A couple years ago, I looked over at Daughter’s computer screen and saw pink. Pink? Why would she have anything pink on her screen? She’d most recently been addicted to coding for Super Mario World and I knew there wasn’t a lot of pink there. So what was this pink all about?
I looked at her screen while she was away and saw she was reading Equestia Daily and had other My Little Pony websites scattering his browser tabs. My Little Pony? I was very confused. I was a little concerned that there was some sort of kink element to it.
I asked her about these new sites and she educated me that the reboot of My Little Pony had attracted a following of non-children due to good story lines, animation, great songs, friendship, love and tolerance. Really? The fandom were called Bronies. There were Brony-cons, fan-fiction, user generated songs and animations.
Daughter really wanted me to watch the episodes that she had saved onto her hard drive. I watched everything from Season 1. Son became involved with the fandom so when the cartoon would premier live on Saturday mornings on the HUB, we all gathered around the TV to watch the newest adventure. After an episode, it would be deconstructed, analyzed and if there were any new songs, memorized.
The series has been an impetus for creativity: Daughter has written a song and produced a video; Son has created wire-art from scenes in the show.
Last season, there were 2 promo spots for MLP that used the Dos Equis most interesting man in the world campaign.
Stay Pony my Friend.
(FYI, while I was finding the link to Equestia Daily, I saw that now it’s blue, thus reflecting its core audience)