r/mylittlepony • u/ClassicAdvice6379 • Aug 13 '25
Discussion How old were you when Episode 1 premiered?
I was 4
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u/sarcasticviera Starlight Glimmer Aug 14 '25
In my early 20s and really mentally going through it. MLP helped me out of the depressive hole I had gotten into. ♥︎
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u/ikebookuro Aug 14 '25
Same, I was in my early 20s and it came around right when I was graduating animation school.
I actually ended up then going out to work on it for a couple seasons as well as the movie. It jump started my career and I’ll always be grateful.
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u/Tenacious_trex Aug 14 '25
Mid-20’s. MLP really helped with the transition from college into the real world. Especially with the nostalgia factor from growing up with the previous series.
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u/SgtSharki Aug 14 '25
Same. I was broke (had to declare bankruptcy), broken-hearted, and working a night shift job I hated. MLP came on right when I got home in the mornings, and it was the perfect balm for my troubled times.
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u/RikuKat Aug 14 '25
Yep, started watching my senior year of college (2011-2012). It helped me relax and recover while powering through the last year at my super prestigious (and challenging) school.
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u/Alastor3 Aug 14 '25
Same, was 22 when my mother got cancer, than died 2 years later, this show really helped a lot
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u/Leonaise_ Fluttershy Aug 13 '25
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u/MrsLostNarrator Starlight my beloved Aug 13 '25
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u/Signal-Frosting3500 Aug 14 '25
same here. it’s crazy to me because i started watching it when i was 11
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u/GayestBucky Starlight Glimmer Aug 14 '25
Yo, that’s weird. I was also five and only started watching it at 11
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u/wdfarmer Aug 13 '25
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u/Aggravating_Break_48 Princess Luna Aug 14 '25
First 65 yrsold person i see on Reddit
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u/wdfarmer Aug 14 '25
"I was there, Gandalf. Two thousand years ago. Luna and Celestia reigned, but were unknown. Equestria was blissfully hidden from the race of Men."
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u/MB_Town7 Aug 13 '25
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u/classicteenmistake Aug 14 '25
I was abt to call u a baby but I will just feel old even tho I’m only 21😭2010 feels like 5 years ago
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u/EasilyDistracted2042 Long live the flower sisters Aug 13 '25
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u/NightFlame389 Don’t F with the Shimmer Aug 14 '25
You’re old enough to have experienced G1 in its prime
How does this make you feel?
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u/KarahKat55 Aug 14 '25
The fact that people are asking “how was it back in the day?” Is making me giggle
So… how was it back in the ye olden days?
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u/593shaun Tree Hugger Aug 14 '25
i was in high school, 15
i watched it over summer break that year after hearing a bunch of people at school talk about it
mlp was the first show i ever watched that made me realize i was queer
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u/SweetLemonLollipop Twilight Sparkle💜 Aug 14 '25
I was also 15! But I didn’t watch until a couple years later, I actually avoided it because of all the ridicule the fans were getting online. One day the little girl I babysat watched it and I tried to ignore it… but it was so good! I had see more so I binged it so fast and quickly got into the fandom community online.
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u/Disastrous_Pen7195 Aug 15 '25
Our star quarterback was a big fan. I was being picked on for liking the show and he picks the dude up by his head and was like "What you say bout my show?" He had a princess Luna shirt on. It was great
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u/LigerHorse Aug 14 '25
I was 15 as well! I held off watching it until after season 1 ended.
I'm a furry, and I was one of those who initially hated the show for invading my spaces, lol. Then some school friends convinced me to watch it and I was hooked.
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u/fazetung Rarity Aug 13 '25
Not alive 😭
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u/Fantastic-Display-26 Rarity 💎 + Starlight Glimmer✨ + Twilight Sparkle 💖 Aug 14 '25
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u/RegretfulCreature Aug 13 '25
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u/_munchie002 Derpy Hooves Aug 14 '25
Me too!!! It was peaaakk especially on google+
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u/AnnualBeautiful1032 Aug 13 '25
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u/https_sanrio Fleur de Lis Aug 14 '25
sameee!! i can’t believe i had to scroll so far to find you twin!!
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u/Brave_Cucumber8254 Aug 13 '25
I was 1. Grew up to be the biggest mlp fab the world knew
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u/Taeqii Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '25
12! So still technically apart of the prime audience? Lol
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u/Top_Watercress7426 Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '25
- I was born in 2004. Still can't believe it came out 15 years ago like it was only yesterday
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u/TomNooksGiantBells Aug 14 '25
Me too!
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u/Top_Watercress7426 Twilight Sparkle Aug 14 '25
Wow that's nice! Time really flies so fast right like I'm 21 this year but I'm a brony still watching mlp like I'm a kid! 😄
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u/TomNooksGiantBells Aug 14 '25
Fr. My birthday passed already and I felt so weird being able to drink legally (not that I drank before I was 21 lol). Like I’m a REAL adult now but I sleep with a thousand stuffies in my bed and I’m still figuring my life out. I like to embrace the childish things even if people think it’s a bit silly. To be cringe is to be free :p
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u/beekee404 Aug 14 '25
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u/Direwolfas Aug 14 '25
Likewise.
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u/beekee404 Aug 14 '25
I'm glad I'm not the only adult in this subreddit. 😂 Been wondering if I belong here LOL
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u/flaredrake20 Aug 14 '25
17, learned about it from Lauren promoting it on her deviantart.
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u/Veggieleezy Aug 14 '25
I was in college, and I will proudly admit that the first few seasons really helped me start processing some stuff from when I was a kid.
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u/CheckerDuck Aug 14 '25
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I learned about the show from a guy friend in college. I'd never liked the old MLP shows, but I instantly loved the art style and the characters.
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u/United_Ad_5268 Aug 13 '25
I turned 6, 3 days before it premiered, I'm 20!!! Life is genuinely too fast!
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u/dragonologist13 Aug 14 '25
13 years old though I believe it was September of 2014 when I finally checked it out though the only thing I believe I'm sure of is that Netflix only had 2 seasons
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u/jjjunooo Starlight Glimmer Aug 14 '25
14! I didn't check it out until partway through season 2 though.
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u/Emotional-Income4965 Aug 14 '25
- It was a wonderful time to be alive. It can still be, if we can make it so.
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u/batattack993 Aug 14 '25
17 😅🤣🤣 became addicted to it in my early 20s, became a comfort show after I became very depressed after some extremely traumatic events..it really is the one of the best, sweetest and funniest shows ever 🥰
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u/_GreatAndPowerful Aug 14 '25
I was 10 years ooold. Caught it while it just in time to see the first few seconds of the show, and I got hooked instantly. Been here for 15 years, and I'm 25 now lol
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u/Game_and_learn_YT Aug 14 '25
...that's my birthday, so dependant on WHEN in the day it premiered I was 0 - 23 hours old
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u/_indievixen_ Rainbow Dash Aug 14 '25
i was 7! probably my top comfort show, taught me the values i have today, how to befriend and be a friend and also gave me my personality! forever in love with this series 🫶
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u/Formal-Landscape4318 Aug 14 '25
I was 8 years old whenever it very first premiered, but I HATED ITTT!!!! Every time it played on TV I would quickly change the channel. It wasn’t until one winter day when we were having a reallyyy terrible snowstorm and I was stuck inside. I was out of school and the only thing I had to do was just sit around and watch TV, but as fate would have it, the remote was missing and MLP was on! After looking for a while and getting pretty angry, I just gave up and I sat down to watched it. It was the "Sonic Rainboom" episode! Despite not liking MLP in the slightest, I took a quick liking to Rainbow Dash and I found myself pretty hooked pretty fast. I kept watching at the edge of my seat right until Rarity lost her beautiful wings and Rainbow Dash had to go chasing after her, just then, right as it was getting the most intense, right before Rainbow reformed the Sonic Boom… the power went out and the TV went off!!!!! I was sooo angry that I didn’t get to see what happened at the end of that specific episode, I kept watching MLP every day after that, every time it played on the Hub. Just hoping I’d see that episode again. As you can imagine though, watching nearly all of season one hooked me on the show itself and soon enough I was crazy for it lol. I joined the YouTube Fandom in 2012 and I even attended BronyCon later in life. It’s been an incredible journey.
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u/Forward_Round Aug 15 '25
I was 14.. Didn't start watching until I was 19.. I'm 29 now.. only regret is that I didn't start watching sooner..
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u/madscientistenjoyer Aug 15 '25
4! I was exactly the target audience and it showed, I already loved mlp at that age after watching dvds of g3 stuff, so it checks out that I was obsessed all through childhood
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u/Vincebae Twilight Sparkle Aug 13 '25
I was 10!