How Bronies TRAUMATIZED The Internet.

I was deep in the MLP stuff when I was younger (Like 7/8 to like 15 maybe even younger) and I remember seeing almost every video that was shown in here. Since I was a child with a sponge like brain, so much of the content stuck with me. I can't look at many of the characters without just seeing those videos I absorbed as a child pop up in my mind. Sometimes I wish I had restricted internet access...

After fully finishing the video it makes me realize just how deep my issues went and where many of it came from..

Was never a real fan of MLP. Not then and not now. I always considered myself a passive observer. The first time I became aware of what a brony was, was in high school. There was a guy in my digital media class who was obsessed with MLP and at the time I only knew of the previous generations and had some old toys of them. Also keep in mind I grew up in the 90’s so I always know MLP to be a “little girls” then. So it was a surprise for me to see older men get into this new one. By the time I became aware of all the creepypasta shenanigans, I was already in college and didn’t find any of them disturbing since at this point I was well aware of the Internet’s tendency to take something innocent and do something messed up with it. I’m also big into horror, so… Nothing was a surprise to me. But still interesting to watch from afar…

Cupcakes was stupid in my opinion…

As soon as I saw the jar, I realized we started entering the MLP cringe abyss 💀

You know Candice killed 1 bronies

When i was a kid i had a facebook page for my pony oc, and there were a shit ton of other kids doing it too. But as you'd guess there were also adults lol.

I was a pretty smart child about internet safety if i do say so, so when some random brony kept sending me messages asking me to send him pics of me I cussed him out in my kid language. As well as two other friends of mine, bc we like co owner the page.

So imagine just being a 30yo brony texting kids and then like 3 of them call u stupid, an idiot, and etc relentlessly for a few days.

i never cared for mlp as a kid. but these creepypstas scratched a part of my childhood brain that really had no chance (my parents let me read their vintage horror comics before i could read)

wonder if I'm just special or what, but this stuff at most made me uncomfortable. never got trauma from it. what really gave me trauma was shit like live leak. and I only saw that stuff years after I saw stuff like cupcakes.

I’m 21 now and back then smile HD absolutely traumatised me.. Also when I was 9 my local comic/ manga shop was holding a small MLP convention with some free stuff, I ended up going with my friends dressed as apple jack and we were literally the only kids there, also it STANK

I remember watching a lot of these. My parents were very strict about my phone usage and only allowed limited time on yt kids until i was thirteen. These videos were all on yt kids. I particularly remember the fluttershy one and the apple cider one…

i think it is sweet to see a bunch of adults campaigning for a disabled character to be brought back all because she wasn't palatable enough representation to a few adults, as someone with an intellectual disability and an eye condition that does connect me to ditzy in a way. i don't feel comfortable using her original name, but that's just personal preference, i like the rest of her character for what she is

I got distracted from the “Jar Incident” by wondering why you’re wearing a Sal Vulcano tshirt 😂 it was just a random thing my brain decided to focus on rather than the absurd story.

I was 11 years old when the show first premier and I actually really liked it since I was still a kiddo. I enjoyed the show I liked almost all of the characters except for Rainbow Dash. She was really annoying and I did not like her at the time I guess I wasn’t really paying attention to the show because I thought she was a boy don’t ask why I just thought that her voice didn’t help since back then when it came to any boy, they were being voiced by females back then. and with her shaggy hair, I just didn’t know if she was female or male, but yeah, the adult men really fucked it up even throughout my teenage years as the show continued on, I did not like the male friends like yeah there was some that are good, but I just didn’t like The adult men I seen most of the stuff that you talked about with in this video, and it traumatized me throughout the years

Im 16 now and I can just barely remember a lot of this from my early days scouring the internet when nobody was in the room with me

"the sexy mare" it doesn't matter what character it is, if it's female, some incel will draw himself....interacting...with her.
Hell, don't make me remember the Cars fandom...

UNSUPERVISED CHILD HERE!!!!

I remember all this , I was a “pegs sister” and lord cupcakes and Shed POV ?looking back at it how could we even stomach that as kids/young teens? But this explains why watching horror movies now as an adults the ones who were pegasister and bronies are super desensitized to horror and gore , super screwed but yea.

i was sadly a victim of fluffy ponies

So Id like to give some insight into the Fluffy Ponies thing; the idea is that there are multiple genres of comics featuring these guys there are abusive ones (like the ones you were talking about) depressing ones (ones where you’re supposed to feel bad for the ponies) weirdcore ones (ones that are just strange and nonsensical) and wholesome ones (ones where the ponies are having a good time and nice stuff is going on). The purpose is that you’re supposed to do a “shot, chaser” kind of thing where you look at a really messed up one and then you look at a wholesome one; is even gets as complex as doing sandwiches based on your sensibilities such as wholesome, depressing, abusive, depressing, wholesome. It is no doubt very strange but I saw the appeal of it back in the day, of course it is in no way something for the faint of heart or younger folks so I feel bad for anyone who saw it as a kid but I just wanted to provide some insight into the purpose of the extremely disturbing fluffy pony comics

this is my deep childhood lore 😭

HEY HEY HEY STAY OUTTA MAH SHED

I remember my mom’s friend’s sons were huge bronies and would watch the show when I visited, trying to make me like mlp

has anyone ever had the theory/idea that the corruption of innocence trope is what early gen grimdark creators were going for and the infection aus and other mlp new horror is just the og cycle repeating itself /genq

finishing this video hey did u know ur face moves so similarly to that antony c fella

I still love MLP, mostly from nostalgia. I miss this show a lot from when I got into it around late grade school. I remember being skeptical about it when my brother showed it to me and said it was really cool, and then loving it probably more than he ever did. I like the songs, the cute characters, and the fun stories. I have a lot of good memories watching MLP and other cartoon shows with my brother. I hate when people make this sort of disgusting, gory content for cartoons or comics. Superheroes, like cartoons, are about escapism. They allow all sorts of extreme slapstick violence without any of the horrific consequences, and I have a strong distaste for when people 'subvert' that because they like to be edgy. The world is bad enough, let people have their little escapes where nothing truly horrific happens. MLP still makes me happy, I still have some cards and figurines from it that I like to take out and look at every now and again. Nostalgia for a better time I guess, I can at least mostly forget when I stumbled across the messed up stuff online.

Hearing Rainbow Factory again was not something I thought I would appreciate?!? I was such a MLP kid, and now as a young adult I still sometimes go and watch eps for comfort. And the call out for little miss rarity?!? Shit man the things you can forget.

Guess it’s time to go draw some ponies I guess

Are you really gen z if you don't have residual internet trauma?

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I enjoyed MLP as a kid and got back into it as a young teen though I was never in deep enough to be part of the fandom or see any of this content other than hearing about them in passing. However when I was around 11 'Run the gauntlet ' was going around school. Some highlights I remember are a guy putting a glass up his arse and it shattering, a girl licking smegma, snuff films of a beheading and teens murdering a man, and a truck of dogs who had been skinned who were still alive and whining in pain (this on still haunts me nearly a decade later)

So happy my wee sister seems to have been spared from this content

Hope y'all are alright

I still remember when my friends at the time came to my house and was like “Oh have you seen this my little pony video?!” And I wasn’t even a fan so I of course said no but then actively tried to stop my friend from showing me Smile. She wouldn’t fucking listen and basically forced me to go watch it. I wish I could scrub it from my mind😭

Honestly only that fandom was able to make the word "Jar" haunting

I did think I was going to become a brony back when it was big, but when I decided to watch it, I was like "that's it? it was made for kids, cool for you if you like, I guess..." But, yeah, if you were in the internet during that time, you at least vaguely knew of these things

Me and my friends played Banned from Equestria so many times when I was a kid trying to get through as many ponies as possible 😭😭😭

Of course I think childen should be supervised while being on the internet. Duh. I just hope that when parents do that they don't stop children from accessing actual informative content because they think it's "sinful" or goes against their beliefs. Like how many parents in America wouldn't love to restrict children's access to lgbtia+ content and communities? Obviously I don't want children to see actual pornographic content or gore. But I also know that there are some very vulnerable lgbtia+ children out there who can only find a safe community online.

It's all just freaking sad and scary man.

Bro I’m not gen Z and I was traumatized

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.

Ahhh what a wonderful glimpse into my childhood

Honestly, I never saw the issue with the content when I was little. The reason being was I was completely mentally ill, unmedicated and going through a lot of domestic abuse. For the longest time I thought people were just being soft and that it wasn’t as big of a deal as they were making it out to be. If people were concerned about what their kids were watching… just monitor it. Then my cousin reached the very age that I started consuming that content. Needless to say, it changes your world and makes you reflect the darkest parts of yourself that were damaged by the recklessness of other internet users. Thank you for making this video. I loved listening to it and reminding myself to remain vigilant and continue to watch for signs that my cousin might be displaying

- A Creepypasta kid who needs weekly therapy LMAO