolest thing. Flash forward a few days, the teacher asks me what’s going on in all the pictures and I just cheerfully reply it’s ‘a scene from a my little pony video I saw!’ And she looked very concerned and explained how I can’t be showing pictures of ponies being literally mutilated to other kids and I was so confused bc I thought everyone liked gore/rainbow factory stuff but I was VERY disappointed she, the next day, the book was no longer in the pile of student books 💔💔💔

[@Hypercube2017]

@@art.ificer darn, too bad someone narced; it would've been epic if it just stayed in the pile until the teacher went through it. XD Also, you may want to add this to the original message as an edit, that way people who don't see this sub-comment won't ask for an update. ;)

[@Broogli]

How raymundo TRAUMATIZED Broogli 💀💀💀💀

[@VPX-711]

Time to escape to the backrooms again

[@_.SnowyNights._]

and then broogli speedran the backrooms and got a new WR

[@theambitiousduck]

o7

[@Ziyabee]

Sometimes I wished my parents monitored my internet access because seeing that as a kid was terrifying that those videos are burned into my brain for life

[@phoebegarrett3055]

Same

[@katyaevza6419]

Same! I had no business being exposed to all of this at 12!

[@goodnightmyprince6734]

Same

[@xLollipopx]

Fluffy ponies is based on a Japanese Touhou tor//ture comics called "Yukkuri ab//use." The way they speak, the little baby fluffy ponies, the tor//ture, etc, it's exactly just like the old Yukkuri content. Even the comics you posted were almost one-for-one of existing Yukkuri comics

[@onthefridge-w7p]

Everything on the internet comes back to Touhou

[@Avriel_Mimiga]

@@onthefridge-w7p it all comes back to 2 things, TouHou and Homestuck

[@andromeda_va39]

I found the full "brony gangnam" video. It makes me long for those simple days of goofing around with friends and being completely unashamed of liking things.

[@neo1711]

I think I skipped that part of life

[@smugglefish8171]

I remember when DEATH BATTLE made Starscream vs Rainbow Dash and Ben Singer, one of the creators said that they'd cancel the episode of Starscream won to not traumatise little girls who might stumble onto it. Bad for the VS community, but... after seeing videos like this, I knew that Ben was... onto something. And then Twilight vs Raven happened, and Twilight's death in the video was offscreen and no gore at all. And then there was Bill Cipher vs Discord. Despite the fact that Discord lost, the ending was still a happy one for the ponies. When a show called DEATH BATTLE uses these characters better than actual Bronies is... worrying and says a lot about this cesspit of a community.

[@DrDaytonVT]

ok im a grown ass man,but that thing you had in the backround for the tulpa bit scared the shit out of me

[@BalorBallora]

when the music kicked in a siren went off and i nearly shat myself

[@ariel_warfare]

Yeah I was completely fine with every other creepy thing he showed until that came up in the background along with the distorted music. I'm normally not bothered by creepy things but I had to look away from the screen during the tulpa section.

[@Estelle434]

Same LMAO 😭😭😭 I never thought I would ever be scared of a video after middle school, but here we are

[@pinpingoin]

The review 😭 You couldn't waterboard any information about my kid years in fandoms out of me but yours are cute asf

[@neoleon130]

Dude woodentoaster and thelivingtombstones music was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE shit in the world during the ripe ages of 9-12. I am autistic, so it was all I would listen to. Now as an adult, I'm mostly really into metal music. I wonder if there's a pipeline there, a lot of my fellow autistic metalheads also had some kind of dubstep phase.

[@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460]

See, I like myself some metal covers and Sabaton, but I don't think I was ever into Dubstep. My younger self probably thought it was noise and not much else.

[@rainingwhenidie]

I used to love thelivingtombstone as a kid lol. I didn't get deep into the genre, but I did like a few dubstep artists and different songs lol (a lot of youtuber intros and outros lol). Now, rock is my favorite genre and metal's included in that. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm inclined to believe in the autistic fnaf kid to autistic metalhead pipeline lol

[@angelsartandgaming]

No I completely get that because one of my favorite things is the dark Factory setting. Which is why I liked the songs and not the fanfic. Because it felt like such a cop out to me that Rainbow Dash was the villain. But I've always liked sort of industrial music and the original song kind of reminded me of one of my other favorite songs from a kid's movie, Worthless from Brave Little Toaster. (Heck, NGL, I've thought of making a RF video with the song before but never did due to not being as big into MLP as I used to be).

[@Just_Some_Dude73]

there was this band called "The Wonderbolts" and they were pretty good too; they realized this song kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5bQknWhgNifbpI and it's definitely top 10 best songs. Edit: forgot to put that this band had some metal songs that introduced me to the genre.

[@NMFBear]

I’m autistic too. I was in the brony, FNAF, Creepypasta (just any edgy) fandom from the ages of 8-13. I was big into the living tombstone, woodentoaster, stuff like that, and definitely dipped into a dubstep phase. I was pretty heavily into Skrillex in about 2016. Im 19 now and a heavy goth. I think a vast majority of autistic adults are pretty involved in alternative subcultures.

[@funky6942]

The irony of Derpygate is that the parents were actually the prejudiced, hostile and weird people and nobody saw Derpy the way they argued people saw her.

[@diretrip]

All they need to do is release the glorpus and save the day

[@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398]

Employ and Enter THE GLORPUS

[@480midi]

YOU

[@ashleighmartin4932]

This video actually filled in the missing link for me. I was exposed to a lot of the dark side of the Brony fandom as a child. I was as a result, hypersexual, and I often sought out shock content as a child. I had unrestricted access as a child and I didn’t realize it had the effects on me as it did, nor did I realize it was a very much shared experience with others.

[@liviwall662]

Yeah I stumbled across an uncensored pony porn game on KZbin as a tween 💀

[@occidziggys9496]

Thank you for saying it, i see so many people glamorizing or not getting to the topic, while i got nothing against the mlp fandom. I definitely got something against unrestricted media that are deeply disturbing especially when it's trying to look innocent at first to bait people into clicking which lead to a lot of children (Including me at the time) to get profoundly disturbed by theses images

[@EvilSantaTheTrue]

Fureys too

[@occidziggys9496]

@EvilSantaTheTrue it can come from all types of media and fandom, however i think it's one of the first and very few instances where the content shared was seemingly purposefully shared on the internet to scare off kid's

[@EvilSantaTheTrue]

@occidziggys9496 and amine

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

​@EvilSantaTheTrue Everyone forgets the schizo trip known as ME!ME!ME! was a thing and I hate it

[@violetsparkles5453]

​@@EpicTyphlosionTVmememe is mild compared to this

[@cartoonbazookacb7687]

I looked at a lot of gore when I was younger partially thanks to cupcakes. I like drawing it now too, yet it sometimes still gets under my skin. I don’t get why my brain is now simultaneously freaked out and fascinated by it, but I can trace to where it started, which is cupcakes. The song from that video will sometimes make me freeze in my tracks, which is just stupid, but the brain is stupid. I love mlp, both g4 and g5, they mean a lot to me, but I recognize they messed me up. I don’t like the idea of people getting rid of this content either, as, artistically speaking, they are well made and took time and effort. However, this content needs warnings which nsfw artists just seem to be allergic to.

[@MrOlive445]

It wasn't My Little Pony Gore/shock content but my step dad use to encourage searching up things like funkytown, 2 girls 1 cup ect

[@violetbitch9492]

Same. I understand that this shit is bad for kids to look at but also it does have some artistic value. idk

[@mr_selfdestruct]

​@@MrOlive445 Honestly, that's so much more fucked up jfc

[@liviwall662]

I don't think anyone is necessarily arguing for the banning of people make gorey art but it is a little odd that these artists specifically latched onto something meant for kids and made NSFW/gore art knowing kids would engage with it. Now some of these artists were kids themselves but the way the internet bastardizes children's content is a strange phenomenon

[@cartoonbazookacb7687]

@@liviwall662 because of gore, I kinda like drawing it now. I don’t do it a lot and I tag/spoiler it appropriately, but I get why someone might draw/animate those things. It’s the not tagging stuff that’s the issue

[@ItsAK9]

Im glad more people are talking about this because holy, how did this even slide??? Like, I was a young kid looking at things I shouldn't have because of ADULT BRONIES. What's even more sad is that they "inspired" some of the younger audience they traumatized to continue the trend of trauma which just is horrible. Sure, kids shouldn't be online, but adults are actively invading kid content and distorting it which is just... wrong. They publicly post these demented things and the only excuse people have is "it's the internet lol." I'm fine with NSFW when it's in a proper place AWAY from the public. I don't care if people see me as a karen, it's how I feel and I don't EVER want my kid to go through what I had to with the internet. Kids deserve safe spaces free of exploitation. Edit*: this is unrelated, but "split second screams that last less than a second." Had me busting up laughing LMFAO. The most redundant thing I've heard in a minute omg

[@HandheldGamer1991]

The internet isnt your bavkyard buddy. You dont like it get off. Also since when do you make the rules and get to tell ppl what they can or cant do?! Its been a thing ever since newgrounds! With all kinds of stuff so get over it and grow up!

[@xotl2780]

Wait until you check up on the Pokemon fandom.

[@NMFBear]

@@HandheldGamer1991 Kids are kids bro. They don't understand why some content is bad, and oftentimes can't identify whether the content they are about to watch is suitable or not. At the end of the day, it isn't their responsibility to do so. It's the responsibility of adult creators who know better to restrict child access to their creations, as well as the parents who should be monitoring what kids are accessing. Kids are just as allowed to watch KZbin as any of us. There are a ton of kid friendly creators on here, catering to young children as their target audience. Sure, we have KZbin Kids now to restrict access further, but that stuff didn't exist when I was younger. This stuff is seriously damaging, and as an adult, I feel it is our responsibility as mature people to do our best to avoid naïve kids from stumbling upon unsuitable stuff we create and understand. This stuff is damaging, point blank period, and it is not the responsibility of kids to just not watch it.

[@bleedingberryjuice]

"Let it slide" as if a crime was being committed lol bronies have a right to exist and it's the responsibility of parents to monitor what their kids find online Most cartoons have adult fandoms, it isn't an MLP exclusive thing the brony community was just exceptionally big back in the day

[@bleedingberryjuice]

@@HandheldGamer1991 Amen. I'm tired of people crying for censorship instead of holding parents responsible for children roaming the internet unattended. You wouldn't let your kid loose at Walmart with no supervision, so why would you give them a screen with unfiltered internet access? And I had access to things I shouldn't have as a kid, too. I do not want children so I'm not having any, but if I did, they wouldn't have internet PERIOD.

[@IchigoG]

This video explains why I had to leave the MLP fandom after season 6. I couldn’t take it anymore. Great video btw

[@AddyHarajuku]

Thank you so much for having me involved, can’t wait to binge this 🙂‍↕️✨

[@bellajenkins5669]

Woooo go addy

[@ixiahj]

My favorite was those Friendship is Witchcraft edits where they voice over episodes and change the story. There's one where Twilight wanted to marry her brother and some parents saw that. They thought it was a real episode.

[@genericartist3553]

I originally put a comment here but I think KZbin deleted due to its graphic language, so I’m going to make another one that isn’t as graphic so it doesn’t get deleted by KZbin. While I wasn’t in the Brony fandom, the Pokémon fandom was just as traumatic. Not in the Creepypasta area luckily, though I do remember the pictures and sprites associated with Hypno’s lullaby and Buried Alive scaring me when I was a kid, Hypno was just so uncanny in the artwork and the sprite of Buried Alive dragging the player character into the ground creeped me out as a kid. Thank Goodness I didn’t listen to the Hypno’s Lullaby song and didn’t listen to the audio of Buried Alive because that would’ve caused a lot more sleepless nights. No the most traumatic part of the Pokémon was the google image searching. You couldn’t google any Pokémon without weird DeviantArt art or hard core stuff coming up. Thank goodness I always found these images gross otherwise I don’t know what weird tastes I would’ve gotten or what addiction I could’ve been struggling with. When watching you’re iceberg videos on Gen Z childhood trauma, I thought I was lucky because I didn’t see most of the stuff on the iceberg and didn’t get traumatised by the horror or gorey stuff on the internet. But now actually thinking about it, I think my trauma was just as graphic as everyone else, just in a different way. I might make a video about the trauma I got from the Pokémon community since it’s not really a talked about issue. It’d also be cool if you did a video on it but I understand if you don’t want to do it to preserve your mental health. Take care. This comment originally went into more graphic detail about the things I saw but I think it got deleted by KZbin because of its graphic nature, so I toned it down so it didn’t get deleted a second time. Sorry for this long rant about the Pokémon community.

[@skootergirl22]

Or there's a glitch

[@genericartist3553]

@@skootergirl22 good point

[@Hypercube2017]

Wait, Buried Alive had *_audio_* …? 0_0;;; That sprite alone really creeped me out, but with audio…? I, uh, I’m a little scared just thinking about that .

[@CottenVee]

I was in the Pokémon community, too (you can probably tell by my user, since 'vee' is a term for eevee). There are a bunch of people who make NSFW in the Pokémon community. You can't search up vaporeon without the copypasta showing up. The vaporeon copypasta ruined me. People in the Pokémon community are also VERY sketchy, shady, and creepy.

[@genericartist3553]

@@CottenVee Yeah, Remember the Pokémon Vaporeon copy pasta being inescapable in the Community. I love Vaporeon and I hate that its name has been dragged through the mud because some degenerate 4channer decided to ruin everyone's fun. I wish more people talked about how the Pokemon community negatively affected kids because it seems to be an unspoken taboo in the community.

[@Dino_dude973]

This video shows how we Can't have kid shows that are harmless: Creeps find it okay to distort little kid shows. Yet, I'm not a fan of MLP. But, I believe it shouldn't be twisted into something not for kids.

[@mothmaiden4413]

I remember Derpy gate! There was a fear among fans that they would remove her from the show. 10 year old me mailed a piece of art to Hasbro begging them to keep her in the show! They actually mailed me back ensuring me they would keep her in show lol it was very cool

[@weeaboobaby]

You can say all you want about the MLP fandom, but during the DerpyGate saga you can't deny that the love people show for this character feels so real, it's heartwarming.

[@Raymundo_2112]

I fully agree

[@RawrfireXD]

I saw the Derpy Nyan Nyan thing as a kid and even at that young age it made me feel a little uneasy. Edit: Damn. The creepy part of the thing about tulpas in this video is lowkey making me afraid of my waifu tbh.

[@kinalilasj]

Afraid of your what💀

[@Recr34tionMaximulization]

He talks about the ponk tulpa thread? That was hilarious.

[@ColtenTheCartoonLovingBrony]

As much as stuff like that traumatized me as a Kid and scared me away from the show. I was able to love the show again in July 2023. We shouldn’t let the past control us and we should do our best to combat our traumatic experiences and keep going through life!

[@jaycrocker7280]

I was horribly traumatized by the brony community. As a young artist, I was often encouraged by adults, who knew I was a minor, to draw NSFW content of ponies, both of the characters in the show and of their ocs. I was told this kind of content was okay for me to be exposed too, and these adults would pay me lots of money and tip me well for doing so. I ended up "dating" 2 pedophiles in the brony community due to this, they both took advantage of me as an underage person and it was sickening. The fandom was very clique-y too, especially the art community. You were bullied horrendously if you didn't fit to the "horse famous" standards or if you didn't get along with someone with a popular OC. I had a neglectful mother who didn't care what I was doing online, or just didn't care about me, she knew I was dating adults and still didn't care. So my mother is partly to blame for the trauma I experienced. I'll never forget my time in the brony fandom, it set me up for the art business I have now, but it also gave me permanent, negative affects on my brain development as a child

[@horseshoes1262]

UCU FUCK

[@rjunxi]

💔 I'm so sorry lovely, I hope you're doing far better. Sounds like you are. Stay safe.

[@BeepBoopDerpyHooves]

My man is milking Brony content for us and I’m not mad about that!😂

[@VeryBloodyJammyPawss]

lol!

[@JollyWally12349]

Derpy PFP

[@supergayreindeer]

i thought i typed this comment out for a sec

[@BeepBoopDerpyHooves]

@@supergayreindeer Sorry to confuse you, me!😅 New subscriber btw!!!

[@supergayreindeer]

@@BeepBoopDerpyHooves thanks !!!

[@kidlamborghini]

I vividly remember coming home from middle school on valentines day in 2013 or 14. I opened my ipod touch to see that one of my favorite KZbinrs, Mrcreepypasta, had uploaded a new video, a mlp creepypasta called Cupcakes. Not knowing what it was and thinking it was most likely a joke, I clicked on the video and listened to the whole thing. Genuinely found it almost impossible to sleep for a few weeks after that one.

[@__DARKWAY]

I remember back in 2015 maybe I used to watch this kind of content, there was even a point where it was on KZbin kids, being 5-6 years old back then I didn’t understand what was happening and much like Lillith I was also addicted to those kinds of videos, it made me start (y’knowing) at a young age and has since caused me to be hypersexual. I haven’t gotten help yet or told anyone, so thank you Raymundo for making this. This really helped me

[@surticdneirf6175]

it's always nice seeing you upload, I hope you're having a nice day :) as someone who grew up with mlp and saw some stuff i shouldn't have, i'm glad you're going over this again. it makes me, and others feel like we aren't alone.

[@nikibogwater6598]

Thanks for making these videos. I wasn't able to watch every single part, but you brought up a lot of great points in the parts I did see. I was 11 when the show came out, and thankfully I was able to dodge the disgusting side of the fandom. I do believe even after all this time that the actual show was well-written and great for audiences of any age. There were some truly amazing artists in the fandom who created wholesome and beautiful things (I still go back and rewatch "Lullaby for a Princess" every now and then, and it still makes me cry). But it breaks my heart knowing that there were so many kids damaged by the creepos in the fandom, and I really hope everyone who was affected is able to heal from it.

[@splat_42]

3:50 you couldn't get this out of me with a car battery

[@ilovemycatsm]

the pinkie pie tulpa actually has me scared, i felt like i just experienced what he experienced and now i’m terrified that one day it’s going to happen to me.

[@berniekatzroy]

Chris Chan is lurking.

[@AmbrosewongMCXVII]

Ricardo Weston chandler

[@HIT14MAN2]

Ian Brandon Anderson

[@berniekatzroy]

@HIT14MAN2 my name is not Ian Brandon Anderson!!

[@0b13F4st3]

@@berniekatzroy - "I NAME IS NOT IAN, BRANON, SOMETHING!"

[@berniekatzroy]

@0b13F4st3 Do you realize?

[@baileyokay]

i remember watching all of those videos on youtube, having nightmares, and telling my parents about it. they were rightfully pissed that youtube let these be posted and unrestricted

[@Ninjozata]

Mlp is just the most recognized so far, but this is becoming everything for gen aplha and younger. All online spaces are mixed and children aren’t being kept out of inappropriate spaces

[@liviwall662]

The comments you see from children on tiktok is crazy, everything is so sexual. The amount of "is it pink" or "raw next question," sometimes the comments are funny but even with knowing they're joking, seeing the comments made on videos of animals and kids is jarring

[@snotsicle]

i was actually friends with the pinkie pie tulpa guy and roommates with him from approximately 2015 to 2018. he is alive and doing as well as you can assume, he did eventually manage to fully manifest her but she talks to him about dark things andhe told me he thinks she manifests as his depression. she did eventually calm down and act more like what he originally intended but theres a darkness in her that he deals with to this day. he opened up to me one day after a couple years of knowing each other, to explain the situation. up until then i had not heard of the situation and did some research and everything he claimed lined up perfectly, and he actually showed me that he owned the reddit account that made those posts. i will not give his name or out him or anything, but I can say that he is alive and well and a relatively normal person despite things. he was my friend, roommate, and coworker for years across 2 apartments and 2 states, and hes kind and very funny. he was eventually able to get this thing to act more like a friend and comfort character despite frequently reminding him of his self hatred/making him depressed.

[@TheSludge1]

You could be bullshitting for all I know but I'm worried enough to believe you

[@tuntalia]

1:14:54 oh good god op was on prozac? no wonder pinkie turned out like that. my prozac experience was silent panic attacks and delusions of persecution. if i manifested a tulpa it would likely be equally as disruptive and scary.

[@MaxlynnisMaximanium]

As part of the generation the bronies “ruined”, I find nostalgia in this video and that is just a show of how effected I was

[@loyeinde]

Part of the 'traumatized' generation. (: Rather than upset, i honestly was more entertained and thrilled to be watching horror content of my favorite TV show. I think our generation was a bit broken to begin with, hahah

[@revelare_xvii6269]

It’s ironic how certain fandoms of violent and brutal shows are somehow more friendly and respectful than fandoms of kids shows.

[@PhirePhlame]

Honestly, all things considered, the fact that adult men were in fact able to unironically like a My Little Pony show, of all things, just goes to show that a quality show is a quality show. And also...cutesy "girl shows" don't seem to be made with quality all that often. It's like that kind of audience is just taken for granted by most big creators.

[@cassiushellsin6243]

I was actually a kid when this MLP came out. At the time it was very comfortable knowing so many grown-ass man liked this show, I thought there was something wrong with me. I did have unrestricted access on the internet (my parents didn’t care just as long as it wasn’t affecting my grades. That and don’t talk to strangers online, no adult content , etc.) but it was still a fun time. I would log into Equestria Daily, well, daily. I read a lot of fanfics, and this show was the reason why I got into writing and reading funnily enough. Despite all the bad, and the many, MANY questionable things I saw, I still look back on it fondly. I was already familiar with Happy Tree Friends, Madness Combat, Whack your Boss, etc. so the Dark MLP creepypastas didn’t really bother me that much. Overall I can’t help but to look back at the show, it’s fandom, and it’s “dark side” all with nostalgia. I miss those days, honestly. Simpler times.

[@eminemilly]

How old were you though. I feel like If you're under 12 it's worse

[@cassiushellsin6243]

@ about 13 or 14 I think.

[@psychonautmaddy7409]

I wasn't a kid who grew up with G4 MLP ( I did grow up with G3 though), but I was a young teen, and it certainly traumatized me in certain ways. Thankfully not enough to throw me off the show since I knew they were completely seperate things, but still. I would purposely look up messed up MLP things after a while when I was a young teen BECAUSE of all the messed up stuff I saw. With you including affected fans in your videos and hearing their own stories, it really helped put things into perspective for me and the messed up reason why I sought out more even though I was horrified when I was younger. Thank you for making this!

[@Aschamz]

Bronies traumatized an entire generation of kids, and the same thing almost happened again with Infection, fortunately Infection failed

[@Rocketlux]

Infection as in cuz I'm confused

[@The_true_Joe_mama]

​@@Rocketlux touching children

[@eminemilly]

Saw a 4 year old with a huggy wuggy stuffy

[@user-ye6fp7kl1o]

​@eminemilly Poppy Playtime really isn't all that scary, though. Nor is it gratuitous and gory like the stuff many bronies make. And it's so clearly made WITH the intention of grabbing the attention of little children interested in horror (and KZbinrs who will play the game for views) to make money off merch and sales

[@deontenetter9696]

Great video, and this is coming from a former brony. Like you said and many others, there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG about loving My Little Pony, it wasn't being frowned upon when it was back in the 2010s. Heck, some of my friends still love the show after it ended, I still have fanart of MLP (SFW crossovers and such). And NSFW is everywhere, and that's fine. But there has to be line where you watch, draw, read, and write NSFW (clopfics, grimdark) and not associate it to reality. Unfortunately, degenerates like them is what's tarnishing the community for outsiders and those that are or were in the community that makes them oversimplifying that everyone that is a brony a Diddler. That is what is extremely unfair to those that are kind, sweet, and just loving for the sake of it. But overall, you know that some will take this video as a personal attack against them, which it shouldn't if you're not one of those deplorable fans. All in all, good video. And to all those that are still fans of the show and are good natured. 👍 You're great. PS, H8 Seed, WoodenToaster, and LivingTombstone made some banger MLP songs

[@Raymundo_2112]

Yes exactly!! There’s literally nothing wrong w being a brony. Some people just took it way too far

[@deontenetter9696]

@@Raymundo_2112 Yeah, that's unfortunately the case for all fandoms across all mediums. Some...more than others. (side eyes at MHA fandom)

[@emptyteardrops]

Something I find really gross is how a lot of the mlp gore videos have really cute wholesome thumbnails, they WANT a little kid to click on that video. They get off on that shit which is disturbing.

[@ViktorErikFade]

Ugh, I had to skip the nail box one And cover the screen for the other ones. I HATE that kind of content from a young age till now and even had some kids try to convince me it was "funny just so I'd watch it and it anger and upset me growing up. Absurd violence with innocent cartoon characters still makes me feel sick to my stomach

[@The_true_Joe_mama]

pussy

[@tennojichuu7770]

Same, even to this day I can’t watch those videos, it gives me such a sick feeling 😞😞 i will honesty never understand the people who created that content and I hope they know how it effected the young children that watched those videos

[@ViktorErikFade]

@tennojichuu7770 yeah, I'll admit after a good portion of clips I had to click off the video. The clips just reminded me and put salt in my old wound of not liking when innocent things get tortured and mutilated This is also the reason I don't care for happy tree friends or whatever it's called the violence just makes my stomach hurt and upsets me. Although I can watch something like Blue Eye Samurai and be mostly fine though because at least then the violence doesn't seem to come from a twisted place , if that makes sense

[@MontagTheSea-lion]

Agreed! For me the Cupcakes one stuck with me from the time that I was younger to now… To say that I had a bad impression of the Brony Fandom would be an understatement. I had to cover my eyes when he was showing the censored footage of the animation. Yes it was censored, yes it was a small amount of footage, and yet it evoked this full body experience of disgust and mortification. It’s not as if I’m unfamiliar with it, far from it. It may just be the association with the loss of innocence with that video. When I was younger, seeing those types of morbid Brony animations kind of permanently ruined my love and perception of Pinky Pie and the show itself, unfortunately.

[@The_true_Joe_mama]

@MontagTheSea-lion Slop

[@Nahobussyino]

That Rainbow factory cover is peak you cooked a masterpiece

[@mekamo1165]

banned from equestria daily actually messed me up as a kid omfg 😂

[@therumtumtiger]

Me too... I didn't find it in game sites though. I found it through a video player on a website I made that linked back to KZbin. No censores there...

[@COMPUTERYWIRES]

I was watching this yesterday, it was 6 am and the pinkie tulpa almost made me cry

[@ScribbleZStars]

Man what a topic, thanks for going over this though props to you

[@vaultdweller94]

Seeing people who were children when MLP was popular now being old enough to make videos is making me feel anxious

[@Kingblair100]

13:14 lil mis rarity is not even a fanfaction it’s a tumbler blog 💀 and it gets like super fetishy at some points it’s super wild

[@RainsOnline]

Well it is a Fan Fiction yes, the platform it is on does not make it any less fan-made fiction, and he did acknowledge that it is sexualized. As off-putting as it is, it is as “fan-fiction” as it gets,

[@TrizziEhgan]

I was into that kind of stuff back then, along with the sisters of my mother that I haven't seen in half a decade now. Sure, I watched a lot of gore (Happy Tree Friends has no introduction), but I'm a bit sure that these videos made me traumatized, but not quite a lot. I only started to get more interested in the show thanks to a member on a Discord server I'm in, and also the artists that are keeping the show alive with animations, literature and everything in between. Pretty enjoyable video, Raymundo! :3

[@kamezira]

wish elements of insanity was included here bc ngl it was wild and truly an era

[@seanemery1917]

Fluffy Pony Abuse is messed up

[@User426-k2s]

Fr in all of this I only hate fluffy pony abuse

[@seanemery1917]

@user-mi2nq8nt7y Same

[@scarletweb2106]

Same here

[@FallenAsterism]

Regarding the point about parenting and shielding your kids away from inappropriate content, in my case, I remember a few times when me or my sister got caught by our parents for having inappropriate stuff on our devices, but I only remember because of their reaction which, retrospectively, traumatised us more than the inappropriate content itself. They berated and punished us severely. In the end, it didn't change anything, only taught us to hide things better and carry a lot of self-hatred and guilt for something that *they* were supposed to protect us from. I just hope my parents could have handled the situation better because now it's hard to trust them with anything for fear of their reactions...

[@luvvenus3727]

First of all, thank you so much for this video. Ive seen a lot of videos talking about the horrors of the brony fandom in the early 2010s, but not much about the consequences of it in children. Talking for experience: the first time I came across gore was the cupcakes video. I clicked thinking it was something inoccent and then, I was traumatized, to the point I would have nightmares constantly and couldn't sleep properly or watch the show because it make me sick. I would cry out of fear because of how terrified I was everytime I saw Pinkie Pie anywhere. Up to this day, even tho I'm a grown adult now, I still can't eat cupcakes (the actual food) because it gave me the ick. It sucks

[@Boinky_Spoinky]

What traumatized me as a kid at the age of 6 or 5 years old, was those fluffy ponies, I discovered it on accident on KZbin, I thought it was a cute videos but ended up traumatized and rethinking about rewatching the show after school

[@lone-18-b9o]

man why can't people just like a show and find it cool why does someone have to make such cursed things about them like seriously what is wrong with people ?!?!?!?!?!?

[@Wizard_of_Light]

Nothing. We are humans, and humans like to push limits. It was always like this and will always be like this.

[@xoxo_.aceeeloverr]

this is a MASTERPIECE 👏🏾 thank you for being this into the light. ❤️🥺

[@MysticNinTorres]

As someone who liked watching My Little Pony during its initial run (was only a fan of the show), I never expected a dedicated fanbase that is “Bronies” to create/alter content that could forever ruin an audience’s interest in the series. But you know what they say: The internet is simply the internet, and there will always be that one user who has to change everything.

[@Thunderthewolf4361]

Watching this video while working on my fursuit and waiting for Star Stable to update made me realize that I am unfortunately the target audience.

[@Masojne33]

Mlp gore was reason why I had a gore addiction during elementary and middle school, my school would play irl footage of terrorist groups to educate us it wasn’t hard to find material to obsess over, hell my favourite show had tons of stuff like that it just pushed me more into the whole thing

[@petermen_2005]

Bro giving a whole movie, just for his love for Derpy. awww.

[@mosshivenetwork117]

That tulpa story is shockingly horrifying.

[@teirdalin]

1:00 "It seems odd that so many adult men would be in love with a children's show." Have you literally never heard of the Sonic fanbase?

[@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix]

I feel like that one is mostly explained by how old Sonic is, & being aimed at boys. It’s less adult men getting interested in a fandom aimed at children, & more children getting into a franchise that IS aimed at them, & they just never stop enjoying it, even when grown.

[@BumbolBuzzz]

Thank you so, so much for making this video, as someone with a brony past, i unfortunately watched the cupcakes video made by Mr Davie, and as a huge Rainbow dash fan, so much in fact some of her colors were used in the making of one of my OCs. After I watched the video... I ended up kinda traumatized and very upset, and it gave me an unjustified hatred towards Pinkie pie... naturally as a kid... I just drew her in ways that a kid souldn't be drawing anyway and.... well you get the idea. This kinda also made me get obssesed with Rainbow Factory, wich was also kinda bad for my age but i don't really complain on this one tho as an edgy scene guy myself, loved the aesthetic and being involved on my favorite mlp character at the time. This... was... a subject I would rather forget on my life, it kinda distorted some of my visions on certain things really, some of the for the good, yeah, but mostly for the bad... Again, thank you for showing and exposing this kind of content the brony community did and how it ended up toying with our minds as kids. Edit: That Rainbow factory cover was really dope tho XD

[@Yamatemi]

Gen Z will either be the best parents, or the worst. We’ve grown up with these platforms, we understand them, unlike our own parents. However, because of social media, we’ve also grown up around very dangerous ideologies and teenagers these days are either super immature, or super mature. There’s not usually a balance, or an understanding of real world situations and problems.

[@tennojichuu7770]

It’s crazy how I was exposed to these exact videos at like 8 yrs old and even 10 years later when I’m 18 it’s still don’t fail to make my stomach feel SICK 😭😭💔

[@dr3dg352]

Your passion is so inspiring. 😊

[@btyasss]

it’s sad to say but as a little girl i LOVED mlp and especially equestria girls with the human forms, i was so obsessed and it’s one of the reasons i started singing at a young age. however i can’t bare to sit through even an episode with my younger nephews when they watch it because all my mind can think about is the insane amount of gore and nsfw pony stuff i saw as a kid. it ruined my perception about such a lovely kids show made for friendship and my nieces and nephews question why i don’t watch it with them. its safe to say i made sure to our age restriction on all of their electronics. they share one ipad but its still one outlet to an internet filled with incels out to traumatize kids

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

I think the most traumatizing part of bronies is how many of them are Horrorcows.

[@LeBongFairy]

"Furries are into.." no, not all furries, not MOST furries. Most furries were and still are children. Also these children, including you and I back then, shouldn't even have been on the internet unsupervised

[@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460]

I'd argue that there needs to be a DEGREE of supervision, but kids should still be allowed to find most shit on their own. Then again, my ass grew up with next-to-no supervision, so I don't know as if I have room to talk. I think we need to preserve that Wild West style of the internet, lest it just become generic, family-friendly slop all over with no edge or caution. Where parents can just let the glowing box raise their kids and not care at all.

[@voilet-the-non-violet-vulpix]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460 I’d argue that the supervision is highly necessary, but that turning the internet squeaky-clean for them just ISN’T SUPERVISION, YOU [redacted]S OF PARENTS. What actual supervision would be is the parents vetting the content before showing it to their children. Parents not just handing their FOUR YEAR OLDS KZbin & ignoring them for hours, completely unaware of what they may be clicking on. Supervision ALWAYS COMES FROM OUTSIDE THE GLOWING BOX. THE GLOWING BOX IS NOT A PERSON, IT IS NOT CAPABLE OF SUPERVISION, ASHLEY. Letting a child access a completely clean version of the internet all on their own would still be unsupervised internet access, by definition. That would also be the sort of situation where both things could coexist, the internet could still be edgy & “Wild West”, but children wouldn’t often be exposed to things they can’t handle.

[@ChisaiKo]

@@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460 I agree to an extent. I think the internet should be a free and open space for the most part (I'm a huge advocate for creating your own website vs. using social media for everything, because they can and will dictate what you see/what you say). But I think it crosses a line when you're creating adult content for media aimed at children and posting it in mixed age spaces where anyone has access. As much as parents should be monitoring and guiding their kids internet usage it's also up to the artists/creators to be mature and recognise that there's a time and place for their works and posting them where children can see them is extremely antisocial, especially when mature/18+ tags that require a log in are readily available on most sites. I'd prefer that any kid that comes into contact with adult works were searching it out instead of finding it when they didn't want/ask for it.

[@heiltotheking]

As a veteran in the furry community, we gotta take responsibility. The furry community has an awful reputation and for a good reason. Untagged porn that anyone can stumble onto, lack of mature filters on submissions, nsfw content tagged with the original tags for the show. While i agree kids shouldn't be online unsupervised, because they "feel they're mature enough" or nonsense crap like this. it's also our responsibility to label our content accordingly and for fucks sake, for men in the furry community to stop being gross denegerates talking to minors.

[@bellbala8311]

18:25 i doubt anyone will see this, but when i was little i remember this video so vividly because i watched it for the first time on my uncle’s old ipad while hiding in the basement in the dark. i knew i shouldn’t have been watching youtube, but i wanted to anyways. my ipad was heating up really bad and at some point in the video the screen glitched and froze but the audio kept playing and i was SO horrified i could barely move for a minute or so before i stuffed the ipad underneath the futon i was sitting on and finally crept through the messy room and turned the lights on 😭

[@idontlikemayonnaise8751]

I have a vivid memory too! I was hanging out with my older cousin in my aunts office, and we were playing DS. When we finished our Mario party game, she shut the lights off and said she had something cool to show me. She started the video and handed me her phone, I was just glued to the screen in terror. She got up and ran out of the room, closing the door and blocking it. I was crying for her to let me out. My uncle heard the commotion luckily and she got in trouble. I never trusted her since then 😭

[@catysnow]

The video was actually good.I thought I was just some complication from ur last few videos about the same topic.But hey,this is actually kinda different with some new segments,music and interviews.

[@Raymundo_2112]

I tried to make it more than just another comp :) glad you liked it!

[@friedroach]

homie listed every single bronie community offense

[@sergeant_kitty]

Y'know it's ironic that you mention the reuploads aren't age restricted because I remember briefly when Cupcakes HD (either it was a reupload or the original, I don't really remember) was not only not age restricted, but was falsely flagged by the algorithm as specifically for kids. Pretty sure the uploader took it down after that or it was flagged by very confused and concerned watchers/parents.

[@kitsunemusicisfire]

1:13:54 4chan is so screwed up. Almost all of these posts are the absolute fucking worst things to say to someone in this state. As a schizophrenic, this actually kinda pisses me off.

[@skylarsworld9477]

“As a schizophrenic” Clearly

[@ariel_warfare]

​@@skylarsworld9477do you even know what schizophrenia is? I'll give you hint: it doesn't mean someone with it can't still function.

[@mycaseyvalentine]

It was an honor to be apart of this

[@MickeyWilkes-t4e]

masterfully made. like this is a masterpiece

[@aubrietataylor222]

It’s funny, because I grew up with a very overprotective dad who works in tech. Not even his censorship could hide the traumatizing mlp vids I saw on KZbin. Also, I remember my little cousin liking mlp but he would always tell me he was putting it on for me “because you’re a girl, and it’s a girl show but I love you, so I also love the show”. I will never give up those memories of us on the couch, a snowy afternoon with my little pony playing :,). I was also a fan of g3 and g2, g4 is very special but I remember when rainbow dash had rarity’s personality 😭 Ty for letting me rant about this, this fandom traumatized me yet gave me real world connections I never would have had without it :,) thanks for reading if you did lol

[@Hisho30]

As someone who stick to the show to the very end of the series, I remember seeing a few of these content back in the early 2010s but I was only in my 18s to early 20s at the time. I was just ending high school and starting college at that point but did I remember a lot of these things? Yes and No. All I can remember from most of this is how much the villain Chrysalis really put a dent in my mentality that I did believe I was her and she was me in a roleplaying community one time. Actually, it was really a tough psychological battle. In the beginning of all this, she was a blank template that I actually made a backstory for her and it really work out in my favor. Though the bad thing about it is that it did cost me a few actual friendships with people I made in the days that I would have to do the unthinkabke. I actually kept her lock and eye around my second year of university, so my sixth year in college. At that point, I had another ponysona OC that was suppose to represent the real me and I did live a good life for years. The cause was just listening to This Day Aria and it acted as a bad memory for Chrysalis to come back to haunt me. Truthfully, those thoughts did return to me about a year or two ago when I had to relisten to This Day Aria for the first time in years. I had to make amends and she was still taunting at me until we learn to cooperate. As of now, she's my partner, in terms of a Jojo Stand or a Persona next to my side as I learn we are one and the same, from my perspective. Is she better than the canonical Chrysalis? I would say so, yes, but man...all that bad MLP content actually created this weird, but everlasting persona for the rest of my life. I will say that MLP was really a wild trip back in those days. It did influence me to be kinda who I am today and do I regret it? Hit and miss but I still come back to enjoy it.

[@kerisuri]

you should put a magnet in the derpy plush's mouth so she can hold letters and other props. it would be very cute

[@NMFBear]

To be honest, until this video, I'd never actually given much thought to the long-term impacts of unrestricted internet access on kids. I've heard the odd joke every now and then, along the lines of the coolest people having been traumatised by this sort of content and kinda agreeing, but god damn. I was involved in so many 'edgy' communities as an older kid/ preteen. I was hugeeee into FNAF for many years, as well as the Brony community, Creepypasta, the furry community etc. I never really considered the impact that stuff had on me. I started viewing NSFW content from the age of 7 (probably sparked by the kind of stuff I was seeing in said communities), and began to display quite significant sexual deviance and hypersexuality before turning even 10 years old. I consumed a hell of a lot of gore content too, starting with indie animations on YT like those mentioned here, but I was viewing full on snuff films at the age of 12/13. I've always been described as quiet and polite, but my dad and certainly my sister, have a lot of memories of me displaying apathetic and sometimes quite violent, manipulative and threatening behaviour. I'm diagnosed with autism, so it could be as a result of that, but I do feel there's probably a deep correlation with the kind of depravity I was viewing at an age too young to properly understand what I was looking at. I'm glad gen Z has a pretty heavy attitude to not allowing our kids technology too young, and certainly keeping a close eye on what they're looking at. I think the blow only lands heavier at the fact that a lot of the people that were viewing content within niche, more 'cringe' fandoms like this tended to be on the autism spectrum, such is the case for myself, which can make it a lot harder to understand what is being viewed and why it is not appropriate to act upon/ replicate in real life, especially with gore and NSFW. Honestly, we joke about 'character building' from being exposed to this content young, but I think it's a very serious issue that needs to be discussed. Thank you for making this video and bringing awareness to such an obscure topic. I think it really highlights the need for responsibility as a creator in communities like this. Content like this should be allowed to exist, but should not be uploaded on a place like YT which is full of kids, or should at least have some kind of disclaimer/ age restriction. Parents also need to take a lot more responsibility with what kids are accessing at young ages, because the impact of this stuff is really serious. I exhibited a lot of violence against my younger sister as a result, and have had a very bizarre relationship with sex until this day, something I am only now fixing at the age of 19 through therapy. Please monitor what your kids watch.

[@Dr.looksmaxxer]

Oh that cursed rainbowdash inflation is one of the deleted one i still remember back in 2015 , me who was barely 17 was just watching tf2 content and those kind of contents shows in my feed , and it was a gate to hell for me

[@Ari_Luco]

I will say I did stumble onto Fluffy Ponies way back when I was a kid. But from what I remember it was so vile that I blocked it from my memory.