>be with family last weekend
>little 5 year old cousing playing with MLP toys in the living room
>announces we are all invited to the wedding
>aunt asks who's getting married
>fluttershy and applejack
>aunt says "They can't get married"
>cousin is distraught "why not!?"
>aunt says "because girls can't marry other girls"
>cousin is angry "who says?"
>aunt "god says"
>cousin "then I'm going to worship satan"
fucking awesome, lemme tell you
Sorry, that’s my weekly allotment of pixels
The opposite, actually. The mlp fandom originated on 4chan I think.
Can confirm. I remember my seeing a first “hey, did you guys by any chance happen to see the new episode” post on /b/ back in 2010, quickly followed by it exploding on 4chan and people setting up the first pony tf2 servers, moot creating /pony/ as a containment board, and everyone saying “don’t post on /pony/ or you’ll get IP banned in two weeks” - because a decade prior, moot had created the /furry/ containment board when furries got big, let it sit for two weeks, then IP banned everyone who had posted to it and deleted it.
Of course, he didn’t replicate the action with /pony/, which is still around. And early brony culture was fascinating, because on a site where shock humor ruled and the experience was like digging through a sewer to find gems, suddenly a subculture emerged that was heavily anti-irony, kind, and genuine. Absolutely bizarre to watch.
Worth noting, as others have, that this was pre-gamergate, which was the social movement that took 4chan and turned it from a place that let Nazis post (usually “iRoNiCaLly” under the premise of being part of the ocean of piss that was the shock humor on /b/) and rolled it into a full Nazi bar.