Last year I made a video talking about how I was exposed to this type of brony content growing up which ended up kinda messing me up. I response I got literally attacked and sweared at by a grown man for sharing that story.

My parents never checked my search history but my big brother did. I never understood why he wouldn’t let me google my favorite characters from my little pony cause he wouldn’t tell me, and I used to get mad… seeing videos like this, now I’m so thankful for that. Thank you big bro, you saved me more than you know

Nobody really discusses how BAD YouTube was in the 2010s. Like there was a lot of explicit sexual and just not safe content on this app that I and many other children were exposed to ar a young age. This was before kids safety was taken genuinely seriously on YouTube

The whole point of this video and the one before it:
Not all bronies are bad, but the bad ones made an impact that lasted a lifetime.

These bronies being responsible for molding potential child predators is a depressing thought, holy shit

Adults will be like ''keep children out of our mature spaces'' and then the media in question they're talking about is a cartoon aimed at primary school aged kids

it's oddly comforting that there are people that went through the same traumatizing experience. It's terrible that we were exposed to things that would alter our lives like that as kids.

I remember once as a kid I wanted to look up a picture of Rarity so I could draw her in my notebook. Safe to say looking up “rarity my little pony” wasn’t even safe because if you scrolled even a little bit it would show you weird images. I’m not blaming bronies for being attracted to the characters or anything, every fandom makes nsfw content, but back then filters felt like they barely worked so stuff would show up even on the most innocent of searches. Idk how you can blame a kid for “invading adult spaces” when just googling their favorite pony could get them jumpscared with lewd art

The problem with brony stuff is that it was posted anywhere with little to no warning. The fact that gore or nsfw art exists is fine, just keep it in adult only spaces!

When I was a kid, I used to watch these videos on total accident. When my mom found it in my watch history, she called me disgusting and constantly reminds me of it to this day. When my step dad found out about it, he called me perverted.
I was confused and just- I was super shocked and stuff by those videos. I didn’t know what all this was and was super confused and weirded out. And felt like a horrible person for watching it. Their words didn’t help.

There’s a reason why age-restriction exists; to keep children away from our mature society.

I got exposed to porn at about 5 or 6 and it fucked me up for about 14 years and ended up with me getting taken advantage of at one point. Im very thankful that im much better now and no longer suffer with what i did as a young teen.

The "gore" didnt really effect me personally, but the sexual stuff def had an impact on who i am now, its terrible

the spike x twilight thing is fucking disgusting, cause, i mean, if twilight hatched spike out of the egg during her magic school exam, that effectivily makes spike twilight's SON.

I can truly say the more sexual stuff made me hypersexual at a very young age and led to me being groomed. It was something that I didn’t understand was not ok for a child to see. It took me years to be able to understand what was actually happening

I’m glad someone talked about this. I watched these fan fictions and videos as a 9 year old because I recently got into MLP. As a kid I never understood anything going on and just thought it was shock value. Now as an adult, I realized most of this stuff was fetish material.

About time someone actually stood up and talked about how this used to be completely ok when it should have never been.

I have a more "nice" story I can share. I did get incredibly exposed to both gore and sexual content because of the brony community (but i won't elaborate on that, it's very similar to the testimonies you presented but my case is a bit more severe because of other circumstances).
I remember signing up to a brony forum and posting my real (very young) age and city. I had a brony that was probably in his 20's contacting me (living in the same city as me). It's pretty insane because this is a very alarming situation. Thankfully he told me to get off this forum and to not post my city and age in public like that, and he never talked to me again. Now that i've grown up I really feel like I dodged a bullet on this one.

i remember witnessing all this content being in fifth-sixth grade and becoming obsessed with it, it made me uncomfortable but i couldn’t stop actively searching for it. i talked to no one about it because i didn’t want to be yelled at because i knew it was bad, but knowing it was bad made me feel older you could say? it’s a weird feeling to explain, but no child should have to witness gore and nsfw. being an adult now makes me feel sick knowing how many of us had to witness this.

It’s also worth noting how much grooming happened in the community as a result of adults interacting with small children in online spaces. These videos were a symptom of a broader issue in the fandom and early internet as a whole.

i feel so sorry for the creators of the show.