Poll: Have ponies changed your life?

[DuelLadyS]

Yes, it has made things 'better'- but lemme put that into perspective: I LOVED ponies as a kid. It was my obsession. I had hundreds of them- Still do, actually, in my parent's garage.

FiM is all at once a cute fun show, a mood lifter when I'm a bit down, a nostalgia trip, and a way to share a part of my childhood with the people I care about now. It's not a life-changing thing, but it certainly brightens the day.

 

[rob_simple]

Oh for christs sake, I normally defend people who consider themselves 'Bronies' despite not being one myself but this thread is just goddamn pointless.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

It helped me deal with moving away from Mexico, distracted me from otherwise sad days and occurences. And it helped me meet my current group of friends (Not all are bronies) which made my year way better. Maybe indirectly it changed my life, but I wouldn't worship it for it.

 

[Fappy]

Oh dear

This certainly won't end up as a flaming crater, millions dead, with only a few of the hardiest posters surviving...


OT: No.

No it hasn't.

Compared to something like Firefly, MLP is a drop in the bucket of mediocrity.

Well, for me anyway, you guys can like what you want, of course.

Just know that it'll never be better than Firefly

I voted for the bottom option, for the hyperbolic lolz.

DISCLAIMER: Daystar just started watching Firefly so he's a bit biased. AND A POSER! >:O

 

[Darren716]

It's definitively done a bit for my life. For one thing I have started hanging with more people both who hate the show and who love it just because one girl who sits behind me in trigonometry who I was starting to become friends with heard me whistle Winter Wrap Up one day and now she's one of my best friends because I decided to get to know her better. Also ponies were the reason I started going on the internet and be less shy which made me start actually posting on this site among others.
EDIT: Also I forgot to mention I met quite a few Bronies on CoD Black Ops who I've become pretty good friends with.

 

[chadachada123]

It has made my life a little better. It helped remind me (using happiness and comedy) of some of the important facts about friendship and how to deal with trust.

Not to mention, it's just a damn good show.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I watched the first episode or two episodes, (can't remember if it was a two parter) and thought that it was pretty entertaining, had some neat references, some slightly off-beat humour and was silly enough to take my mind off things for a while. However, this whole 'Brony' culture, I just can't stand it. It just seems so pretentious and false. On here it's pretty easy to ignore and just live and let live. On the butthole of the internet however, it's just ridiculous. Pony threads everywhere. All I want is some decent humour and perhaps some titties, yet there's ponies all over the shop!

Gah, it's just a silly fad that I wish would go away! It's made me bitter and old before my time!

Also, I appreciate the irony of me saying it's easy to ignore on here and then posting in this thread anyway, but I need to vent. Badly. [sub]Cigarette time...[/sub]

A town called eureka has, many times, proven to be my happy place.

Me too, I love that show! I very nearly signed up for a physics course for Uni because of that show, but I know that Game Development is where I'll probably succeed so I've opted for that instead. Hell if I make enough money, what's to stop me from going back to Uni and getting a Physics degree anyway! ...or maybe even a Doctorate... Hell, I like the sound of that..

 

[Olas]

Not ponies, pony.

ಥ_ಥ

 

[Kolby Jack]

Nope.

I liked that show better when it was called The Powerpuff Girls, because that's basically all it is. Same style, but less violent, which is literally half the fun of the Powerpuff Girls. No thanks. It's not a bad show, but it's been done before, and better, so I don't see the point.

 

[Berithil]

Any bets on how long this will last?

Ok, cynicism aside. I really enjoy the show, for numerous reasons, and maybe.... Just maybe.... It's made me want to be a little bit more tolerant towards people, but other than that I see the show as entertainment first, at least for me. I find it great that people have been helped through depression via MLP, and the lessons are good for the younger crowd (well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't think a lot of adults could use some reminding of the lessons) but for me, its just a fun little show..... Kinda like the delicious dessert compared to more heavy, thought provoking shows....*


[sub]* ok, its not a perfect metaphor[/sub]

 

[Broken Blade]

Yes. I was bitten by one as a small child, and now I suffer a crippling fear of horses. I? I can't even look at Sarah Jessica Parker without crying?

Oh! Wait, wrong ponies. Um? yeah, actually, it's given me a slightly better outlook on life and given me stuff to smile over I wouldn't have before.

 

[NightHawk21]

Well yes. If the show never existed all these memes wouldn't exist and I wouldn't be exposed to them so in some small way I suppose it has, if only by virtue of it existing and me knowing about it.

If you're talking morally, I lost my moral compass years ago.

 

[BeeGeenie]

I suppose it's improved my life by giving me an enjoyable show to watch... and some of the pony stuff that fans come up with is clever.
I feel sorry for those people that say it's the only reason they get up in the morning :/
It hasn't taught me anything in particular that I didn't already know. And if you haven't figured out how to be friendly and pleasant to people after 30 years of life, I doubt a cartoon is going to really make that much lasting difference.

But it's given me some cute, fun cartoons to entertain myself with, so "yay!"

 

[scorptatious]

Hmm. As much as I enjoy the show, I can't say it has. Although I will admit, it has changed my view on My Little Pony and has helped me appreciate what the previous generations (horrible or not) have helped established.

 

[Eddie the head]

No offence to people how have said yes, but all your answers have come across as extremely cheesy. And to be quite honest forced. Like how do I say this a fake moral compass? You seem to be repeating not saying? You want to believe what you are saying, but even you don't? Take your pick, but none of the answers have seemed organic.(Talking about the friendship and happiness stuff, not "I met a few people.")

 

[Canadamus Prime]

No, not really. Then again I haven't watched anything MLP related (other than a few fan made mashups/parodies) since the 80's and even then I never really watched the show. At that time I only came into contact with it because my sister and her friends were really into it. Now the only exposure I get to anything MLP related is on the Internet and certainly don't have any desire to go watch the show, old or new.

Well it's not really fair to judge the current generation by the 80's version: If they weren't both about ponies it would be almost unrecognizable.
<spoiler= Give it a chance, and it might just steal your heart away>http://i.imgur.com/0kPXR.png

I didn't say I hated MLP, I'm just not interested in it. Frankly it baffles me that it's become as big as it has, but I hold no animosity against it (unlike Daystar). Although the over-saturation of the forums does get kinda irritating sometimes, other times though it can be amusing.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

They've made me block a fuckton of avatars and image macros because I find the art style remarkably unappealing, but not much else.

 

[Samantha Burt]

Yes, in some small ways. I've made a few new friends in real life, something I haven't been able to do in years. Other ways too, but that's the main one.

 

[zarix2311]

Kind of interesting to see how these threads progress. The whole first page was everybody preparing for the "Incoming shit storm" and the second was a mix of legitimate answers, the former with fans complaining about the fans and non fans complaining about fans. I'm aware that the whole pony thread thing got pretty ugly during the first year of the show and into some of the second, but it really isn't as bad anymore. There are obviously still "super fans" that can turn into assholes when they here a differing opinion about the show on many websites, but at least this website seems to have some of the more reasonable fans on it. I'm not saying this website is exempt from the so called "ponyfags", just that you see less of them (I do anyway). I don't think we have to worry about every single pony thread turning to total hell. We shouldn't stop some of the derailing and topic conversions though, that can get really funny.

Anyway, my answer. My life actually has gotten better to a fair degree, but the fandom had more to do with it then the show. I really love the show and all the people who work on it, but as the others have said before (yes I know very well that it has gotten a bit monotonous) the show didn't change my morals, but it improved my mood immensely and given me a really enjoyable hobby. I have gotten more friends because of it and have strengthened some of my pre existing ones. I don't really mind the fans that are more obnoxious nor the extreme haters that show up every now and then, people will do what they do. Besides I've dealt with worse in some anime fandoms.

 

[Torrasque]

I literally lol'd when I saw this thread.
As others have said, this show hasn't affected my life in the slightest. Sure I enjoy it and the whole Brony phenomena has been rather interesting--not to mention my McDonalds ponies underneath Alduin next to my bed--but it hasn't been some crazy life changing show that makes me a better person every time I watch an episode.

You know what has changed my life? Ghost in the Shell.
Before I watched any GitS, I didn't think all that much about humanity, existence, sentience, and what separates humans from non-humans (especially machines). After watching GitS (especially Innocence) there was a period of my life when I didn't think I was alive, when I didn't think my life was any different from a coffee machine. That was a very interesting period of my life where the only thing that got me through it, was watching more GitS. I'm pretty sure the cute little Tachikoma saved my soul, because if it weren't for those cute little mecha-spiders, I'd still be wondering what the point of living is.

MLP:FiM - be friendly and accepting < GitS - question your existence and humanity

And like Daymaterasu said, there are just a lot more shows out there that are better, Firefly being a notable one.