Wierdness has no limits. Bronies are another sub culture that is beyond belief.
During a lunch with my sisters, I discovered that they had never heard of Bronies. These are “Bros” (adult MEN) who love the cartoon series based on the little girl toys, My Little Ponies. When I described these “Males” and their aberrant and bizarre hobby, (2/3 are hetero males) they could not stop laughing. I am not sure they actually believed such people existed. This prompted me to promise I would author this missive on the phenomenon. So here we are.
Way back in 2010-2019 Hasbro sponsored a show to help them sell little plastic toy horses, which they sold by the millions to girls aged 5-9 or so. This was a common practice back when kids played with toys, before child fascination with Tik Tok wiped out almost the entire toy industry. I never watched the show myself, as my passions involved mainly Dirty Harry movies and sports. And I have no aberrent DNA molecules.
Names of Ponies: Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Fluttershy
I know the five of you faithful readers have come to depend on me for bringing forth mocking articles on society’s many weirdnesses. I have in the past enlightened you on Furries, people have sexual relations with their stereos. And women who get ginormous implants to expand the size of their buttocks. (See links below). Somehow I missed the Bronies phenomenon, which I hereby fix.
Fun Fact: The Ponies Report to Princess Celestia on what they learned in each episode
What happened that is hard to imagine or comprehend, is that some guys, (young males mostly, but some with wives, children, jobs, lawn mowers etc) got hooked on the show. I can’t relate how this could have happened, but this class of people allegedly owning XY chromosomes made a little girl show based on plastic horsies their lives’ passion. I blame an extreme malfunction in these guys DNA, like maybe the kind which leads Japanese people to take thousands of pictures of trains, and study their engine models (true story; link below).
Hilarious True Fact: Female fans of My Little Pony are known as Pegasisters. Hahahahaha! What Dweebettes!
So these Bronies got so obsessed with My Little ponies that they started having conventions to socialize with each other. (No risk of testosterone overload at one of these). One convention drew 10,000 attendees. According to Wikipedia:
These conventions typically span a weekend and feature specialized events such as brony music concerts, charity auctions, and interactive activities with show creators. While the fandom is predominantly male, conventions have attracted diverse audiences, with BronyCon recording 34% female attendance in 2014.
Not only are there American bronygeeks, this is a world wide lunacy. There are Brony conventions in 2025 in China, Italy, Germany, the UK, and Russia (!). Imagine that; some Russians have time between drone attacks to commune over little plastic horse toys. Neveroyatnyy!
Not content with local meet up groups, regional and national conventions, and collecting girls toys, (Brony Merch) there is special music for Bronies. Tip of the hat to Wikipedia for making my research easy:
The brony music scene is considered unique in its enormous volume that spans numerous genres, including electronic dance music, rock, classical arrangements, and specialized fusion genres.[48] Conventions often feature their own brony music concerts as part of their programming. BronyCon’s music concert was called BronyPalooza,[49] and Everfree Northwest‘s is called Ponystock.[50]
One imagines these sissy horsie boys prancing in horse-like fashion, with or without My Little Pony stick horses around the dance floor. Possibly they neigh at each other, jump over raised bars like at real equestrian competitions. Then repairing to the bar for a bracing shot of sasparilla and a carrot.
They then return home to their families, astoundingly without embarrassment or self reflection. Can such “men” then command the respect of the guys in the neighborhood, or the folks at work? Typical water cooler discussion: “What did you do this weekend Bobby? Says Bobby the Brony: “I donned my Twinkie Sparkle costume, went to Maire Con and had a ball cantering the dance floor with my fellow Bronies! It was equine ecstasy!” This is surely the last time anyone has any casual conversation with Bobby the Brony.
You can use this story to feel better about yourself. You may secretly follow a baseball team with religious fervor, safe in the knowledge that you are way more mainstream than Bronies and Pegasisters. BTW, lest anyone think I am unduly skewering only the guy Bronies out there, I think the women involved are equally risible. I believe in equal opportunity lampooning. So there, all you Pegasisters need to get a less laughable hobby.
Will continue to report on the foibles of the outwardly normal, but in actuality batshit crazy people that inhabit our planet.
For those who have read this and actually want to become a Brony or Pegasister, I recommend watching the documentary made about these ahem: horsie hobbyists, there is a documentary you can watch. Link follows.
This is the 2nd most popular documentary on youtube for 2012
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brony_fandom
This is about the Japanese’ whacky obsession with trains
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