I first discovered the show back in 2010. I remember wrapping Christmas presents with my mom in her room when the episode Bridle Gossip started playing on the TV in front of us. From there, I proceeded to watch more and more episodes & by the time season 3 came to a close, I became confident enough to call myself a brony. ✔👍😁

Near the end of 2013 I got really sick, and was bored out of my mind, and ended up binging all the episodes that were available at the time on Netflix and ended up liking the show.

The year was 2011. I had just set up a paypal to take commissioners from my very first customer. He wanted the mane six from the show called My Little Pony. I had heard of it here and there, so I thought I’d go get some refs and see what the hubbabaloo was about.
 
My first episode was “Applebuck Season.” And as soon as I saw Pinkie Pie in the stampede scene going “Hey! This makes my voice sound silly!” that’s when the friendship maw swallowed me whole.

it was 2012, was watching youtube poops, came across Irregular show. It had Twilight Sparkle in it. I thought she looked cute. I ended up giving them a chance and then the show. The rest was history.

In summer 2012 I ended up pulling an allnighter babysitting a drunk shooting club, both the members I was part of and the ones in charge. That ended up in me being way too lazy to do anything productive once I finally got home again.  
Just watching random Youtube videos. Youtube had been suggesting me to watch a parody video of mlp, either apple or mgaic.mov  
ended up watching more because it was…quite honestly just too strange not to watch more for me. I get drawn to weird things ^^’
 
Eventually actually decided to watch the first episode to see if those parodies have any resemblance of that series. Of course a two parter so the second one too…then the third aaaand so on ^^’
 
Biiiit of an odd story

It was 2012 (around the end of S2) and I was watching tv bored. Saw the show while zapping through the channels and gave it a look out of boredom.  
The next thing I know was I watched all the eposides online and am hooked ever since!

DeviantArt made it cool.
 
I watched the series when I got Netflix then the next year saw it again and actually understood it.

Well it all started one late night on my phone back in early 2012. I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnNH4bV7V8Y  
in the related section of a Sandwichandcereal video and it looked so nice that I couldn’t help but watch this over and over again until I eventually watched the first 2 seasons and went from there.

I read Fallout Equestria and wanted backstory.

Spring of 2015, noticed a 7th grade classmate’s backpack and asked her about it. She provided some simple explanations and a book summarizing the first three seasons, then encouraged me to watch FiM.