The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy

Due to the runtime this counts as a brony documentary and, as such, it is the best brony documentary.
Helpful timestamps:
Viewers with sensitivity should avoid: 29:21-29:31 flashing tiktok imagery, 37:13-37:39 bronies raving with strobes, 39:11-39:22 flashing gifs up on an LED screen, 48:28-48:30 a pony gets zapped with flashing magic, 1:09:38-1:11:10 some concert footage played behind credits.
Click your favorite popular brony fandom meme:
Sweetie Belle is a robot - / jennynicholson
Bright Eyes from My Little Pony Tales is, also, I guess a robot (really trying to get this one off the ground, would appreciate if you told your friends) - / jennyenicholson
Headcanon that Rainbow Dash plays bocce ball sometimes - / progamerjenny
Shipping Discord with Mayor Mare - / spider_jewel
They said the phrase “pasta button” in a late-season episode and you haven’t seen it but all the bronies keep knowingly talking about pasta button and laughing uproariously and you don’t really know what that’s all about - / spiderjewel
Pretending to be attracted to the ponies lol when you’re definitely not - / jennynicholsonvids
Sources:
Littleshy’s narrated con vlogs and retrospectives are really good time capsules and worth a watch for the curious:
• Let's Revisit BronyCon...
• BronyCon 2013 - Conven...
• BronyCon 2019 The LAST...
MLP Fair images:
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MLP Logo:
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HUB Network promo clips:
• The Hub Network (TV Sp...
Furry wolf:
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The first ever bronycon:
www.equestriadaily.com/2011/0...
Bronycon January 2012:
• MLP Voice Actresses Pa...
• Red Eye Does BronyCon ...
Misc con footage:
• (At Bronycon) "Live" P...
• BronyCon Summer 2012 B...
• Let's Revisit BronyCon...
Fallout Equestria book unboxings:
• Derped Road. Unboxing ...
• Fallout Equestria Book...
• Fallout Equestria 3rd ...
• Fallout Equestria Book...
Bronycon concert:
• BronyCon 2013 - Bronyp...
Bronydoc:
• Bronies: The Extremely...
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MLP Tales toys brochure scan:
www.geocities.ws/chibiclover/t...
Pony merch compilations:
mylittlewiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Swagberg - Pony Swag:
• Swagberg - Pony Swag (...
Radio edit:
• Pony Swag (Clean Radio...
Final Bronycon announcement:
• BronyCon 2019 Announce...
Closing ceremonies proshot:
• BronyCon 2019 - Closin...
Bronycon So Long song played at the closing ceremonies:
• Mad Mars - BronyCon (B...

[@Mgooy]

When the last eagle flies over the last crumbling mountain And the last lion roars at the last dusty fountain In the shadow of the forest though she may be old and worn They will stare unbelieving at the last Bronycon When the first breath of winter through the flowers is icing And you look to the north and a pale moon is rising And it seems like all is dying and would leave the world to mourn In the distance hear the laughter of the last Bronycon I'm alive, I'm alive When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has passed without even a last desperate warning Then look into the sky where through the clouds a path is torn Look and see her how she sparkles, it's the last Bronycon

[@ava_marie_v]

That movie traumatized me as a child

[@lyrablack8621]

I'm not crying you're crying

[@KeerahD]

Wow this one hurt.

[@Anna-tk7ui]

This is lowkey giving me flashbacks to that movie......

[@TheGoblinoid]

"Vored, if you will" God, you're acid.

[@NxTTxT]

Jenny revealing that she was "horse famous" and that she contributed to a large portion of brony fan culture is like that Darth Vader twist before it became iconic in pop culture.

[@kisaku2419]

lol i will always remember friendship is witchcraft

[@Akeara4]

Me and my friends were huge fans of Friendship is Witchcraft, and I legitimately freaked the hell out at her reveal and paused the video to tell those same friends.

[@thevoidstaresback4464]

I shrieked too I loved fiw

[@Doodlebug1135]

Here I am just entertained by this documentary and then she drops THAT FACT and I was like holy shit??? Cuz I watched the HELL out of Friendship is Witchcraft. I still remember so many songs. Wow small world lol

[@thevoidstaresback4464]

same, when she said she made a fan parody I was like "No way it's fiw it's just some small one I haven't heard of- holy shit"

[@dominiqueknight6707]

The girly stereotypes: environmentalist, teacher, rollerskater, circus clown, volcanic sacrifice. The five types of girls.

[@MidLa23]

+

[@Necroskull388]

These are the five types, no other girls are possible.

[@jade-nl3cs]

huh. not far off from my friend group

[@revelaitons3959]

Ironically they don't have horse girls

[@sharonoddlyenough]

Tag yourself, I'm the volcanic sacrifice

[@JimWitschey]

"A highly intelligent group of heterosexual males" got me real good

[@DLbroIsMentallyIll]

👏

[@fourthmatchflame]

as a former brony asaigent person, i am not highly intelligent, nor heterosexual.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

@matchflame I am highly intelligent, but *not* heterosexual by any means. EDIT: Or male. Nope, can't forget the male.

[@fireafire]

HAHAHAH

[@brent3086]

​@@imthebossmermaid3648obviously you're not heterosexual. You like my little pony

[@Iotuseater]

36:35 imagine being these guys you put so much effort into making this ROBOT based on an inside joke and you have no idea the actual voice actress is RIGHT THERE i hope they've seen this video

[@silenceinspace.]

Yes! I always wonder if she told them who she was.

[@vaehtay]

Not to be that guy but she didn’t actually voice sweetie bot unfortunately. Your point still stands though, I’m SO curious if she said anything to them, I’d be devastated if I was the one that made the robot and saw this video and realized I DIDN’T talk to the creator of the parodies I was referencing lmao

[@joeblevins1061]

That woman who says "Please exit the emergency exit, every pony!" is really doing her job.

[@AK-jt9gx]

37:59

[@distantrev9406]

Pay her extra!

[@AaronJL]

It makes me laugh every time. 🤣

[@BrickBuster2552]

That's the kind of consistency that gets you a job as a guide at Galaxy's Edge, where your job is to fail to guide people because you're not supposed to stop talking in Star Wars terminology that PARENTS of CHILDREN don't know.

[@sunlightswift]

I ran out the front door before I realized it was the video

[@rekindle7602]

"It's a little cringey but most fun things are." Might be the most profound statement of our time

[@WangleLine]

I like that sentence

[@BirdieBirdieBirdie566]

This is truth

[@katherinealvarez9216]

Yup.

[@tehHighwayman]

I am going to go with second most profound. First would be "Loving something unconditionally doesn't mean you love it more. It just means you love it sadder" from her 'Top 10 Worst Reasons You Liked Rogue One'

[@HiddelMOB]

"If you were ever labeled as cringy, congratulations. You've used the internet for it's intended purpose and were given heck for it" - Peter Knetter, 2016

[@sinningiswinning1615]

I was always SO happy interacting with the Brony fandom as a little girl. I LOVED attending cons, I would always take pictures with adults in full cosplay, and they’d draw my clumsily made OC for me for free while having nice, innocent conversations about the show with me. I felt surrounded by friends. I met several “horse famous” people who were, with one exception, SO incredibly kind to me, and it meant the world to me as the weird, mentally ill, autistic, often outcast kid at school. In fact, Jenny, you and your friend made a significant contribution to that. I had made a very, VERY poor, clumsy attempt at a Derpy cosplay and I attended a FiW panel at Fiesta Equestria in Houston, Texas. I had worked so hard on it, and though it was poorly made, I got so many compliments, including several from y’all, who were so so cool and funny in my little eyes. You guys said I looked like an angel, and I didn’t get compliments like that outside of family often. So, despite all of the weird shit and the harmful impacts I later realized exposure to the worse parts of the fandom had on my brain, I’m still very grateful to the fandom, to YOU, for that. Thank you, everypony

[@riqrimoli]

this is so adorable

[@TheGypsyVanners]

To quote from another fandom: "Fascinating"

[@mossgrows6540]

calling the creator of one of the biggest mlp fan series a fake fan is so funny or me im sorry like. i hope that guy remembers that and it keeps him awake at night

[@Littlestraincloud]

Jenny roasting 4chan while sitting next to a Twilight Sparkle body pillow is a power move.

[@oneonly2762]

and being horse famous to boot!

[@martykunte]

Idk I never personally understood the whole 4 Chan is one personality of edge lords pol and r are pretty bad granted but it’s a big site

[@guishenaskishe1908]

@@martykunte As an old anon, the rest of the site is similarly bad. It used to not be in my memory in terms of awful people, but it certainly got overly terrible at almost every place. /pol/ was a mistake.

[@oneonly2762]

@@martykunte You can also tell she never really went searching for other boards. TG and CO are (were?) some of the tightest shit. Weird how, in spite of knowing how big MLP got on 4chan, she never mentioned how absolutely huge it got on /co/. Anyone who'd been around /co/ for say, 2 years would have surely heard of the /co/ is love meme.

[@alexredfield1943]

/pol/ is what is wrong with the world

[@nokocchi1983]

sometimes you just gotta throw an "everypony" into everyday conversation and deal some psychic damage

[@Wet-Milk]

me and my friends occasionally do this and it kills all of us everytime.

[@flyingfranky]

“psychic damage” omg

[@atomicdancer]

38:00 "One of the light fixtures has caught fire." - "Please exit the emergency exit, everypony."

[@squeakybelle3711]

"hay brony" who remember

[@Pandabarrel]

3d6 Psychic Damage to be exact

[@secret.dog.powers]

love revisiting this one. "shadow the hedge hog boys" fucking kills me everytime

[@claudevanvlack2306]

Shadow is the dark mirror universe sonic, right?

[@secret.dog.powers]

@@claudevanvlack2306 yes

[@toasteethetoaster5978]

@@claudevanvlack2306 he's his own thing, CliffNotes version is that scientists wanted to make the ultimate lifeform and it turned out to be Shadow the Hot Topic Hedgehog.

[@Weather_67]

Same

[@KingOfGaymes]

@@claudevanvlack2306nah he’s a different character

[@asimplemoth5342]

Jenny’s voice overs in the parodies are so unironically impressive

[@danielmountain5450]

Jenny's "I was horse famous" and Sarah Z's "I was in the Onceler fandom" have the same, yet opposite energies.

[@OliverHeikkinen]

Sarah's reveal was like that scene in a movie when one of the characters finally opens up about their past and what happened in the war. this is a bit more like when Miley finally takes off that wig and reveals to the world that she's Hannah Montana.

[@penelopeclaire539]

@@OliverHeikkinen this made me cackle

[@ShalathePrinny]

Honestly being a part of the Onceler fandom is much more embarrassing

[@alfalfa_art]

Idk what the Onceler fandom or Sarah Z is 👀

[@TheP1x3l]

Sarah Z barely scratched the surface of the Onceler fandom tbh. I uh... unfortunately know from experience.

[@macalisternewby5679]

“Vored, if you will.” I won’t

[@itsethanbradberry]

I love you

[@etNOfonehome]

So casual. So places faire, if you will.

[@nat-fs3ms]

im screaming

[@dan5609]

I felt bad when she made the reference, but I feel worse for even knowing what that is in the first place.

[@DanKaschel]

@@dan5609 no need to kink shame :)

[@soyjoyy]

"You would have some Applejacks left over" Not on my watch. Literally my fav character, I even scraped off her silhouette on my wooden wardrobe with a needle, so that I could see her every time I woke up and get motivated to start another day. I was pretty insane

[@carolyns4519]

My second favorite after Fluttershy! She was the original cottagecore queen.

[@badger6882]

I absolutely love this

[@Ffaely]

Yeah Applejack was always my favourite

[@sonotfetch]

not insane, she was your motivation/inspiration to live and do something with yourself! never feel bad about that :)

[@Iotuseater]

47:42 this interaction gets me everytime imagine being so pompous you think a child is a fake fan of a children's show because she's not deep enough into fandom to know your probably obscure oc

[@cm9241]

It's like Chris Chan insulting you for not knowing the full history of sonichu

[@hgamesca8288]

I would have replied 'well maybe if your OC was more popular I WOULD know them' lmao. Deflate his ego a bit.

[@carlosalmonacid8958]

Or ""You merely adopted the Ponies. I was born with them. Molded by them. I didn't see a Transformer until I was already a teen, and by then, it was nothing to me but boring!'"

[@ohlawdhecomin305]

@@cm9241 How is it 2023 and there's still people out there making fun of chris chan

[@lxjoe96]

@ohlawdhecomin305 You must be out of the loop or you'd know why ChrisChan received a sudden surge of relevance recently

[@sugar-rice]

“Please make your way to the emergency exit, everypony!” Is not a sentence I thought would actually exist

[@Flutterlullaby]

Wow

[@nik700]

Tara Strong can make every phrase work

[@allisonfields3108]

It's a sentence I didn't anticipate but revel in unbridled excitement and mysticism upon hearing

[@visualeyesmusic]

The use of the word "everypony" hit my like a truck filled with liquid nostalgia driving on the highway at full speed

[@batsbatsghost8757]

38:02 if anyone needed it lmao

[@rfox3519]

“They came from 4chan” sounds like a horror flick

[@Ryan6586]

I'd watch it. Def terrifying

[@jor4114]

I wonder which one was the greatest existential horror to be spawned from within 4chan. The SPC Foundation, or the Brony fandom.

[@Captain1nsaneo]

To be fair "It came from 4chan" would be more likely and still works as a horror title.

[@louisvictor3473]

Why isn't this a thing already? I didn't know how badly I needed this, and now I can't have it :(

[@mr.kamiguru6915]

I laughed way too hard at this joke

[@HappyLarry.]

I love how a lot of Jenny's videos, even about cringe things, are a lot like a zoologist talking about snails. Like no big emotions, just this kinda wholesome enjoyment and wonder at the strangeness of the internet and the people on it.

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

She's like the David Attenborough of internet era fandoms.

[@addieberg3460]

I really appreciated talking about the fandom becoming increasingly exclusionary and hostile for children to be in. I feel like adults (and especially teenagers and young adults who are trying to prove their maturity) assume that children can't pick up on hostile vibes or, dare I say, can't tell when they are being objectified or when there's a skeezy vibe in the air. On the more banal end, they assume kids can't tell when something's an innuendo or super violent- I think it's because they know how much they've changed since their childhood that they assume kids are (or should be) cool with everything because they're too dumb to notice anything. I can remember being little and even if I didn't know why something felt weird I could tell something was up and felt uncomfortable and/or unwelcome. I ended up not watching or reading a lot of stuff that was officially for kids because there were weird adult jokes or hyper-sexualized characters in there. Also, not to be blunt but many children don't get a choice for when they're exposed to sexual stuff. Even on the most chill end of this- not even talking about more direct messed up shit- little girls know they're often vaguely sexualized by adults and hate it. I remember talking about it with my friends on the playground at age 9. I remember shopping with my mom at age 7 and being disgusted by how many pajamas and shorts had quasi-sexualized stuff like "kitten" and "princess" printed on the butt- or emblazoned with rhinestones that hurt to sit on. It took hours for us to find shorts that didn't have printing on the butt. And by age 12 odds are good you've been horribly catcalled by an adult man. Kids get a vibe for what objectification is long before they actually know what sex is. There should be spaces and media that they can enjoy without having to worry about that, and where adult fans should take a back seat.

[@SquamataReptile]

Teen girl here, can confirm. I have friends who were followed by men and asked me to stay on call with them to feel safer, I was catcalled when I was like 13 by a group of around a dozen teenagers that looked to be mostly 16yo boy’s, I see loli’s in anime I watch, I have heard the boys in my class objectify one of my classmates for her body type, ect, ect. We can tell and we know. It’s hard to find a place where teenagers and young kids, regardless of gender, can feel safe and like it’s something actually made for them without perverted corruption.

[@sophiaako7663]

I was a super sensitive and socially anxious little kid and I can imagine that having that negative interaction at a young age could traumatize me to the point of no longer being in the fandom or even liking mlp.

[@YourCrazyOverlord]

Jenny extremely undersells how integral to the fandom she was. Like a full half of the early memes that endured a full decade are directly her responsibility

[@floralsunglasses8862]

YEAH, Friendship is Witchcraft was so major!!! Like she just kinda talks about for a bit but I was like um?? That was so major!

[@skyperez5279]

There look to be millions upon millions of views for the songs and episodes. It's really cool to see.

[@jonahbardwell551]

Yeah when she first mentioned, my thoughts as someone who has no real connection to this community was "oh that's cool, Jenny made a parody of MLP maybe I'll check it out" but the more she talked about the cons and how much her stuff got referenced, the more I realized that this was like A Thing.

[@victoriascherini7901]

As a non-mlp fan I literally didn’t even know that friendship is witchcraft was a parody and not a professional spinoff- it’s so integral to mlp fandom

[@milesgaunt6767]

it was even referenced in official show media.

[@Zettabyte7]

I can't believe Jenny made an hour long brony documentary just to flex on us that she was horse famous.

[@roland4623]

literally the weirdest flex, but ok.

[@Guciom]

Admit it! You still loved it!

[@garatjax]

and I watched the whole thing!

[@blackanimecat2]

You love to see it

[@kenj0418]

I can definitely believe Jenny would make such a thing. I can't believe that I actually just watched the whole thing

[@MartinRGerawrdo]

My mind. Is blown. Ex brony who keeps all of my fandom experience to myself like it's a wartime experience, and YOU made friendship is witchcraft. I loved that series. Thank you for your bravery and making me not feel alone

[@owenleal]

Nah, but changing the name of a horse from one slur for Romani people, because its offensive and changing it to ANOTHER lesser known slur for Romani people is darkly hilarious.

[@ernestoacosta7918]

No matter what, this horse will be called a slur for Romano people

[@jessicest]

pretty soon they'll just rename it to The Slur Horse

[@Kyrbi0]

​@@jessicest The Slorse, if you will

[@electric_entity]

​@@Kyrbi0I won't

[@willmiddleton7932]

Europeans have mastered racism. In America it’s been taboo to be openly racist. You gotta find some kind of workaround to dislike entire races of people like how the fear and anxiety in America after 9/11 caused many people to dislike Arabic people. If you go to Europe and ask anyone about the Romani people you’ll probably get a response that’s something along the lines of “oh the *slur*? Fucking scamming thieves they are”

[@edeedeeward]

I love how Jenny has a strip of hair deliberately placed over her fake ear, but tucked behind her real ear

[@raventrunite6459]

oh my god-

[@annakellyvee]

It took me for-fucking-ever to finally get that.

[@rainbowdashsailormoon6005]

I only just noticed that almost an hour into the video

[@solarprogeny6736]

i kept staring at it the whole time

[@biggiesmartypants]

I noticed it during the problematic stuff section and then I felt better again.

[@MissingnoXpert]

The biggest thing I learned today is that Jenny has some impressive VA chops

[@Necroskull388]

Yeah, it's been years since I thought about Friendship is Witchcraft, and all I could think during that voiceover compilation was, "Wow, those were all ONE person?"

[@memethyst]

i watched it in middle school and i remember jenny being all of them but i didn't remember how distinct most of them actually sounded

[@kinsley5029]

@MissingnoXpert Hey I really liked watching LGPY and LGPB btw

[@WasabiKitCat]

I still listen to Pinkie's Brew and Gypsy Bard all the time and I didn't even know that was her?? My world has been shattered.

[@PseudoFiction]

I'm interested in how much the finished audio was digitally tuned.

[@karak962]

i literally used to fight adult men on 4chan (luckily the pony stuff was my only exposure to it 😂) as a nine year old and would write passionate tirades about how they knew nothing about writing and sucked and were mean people 😂😂😂 they assumed I was also an adult guy because i just went with it but its HILARIOUS to think about me pissed off as a 9 year old wearing a twilight sparkle shirt fighting adults about how they sucked at writing and would be worse at making a cartoon

[@thischannelisfullofspiders]

oh my god how did you get on 4chan?? who told you about that when you were NINE

[@ksawierrrrrrr]

I stumbled across websites like 4chan as well when i was 9 years old ish, its most likely just unsupervised internet access lmao@@thischannelisfullofspiders

[@Mediamarked]

@@thischannelisfullofspiders This made me smile. 9 year olds in the gutter of the internet, good job parents.

[@chadthundercock4806]

​@@thischannelisfullofspidersit's a well known major site and image board for hobbies, especially the pony fandom

[@jaqssmith1666]

lmao, I hope you put Anon in his place!

[@jackaleope]

wow her ability to just perfectly sum up how irony culture on the internet works and how 4chan plays it out is perfect. internet sociology is something i find so fascinating but its a topic usually overlooked in videos like this.

[@marshall9003]

Jenny revealing that she was one of the main creators of Friendship is Witchcraft is such whiplash

[@Qtoyghs]

RIGHT!?! I had to pause what I was doing and take a breather because I was not ready for that plot twist.

[@justineberlein5916]

I mean, I already knew from the comments of a Lindsay Ellis video. It was actually because it was Jenny that I watched FiW

[@ShiroiYuki.]

I nearly choked

[@AlexFurry]

I paused and had vietnam flashbacks during that.

[@adrianvalentine9054]

Now that its been revealed idk how i never knew this. It makes so much sence from thr obscure references to other fandom to the very literal EXACT same sence of humor. Now i just appreciate it 10x more

[@doubleeffect3435]

“Vored, if you will” _no, I don’t think I will_

[@sholem_bond]

Your loss XD

[@Newfiecat]

That made me laugh so hard 😂

[@blarg2429]

@@sholem_bond | || || |_

[@TheJaironman99]

@@blarg2429 oh fuck off, not again

[@genderlesswhale2868]

I certainly will not.

[@greathorn]

As someone who has struggled with impersonators before for creative work I’ve done in the past, the thought that you could just tweet out “that’s not me” never occurred to me

[@Active0Bserver]

I gave piano lessons to a 9-year-old girl around the time that the brony fandom was really taking off. Between teaching, she'd just beam and tell me as much as she could about the characters, the story, and the plot of the show, and would have me teach her how to play songs from it. Quite frequently, she complained about all the adults suddenly taking the franchise over and "making it weird". She was the literal target audience of the show, and still she felt this awful alienation from it.

[@karelchrastina5655]

As a non-target audience - I felt the same. (at that time 30-year man) It was a beautiful innocent show for kids that could have been watched by almost anyone. When they started to aknowledge the adult fandom I stopped watching .I watched it because it was an innocent show without any drama. Just a nice time-out from everyday stupidity, work and stress. In oher words, my inner child was very unhappy.

[@DenSporetrix]

"Jenny, a horsegirl?" i say, as i stare at the horse-shaped shelf in the background.

[@lingricen8077]

cringe comment

[@ashestoashes78]

Never forget that someone looked one of the creators of 'Friendship is Witchcraft' in the eye and told her she wasn't a true fan

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

The arrogant doucheness is off the charts. I can't help but imagine him gatekeeping random other fandoms and celebrities. "Oh this? Yeah it's a character from Star Trek. I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them." *cut across to show he's obliviously talking to Patrick Stewart.*

[@addammadd]

Jeremiah Reagan you obviously meant Star Wars. Idjit.

[@brookeworley5140]

@@addammadd no? Patrick Stewart acted in Star Trek. That example was not related to Jenny lol

[@addammadd]

Brooke Worley the fact that I have to tell you that I was being sarcastic makes me a sad pony.

[@brookeworley5140]

@@addammadd a /s might have helped, because there was no context that made it seem like a joke

[@siphillis]

That one fan who shamed Jenny for not knowing their OC might be the most narcissistic person in the universe.

[@jermafitzgerald2368]

I think the point of the section was that that interaction wasn't an outlier

[@amandajackson.83]

Guaranteed he knew Friendship is Witchcraft, though. Funny how that works. ;)

[@soothsayerofthedarkandexis8525]

Or it was Dave Filoni

[@darkminerj]

only jenny could give me the mental whiplash of "yeah I casually created that thing that you liked when you were younger" FIW was great

[@anyakathryn6822]

i was a "brony" when i was 8, and i was frequently called a fake fan. despite, being a literal little girl. y'know, the target demographic.

[@gamzee3610]

Little girl: * watches and likes a show that's made for her * 4chan neckbeard bastard: idk seems like you just like mlp for the clout

[@felicityf.7767]

That was me, I was like 10 but I called myself a pegasister

[@calcifer6142]

@@felicityf.7767 wow I thought I was the only one xD

[@awesomellama8141]

@@felicityf.7767 i did that too oh my god

[@maxllon]

Felicity Fox yeah same from 9-13. im almost 20 now

[@hola542]

"in fact, they are a highly intelligent group of heterosexual males" omg. he says it so earnestly.

[@666kittycat666]

Remember kids, if you want to legitimise something elevate it to the level of intelligent heterosexual males.

[@thrownstair]

If you want prestige and attention, the easiest way there is to cater to straight men on chanboards.

[@tarvoc746]

To be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to understand Derpy Hooves.

[@sunwoopark6762]

Add white to the mix and they have the perfect gatekeeper

[@666kittycat666]

@@sunwoopark6762 the white part is implied just like the cis part ;p

[@aifricdoherty2766]

Hey, I don't know if you've already had comments about this, but 'Tinker' is actually also used as a slur against the Irish travelling community - I just burst out laughing when you said it was 'cute' loooll (but yes, once I actually witnessed an Irish traveller being called a 'filthy tinker' in Dublin, so I think it is unfortunately still a pejorative term..).

[@simly5189]

So, the push is to rename that horse breed from one slur... to another slur for the same group of people?

[@aifricdoherty2766]

@@simly5189 unfortunately, yes😅

[@fireafire]

oh my god

[@TPNsBiggestFan]

that sucks but it is a little hysterical… what was the thought process behind renaming it to a DIFFERENT slur???

[@justadummy8076]

@@simly5189I think at this point they should just embrace the fact that this horse will always be known for being named after slurs and just name it after every known soir so that everyone’s equally offended

[@BrendanJSmith]

John de Lancie's hatred for Bronies really says something when you consider he's had to deal with Trekkies for most of his life.

[@1000huzzahs]

I hear he's not terribly fond of them, either.

[@DuvalSt1]

@@1000huzzahs Its always a coin flip whether an actor known for playing jerks is a good actor or really just a jerk.

[@Theaterfreak]

@@1000huzzahsas a lifelong Trekkie myself, I get it tbh. 90% of the fandom is wonderful, we’re all just nerds who love a franchise about aliens and starships, but the insufferable 10% sour it for everyone. That’s pretty much the same for basically every fandom ever tbh.

[@doevember]

This made me sad ngl :(

[@kaelmic7476]

So if im correct The best thing about bronies was their unbridled passion The worst thing about bronies was their unbridled passion

[@Liam-vu7wo]

They're just... unstable

[@drudle]

As a brony, I can safely state that we are the personified versions of "haha, just kidding ... unless?"

[@dylanpalmer5168]

The ultimate monkeys paw

[@dustydudle880]

@@Liam-vu7wo More like had no stable Cuz they're horses

[@ColdHawk]

I so love that you worked the “unbridled” pony pun in there TWICE! Well done!

[@Fingolfin_the_Warden]

Howling at the idea that they thought you were a fake fan for not knowing HIS ORIGINAL CHARACTER

[@FukaiKokoro]

Muckknuckle that’s insane. Especially by a grown man. Reminds me of the bobs burger episode Equestranauts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Equestranauts where one of the daughters is targeted and scammed by a brony.

[@RichardMNixon]

It really takes a special kind of asshole to be that self-absorbed. The best part is that he probably WAS familiar with her original characters/content from Friendship is Witchcraft and could have had a neat conversation with its creator if he hadn't been such a raging bonehead.

[@boryancrum2196]

I had a very similar experience at a fan meetup for a very different fandom, it felt so absurd and surreal as this grumpy little gremlin of a man did his best to dunk on me

[@kalejuice5701]

@@RichardMNixon @RichardMNixon Precisely! I don't think it's a stretch to say that Jenny Nicholson's contributions to Friendship is Witchcraft had a profound impact on like half of the Brony meme culture. That guy and his OC are probably unheard of compared to Jenny in the ocean of content that is the Brony fandom.

[@RP-iq3fr]

maybe i misinterpreted this, but i thought that the exchange went the way it did because the rude man assumed that jenny couldn't distinguish between the real characters from his oc. he was shaming her not because she didn't recognize his oc, but because she supposedly didn't have the ability to know that it was an OC in the first place

[@kikibunni]

53:20 losing my mind at “a highly educated group of heterosexual males.” something about the line delivery, the implication that you can’t be gay and smart, the way he seems to fully believe what he’s saying. it’s so funny

[@corvinredacted]

It's extra hilarious because conservatives love to complain about the connection between higher education, liberal values, and queer people. Like, part of the stereotype is literally that we're highly educated, lmao

[@nickjohnson3619]

In defense of the one actor just imagine if you had both trekkies and bronies to deal with

[@jasmine31507]

😭😭

[@blitz3391]

I've watched a bunch of interviews with him outside of the fandom, and he really strikes me as an actor with a sort of superiority complex. He doesn't like MLP and its fans because it's beneath him. At least that's the strong vibe i had. Shame when he's behind one of the best character in the show.

[@null_doesnothing2487]

​@@blitz3391 very disappointing, he's a great actor and his characters are really fun so it's super disappointing that he's like this

[@RenWonders]

So are we REALLY just going to skim over the fact that someone tried to steal Jenny's fame by pretending she was a voice actor for Friendship is Witchcraft and i guess no one bothered to fact check this? I WAS CACKLING.

[@kouusa]

I get a kick that she disappeared. Never to be heard from again. But I agree, HOW did no one check that?!?

[@Weirdanimalboy]

That person is out there 😐

[@AmericasComic]

Weirdanimalguy that person could be reading this😐

[@KL-uv3ts]

The video undersells how weird it was. There's a clip out there, and the impersonator literally rushed the stage during opening ceremonies, took the mic, and launched into her grift. Apparently she WAS checked by a number of people on credibility (she couldn't do the voices and claimed they were edited in post) and lies (she didn't just take credit, she said Nicholson was bullying her into silence), but I guess when you act with that much confidence..?

[@librasuperstar3779]

K L the fact that apparently no one found it suspicious she couldn’t do ANY of the character voices is so funny to me. It’s like if someone went on stage and claimed to be Tom Kenny then was asked to do the Spongebob or Powerpuff Girls Narrator voice and he was like “um I can’t they’re uh. Edited in post”

[@camipco]

Just a moment of silence for all the men who thought Jenny Nicholson was a fake geek...

[@TheWaverunners]

Only a true geek can hyperfixate not only the popular thing, but the very specific niche fandoms like Avatar (James Cameron) and Land Before Time.

[@jellydarling1008]

A true legend. saint like in her devotion to the pony. get on her level

[@Gladiva19]

A moment of silence for their entitlement to be the gatekeepers of any kind of entertainment 😂

[@whoknows6983]

very true and it also should be noted that girls should be able to like things casually without harassment

[@CylindricalWhistle]

I hope that brony who sneered at Jenny for being a 'fake fan' sees this video, lol

[@d3ada5tronaut]

despite never caring about or knowing much about bronies or bronycon before this video, it made me just so incredibly happy to know the last con was so filled with positivity and celebration. It's always sad to see things die with a whimper and im glad that wasn't the fandom's fate

[@SunIsLost]

The fandom still exists, it's just underground right now (and we have G5 Series now)

[@Brandon-yr3nj]

'it's pretty cringey, but so are most fun things' healed something in me

[@XatxiFly]

I know right, I think about this a lot, the sheer power of that statement

[@tonyparker7349]

At last, Jenny Nicholson comes out as a Horse Girl.

[@byrnetdown6076]

whEre have yoU beEn shes been out 👀

[@mariokarter13]

Horse Famous OG

[@lzmunch]

Lmao one of her earliest videos is her cleaning mlp ponies

[@theopollind8024]

Loving her horse people energy for sure

[@bighatbondquo863]

She's had a horse shaped shelving unit in the background for her last few videos. We been known

[@tellnate29]

"in fact they are a highly educated group of heterosexual males" is going to haunt me til I die

[@kasaneteto4904]

My bones lost marrow when I heard that

[@emerson3323]

@@JoshuaNorton its such blatant pandering

[@isabellasobey5225]

Fr that killed me 💀 could you get anymore obvious

[@Tunabringer]

I read this comment before watching the video, and was equal parts delighted and horrified when it was said in the video, by someone other than Jenny, without a trace of irony.

[@BrocksJellyFilledDoughnuts]

53:16 He said it with so much confidence what the hell? 😂💀

[@finscontingencyplan7005]

This was genuinely moving at the end and the Stacy's Mom cover was a wonderful closing credits track. I particularly liked your description of the fandom's absorption by the furry community - a peaceful retirement for what was once the counter-culture of the decade.

[@ko379]

Jenny taking a moment to just rip into the guy who plays Q is so unexpected lol

[@cw6101]

you summarising that men aren't used to unsexual fondness for female characters was a revelation that took me out back and shot me in the head with accuracy

[@tonyb7615]

men wont.

[@tonyb7615]

not all men are dudes

[@starlightrains]

@@tonyb7615 nigga what

[@neksnek2032]

@@tonyb7615 come again?

[@tonyb7615]

@@starlightrains a guy/dude wants to conquer a woman to say they can. a boy is horny, will say anything. a man says what he means and means what he says. aka the lion does not care about the sheep. a man treats a woman just like anyone else. not caring about female sexuality. hunt from jurasic park. lydia from beetlegeuse. ripley from alien. sara conor of terminator. i grew up with strong women. sexuality was always secondary if not tertiary.

[@knotten33]

"In fact, they're a highly educated heterosexual group of males". Even without the context that's one of the funniest dead-pan deliveries I've heard. 53:15

[@xotl2780]

It's also total HS. (That's like BS but with more glitter.)

[@felixsfriendthatgavehimthe2108]

Jennie is the master of dead pan deliveries

[@smileyp4535]

@@felixsfriendthatgavehimthe2108 it.. It wasn't Jenny who said it... Lol Edit: agreed though, she is. She's not the one who said that tho

[@anniecarpenter9000]

i never understood when i was a 11 year old fan of the show in 2012 why they stopped doing the brushable hair. i loved ponies and playing with them until like 8th grade and it was so sad for me :( ofc it was misogyny

[@Rileyann130]

You will never understand how my JAW DROPPED when you said that you and your friend created friendship is witchcraft!!! I still remember all the songs from that show!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

I wonder if in Japan there are people who had a very similar experience to this because they like went to Comiket in the mid 80’s and bought a fancomic from this relatively new up and coming collective of otaku who call themselves CLAMP and they didn’t really think about it for years until they started seeing Cardcaptor Sakura explode with popularity in the late 90’s

[@Chxbearie]

I had an ex-girlfriend who had a friend who passed away when they were still young, and the girl who passed LOVED Twilight Sparkle so Tara Strong came to her funeral and I think that's absolutely crazy

[@sokkvabekkr5973]

wait for real?? thats so interesting

[@gothica3605]

Wow

[@TheRamblemanWhoSings]

props to Tara Strong for going to the funeral

[@ShellySwirl]

Awww ;-;

[@Mavidyatunes]

I think this didnt happen and you're lying.

[@bizzarejelly5818]

I did security for Tara Strong’s line at a con and she was 100% the coolest celeb I ever did security for. She gave a young fan who didn’t understand how meet and greets/autographs work a print and her autobiography and sent her on her way because she didn’t have the heart to tell her that it wasn’t free. I CANNOT STRESS HOW RARE THAT IS.

[@mossyartwork]

AWEEE

[@esirex7371]

༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽💖

[@animalobsessed1]

I didn't know those things weren't free either! :o

[@bizzarejelly5818]

@@animalobsessed1 some of them are free but for some of the bigger celebrities they charge 20-50 dollars not including their prints

[@username.not.known2473]

Oh my HEART I like you for telling us this xxx

[@sharkazoo]

I CANNOT believe that Jenny was behind friendship is witchcraft, this is insane

[@epicsharkduck7635]

As someone who used to use 4chan (don't worry, I don't anymore and I've healed since then), hacker rebel shadow the hedgehog boys is literally the perfect description of how they view themselves

[@trpdrspider8372]

They...hate brushable hair? Thats like hating that the Transformers...transform.

[@connorburton1009]

I mean to be fair the transforming gimmick makes it really hard to make accurate sculpts of certain characters. There are definitely people in the transformers fandom who would prefer the toys to be static statues, the big difference is Hasbro isn't pivoting the toyline to their preference.

[@punkybrewstar83]

Completely outside of this community. But I remember having My Little Ponies when I was a little girl. For me, they were not characters from a cartoon, but rather dolls that happened to be ponies. Their hair, and combs... were kind of everything for little girls. Anyway- they look oddly masculine now... can't imagine there being an appeal for as many little girls as there was, but who knows.

[@loganmiller6603]

Honestly, it made me kinda sad to think a toy company cares less about the little kids the dolls originally cater to and more about how to market to grown men. All about that money.

[@LacedWithOreos]

Yuuup. As soon as the show became a reflection of the adult fandom, I just checked out.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

Logan Miller RIGHT? Gross..

[@sarasthoughts]

The fact that the announcer said " reach the emergency exit *everypony* " just had me in tears

[@evamiller4886]

One day it will be as infamous as “Oh the humanity!” from the Hindenburg

[@Weirdanimalboy]

I wish I hadn’t read this and came upon that part of the video on my own 🤣

[@Flowtail]

I once was in a heated argument with my mother and said, completely automatically, “everypony” The argument paused for her to laugh

[@digitaljanus]

I had to rewind and make sure I heard it correctly! How delightful.

[@TheWaverunners]

I was already deep into Pokemon by the time I joined the MLP fandom back in 2012, so things like "Oh my Celestia!" were not much different than "Oh my Arceus!"

[@bunnerkins]

That comment about men not being socialized to recognize, experience or seek platonic relationships with women was an unexpected insight. I 100% agree.

[@Shnoodle0101]

The rapid fire delivery of some of her pony info dumps, you can just tell she was waiting for a chance to use her obscure knowledge

[@leilam-k9569]

I love that this one guy was throwing shade at Jenny for not knowing who is OC was, meanwhile he was probably lip-singing to her songs every week without knowing who she was. A true, foot-in-mouth moment.

[@crossproduct42]

And how big does his ego have to be to expect people to know his OC? smh... I bet it was Digibrony.

[@roseclouds5838]

hoof in mouth

[@lloydirving6209]

@@crossproduct42 nah digi was still super reserved at the first few cons. and although he has a bit of an ego with his online persona, he's not an asshole - he's chill in person.

[@dn22pkkdd476]

Reminds me of the current Marvel Editor In Cheif: C.B. Cebulski, telling a story on Twitter. *"4 dudes were giving each other portfolio reviews at midtown comics store. One looked decent, so asked if I could look. He told me not to bother them. Oh well..."* Ouch.

[@idonnow2]

@@crossproduct42 LOL

[@ThomasG_]

"Please exit the emergency exit, everypony" made me feel an indescribable emotion

[@annadean387]

It’s the fact that she seemed like she was chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to say it. Like she was thrilled at having the chance to say everybody into a microphone.

[@xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888]

@@annadean387 *everypony

[@kelska]

I literally screamed when I heard that

[@dullroar2673]

You don't drop character until the EMT is carting you away in the meatwagon

[@xxEbonyShardxx]

i think that emotion is "ough"

[@throwaway5511]

The FEAR I felt when you said you'd met John and Tara in greenrooms - I adore Tara Strong and I really thought I was about to learn that she was secretly awful and hates her fans. So glad to hear she is actually as lovely as she seems lmaoo

[@Blossomcloud321]

holy shit can we talk about how good her pony impressions and singing were

[@maehutton5192]

The dude who said Jenny was a fake fan probably quaking watching this

[@mirandabee2323]

He BETTER be quaking!

[@sarahgraves6759]

Jenny IS a fake fan! I haven't seen her spin once!

[@Sonicsis]

A girl actually just wanted to learn about my beloved oc???

[@jbiehlable]

@@mirandabee2323 For Jenny knows Twilight Motherbucking Sparkle who will snap if something doesn't go her way......O_O.

[@Blueeyesthewarrior]

@@sarahgraves6759 I see what you did there. Take my angry thumbs up.

[@scorchgid]

I'm speechless in that during a fire. The announcer tells "everypony" to evacuate. That's dedication to the craft.

[@Zovi_]

I mean, at a pony con, it's just habit. You don't even think about it. I sometimes just say "everypony" without even thinking of it in normal people conversations. I've decided to not fix this because I want to see if anyone's fight or flight gets activated.

[@SylvEdu]

She probably didn't even realize she said it because that was just the vernacular at those events. Everyone said it.

[@emthegirlwiththedog]

Hi! I'm 15 and I have autism and very severe anxiety. My service dog is actually named after Spike! I've been watching My Little Pony since it came out on The Hub and it's ways had a very special place in my heart. While I'm not going to sit here and say that My Little Pony taught me everything I know about being a good person, but it definitely taught me a lot about navigating personal relations and socializing. It was definitely more when I was younger but they genuinely helped me see other perspectives. While it's definitely not the same now when I re-watch the show. It's really sad that they framed the documentary like that.

[@Mediamarked]

I'm glad you have a service dog, and hope that helps you. I used to have a few cans of service beer for the same reason. MLP was a feelgood show, and a small bit of the fandom was too. Hope you will find your way in life, and that you eventually get over your anxiety.

[@Kay-nm7ly]

Every time this woman posts I have to binge all of her videos bc you know what she’s so right

[@ohno5559]

Hittin the town with my highly educated group of heterosexual males

[@cerebrustusbordungolski7183]

You mean your excellent ensemble of god fearing gentlemen.

[@spookmeister4528]

@@cerebrustusbordungolski7183 you are me and I am you

[@painovoimaton]

@@spookmeister4528 What a spooky happening

[@tonyb7615]

@@painovoimaton agreed my good sir

[@ClowncarSupreme]

@@hashnotall6263 ew, an transphobic person. Go away nobody likes you

[@mizjulio]

"it's pretty cring-y but so are most fun things" well, that is... a good way to think about life

[@Sorrelhas]

Indeed Reminds me of that Monty Python song about death

[@57wookie]

Life is indeed the big cringe

[@suribuxton9079]

To cringe or not to cringe, THAT is the question.

[@elliottmiller3282]

I was/am a brony. I just saw the first two seasons because I thought it was good. It actually helped my depression a TON. I live near Baltimore and always wanted to go to bronycon.

[@kashe7285]

while definitely NOT without its problems, this video makes me want to be apart of a huge fandom again sooo bad. seriously would kill to go to a convention full of people who are also weirdly obsessed with the things i like.

[@opalbinia]

Very late reply and kinda off topic but same tbh. I'm autistic and struggle with social stuff and noise and crowds a ton but having a group of people meet up who all like the same niche weird thing sounds so cool. The footage of actual cons here makes them look so appealing and cozy even with the crowds and noise. I was kinda into mlp growing up but not *big* into it (was escapist for pre-trans-realization me to enjoy girly stuff) but nowadays my equivelant for this would be attack on titan, godzilla, and 500 million year old bugs. And I'm broke, but this made me seriously reconsider cons as something I'd like to do.

[@SylvEdu]

You know what's funny? I'm actually the chairman of the convention at which you were impersonated. I remember exactly how it happened, too. I was attending to some business when some of my staff came up to me and said that we had some extra time in one of our panel rooms because of some scheduling issue or something, but they told me, "Hey, Jenny Nicholson said she can fill up that slot and entertain the crowd." I'm like, "Jenny Nicholson? Who's that?" That's the girl who made _Friendship is Witchcraft_. "Oh really? I don't remember booking her! I love those videos!" Nah, she said she came as a guest (which didn't sound outrageous, because content creators are still fans of the show like everyone else). "Oh, well, I guess if she's cool with it, that'd be a big help!" So I walk into that panel a while later and I've never seen Jenny Nicholson before. I'm just listening to this girl talk about creating the show and whatnot, then one of the crowd asks her to do an impersonation. I was interested, too. And, boy, let me tell you, that impersonator gave her best Pinkie Pie impression and I knew IMMEDIATELY that she was a fake. I called my staff together and I'm like, "Guys, we screwed up. I don't think that's Jenny Nicholson..." When we held the convention the following year, it was kind of a meme. I even designed a shirt with a name tag that said, "Hello, my name is Jenny Nicholson," but we never sold them. It was just an embarrassing story about how we let some random liar up on stage with our equipment. Even worse was a lot of people thought we actually booked the impersonator and PAID HER. Lol

[@bourdeaux35]

Hilarious 😂

[@phoenixdavida8987]

lololol

[@julissavillatoro5725]

OH MY GOD 😂😂😂

[@NegaLomie]

You still have those shirts???

[@SylvEdu]

@@NegaLomie We never produced them, but I still have the mock-up. Here's a TinyURL to a picture of the mock-up: tinyurl.com/JennyShirt You can make one for yourself if you feel like it lol.

[@eliasacornseyebrows8101]

I’m glad she called out the documentary for infantilizing neurodivergent adults because that was super weird and insulting for them to put in a film

[@drugbuddy665]

Honestly, it's more embarrassing that 60% of medical medical professionals don't actually view us better than that shitty documentary.

[@heavenlyrhyme2539]

@taco trader you're a special kinda stupid, aren't you?

[@benedictdwyer2608]

@taco trader wow! A dumbass in it’s natural habitat! I’ve only seen these in zoos!

[@NotFine]

@taco trader you know what I'll say it You're a pp head

[@jaymer123]

@taco trader it’s almost like people can like whatever the hell they want no matter their age, dumbass

[@cookeepuff]

Genuinely incredible work. I knew nothing about any of this, as I am not a My Little Pony fan. You were able to grab and grip my attention in spite of that! Your documentary is wonderful.

[@rose_above_dark4908]

Friendship is witchcraft nearly got mlp banned in my household growing up since my ma thought that was the shows actual name, and that was my only experience with fiw. Love your work!! And I’m surprised it all circles back

[@sydneybarron9544]

Jenny revealing that she was horse famous was literally the biggest twist to me

[@Fs3i]

Yeah, and she did it so brilliantly, with foreshadowing and everything

[@auroranicol]

i’m surprised she doesn’t flex it more that’s crazy

[@Flowtail]

My jaw dropped because I was like "oh, she must mean a different friendship is witchcraft--there were like 40 of the damn things" And then she played the songs and i was like "oh"

[@jongyon7192p]

@@Flowtail *The* Songs indeed

[@idkidc7513]

You tell me. I started watching her content this morning and after 6-7 videos I'm learning this

[@FCHenchy]

"You might have some Applejacks left over." The show's over, Jenny, you didn't have to murder her like that.

[@jijipoid]

lol it's true though. I am a vendor at a few nerd nonspecific conventions around the mid west area (pre pandemic obvi) and anytime we did pony stuff Applejack is always the one left over. Matter of fact I still have a key chain clip that just happens to be Applejack and I made small palm sized crochet ponies once and only one never sold and that was an Applejack to which ended up becoming a ferret hiding toy.

[@FCHenchy]

@@jijipoid Poor apple pone. She works so hard.

[@KelniusTV]

@@jijipoid that makes me sad since my friend's favourite character is Applejack.

[@possumking2724]

@@jijipoid That's so sad. My favourite pony is applejack :( i would simply buy all of the applejack merch

[@calcifer6142]

@@possumking2724 yeah, she was one of my favorites too!

[@pogchamporado]

being someone who has never gone too deep in fandoms its interesting to see a singular media define an entire era in someones life and still having lasting impact time and time again

[@pogchamporado]

i also remembered vividly in 2019 the last bronycon being on the news since i lived in MD, shit was wild

[@user-cb3zo8kb8w]

i know this video is ancient but the brony fandom HAS seen a resurgence (especially on tiktok). my theory on it is that the popular creators right now are typically queer (esp WLW, and AFAB trans people/really anyone socialized as a little girl that were pushed out of the early fandom bc misogyny) and neurodiverse people who grew up on the show and are now in their late teens. i was 5 when the fandom initially started and maybe 8 or 9 when the fandom hit its peak, i bought the toys and comics and trading cards, i watched the fan theory videos and made fanart, i watched the meme compilations and was traumatized by the pony gore, i LOVED that show. i'm 18 now. my best friend and i, both FTM, have rewatched the show recently and its super nostalgic to me now, in a way that i don't think older fans can relate to. i only rlly see it in people my age. it was literally my childhood. it was central to my identity during some of my most formative years. anyway, nobody will ever read this but i think it's interesting to talk about!

[@mianico04]

i read this!! :)

[@bee_doug]

I read it! :) That’s super cool to hear that folks who were kids when the fandom was big are enjoying it again as young adults.

[@fireafire]

I had a very similar experience! I was about 11 when I joined the fandom and now I'm about to turn 21, and I totally get the nostalgia you talk about :')

[@pegacis]

Amazing think piece

[@definitelynotashark1799]

Listen. I fully agree. But the sentence "people who grew up on the show and are now in their late teens" is NOT a sentence thirty year old me needed to read 💀

[@goblin1401]

The only thing I wish that was touched on more in this video is going deeper into the darker sides of the Brony community. I'm someone who got into My Little Pony when I was a 12 year old girl, and someone who actively went to conventions and fan meetups, along with interacting with the online community. I had multiple instances of grown men being creepy towards me, and there are a few stand out instances I look back on and realize how not okay they were. I still remember vividly being 13, dressed up as Princess Luna at a local con and a 20 something year old guy continually coming to sit by me and make conversation, offering to pay for my badge and to buy me dinner. At first I just thought he was being nice, but then it reached a point where he came up to me, looked me dead in the eyes and said "I'm just going to be honest here, I'm sexually attracted to you." I awkwardly told him I wasnt interested and that I had to go find my friends, but it still just makes me uncomfortable to think about. The part of that all that makes me even more uncomfortable is that that I ran into him the next day, when I wasn't in my Princess Luna cosplay, and he didn't even recognize me. It made me stop and think about how this guy saw a visibly underaged girl dressed up as Princess Luna, projected his fantasy of getting with a pony princess onto me, and then didnt even recognize me when that perceived fantasy was gone. I know my first hand accounts aren't all there is and I could have just had isolated incidents, however something leads me to believe that's just not the case, and I think how underaged girls were treated within the fandom is something that needs to be discussed.

[@lilyhd9131]

Some similar stuff happened to me when I was 14 at a mlp convention, and it kind of ruined cosplay for me. The adult male part of the fandom has a serious issue with creepy behavior especially towards younger female fans.

[@jaynestrange]

I remember back in 2013-ish hearing a lot of this king of horror story. As far as I can tell it wasn't uncommon for some artists to get a table at a MLP con once, see how the adult men were acting, & never come back. I know that one artist even had to let a pre-teen girl hide under their table until her parents could come find her cause a guy was following her around propositioning her.

[@Nepty]

Jayne Strange all of these stories sound so scary and horrible. i went to a brony convention when i was only 10 years old. the summer before i turned 11 in 2014. it was my first ever convention experience and i went with my dad and my friend. we went for a few hours and i got a plushie/met some of the voice actors. it was a great time! or atleast... it was a great time to 10 year old me. i realized once i was older that creepy men were constantly staring at me and even tried to talk to me when i was away from my dad. i was dressed up as my oc with paper wings and was clearly underage. lets just say once my dad realized men were looking at me that way... we left as fast as we could. in the end we were only there for 3 hours at best.

[@helencashwes]

Yeah, i feel this. Me and my then girfriend in middle school got groomed on Fimfiction. There are some seriously fucked up people in the MLP fandom.

[@Firebyrd11]

That makes me so sad. Before the bronies came, the pony cons were more like the biggest collection of long haired women around coming to trade plastic horses with each other.

[@mackenziecole310]

Wait YOU are responsible for friendship is witchcraft??? Literally you are god to me. That series is amazing and the music is unironically still saved on my Spotify account

[@sunnyostrom4898]

My head canon of the "She doesn't even know my OC" convo was his friends turning to him and saying, "Do you even KNOW who you insulted? She was cocreator and did almost all the voices for Friendship is Witchcraft! Who's the real poseur?"

[@NathanWubs]

Most people did not know she was the voice actress for that. And I am guessing the oc thing happened early on.

[@poseidonson13]

Finding out Jenny did Friendship is Witchcraft is like when I found out Neil Cicierega made Potter Puppet Pals and Brody Quest. I suddenly understand how Speed Racer felt finding out Racer X was his brother the whole time.

[@emjenkins464]

I remember it vaguely from when it used to pop up on my yt feed, so finding out is was Jenny was behind it is a fun revelation.

[@MildExplosion]

WOAH speed racer spoilers much!

[@thrownstair]

See also: WayneRadioTV, who made a video where he screamed Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff at the baby in Fallout 4 VR in 2017, and broke through this year when him and his friends made Half Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware.

[@BadKEMistry]

It was honestly pretty embarrassing for me, with how much I used to watch the show.

[@jaybalth]

That's *exactly* how it felt. Literally same situation with Neil for me too.

[@alexander8257]

“PLEASE EXIT THROUGH THE EMERGENCY EXIT EVERYPONY” sent me into HYSTERICS

[@AmyAberrant]

SAME

[@XxdextriousxX]

😂😂😂

[@isabellek-q3183]

LMAO

[@michelleobamafootcream9292]

i have no words….

[@fntthesmth423]

during the height of my interest in the brony fandom I got into an argument with my mother. (it wasn't about mlp, it was just a regular argument) At one point I inadvertently used the word "everypony", entirely seriously. needless to say i did not convince my mother of my point over her mixture of hysterical laughter and deep disappointment

[@teaphobia]

i love how theres a resurgence of those who were kids at the time (myself included) of the brony era that are now reclaiming the show. its kinda nice how full circle its kinda gone with how these then kids are taking back what was originally theirs to begin with, embracing the "cringe" of it and having nostalgia for the show they grew up with and reminiscing over what they(we) were traumatized by with what we saw on the internet regarding mlp back in the day

[@teaphobia]

-also as a 10-13 year girl old who was active in the brony fandom back then, definitely not good for my own mental well being lol but its still nostalgic for me regardless of the.. bad I experienced

[@SukunaYaoi]

Meee, I started watching the show when I was 8 when it first came out now it's nostalgic!

[@karak962]

i wish they had shown the connection between neurodivergency and bronies much better, thank you so much for being better than them about it. Me wnd my brother are finally out of an abusive household and so we're finally finishing the show this year!!! we have literally cried over it because, the kindness shown in the show and acceptance is something we both really need 😢😢😢

[@red-dwarf]

the announcer saying that 'everypony' needed to evacuate the building activated my fight or flight response

[@maggieholland8202]

I think thats the goal

[@pro3star787]

i honestly cant believe people were still saying that unironically in the fandom even after all these years.

[@irregular1430]

Yep

[@irregular1430]

Maggie Holland I choose to fight the fire

[@arashimiyazawa8165]

It's preferable that you do not try to fight the burning light fixture.

[@numberonewonyfan]

learning that the tiktok slur discourse stems from a Jenny Nicholson song is somehow still in like my top 10 most surprising things of 2020

[@Ohgaaa87]

ME TOO oh my god I'm shocked!! I've heard that song clip so many times and had no idea where it was from!

[@Solanuma]

kinda not surprising after coming fresh from a cannibal discourse around her on twitter :/

[@nanibirb5687]

WAIT BACK UP. SORRY WE CANT SKIP OVER THIS. CANNIBAL DRAMA???

[@kimberly6663]

Cannibal discourse drama: an artist friend of hers on twitter had a running joke about cannibalism and a bunch of unwell twitter people accused the artist of being a cannibal/sexual pervert/predator and when Jenny made a tweet making fun of the ridiculousness they accused her of defending cannibalism as well.

[@finnpearce-zuazua340]

Same!

[@prometheuszero9]

Hi, I'm 3 years late but I love your analysis, as always. Around 17:45 when you say this, "I theorize that men are not socialized to recognize uncomplicated, unsexual fondness for a female character," I couldn't agree more, and I would even drop the word "character" and just generalize it to women in general. I can't speak for bronies since I'm not one of them, but I'm saying it as a person who was assigned male at birth, was raised and socialized as that, and had LOTS of experiences throughout my life where I did just that: became incredibly fond of various awesome girls and women in my life but didn't really have the frame of reference, experience, examples, knowledge, etc to understand that I was simply feeling a general and platonic fondness for them as people, not romantic/sexual attraction. In fact, I've come to understand over time that most or maybe all of the "crushes" I had one girls growing up weren't really sexual in nature. Obviously that's not the case for all AMAB people, but for me I've found it to be true. Either way, point being that I think you're right... there are so few examples in pop culture and even IRL with boys or men having "uncomplicated, unsexual fondness" for women that it's basically impossible for lots of AMAB people to conceptualize it. I mean I DO think some of that impulse is built-in as well, but it's also very much socialized into people like us.

[@prometheuszero9]

Also holy hell I just got to the part where you show all the voices you did for your parody/remix of the show and whoa... that was awesome

[@soneil7745]

I think men also aren't socialized to have nonsexual connections with other men. I mean, why else would there be so much "no homo" all the time? I'm hoping that the next generation or two of men get over that- and it looks like it's happening. Maybe in ninety years, two men can hug each other without fearing "teh ghey."

[@JBabyLeather]

The part about how allowing a fandom to take over the show can be its downfall, I think that’s very evident in the TV show Glee. I think that was one part of its downward spiral.

[@lingricen8077]

Glee was always terrible, how did the fans make it worse?

[@redfalconfox]

Jenny coming in hot with the somehow controversial opinion that sexualizing children is wrong.

[@KaelWrit]

someone should tell Shane Dawson stans

[@BE-ew2pt]

Kael Key Oop-lmaooo

[@Honed-]

MY BRAIN HURTS. PEOPLE... CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR TOYS. Bouat to mother fuppin pound some pedo's faces in.

[@isaacwhy1178]

@@KaelWrit *PTSD attack involving Hey Millie and The Podcast*

[@blank4227]

it's just an alternative sexuality tho, people can't help it, so you know maybe don't be a BIGOT? thanks

[@bettschwere]

everyone in the comments shocked that the announcer at the con would say 'everypony'... like yall don't understand. this is literally how we talked to each other. it was normal

[@Medeinathetrashcan334]

Not everypony would understand 😩😩😩

[@audrey1032]

"Everypony needs to be sure to wash their hooves" and stuff like that was just delightful when I was in the fandom

[@phantomdriver2010]

I gotta respect her saying it even in an emergency

[@MarkyDav]

And the "brohoof" /) greeting being used everywhere :P Good times.

[@sickyblicky]

@@MarkyDav (\ :,)

[@DaemonGeek]

What I find so charming about this channel is how self-aware Jenny is about her passions. Also, her casual presentation belies obviously very detailed research into the topic she is discussing. Although I can't watch start to finish due to the length of these videos, I have watched all of the videos which I have started, which is saying something given that I have watched both of the 4 hour long videos that I have seen on the channel ("The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel" and "Evermore: the Theme Park That Wasn't").

[@Xno1X]

Dude, Bronies LOVED memes. I remember watching the S2 premiere on a live stream and we were bombarded with commercials for Gak, this weird slime for kids, and it was a meme by the time the episode was over lmao