Hey everyone! I see some people are confused abt this vid and I just wanna be clear that its a mashup of my prior vids on the topic and also includes over 40 minutes of new content! If you've already seen the Originals and don't wanna watch them again, go to 1:06:27 for all the new stuff :) (also 29:28 for the new Polybius song!!)
Tbf none of the murders were ever shown with all the blood and gore, it's all speculation and you watched or played fnaf games knowing there'd be jumpscares
i once saw a tweet/meme about how shows with darker themes have cute wholesome fanbases meanwhile wholesome shows have dark gruesome fanbases. and that is SO true. fnaf has those funny sfm animations and cute fancomics that characterize the animatronics meanwhile mlp has gore and fetish stuff.
Thank you @Raymundo_2112 We each do cringe or embarrassing things at sometime or another. If I gaff up and then bring it up with humor or am chill about it then I can do better easier. It makes a safer environment for people to be accountable and grow. Doing this online takes extra courage. Respect 😊
Honestly the intentions of changing Derpy around to be "less offensive to autistic people", ironically just genuinely upset many tens of thousands of autistic people who loved the character.... Can't have SHIT in Detroit istg
“We don’t want to offend autistic people by making a character that represents them WEIRD & STUPID & ANNOYING” All of the autistic people who specifically related to the characteristics removed: So what you’re saying is you think my traits, traits I partially or in whole attribute to my autism, are shameful, embarrassing, offensive, etc?
Growing up autistic I loved derpy, I felt happy seeing a silly mostly non verbal character that I could relate to. Still upset that they changed her because people said it was offensive
The bronies refuse to extinct so we're digging their sins out with this and expose their filth. Expose their bad influence on children by using a show that's targeted towards them.
Good year! Guardians of the Galaxy 1, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Far Cry 4, GTA 5 PS4 version, and what might have been the hight of the Brony/ MLP fandom, at least that's what I saw.
@@xerneas8841 How could you realistically make it so that people know it's a comp while simultaineously indicating that there's 40 mins of new content?
theres always people who ruin everything in every community. i genuinely don’t understand why people have this fascination with taking innocent children characters and distorting and destroying the image in the most deprived ways they can
@honeybabes2017 for most reasons, its ignorance and being edgy. A lot of these edgy mlp fan content were made by people who were teens or young adults. These demographics tend to spend the most time on the internet and are more likely to care less about the consequences of the content they produced, so as a result, explicit contents appear. And with the Improper warnings, it's mostly that they didn't think much of it. It's something that isn't their first concern until somone points them out.
@@JLacay the real MLP community (CHILDREN) were definitely NOT on board with this content. GROWN adults need to stop trying to infiltrate children's spaces & turning them into pure degeneracy. i was a kid during this era & diving into MLP videos on youtube was a one-way ticket to childhood trauma. years later , finding out this content was most likely created by GROWN MEN. god, protect our children,
@@pluto-kl5od What if some kids were on board with it? I was a kid during that era, and I enjoyed some of it. Some were shocking and gross, but they didn't traumatize me. Also, I'm sorry to break this to you but most cartoon fans consist of adults like The Owl House, Steven Universe, Bluey, Gravity Falls, LMK, Voltron, and SVTFOE.
I remember how Rainbow Factory was one of my favorite mlp videos in like, second grade and I thought that the video was so intriguing that for our 2nd grade book writing project I went into Microsoft word, and put in all the lyrics, then added clipart and printed it out and turned it in to my teacher 💀
OP get back here and tell us the rest. Please? Though if it’s anti-climactic I understand not wanting to, since whatever we come up with in our minds would be a lot more legendary, and some people may be “let down” by the normal world… wait what? Since when have I talked like _that_ ?
Ok I wasn’t expecting people to want an update so bad but I’ll reply with what I remember (may not be 100% accurate it was YEARS ago 😭) But when I brought it in we had this thing called independent class book reading time where we read each others books, and I don’t think teacher proofread them bc I was reading it to my friends like it was some sacred ancient scriptures (my ahh didn’t understand the independent part of independent reading) and we all thought it was the coolest thing. Flash forward a few days, the teacher asks me what’s going on in all the pictures and I just cheerfully reply it’s ‘a scene from a my little pony video I saw!’ And she looked very concerned and explained how I can’t be showing pictures of ponies being literally mutilated to other kids and I was so confused bc I thought everyone liked gore/rainbow factory stuff but I was VERY disappointed she, the next day, the book was no longer in the pile of student books 💔💔💔
@@art.ificer darn, too bad someone narced; it would've been epic if it just stayed in the pile until the teacher went through it. XD Also, you may want to add this to the original message as an edit, that way people who don't see this sub-comment won't ask for an update. ;)
47:07 its weirdly comforting to see someone with a similar experience as me? I unfortunately had this happen to me and developed a porn addiction and hypersexuality at a VERY young age(like 7-9) which took a big impact on my mental health. I am much better now but that stuff absolutely damaged the way I act and think
This happened to me too, it was so awful for my mental health to be seeing dark things i didn't fully understand and feel like it was completely inappropriate to ask questions about it, like I had a dark secret at the age of 9 I'm glad mlp helped a lot of men reject toxic masculinity and embrace something traditionally undervalued for being girly, but there's no arguing a lot of really sick minded people became so prevalent in the community, and most of them did not care if children saw their nsfw/gore creations (and most predators WANT children to find it) At the very least my experience has given me hindsight, and I try to educate my younger siblings and hopefully future children about these dangerous internet circles. Especially since it seems to have transferred over into RUclips kids animations.
Kids watching and enjoying mlp aren’t bronies imo. Bronies are specifically grown men, that choose to build communities with other grown men, that don’t disallow underage girls. THATS why it’s weird. Even when children self identify this way, children cannot be bronies bcs of *the implications* being the issue
I always thought of brony being something of a mashup of bro (slang for dude) and pony. You were just a man. A boy. A human male. You didn't have to be an adult man to be a brony. I think the issue stems from weirdos infiltrating the community and shoving their gross shit into it.
No, dude. COPPA existed BEFORE bronies. I'm so fed up with that misconception. That said, bronies are definitely part of the reason you can't make darker parodies of kids' shows without the owners of the IP having something to say about it, they permanently damaged fandom culture, they're the reason you can't say you're a fan of a kids' show in public without getting funny looks, they helped in the ever growing issue of kids being groomed online, and they're probably part of the reason parents want to censor the internet to protect Billy and Sally.
Sometimes I wished my parents monitored my internet access because seeing that as a kid was terrifying that those videos are burned into my brain for life
I found the full "brony gangnam" video. It makes me long for those simple days of goofing around with friends and being completely unashamed of liking things.
Fluffy ponies is based on a Japanese Touhou tor//ture comics called "Yukkuri ab//use." The way they speak, the little baby fluffy ponies, the tor//ture, etc, it's exactly just like the old Yukkuri content. Even the comics you posted were almost one-for-one of existing Yukkuri comics
I was horribly traumatized by the brony community. As a young artist, I was often encouraged by adults, who knew I was a minor, to draw NSFW content of ponies, both of the characters in the show and of their ocs. I was told this kind of content was okay for me to be exposed too, and these adults would pay me lots of money and tip me well for doing so. I ended up "dating" 2 pedophiles in the brony community due to this, they both took advantage of me as an underage person and it was sickening. The fandom was very clique-y too, especially the art community. You were bullied horrendously if you didn't fit to the "horse famous" standards or if you didn't get along with someone with a popular OC. I had a neglectful mother who didn't care what I was doing online, or just didn't care about me, she knew I was dating adults and still didn't care. So my mother is partly to blame for the trauma I experienced. I'll never forget my time in the brony fandom, it set me up for the art business I have now, but it also gave me permanent, negative affects on my brain development as a child
This video actually filled in the missing link for me. I was exposed to a lot of the dark side of the Brony fandom as a child. I was as a result, hypersexual, and I often sought out shock content as a child. I had unrestricted access as a child and I didn’t realize it had the effects on me as it did, nor did I realize it was a very much shared experience with others.
I remember when DEATH BATTLE made Starscream vs Rainbow Dash and Ben Singer, one of the creators said that they'd cancel the episode of Starscream won to not traumatise little girls who might stumble onto it. Bad for the VS community, but... after seeing videos like this, I knew that Ben was... onto something. And then Twilight vs Raven happened, and Twilight's death in the video was offscreen and no gore at all. And then there was Bill Cipher vs Discord. Despite the fact that Discord lost, the ending was still a happy one for the ponies. When a show called DEATH BATTLE uses these characters better than actual Bronies is... worrying and says a lot about this cesspit of a community.
Dude woodentoaster and thelivingtombstones music was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE shit in the world during the ripe ages of 9-12. I am autistic, so it was all I would listen to. Now as an adult, I'm mostly really into metal music. I wonder if there's a pipeline there, a lot of my fellow autistic metalheads also had some kind of dubstep phase.
See, I like myself some metal covers and Sabaton, but I don't think I was ever into Dubstep. My younger self probably thought it was noise and not much else.
I used to love thelivingtombstone as a kid lol. I didn't get deep into the genre, but I did like a few dubstep artists and different songs lol (a lot of youtuber intros and outros lol). Now, rock is my favorite genre and metal's included in that. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm inclined to believe in the autistic fnaf kid to autistic metalhead pipeline lol
No I completely get that because one of my favorite things is the dark Factory setting. Which is why I liked the songs and not the fanfic. Because it felt like such a cop out to me that Rainbow Dash was the villain. But I've always liked sort of industrial music and the original song kind of reminded me of one of my other favorite songs from a kid's movie, Worthless from Brave Little Toaster. (Heck, NGL, I've thought of making a RF video with the song before but never did due to not being as big into MLP as I used to be).
there was this band called "The Wonderbolts" and they were pretty good too; they realized this song ruclips.net/video/IemaBkKsl80/видео.html and it's definitely top 10 best songs. Edit: forgot to put that this band had some metal songs that introduced me to the genre.
I’m autistic too. I was in the brony, FNAF, Creepypasta (just any edgy) fandom from the ages of 8-13. I was big into the living tombstone, woodentoaster, stuff like that, and definitely dipped into a dubstep phase. I was pretty heavily into Skrillex in about 2016. Im 19 now and a heavy goth. I think a vast majority of autistic adults are pretty involved in alternative subcultures.
Yeah I was completely fine with every other creepy thing he showed until that came up in the background along with the distorted music. I'm normally not bothered by creepy things but I had to look away from the screen during the tulpa section.
You can say all you want about the MLP fandom, but during the DerpyGate saga you can't deny that the love people show for this character feels so real, it's heartwarming.
I remember Derpy gate! There was a fear among fans that they would remove her from the show. 10 year old me mailed a piece of art to Hasbro begging them to keep her in the show! They actually mailed me back ensuring me they would keep her in show lol it was very cool
My favorite was those Friendship is Witchcraft edits where they voice over episodes and change the story. There's one where Twilight wanted to marry her brother and some parents saw that. They thought it was a real episode.
I looked at a lot of gore when I was younger partially thanks to cupcakes. I like drawing it now too, yet it sometimes still gets under my skin. I don’t get why my brain is now simultaneously freaked out and fascinated by it, but I can trace to where it started, which is cupcakes. The song from that video will sometimes make me freeze in my tracks, which is just stupid, but the brain is stupid. I love mlp, both g4 and g5, they mean a lot to me, but I recognize they messed me up. I don’t like the idea of people getting rid of this content either, as, artistically speaking, they are well made and took time and effort. However, this content needs warnings which nsfw artists just seem to be allergic to.
I don't think anyone is necessarily arguing for the banning of people make gorey art but it is a little odd that these artists specifically latched onto something meant for kids and made NSFW/gore art knowing kids would engage with it. Now some of these artists were kids themselves but the way the internet bastardizes children's content is a strange phenomenon
@@liviwall662 because of gore, I kinda like drawing it now. I don’t do it a lot and I tag/spoiler it appropriately, but I get why someone might draw/animate those things. It’s the not tagging stuff that’s the issue
Thank you for saying it, i see so many people glamorizing or not getting to the topic, while i got nothing against the mlp fandom. I definitely got something against unrestricted media that are deeply disturbing especially when it's trying to look innocent at first to bait people into clicking which lead to a lot of children (Including me at the time) to get profoundly disturbed by theses images
@EvilSantaTheTrue it can come from all types of media and fandom, however i think it's one of the first and very few instances where the content shared was seemingly purposefully shared on the internet to scare off kid's
The irony of Derpygate is that the parents were actually the prejudiced, hostile and weird people and nobody saw Derpy the way they argued people saw her.
I originally put a comment here but I think RUclips deleted due to its graphic language, so I’m going to make another one that isn’t as graphic so it doesn’t get deleted by RUclips. While I wasn’t in the Brony fandom, the Pokémon fandom was just as traumatic. Not in the Creepypasta area luckily, though I do remember the pictures and sprites associated with Hypno’s lullaby and Buried Alive scaring me when I was a kid, Hypno was just so uncanny in the artwork and the sprite of Buried Alive dragging the player character into the ground creeped me out as a kid. Thank Goodness I didn’t listen to the Hypno’s Lullaby song and didn’t listen to the audio of Buried Alive because that would’ve caused a lot more sleepless nights. No the most traumatic part of the Pokémon was the google image searching. You couldn’t google any Pokémon without weird DeviantArt art or hard core stuff coming up. Thank goodness I always found these images gross otherwise I don’t know what weird tastes I would’ve gotten or what addiction I could’ve been struggling with. When watching you’re iceberg videos on Gen Z childhood trauma, I thought I was lucky because I didn’t see most of the stuff on the iceberg and didn’t get traumatised by the horror or gorey stuff on the internet. But now actually thinking about it, I think my trauma was just as graphic as everyone else, just in a different way. I might make a video about the trauma I got from the Pokémon community since it’s not really a talked about issue. It’d also be cool if you did a video on it but I understand if you don’t want to do it to preserve your mental health. Take care. This comment originally went into more graphic detail about the things I saw but I think it got deleted by RUclips because of its graphic nature, so I toned it down so it didn’t get deleted a second time. Sorry for this long rant about the Pokémon community.
Wait, Buried Alive had *_audio_* …? 0_0;;; That sprite alone really creeped me out, but with audio…? I, uh, I’m a little scared just thinking about that .
I was in the Pokémon community, too (you can probably tell by my user, since 'vee' is a term for eevee). There are a bunch of people who make NSFW in the Pokémon community. You can't search up vaporeon without the copypasta showing up. The vaporeon copypasta ruined me. People in the Pokémon community are also VERY sketchy, shady, and creepy.
@@CottenVee Yeah, Remember the Pokémon Vaporeon copy pasta being inescapable in the Community. I love Vaporeon and I hate that its name has been dragged through the mud because some degenerate 4channer decided to ruin everyone's fun. I wish more people talked about how the Pokemon community negatively affected kids because it seems to be an unspoken taboo in the community.
This video shows how we Can't have kid shows that are harmless: Creeps find it okay to distort little kid shows. Yet, I'm not a fan of MLP. But, I believe it shouldn't be twisted into something not for kids.
1:14:54 oh good god op was on prozac? no wonder pinkie turned out like that. my prozac experience was silent panic attacks and delusions of persecution. if i manifested a tulpa it would likely be equally as disruptive and scary.
the pinkie pie tulpa actually has me scared, i felt like i just experienced what he experienced and now i’m terrified that one day it’s going to happen to me.
Im glad more people are talking about this because holy, how did this even slide??? Like, I was a young kid looking at things I shouldn't have because of ADULT BRONIES. What's even more sad is that they "inspired" some of the younger audience they traumatized to continue the trend of trauma which just is horrible. Sure, kids shouldn't be online, but adults are actively invading kid content and distorting it which is just... wrong. They publicly post these demented things and the only excuse people have is "it's the internet lol." I'm fine with NSFW when it's in a proper place AWAY from the public. I don't care if people see me as a karen, it's how I feel and I don't EVER want my kid to go through what I had to with the internet. Kids deserve safe spaces free of exploitation. Edit*: this is unrelated, but "split second screams that last less than a second." Had me busting up laughing LMFAO. The most redundant thing I've heard in a minute omg
The internet isnt your bavkyard buddy. You dont like it get off. Also since when do you make the rules and get to tell ppl what they can or cant do?! Its been a thing ever since newgrounds! With all kinds of stuff so get over it and grow up!
@@HandheldGamer1991 Kids are kids bro. They don't understand why some content is bad, and oftentimes can't identify whether the content they are about to watch is suitable or not. At the end of the day, it isn't their responsibility to do so. It's the responsibility of adult creators who know better to restrict child access to their creations, as well as the parents who should be monitoring what kids are accessing. Kids are just as allowed to watch RUclips as any of us. There are a ton of kid friendly creators on here, catering to young children as their target audience. Sure, we have RUclips Kids now to restrict access further, but that stuff didn't exist when I was younger. This stuff is seriously damaging, and as an adult, I feel it is our responsibility as mature people to do our best to avoid naïve kids from stumbling upon unsuitable stuff we create and understand. This stuff is damaging, point blank period, and it is not the responsibility of kids to just not watch it.
"Let it slide" as if a crime was being committed lol bronies have a right to exist and it's the responsibility of parents to monitor what their kids find online Most cartoons have adult fandoms, it isn't an MLP exclusive thing the brony community was just exceptionally big back in the day
@@HandheldGamer1991 Amen. I'm tired of people crying for censorship instead of holding parents responsible for children roaming the internet unattended. You wouldn't let your kid loose at Walmart with no supervision, so why would you give them a screen with unfiltered internet access? And I had access to things I shouldn't have as a kid, too. I do not want children so I'm not having any, but if I did, they wouldn't have internet PERIOD.
I vividly remember coming home from middle school on valentines day in 2013 or 14. I opened my ipod touch to see that one of my favorite RUclipsrs, Mrcreepypasta, had uploaded a new video, a mlp creepypasta called Cupcakes. Not knowing what it was and thinking it was most likely a joke, I clicked on the video and listened to the whole thing. Genuinely found it almost impossible to sleep for a few weeks after that one.
Mlp is just the most recognized so far, but this is becoming everything for gen aplha and younger. All online spaces are mixed and children aren’t being kept out of inappropriate spaces
The comments you see from children on tiktok is crazy, everything is so sexual. The amount of "is it pink" or "raw next question," sometimes the comments are funny but even with knowing they're joking, seeing the comments made on videos of animals and kids is jarring
Something I find really gross is how a lot of the mlp gore videos have really cute wholesome thumbnails, they WANT a little kid to click on that video. They get off on that shit which is disturbing.
I saw the Derpy Nyan Nyan thing as a kid and even at that young age it made me feel a little uneasy. Edit: Damn. The creepy part of the thing about tulpas in this video is lowkey making me afraid of my waifu tbh.
Regarding the point about parenting and shielding your kids away from inappropriate content, in my case, I remember a few times when me or my sister got caught by our parents for having inappropriate stuff on our devices, but I only remember because of their reaction which, retrospectively, traumatised us more than the inappropriate content itself. They berated and punished us severely. In the end, it didn't change anything, only taught us to hide things better and carry a lot of self-hatred and guilt for something that *they* were supposed to protect us from. I just hope my parents could have handled the situation better because now it's hard to trust them with anything for fear of their reactions...
Gen Z will either be the best parents, or the worst. We’ve grown up with these platforms, we understand them, unlike our own parents. However, because of social media, we’ve also grown up around very dangerous ideologies and teenagers these days are either super immature, or super mature. There’s not usually a balance, or an understanding of real world situations and problems.
As much as stuff like that traumatized me as a Kid and scared me away from the show. I was able to love the show again in July 2023. We shouldn’t let the past control us and we should do our best to combat our traumatic experiences and keep going through life!
What traumatized me as a kid at the age of 6 or 5 years old, was those fluffy ponies, I discovered it on accident on RUclips, I thought it was a cute videos but ended up traumatized and rethinking about rewatching the show after school
i remember watching all of those videos on youtube, having nightmares, and telling my parents about it. they were rightfully pissed that youtube let these be posted and unrestricted
i was actually friends with the pinkie pie tulpa guy and roommates with him from approximately 2015 to 2018. he is alive and doing as well as you can assume, he did eventually manage to fully manifest her but she talks to him about dark things andhe told me he thinks she manifests as his depression. she did eventually calm down and act more like what he originally intended but theres a darkness in her that he deals with to this day. he opened up to me one day after a couple years of knowing each other, to explain the situation. up until then i had not heard of the situation and did some research and everything he claimed lined up perfectly, and he actually showed me that he owned the reddit account that made those posts. i will not give his name or out him or anything, but I can say that he is alive and well and a relatively normal person despite things. he was my friend, roommate, and coworker for years across 2 apartments and 2 states, and hes kind and very funny. he was eventually able to get this thing to act more like a friend and comfort character despite frequently reminding him of his self hatred/making him depressed.
I feel like that one is mostly explained by how old Sonic is, & being aimed at boys. It’s less adult men getting interested in a fandom aimed at children, & more children getting into a franchise that IS aimed at them, & they just never stop enjoying it, even when grown.
Mlp gore was the reason why I had a gore addiction during elementary and middle school, my school would play irl footage of terrorist groups to educate us it wasn’t hard to find material to obsess over, hell my favourite show had tons of stuff like that it just pushed me more into the whole thing
Kind Of Fun Fact: Tiarawhy is currently developing a game called, "Pony Waifu Simulator" It's Locked behind a Patreon subscription so at least we know kids won't be able to view it short of Mommy's credit card.
Part of the 'traumatized' generation. (: Rather than upset, i honestly was more entertained and thrilled to be watching horror content of my favorite TV show. I think our generation was a bit broken to begin with, hahah
it's always nice seeing you upload, I hope you're having a nice day :) as someone who grew up with mlp and saw some stuff i shouldn't have, i'm glad you're going over this again. it makes me, and others feel like we aren't alone.
Me too... I didn't find it in game sites though. I found it through a video player on a website I made that linked back to RUclips. No censores there...
I remember back in 2015 maybe I used to watch this kind of content, there was even a point where it was on RUclips kids, being 5-6 years old back then I didn’t understand what was happening and much like Lillith I was also addicted to those kinds of videos, it made me start (y’knowing) at a young age and has since caused me to be hypersexual. I haven’t gotten help yet or told anyone, so thank you Raymundo for making this. This really helped me
I was actually a kid when this MLP came out. At the time it was very comfortable knowing so many grown-ass man liked this show, I thought there was something wrong with me. I did have unrestricted access on the internet (my parents didn’t care just as long as it wasn’t affecting my grades. That and don’t talk to strangers online, no adult content , etc.) but it was still a fun time. I would log into Equestria Daily, well, daily. I read a lot of fanfics, and this show was the reason why I got into writing and reading funnily enough. Despite all the bad, and the many, MANY questionable things I saw, I still look back on it fondly. I was already familiar with Happy Tree Friends, Madness Combat, Whack your Boss, etc. so the Dark MLP creepypastas didn’t really bother me that much. Overall I can’t help but to look back at the show, it’s fandom, and it’s “dark side” all with nostalgia. I miss those days, honestly. Simpler times.
18:25 i doubt anyone will see this, but when i was little i remember this video so vividly because i watched it for the first time on my uncle’s old ipad while hiding in the basement in the dark. i knew i shouldn’t have been watching youtube, but i wanted to anyways. my ipad was heating up really bad and at some point in the video the screen glitched and froze but the audio kept playing and i was SO horrified i could barely move for a minute or so before i stuffed the ipad underneath the futon i was sitting on and finally crept through the messy room and turned the lights on 😭
I have a vivid memory too! I was hanging out with my older cousin in my aunts office, and we were playing DS. When we finished our Mario party game, she shut the lights off and said she had something cool to show me. She started the video and handed me her phone, I was just glued to the screen in terror. She got up and ran out of the room, closing the door and blocking it. I was crying for her to let me out. My uncle heard the commotion luckily and she got in trouble. I never trusted her since then 😭
As someone who liked watching My Little Pony during its initial run (was only a fan of the show), I never expected a dedicated fanbase that is “Bronies” to create/alter content that could forever ruin an audience’s interest in the series. But you know what they say: The internet is simply the internet, and there will always be that one user who has to change everything.
As an old grey mare of a G1MLP fan, its so upsetting to see the G4 children have such trauma around what taught a child me to be brave, protect her friends and learn to be pro-active. I think a lot of this is humans coping with the internet bt there is also the misogyny involved with making p0rn and gore of media targeted at girls and women and the anger, loathing and violence aimed at men who enjoy that media innocently.
I wasn't a kid who grew up with G4 MLP ( I did grow up with G3 though), but I was a young teen, and it certainly traumatized me in certain ways. Thankfully not enough to throw me off the show since I knew they were completely seperate things, but still. I would purposely look up messed up MLP things after a while when I was a young teen BECAUSE of all the messed up stuff I saw. With you including affected fans in your videos and hearing their own stories, it really helped put things into perspective for me and the messed up reason why I sought out more even though I was horrified when I was younger. Thank you for making this!
Ugh, I had to skip the nail box one And cover the screen for the other ones. I HATE that kind of content from a young age till now and even had some kids try to convince me it was "funny just so I'd watch it and it anger and upset me growing up. Absurd violence with innocent cartoon characters still makes me feel sick to my stomach
Same, even to this day I can’t watch those videos, it gives me such a sick feeling 😞😞 i will honesty never understand the people who created that content and I hope they know how it effected the young children that watched those videos
@tennojichuu7770 yeah, I'll admit after a good portion of clips I had to click off the video. The clips just reminded me and put salt in my old wound of not liking when innocent things get tortured and mutilated This is also the reason I don't care for happy tree friends or whatever it's called the violence just makes my stomach hurt and upsets me. Although I can watch something like Blue Eye Samurai and be mostly fine though because at least then the violence doesn't seem to come from a twisted place , if that makes sense
Agreed! For me the Cupcakes one stuck with me from the time that I was younger to now… To say that I had a bad impression of the Brony Fandom would be an understatement. I had to cover my eyes when he was showing the censored footage of the animation. Yes it was censored, yes it was a small amount of footage, and yet it evoked this full body experience of disgust and mortification. It’s not as if I’m unfamiliar with it, far from it. It may just be the association with the loss of innocence with that video. When I was younger, seeing those types of morbid Brony animations kind of permanently ruined my love and perception of Pinky Pie and the show itself, unfortunately.
The sad thing is, there wasn't a single video I didn't watch as a kid. I was actually obsessed with Banned from Equestria, and it's true that it led to me having a "high s3x drive" as a kid, and I've developed kinks that aren't typical from all my exposure. I remember watching Banned from Equestria at around 8-10 years old (my memories are jammed from before middle school) and I would feel so weird (which now, I realize that was an arousal feeling). I knew what I was watching was bad, but always rewatched uploads on youtube, I lied once to my mom saying I was watching scary shows on Netflix because I was so scared she would see my history and find BFE...all of this stuff DOES mess up kids. To everyone else who was effected, I'm so sorry. Let's all get through this together.
Thanks for making these videos. I wasn't able to watch every single part, but you brought up a lot of great points in the parts I did see. I was 11 when the show came out, and thankfully I was able to dodge the disgusting side of the fandom. I do believe even after all this time that the actual show was well-written and great for audiences of any age. There were some truly amazing artists in the fandom who created wholesome and beautiful things (I still go back and rewatch "Lullaby for a Princess" every now and then, and it still makes me cry). But it breaks my heart knowing that there were so many kids damaged by the creepos in the fandom, and I really hope everyone who was affected is able to heal from it.
I was into that kind of stuff back then, along with the sisters of my mother that I haven't seen in half a decade now. Sure, I watched a lot of gore (Happy Tree Friends has no introduction), but I'm a bit sure that these videos made me traumatized, but not quite a lot. I only started to get more interested in the show thanks to a member on a Discord server I'm in, and also the artists that are keeping the show alive with animations, literature and everything in between. Pretty enjoyable video, Raymundo! :3
To be honest, until this video, I'd never actually given much thought to the long-term impacts of unrestricted internet access on kids. I've heard the odd joke every now and then, along the lines of the coolest people having been traumatised by this sort of content and kinda agreeing, but god damn. I was involved in so many 'edgy' communities as an older kid/ preteen. I was hugeeee into FNAF for many years, as well as the Brony community, Creepypasta, the furry community etc. I never really considered the impact that stuff had on me. I started viewing NSFW content from the age of 7 (probably sparked by the kind of stuff I was seeing in said communities), and began to display quite significant sexual deviance and hypersexuality before turning even 10 years old. I consumed a hell of a lot of gore content too, starting with indie animations on YT like those mentioned here, but I was viewing full on snuff films at the age of 12/13. I've always been described as quiet and polite, but my dad and certainly my sister, have a lot of memories of me displaying apathetic and sometimes quite violent, manipulative and threatening behaviour. I'm diagnosed with autism, so it could be as a result of that, but I do feel there's probably a deep correlation with the kind of depravity I was viewing at an age too young to properly understand what I was looking at. I'm glad gen Z has a pretty heavy attitude to not allowing our kids technology too young, and certainly keeping a close eye on what they're looking at. I think the blow only lands heavier at the fact that a lot of the people that were viewing content within niche, more 'cringe' fandoms like this tended to be on the autism spectrum, such is the case for myself, which can make it a lot harder to understand what is being viewed and why it is not appropriate to act upon/ replicate in real life, especially with gore and NSFW. Honestly, we joke about 'character building' from being exposed to this content young, but I think it's a very serious issue that needs to be discussed. Thank you for making this video and bringing awareness to such an obscure topic. I think it really highlights the need for responsibility as a creator in communities like this. Content like this should be allowed to exist, but should not be uploaded on a place like YT which is full of kids, or should at least have some kind of disclaimer/ age restriction. Parents also need to take a lot more responsibility with what kids are accessing at young ages, because the impact of this stuff is really serious. I exhibited a lot of violence against my younger sister as a result, and have had a very bizarre relationship with sex until this day, something I am only now fixing at the age of 19 through therapy. Please monitor what your kids watch.
man why can't people just like a show and find it cool why does someone have to make such cursed things about them like seriously what is wrong with people ?!?!?!?!?!?
I appreciate you covering this topic, I wasn't surveyed about it with mainly my mum when I found some of this MLP content along with the channel Ridiculous Cake which had a Twilight Sparkle Video which made me develop a addiction to inflation and now I'm actually trying to stop my addiction and focus on other things like Jurassic park, transformers and so forth, Thank you Ray for covering this topic and many others will be thankful
@eminemilly Poppy Playtime really isn't all that scary, though. Nor is it gratuitous and gory like the stuff many bronies make. And it's so clearly made WITH the intention of grabbing the attention of little children interested in horror (and RUclipsrs who will play the game for views) to make money off merch and sales
@@user-ye6fp7kl1oYeah but there are alot of adult/teenage weirdos in the fandom making a lot of weird sexual videos/art & gore. Its not on a massive scale like the Bronies but its definitely gonna cause some of the same long term effects on kids
Well it is a Fan Fiction yes, the platform it is on does not make it any less fan-made fiction, and he did acknowledge that it is sexualized. As off-putting as it is, it is as “fan-fiction” as it gets,
I remember seeing that pinkie pie video as a kid and I was one of those kids traumatized because I was mostly sad than scared seeing one of my favorite characters harming their others and it’s just something I wouldn’t want others to experience. Even till this day I still watch my little pony as a adult, I didn’t really let those videos ruin my show😂😭
First of all, thank you so much for this video. Ive seen a lot of videos talking about the horrors of the brony fandom in the early 2010s, but not much about the consequences of it in children. Talking for experience: the first time I came across gore was the cupcakes video. I clicked thinking it was something inoccent and then, I was traumatized, to the point I would have nightmares constantly and couldn't sleep properly or watch the show because it make me sick. I would cry out of fear because of how terrified I was everytime I saw Pinkie Pie anywhere. Up to this day, even tho I'm a grown adult now, I still can't eat cupcakes (the actual food) because it gave me the ick. It sucks
Oh that cursed rainbowdash inflation is one of the deleted one i still remember back in 2015 , me who was barely 17 was just watching tf2 content and those kind of contents shows in my feed , and it was a gate to hell for me
@AROCODED oh not at all, i just now made the connection from your comment and it made me realize some things/Gen (I think I used that right may be /Pos?)
i’m forever grateful that i was such a chicken as a child and my parents limited my internet access, so if i saw something remotely creepy i just clicked away. mlp was my whole world as a kid, it would’ve been so sad if my view on it had become tainted.
1:13:54 4chan is so screwed up. Almost all of these posts are the absolute fucking worst things to say to someone in this state. As a schizophrenic, this actually kinda pisses me off.
The rainbow factory was single-handedly probably the most traumatizing part of the brony fandom for me I think. I distinctly remember how my friend who introduced me to mlp and I were sitting in the 4th and 5th grader wing of my elementary school looking at pony stuff and pony music. A friend who wasn’t a brony was also joining in and I think we stumbled upon the SFM rainbow factory music video and it scared the hell out of me versus my friends seemed to enjoy it. There’s just something about how rusty everything is and the slamming in the song paired with the super robotic sounding vocals that just terrified me as a ten year old. When my brother and I were home alone he found out how scared I was of the song and started tormenting me with it to the point I had to call my one friend who had taken her little sister to the park and bike all the way there after begging to join them because of how upset and scared I was. I was crying while frantically biking away from home because my brother thought it was funny. I’m 22 now and it was only a few years ago that I watched that video again and even hearing the first few seconds it just gives me these alert bells in my head and makes my skin crawl. I’ve seen way scarier stuff and I’m a horror fanatic now but that SFM music video gives me the heebie jeebies
Also on the topic of the grim dark fanfiction, there was this one halloween one about this candy monster pony that was super gnarly and gorey but I really loved the fanfiction. There were readings of it on RUclips that I would listen to occasionally
Y'know it's ironic that you mention the reuploads aren't age restricted because I remember briefly when Cupcakes HD (either it was a reupload or the original, I don't really remember) was not only not age restricted, but was falsely flagged by the algorithm as specifically for kids. Pretty sure the uploader took it down after that or it was flagged by very confused and concerned watchers/parents.
I was someone who grew up with the older generations of mlp, I had watched both the 80s specials, my little pony tales and the G3 movies came out right when I was the perfect age. And then I heard all these grown men, who never grew up with them and never were the target audience, making videos talking about how bad all the previous generations were and G4 is the only good one. Of course, G4 HAS better writing, I do admit that, but the other generations still were perfect for someone who was the target audience for them. Watching the old movies as a kid I got inspired to play out the plots with my pony toys. I especially loved the plot of "Escape from Midnight Castle", where all the ponies got kidnapped and needed to be rescued - I always played out that plot. Also the G3 movies, especially "Runaway Rainbow" inspired me a lot, and I always had a pony being the mischievous one breaking the rules and then surprising everyone, like Rarity in the movie. So they weren't "brain rot movies" to me, and as a kid it hurt to hear all these adult men basically telling me these were garbage and I should be ashamed to like them. I do love people being like "omg Rainbow Dash was so girly in G3" because I had the opposite experience - watching G4 for the first time going "Oh! Rainbow Dash can fly now and has a different personality!" Anyway. I did also really enjoy G4 and as a preteen in the early 2010s, I encountered a LOT of these stuff brought up in the video... especially in the fanart, because I loved looking at fanart... :,)
32:00 fun thing about that project is that i wanted to do a scary halloween animation as I've never tried before, and I'm a fan of Sweeney Todd. I saved time by making it a silent film horror which also made it a bit more artsy than other cupcake videos. It doesn't hold a candle to the quality that MisterDavey made.
It’s crazy how I was exposed to these exact videos at like 8 yrs old and even 10 years later when I’m 18 it’s still don’t fail to make my stomach feel SICK 😭😭💔
Honestly, all things considered, the fact that adult men were in fact able to unironically like a My Little Pony show, of all things, just goes to show that a quality show is a quality show. And also...cutesy "girl shows" don't seem to be made with quality all that often. It's like that kind of audience is just taken for granted by most big creators.
Thank you so, so much for making this video, as someone with a brony past, i unfortunately watched the cupcakes video made by Mr Davie, and as a huge Rainbow dash fan, so much in fact some of her colors were used in the making of one of my OCs. After I watched the video... I ended up kinda traumatized and very upset, and it gave me an unjustified hatred towards Pinkie pie... naturally as a kid... I just drew her in ways that a kid souldn't be drawing anyway and.... well you get the idea. This kinda also made me get obssesed with Rainbow Factory, wich was also kinda bad for my age but i don't really complain on this one tho as an edgy scene guy myself, loved the aesthetic and being involved on my favorite mlp character at the time. This... was... a subject I would rather forget on my life, it kinda distorted some of my visions on certain things really, some of the for the good, yeah, but mostly for the bad... Again, thank you for showing and exposing this kind of content the brony community did and how it ended up toying with our minds as kids. Edit: That Rainbow factory cover was really dope tho XD
i remember seeing this type of content way back when i was really into MLP, I think what I saw was so bad my brain has actually just tried to forget it but those memories were again once unlocked by this video. Man did the MLP community mess me up
Hey everyone! I see some people are confused abt this vid and I just wanna be clear that its a mashup of my prior vids on the topic and also includes over 40 minutes of new content!
If you've already seen the Originals and don't wanna watch them again, go to 1:06:27 for all the new stuff :) (also 29:28 for the new Polybius song!!)
Ty for the timestamp I thought this was a re-upload mashup with no new content lol
Ah thanks for explaining. I was confused
Thanks, I was confused about this because I remember seeing this.
Are you going to review Conversion Bureau? It's underrated in MLP.
Legit, I've never seen MLP in my life, nor do I like horror content...BUT THIS SONG???? I LOVE IT. >:D
I dunno how a fnaf, a game about child murder, traumatised me less than the my little pony fandom as a kid
Tbf none of the murders were ever shown with all the blood and gore, it's all speculation and you watched or played fnaf games knowing there'd be jumpscares
@laikathestar174 yeah it's weird that the kiddy show had more explicit fanworks than the kids show fanworks
i once saw a tweet/meme about how shows with darker themes have cute wholesome fanbases meanwhile wholesome shows have dark gruesome fanbases.
and that is SO true. fnaf has those funny sfm animations and cute fancomics that characterize the animatronics meanwhile mlp has gore and fetish stuff.
@emptyteardrops literally, breaking bad is another good example like that fandom is so silly while the show covers intensely serious topics
RIGHT
The sheer willpower to not bury your childhood RUclips account and instead display the cringe for all to see is a very admirable thing
@@shiruotakuno28 I have nothing to hide. I am become cringe
@@Raymundo_2112 I salute you good sir
Thank you @Raymundo_2112
We each do cringe or embarrassing things at sometime or another. If I gaff up and then bring it up with humor or am chill about it then I can do better easier. It makes a safer environment for people to be accountable and grow. Doing this online takes extra courage. Respect 😊
Eating some Kentucky fried pony
Honestly the intentions of changing Derpy around to be "less offensive to autistic people", ironically just genuinely upset many tens of thousands of autistic people who loved the character.... Can't have SHIT in Detroit istg
Bro FACTS
“We don’t want to offend autistic people by making a character that represents them WEIRD & STUPID & ANNOYING”
All of the autistic people who specifically related to the characteristics removed: So what you’re saying is you think my traits, traits I partially or in whole attribute to my autism, are shameful, embarrassing, offensive, etc?
Ditzy Doo was an infinitely better name for her. The fans messed it up :/
Social justice warriors and Karens always being offended for us.
Growing up autistic I loved derpy, I felt happy seeing a silly mostly non verbal character that I could relate to. Still upset that they changed her because people said it was offensive
That Rainbow factory cover is such a masterpiece, I love it.
THAT'S MAMA LUIGI TO YOU, MARIO!
@@Wberdly555 HEE
@@Wberdly555 *wheeze*
My older sister saw all of this when she was younger, and she never let me onto RUclips to watch mlp, I’m so grateful for her lol
Oh yeah I refused to let my sister watch this crap because I watched it and it made my mental health worse and still is unfortunately
*i love your sister*
I dont know what to say. Either your parents are crazy for letting a child online or your sis for letting you online buy not allowing you watch mlp XD
your sister is a real one
I did the same with my little sister
WE GOING BACK TO 2014 WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
The bronies refuse to extinct so we're digging their sins out with this and expose their filth. Expose their bad influence on children by using a show that's targeted towards them.
Yeah like Fr tho IMAO lol!!!
For like 2012
it’s like that meme of the soldier with trauma flashbacks
Good year! Guardians of the Galaxy 1, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Far Cry 4, GTA 5 PS4 version, and what might have been the hight of the Brony/ MLP fandom, at least that's what I saw.
For those who are equally confused, this is a compilation of all previous Brony videos! Would be more helpful to include that in the title, though.
It’s got 40 mins of new content too!! So not just any regular comp
@@Raymundo_2112 still good to include that in the title
@@xerneas8841 How could you realistically make it so that people know it's a comp while simultaineously indicating that there's 40 mins of new content?
@@richi303 "Compilation + New!"
@@richi303 literally "full compilation +40 mins"
theres always people who ruin everything in every community. i genuinely don’t understand why people have this fascination with taking innocent children characters and distorting and destroying the image in the most deprived ways they can
Honestly, the people who refused to add content warnings probably got some kind of sick joy from traumatizing kids
I'm not sure if you can people ruin the MLP Community when most people back then were all on board with it.
@honeybabes2017 for most reasons, its ignorance and being edgy. A lot of these edgy mlp fan content were made by people who were teens or young adults. These demographics tend to spend the most time on the internet and are more likely to care less about the consequences of the content they produced, so as a result, explicit contents appear. And with the Improper warnings, it's mostly that they didn't think much of it. It's something that isn't their first concern until somone points them out.
@@JLacay the real MLP community (CHILDREN) were definitely NOT on board with this content. GROWN adults need to stop trying to infiltrate children's spaces & turning them into pure degeneracy. i was a kid during this era & diving into MLP videos on youtube was a one-way ticket to childhood trauma. years later , finding out this content was most likely created by GROWN MEN. god, protect our children,
@@pluto-kl5od What if some kids were on board with it? I was a kid during that era, and I enjoyed some of it. Some were shocking and gross, but they didn't traumatize me.
Also, I'm sorry to break this to you but most cartoon fans consist of adults like The Owl House, Steven Universe, Bluey, Gravity Falls, LMK, Voltron, and SVTFOE.
I remember how Rainbow Factory was one of my favorite mlp videos in like, second grade and I thought that the video was so intriguing that for our 2nd grade book writing project I went into Microsoft word, and put in all the lyrics, then added clipart and printed it out and turned it in to my teacher 💀
You can't just drop that without giving your teacher's reaction 😭
OP get back here and tell us the rest. Please?
Though if it’s anti-climactic I understand not wanting to, since whatever we come up with in our minds would be a lot more legendary, and some people may be “let down” by the normal world… wait what? Since when have I talked like _that_ ?
how did it go?
Ok I wasn’t expecting people to want an update so bad but I’ll reply with what I remember (may not be 100% accurate it was YEARS ago 😭)
But when I brought it in we had this thing called independent class book reading time where we read each others books, and I don’t think teacher proofread them bc I was reading it to my friends like it was some sacred ancient scriptures (my ahh didn’t understand the independent part of independent reading) and we all thought it was the coolest thing.
Flash forward a few days, the teacher asks me what’s going on in all the pictures and I just cheerfully reply it’s ‘a scene from a my little pony video I saw!’ And she looked very concerned and explained how I can’t be showing pictures of ponies being literally mutilated to other kids and I was so confused bc I thought everyone liked gore/rainbow factory stuff but I was VERY disappointed she, the next day, the book was no longer in the pile of student books 💔💔💔
@@art.ificer darn, too bad someone narced; it would've been epic if it just stayed in the pile until the teacher went through it. XD
Also, you may want to add this to the original message as an edit, that way people who don't see this sub-comment won't ask for an update. ;)
47:07 its weirdly comforting to see someone with a similar experience as me? I unfortunately had this happen to me and developed a porn addiction and hypersexuality at a VERY young age(like 7-9) which took a big impact on my mental health. I am much better now but that stuff absolutely damaged the way I act and think
This happened to me too, it was so awful for my mental health to be seeing dark things i didn't fully understand and feel like it was completely inappropriate to ask questions about it, like I had a dark secret at the age of 9
I'm glad mlp helped a lot of men reject toxic masculinity and embrace something traditionally undervalued for being girly, but there's no arguing a lot of really sick minded people became so prevalent in the community, and most of them did not care if children saw their nsfw/gore creations (and most predators WANT children to find it)
At the very least my experience has given me hindsight, and I try to educate my younger siblings and hopefully future children about these dangerous internet circles. Especially since it seems to have transferred over into RUclips kids animations.
You’re not alone, I had a similar experience
same, i discovered that stuff when i was 11
I hear y'all. Sometimes the hurt stays, we just get better at dealing with it as we can.
Same and it was 6 when I first watch it
Kids watching and enjoying mlp aren’t bronies imo. Bronies are specifically grown men, that choose to build communities with other grown men, that don’t disallow underage girls. THATS why it’s weird. Even when children self identify this way, children cannot be bronies bcs of *the implications* being the issue
I wasn't a kid. I was around in my 20s in 2010
@@skootergirl22 - Same here.
I always thought of brony being something of a mashup of bro (slang for dude) and pony. You were just a man. A boy. A human male. You didn't have to be an adult man to be a brony. I think the issue stems from weirdos infiltrating the community and shoving their gross shit into it.
And then a lot of them bullied the little girls who were the target audience for enjoying “their thing.” That was always fun when it happened to me 🙃
I associate bronies with pedophilia to be honest. It’s not normal for a man to be so deeply invested in a show meant for younger audiences.
Bronies are probably one reason why we got stuck with COPPA.
Elsa Gate being another reason.
@@kekeandtofo Yeah Fr IMAO it never should've existed in the 1st place lol!!!
No, dude. COPPA existed BEFORE bronies. I'm so fed up with that misconception.
That said, bronies are definitely part of the reason you can't make darker parodies of kids' shows without the owners of the IP having something to say about it, they permanently damaged fandom culture, they're the reason you can't say you're a fan of a kids' show in public without getting funny looks, they helped in the ever growing issue of kids being groomed online, and they're probably part of the reason parents want to censor the internet to protect Billy and Sally.
@@kekeandtofo the Brony fandom walked so Elsa Gate could run let's be real
How raymundo TRAUMATIZED Broogli 💀💀💀💀
Time to escape to the backrooms again
and then broogli speedran the backrooms and got a new WR
o7
Sometimes I wished my parents monitored my internet access because seeing that as a kid was terrifying that those videos are burned into my brain for life
Same
Same! I had no business being exposed to all of this at 12!
Same
I found the full "brony gangnam" video. It makes me long for those simple days of goofing around with friends and being completely unashamed of liking things.
I think I skipped that part of life
Fluffy ponies is based on a Japanese Touhou tor//ture comics called "Yukkuri ab//use." The way they speak, the little baby fluffy ponies, the tor//ture, etc, it's exactly just like the old Yukkuri content. Even the comics you posted were almost one-for-one of existing Yukkuri comics
Everything on the internet comes back to Touhou
@@onthefridge-w7p it all comes back to 2 things, TouHou and Homestuck
I was horribly traumatized by the brony community.
As a young artist, I was often encouraged by adults, who knew I was a minor, to draw NSFW content of ponies, both of the characters in the show and of their ocs. I was told this kind of content was okay for me to be exposed too, and these adults would pay me lots of money and tip me well for doing so.
I ended up "dating" 2 pedophiles in the brony community due to this, they both took advantage of me as an underage person and it was sickening.
The fandom was very clique-y too, especially the art community. You were bullied horrendously if you didn't fit to the "horse famous" standards or if you didn't get along with someone with a popular OC.
I had a neglectful mother who didn't care what I was doing online, or just didn't care about me, she knew I was dating adults and still didn't care. So my mother is partly to blame for the trauma I experienced.
I'll never forget my time in the brony fandom, it set me up for the art business I have now, but it also gave me permanent, negative affects on my brain development as a child
UCU FUCK
💔 I'm so sorry lovely, I hope you're doing far better. Sounds like you are. Stay safe.
This video actually filled in the missing link for me. I was exposed to a lot of the dark side of the Brony fandom as a child. I was as a result, hypersexual, and I often sought out shock content as a child. I had unrestricted access as a child and I didn’t realize it had the effects on me as it did, nor did I realize it was a very much shared experience with others.
Yeah I stumbled across an uncensored pony porn game on RUclips as a tween 💀
I remember when DEATH BATTLE made Starscream vs Rainbow Dash and Ben Singer, one of the creators said that they'd cancel the episode of Starscream won to not traumatise little girls who might stumble onto it.
Bad for the VS community, but... after seeing videos like this, I knew that Ben was... onto something.
And then Twilight vs Raven happened, and Twilight's death in the video was offscreen and no gore at all.
And then there was Bill Cipher vs Discord. Despite the fact that Discord lost, the ending was still a happy one for the ponies.
When a show called DEATH BATTLE uses these characters better than actual Bronies is... worrying and says a lot about this cesspit of a community.
Thanks so much for having me on for this!! 🥰💝🌈💗✨
You look like boy not girl
pixielocks mentioned!!!!
Woooo go jill
Yes at 1:24:00 !!!
Common Pixielocks dub
Dude woodentoaster and thelivingtombstones music was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE shit in the world during the ripe ages of 9-12. I am autistic, so it was all I would listen to. Now as an adult, I'm mostly really into metal music. I wonder if there's a pipeline there, a lot of my fellow autistic metalheads also had some kind of dubstep phase.
See, I like myself some metal covers and Sabaton, but I don't think I was ever into Dubstep. My younger self probably thought it was noise and not much else.
I used to love thelivingtombstone as a kid lol. I didn't get deep into the genre, but I did like a few dubstep artists and different songs lol (a lot of youtuber intros and outros lol). Now, rock is my favorite genre and metal's included in that. Maybe I'm biased, but I'm inclined to believe in the autistic fnaf kid to autistic metalhead pipeline lol
No I completely get that because one of my favorite things is the dark Factory setting. Which is why I liked the songs and not the fanfic. Because it felt like such a cop out to me that Rainbow Dash was the villain.
But I've always liked sort of industrial music and the original song kind of reminded me of one of my other favorite songs from a kid's movie, Worthless from Brave Little Toaster. (Heck, NGL, I've thought of making a RF video with the song before but never did due to not being as big into MLP as I used to be).
there was this band called "The Wonderbolts" and they were pretty good too; they realized this song ruclips.net/video/IemaBkKsl80/видео.html and it's definitely top 10 best songs.
Edit: forgot to put that this band had some metal songs that introduced me to the genre.
I’m autistic too. I was in the brony, FNAF, Creepypasta (just any edgy) fandom from the ages of 8-13. I was big into the living tombstone, woodentoaster, stuff like that, and definitely dipped into a dubstep phase. I was pretty heavily into Skrillex in about 2016. Im 19 now and a heavy goth. I think a vast majority of autistic adults are pretty involved in alternative subcultures.
The review 😭 You couldn't waterboard any information about my kid years in fandoms out of me but yours are cute asf
ok im a grown ass man,but that thing you had in the backround for the tulpa bit scared the shit out of me
when the music kicked in a siren went off and i nearly shat myself
Yeah I was completely fine with every other creepy thing he showed until that came up in the background along with the distorted music. I'm normally not bothered by creepy things but I had to look away from the screen during the tulpa section.
Same LMAO 😭😭😭
I never thought I would ever be scared of a video after middle school, but here we are
bro my heart dropped out my ass when I noticed it moving around in the background 😭
You can say all you want about the MLP fandom, but during the DerpyGate saga you can't deny that the love people show for this character feels so real, it's heartwarming.
I fully agree
Thank you so much for having me involved, can’t wait to binge this 🙂↕️✨
Woooo go addy
I remember Derpy gate! There was a fear among fans that they would remove her from the show. 10 year old me mailed a piece of art to Hasbro begging them to keep her in the show! They actually mailed me back ensuring me they would keep her in show lol it was very cool
My favorite was those Friendship is Witchcraft edits where they voice over episodes and change the story. There's one where Twilight wanted to marry her brother and some parents saw that. They thought it was a real episode.
I looked at a lot of gore when I was younger partially thanks to cupcakes. I like drawing it now too, yet it sometimes still gets under my skin. I don’t get why my brain is now simultaneously freaked out and fascinated by it, but I can trace to where it started, which is cupcakes. The song from that video will sometimes make me freeze in my tracks, which is just stupid, but the brain is stupid.
I love mlp, both g4 and g5, they mean a lot to me, but I recognize they messed me up. I don’t like the idea of people getting rid of this content either, as, artistically speaking, they are well made and took time and effort. However, this content needs warnings which nsfw artists just seem to be allergic to.
It wasn't My Little Pony Gore/shock content but my step dad use to encourage searching up things like funkytown, 2 girls 1 cup ect
Same. I understand that this shit is bad for kids to look at but also it does have some artistic value. idk
@@MrOlive22 Honestly, that's so much more fucked up jfc
I don't think anyone is necessarily arguing for the banning of people make gorey art but it is a little odd that these artists specifically latched onto something meant for kids and made NSFW/gore art knowing kids would engage with it. Now some of these artists were kids themselves but the way the internet bastardizes children's content is a strange phenomenon
@@liviwall662 because of gore, I kinda like drawing it now. I don’t do it a lot and I tag/spoiler it appropriately, but I get why someone might draw/animate those things. It’s the not tagging stuff that’s the issue
This video explains why I had to leave the MLP fandom after season 6. I couldn’t take it anymore. Great video btw
Thank you for saying it, i see so many people glamorizing or not getting to the topic, while i got nothing against the mlp fandom.
I definitely got something against unrestricted media that are deeply disturbing especially when it's trying to look innocent at first to bait people into clicking which lead to a lot of children (Including me at the time) to get profoundly disturbed by theses images
Fureys too
@EvilSantaTheTrue it can come from all types of media and fandom, however i think it's one of the first and very few instances where the content shared was seemingly purposefully shared on the internet to scare off kid's
@occidziggys9496 and amine
@EvilSantaTheTrue Everyone forgets the schizo trip known as ME!ME!ME! was a thing and I hate it
@@EpicTyphlosionTVmememe is mild compared to this
The irony of Derpygate is that the parents were actually the prejudiced, hostile and weird people and nobody saw Derpy the way they argued people saw her.
All they need to do is release the glorpus and save the day
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I originally put a comment here but I think RUclips deleted due to its graphic language, so I’m going to make another one that isn’t as graphic so it doesn’t get deleted by RUclips.
While I wasn’t in the Brony fandom, the Pokémon fandom was just as traumatic. Not in the Creepypasta area luckily, though I do remember the pictures and sprites associated with Hypno’s lullaby and Buried Alive scaring me when I was a kid, Hypno was just so uncanny in the artwork and the sprite of Buried Alive dragging the player character into the ground creeped me out as a kid. Thank Goodness I didn’t listen to the Hypno’s Lullaby song and didn’t listen to the audio of Buried Alive because that would’ve caused a lot more sleepless nights.
No the most traumatic part of the Pokémon was the google image searching. You couldn’t google any Pokémon without weird DeviantArt art or hard core stuff coming up. Thank goodness I always found these images gross otherwise I don’t know what weird tastes I would’ve gotten or what addiction I could’ve been struggling with.
When watching you’re iceberg videos on Gen Z childhood trauma, I thought I was lucky because I didn’t see most of the stuff on the iceberg and didn’t get traumatised by the horror or gorey stuff on the internet. But now actually thinking about it, I think my trauma was just as graphic as everyone else, just in a different way. I might make a video about the trauma I got from the Pokémon community since it’s not really a talked about issue. It’d also be cool if you did a video on it but I understand if you don’t want to do it to preserve your mental health. Take care.
This comment originally went into more graphic detail about the things I saw but I think it got deleted by RUclips because of its graphic nature, so I toned it down so it didn’t get deleted a second time. Sorry for this long rant about the Pokémon community.
Or there's a glitch
@@skootergirl22 good point
Wait, Buried Alive had *_audio_* …? 0_0;;;
That sprite alone really creeped me out, but with audio…? I, uh, I’m a little scared just thinking about that .
I was in the Pokémon community, too (you can probably tell by my user, since 'vee' is a term for eevee). There are a bunch of people who make NSFW in the Pokémon community. You can't search up vaporeon without the copypasta showing up. The vaporeon copypasta ruined me. People in the Pokémon community are also VERY sketchy, shady, and creepy.
@@CottenVee Yeah, Remember the Pokémon Vaporeon copy pasta being inescapable in the Community. I love Vaporeon and I hate that its name has been dragged through the mud because some degenerate 4channer decided to ruin everyone's fun. I wish more people talked about how the Pokemon community negatively affected kids because it seems to be an unspoken taboo in the community.
This video shows how we Can't have kid shows that are harmless: Creeps find it okay to distort little kid shows. Yet, I'm not a fan of MLP. But, I believe it shouldn't be twisted into something not for kids.
1:14:54 oh good god op was on prozac? no wonder pinkie turned out like that. my prozac experience was silent panic attacks and delusions of persecution. if i manifested a tulpa it would likely be equally as disruptive and scary.
the pinkie pie tulpa actually has me scared, i felt like i just experienced what he experienced and now i’m terrified that one day it’s going to happen to me.
Im glad more people are talking about this because holy, how did this even slide??? Like, I was a young kid looking at things I shouldn't have because of ADULT BRONIES. What's even more sad is that they "inspired" some of the younger audience they traumatized to continue the trend of trauma which just is horrible. Sure, kids shouldn't be online, but adults are actively invading kid content and distorting it which is just... wrong. They publicly post these demented things and the only excuse people have is "it's the internet lol." I'm fine with NSFW when it's in a proper place AWAY from the public. I don't care if people see me as a karen, it's how I feel and I don't EVER want my kid to go through what I had to with the internet. Kids deserve safe spaces free of exploitation.
Edit*: this is unrelated, but "split second screams that last less than a second." Had me busting up laughing LMFAO. The most redundant thing I've heard in a minute omg
The internet isnt your bavkyard buddy.
You dont like it get off. Also since when do you make the rules and get to tell ppl what they can or cant do?! Its been a thing ever since newgrounds! With all kinds of stuff so get over it and grow up!
Wait until you check up on the Pokemon fandom.
@@HandheldGamer1991 Kids are kids bro. They don't understand why some content is bad, and oftentimes can't identify whether the content they are about to watch is suitable or not.
At the end of the day, it isn't their responsibility to do so. It's the responsibility of adult creators who know better to restrict child access to their creations, as well as the parents who should be monitoring what kids are accessing.
Kids are just as allowed to watch RUclips as any of us. There are a ton of kid friendly creators on here, catering to young children as their target audience. Sure, we have RUclips Kids now to restrict access further, but that stuff didn't exist when I was younger.
This stuff is seriously damaging, and as an adult, I feel it is our responsibility as mature people to do our best to avoid naïve kids from stumbling upon unsuitable stuff we create and understand. This stuff is damaging, point blank period, and it is not the responsibility of kids to just not watch it.
"Let it slide" as if a crime was being committed lol bronies have a right to exist and it's the responsibility of parents to monitor what their kids find online
Most cartoons have adult fandoms, it isn't an MLP exclusive thing the brony community was just exceptionally big back in the day
@@HandheldGamer1991 Amen. I'm tired of people crying for censorship instead of holding parents responsible for children roaming the internet unattended. You wouldn't let your kid loose at Walmart with no supervision, so why would you give them a screen with unfiltered internet access?
And I had access to things I shouldn't have as a kid, too. I do not want children so I'm not having any, but if I did, they wouldn't have internet PERIOD.
I vividly remember coming home from middle school on valentines day in 2013 or 14. I opened my ipod touch to see that one of my favorite RUclipsrs, Mrcreepypasta, had uploaded a new video, a mlp creepypasta called Cupcakes. Not knowing what it was and thinking it was most likely a joke, I clicked on the video and listened to the whole thing. Genuinely found it almost impossible to sleep for a few weeks after that one.
Mlp is just the most recognized so far, but this is becoming everything for gen aplha and younger. All online spaces are mixed and children aren’t being kept out of inappropriate spaces
The comments you see from children on tiktok is crazy, everything is so sexual. The amount of "is it pink" or "raw next question," sometimes the comments are funny but even with knowing they're joking, seeing the comments made on videos of animals and kids is jarring
Something I find really gross is how a lot of the mlp gore videos have really cute wholesome thumbnails, they WANT a little kid to click on that video. They get off on that shit which is disturbing.
I was watching this yesterday, it was 6 am and the pinkie tulpa almost made me cry
I saw the Derpy Nyan Nyan thing as a kid and even at that young age it made me feel a little uneasy.
Edit: Damn. The creepy part of the thing about tulpas in this video is lowkey making me afraid of my waifu tbh.
Afraid of your what💀
He talks about the ponk tulpa thread? That was hilarious.
Regarding the point about parenting and shielding your kids away from inappropriate content, in my case, I remember a few times when me or my sister got caught by our parents for having inappropriate stuff on our devices, but I only remember because of their reaction which, retrospectively, traumatised us more than the inappropriate content itself. They berated and punished us severely. In the end, it didn't change anything, only taught us to hide things better and carry a lot of self-hatred and guilt for something that *they* were supposed to protect us from. I just hope my parents could have handled the situation better because now it's hard to trust them with anything for fear of their reactions...
Gen Z will either be the best parents, or the worst. We’ve grown up with these platforms, we understand them, unlike our own parents. However, because of social media, we’ve also grown up around very dangerous ideologies and teenagers these days are either super immature, or super mature. There’s not usually a balance, or an understanding of real world situations and problems.
As much as stuff like that traumatized me as a Kid and scared me away from the show. I was able to love the show again in July 2023. We shouldn’t let the past control us and we should do our best to combat our traumatic experiences and keep going through life!
My man is milking Brony content for us and I’m not mad about that!😂
lol!
Derpy PFP
i thought i typed this comment out for a sec
@@supergayreindeer Sorry to confuse you, me!😅
New subscriber btw!!!
@@BeepBoopDerpyHooves thanks !!!
What traumatized me as a kid at the age of 6 or 5 years old, was those fluffy ponies, I discovered it on accident on RUclips, I thought it was a cute videos but ended up traumatized and rethinking about rewatching the show after school
i remember watching all of those videos on youtube, having nightmares, and telling my parents about it. they were rightfully pissed that youtube let these be posted and unrestricted
It’s ironic how certain fandoms of violent and brutal shows are somehow more friendly and respectful than fandoms of kids shows.
i was actually friends with the pinkie pie tulpa guy and roommates with him from approximately 2015 to 2018. he is alive and doing as well as you can assume, he did eventually manage to fully manifest her but she talks to him about dark things andhe told me he thinks she manifests as his depression. she did eventually calm down and act more like what he originally intended but theres a darkness in her that he deals with to this day. he opened up to me one day after a couple years of knowing each other, to explain the situation. up until then i had not heard of the situation and did some research and everything he claimed lined up perfectly, and he actually showed me that he owned the reddit account that made those posts. i will not give his name or out him or anything, but I can say that he is alive and well and a relatively normal person despite things. he was my friend, roommate, and coworker for years across 2 apartments and 2 states, and hes kind and very funny. he was eventually able to get this thing to act more like a friend and comfort character despite frequently reminding him of his self hatred/making him depressed.
You could be bullshitting for all I know but I'm worried enough to believe you
I was a victim of 6:42, and now watching this give me the memories and the trauma, and “Smile” that song….. I was just a kid bro…
That tulpa story is shockingly horrifying.
1:00 "It seems odd that so many adult men would be in love with a children's show."
Have you literally never heard of the Sonic fanbase?
I feel like that one is mostly explained by how old Sonic is, & being aimed at boys.
It’s less adult men getting interested in a fandom aimed at children, & more children getting into a franchise that IS aimed at them, & they just never stop enjoying it, even when grown.
Mlp gore was the reason why I had a gore addiction during elementary and middle school, my school would play irl footage of terrorist groups to educate us it wasn’t hard to find material to obsess over, hell my favourite show had tons of stuff like that it just pushed me more into the whole thing
That Rainbow factory cover is peak you cooked a masterpiece
Kind Of Fun Fact: Tiarawhy is currently developing a game called, "Pony Waifu Simulator"
It's Locked behind a Patreon subscription so at least we know kids won't be able to view it short of Mommy's credit card.
@@CyberWolfDigital I had no idea they were still active 😭 I wonder if it’s in any way a reference to the iconic Tubby Wubby Pony Waifu song
@Raymundo_2112 From what I've seen from MasterMax888, I don't think so.
But Tiara is still active, just not on RUclips anymore, I think.
Part of the 'traumatized' generation. (:
Rather than upset, i honestly was more entertained and thrilled to be watching horror content of my favorite TV show.
I think our generation was a bit broken to begin with, hahah
it's always nice seeing you upload, I hope you're having a nice day :)
as someone who grew up with mlp and saw some stuff i shouldn't have, i'm glad you're going over this again. it makes me, and others feel like we aren't alone.
3:50 you couldn't get this out of me with a car battery
banned from equestria daily actually messed me up as a kid omfg 😂
Me too... I didn't find it in game sites though. I found it through a video player on a website I made that linked back to RUclips. No censores there...
I remember back in 2015 maybe I used to watch this kind of content, there was even a point where it was on RUclips kids, being 5-6 years old back then I didn’t understand what was happening and much like Lillith I was also addicted to those kinds of videos, it made me start (y’knowing) at a young age and has since caused me to be hypersexual. I haven’t gotten help yet or told anyone, so thank you Raymundo for making this. This really helped me
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@HIT14MAN2 my name is not Ian Brandon Anderson!!
@@berniekatzroy - "I NAME IS NOT IAN, BRANON, SOMETHING!"
@0b13F4st3 Do you realize?
Fluffy Pony Abuse is messed up
@user-mi2nq8nt7y Same
Same here
wish elements of insanity was included here bc ngl it was wild and truly an era
I was actually a kid when this MLP came out. At the time it was very comfortable knowing so many grown-ass man liked this show, I thought there was something wrong with me.
I did have unrestricted access on the internet (my parents didn’t care just as long as it wasn’t affecting my grades. That and don’t talk to strangers online, no adult content , etc.) but it was still a fun time.
I would log into Equestria Daily, well, daily. I read a lot of fanfics, and this show was the reason why I got into writing and reading funnily enough.
Despite all the bad, and the many, MANY questionable things I saw, I still look back on it fondly. I was already familiar with Happy Tree Friends, Madness Combat, Whack your Boss, etc. so the Dark MLP creepypastas didn’t really bother me that much.
Overall I can’t help but to look back at the show, it’s fandom, and it’s “dark side” all with nostalgia. I miss those days, honestly. Simpler times.
How old were you though. I feel like If you're under 12 it's worse
@ about 13 or 14 I think.
18:25 i doubt anyone will see this, but when i was little i remember this video so vividly because i watched it for the first time on my uncle’s old ipad while hiding in the basement in the dark. i knew i shouldn’t have been watching youtube, but i wanted to anyways. my ipad was heating up really bad and at some point in the video the screen glitched and froze but the audio kept playing and i was SO horrified i could barely move for a minute or so before i stuffed the ipad underneath the futon i was sitting on and finally crept through the messy room and turned the lights on 😭
I have a vivid memory too! I was hanging out with my older cousin in my aunts office, and we were playing DS. When we finished our Mario party game, she shut the lights off and said she had something cool to show me. She started the video and handed me her phone, I was just glued to the screen in terror. She got up and ran out of the room, closing the door and blocking it. I was crying for her to let me out. My uncle heard the commotion luckily and she got in trouble. I never trusted her since then 😭
As someone who liked watching My Little Pony during its initial run (was only a fan of the show), I never expected a dedicated fanbase that is “Bronies” to create/alter content that could forever ruin an audience’s interest in the series. But you know what they say: The internet is simply the internet, and there will always be that one user who has to change everything.
As an old grey mare of a G1MLP fan, its so upsetting to see the G4 children have such trauma around what taught a child me to be brave, protect her friends and learn to be pro-active. I think a lot of this is humans coping with the internet bt there is also the misogyny involved with making p0rn and gore of media targeted at girls and women and the anger, loathing and violence aimed at men who enjoy that media innocently.
Seeing people who were children when MLP was popular now being old enough to make videos is making me feel anxious
I wasn't a kid who grew up with G4 MLP ( I did grow up with G3 though), but I was a young teen, and it certainly traumatized me in certain ways. Thankfully not enough to throw me off the show since I knew they were completely seperate things, but still. I would purposely look up messed up MLP things after a while when I was a young teen BECAUSE of all the messed up stuff I saw. With you including affected fans in your videos and hearing their own stories, it really helped put things into perspective for me and the messed up reason why I sought out more even though I was horrified when I was younger. Thank you for making this!
Ugh, I had to skip the nail box one
And cover the screen for the other ones.
I HATE that kind of content from a young age till now and even had some kids try to convince me it was "funny just so I'd watch it and it anger and upset me growing up.
Absurd violence with innocent cartoon characters still makes me feel sick to my stomach
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Same, even to this day I can’t watch those videos, it gives me such a sick feeling 😞😞 i will honesty never understand the people who created that content and I hope they know how it effected the young children that watched those videos
@tennojichuu7770 yeah, I'll admit after a good portion of clips I had to click off the video.
The clips just reminded me and put salt in my old wound of not liking when innocent things get tortured and mutilated
This is also the reason I don't care for happy tree friends or whatever it's called the violence just makes my stomach hurt and upsets me.
Although I can watch something like Blue Eye Samurai and be mostly fine though because at least then the violence doesn't seem to come from a twisted place , if that makes sense
Agreed! For me the Cupcakes one stuck with me from the time that I was younger to now… To say that I had a bad impression of the Brony Fandom would be an understatement.
I had to cover my eyes when he was showing the censored footage of the animation. Yes it was censored, yes it was a small amount of footage, and yet it evoked this full body experience of disgust and mortification.
It’s not as if I’m unfamiliar with it, far from it. It may just be the association with the loss of innocence with that video. When I was younger, seeing those types of morbid Brony animations kind of permanently ruined my love and perception of Pinky Pie and the show itself, unfortunately.
@MontagTheSea-lion Slop
The sad thing is, there wasn't a single video I didn't watch as a kid. I was actually obsessed with Banned from Equestria, and it's true that it led to me having a "high s3x drive" as a kid, and I've developed kinks that aren't typical from all my exposure. I remember watching Banned from Equestria at around 8-10 years old (my memories are jammed from before middle school) and I would feel so weird (which now, I realize that was an arousal feeling). I knew what I was watching was bad, but always rewatched uploads on youtube, I lied once to my mom saying I was watching scary shows on Netflix because I was so scared she would see my history and find BFE...all of this stuff DOES mess up kids. To everyone else who was effected, I'm so sorry. Let's all get through this together.
Thanks for making these videos. I wasn't able to watch every single part, but you brought up a lot of great points in the parts I did see. I was 11 when the show came out, and thankfully I was able to dodge the disgusting side of the fandom. I do believe even after all this time that the actual show was well-written and great for audiences of any age. There were some truly amazing artists in the fandom who created wholesome and beautiful things (I still go back and rewatch "Lullaby for a Princess" every now and then, and it still makes me cry). But it breaks my heart knowing that there were so many kids damaged by the creepos in the fandom, and I really hope everyone who was affected is able to heal from it.
As part of the generation the bronies “ruined”, I find nostalgia in this video and that is just a show of how effected I was
I was into that kind of stuff back then, along with the sisters of my mother that I haven't seen in half a decade now. Sure, I watched a lot of gore (Happy Tree Friends has no introduction), but I'm a bit sure that these videos made me traumatized, but not quite a lot. I only started to get more interested in the show thanks to a member on a Discord server I'm in, and also the artists that are keeping the show alive with animations, literature and everything in between. Pretty enjoyable video, Raymundo! :3
To be honest, until this video, I'd never actually given much thought to the long-term impacts of unrestricted internet access on kids. I've heard the odd joke every now and then, along the lines of the coolest people having been traumatised by this sort of content and kinda agreeing, but god damn.
I was involved in so many 'edgy' communities as an older kid/ preteen. I was hugeeee into FNAF for many years, as well as the Brony community, Creepypasta, the furry community etc. I never really considered the impact that stuff had on me. I started viewing NSFW content from the age of 7 (probably sparked by the kind of stuff I was seeing in said communities), and began to display quite significant sexual deviance and hypersexuality before turning even 10 years old. I consumed a hell of a lot of gore content too, starting with indie animations on YT like those mentioned here, but I was viewing full on snuff films at the age of 12/13. I've always been described as quiet and polite, but my dad and certainly my sister, have a lot of memories of me displaying apathetic and sometimes quite violent, manipulative and threatening behaviour. I'm diagnosed with autism, so it could be as a result of that, but I do feel there's probably a deep correlation with the kind of depravity I was viewing at an age too young to properly understand what I was looking at.
I'm glad gen Z has a pretty heavy attitude to not allowing our kids technology too young, and certainly keeping a close eye on what they're looking at. I think the blow only lands heavier at the fact that a lot of the people that were viewing content within niche, more 'cringe' fandoms like this tended to be on the autism spectrum, such is the case for myself, which can make it a lot harder to understand what is being viewed and why it is not appropriate to act upon/ replicate in real life, especially with gore and NSFW.
Honestly, we joke about 'character building' from being exposed to this content young, but I think it's a very serious issue that needs to be discussed. Thank you for making this video and bringing awareness to such an obscure topic. I think it really highlights the need for responsibility as a creator in communities like this. Content like this should be allowed to exist, but should not be uploaded on a place like YT which is full of kids, or should at least have some kind of disclaimer/ age restriction. Parents also need to take a lot more responsibility with what kids are accessing at young ages, because the impact of this stuff is really serious. I exhibited a lot of violence against my younger sister as a result, and have had a very bizarre relationship with sex until this day, something I am only now fixing at the age of 19 through therapy.
Please monitor what your kids watch.
Man what a topic, thanks for going over this though props to you
man why can't people just like a show and find it cool why does someone have to make such cursed things about them
like seriously what is wrong with people ?!?!?!?!?!?
Nothing. We are humans, and humans like to push limits.
It was always like this and will always be like this.
I appreciate you covering this topic, I wasn't surveyed about it with mainly my mum when I found some of this MLP content along with the channel Ridiculous Cake which had a Twilight Sparkle Video which made me develop a addiction to inflation and now I'm actually trying to stop my addiction and focus on other things like Jurassic park, transformers and so forth, Thank you Ray for covering this topic and many others will be thankful
Bronies traumatized an entire generation of kids, and the same thing almost happened again with Infection, fortunately Infection failed
Infection as in cuz I'm confused
@@Rocketlux touching children
Saw a 4 year old with a huggy wuggy stuffy
@eminemilly Poppy Playtime really isn't all that scary, though. Nor is it gratuitous and gory like the stuff many bronies make. And it's so clearly made WITH the intention of grabbing the attention of little children interested in horror (and RUclipsrs who will play the game for views) to make money off merch and sales
@@user-ye6fp7kl1oYeah but there are alot of adult/teenage weirdos in the fandom making a lot of weird sexual videos/art & gore. Its not on a massive scale like the Bronies but its definitely gonna cause some of the same long term effects on kids
13:14 lil mis rarity is not even a fanfaction it’s a tumbler blog 💀 and it gets like super fetishy at some points it’s super wild
Well it is a Fan Fiction yes, the platform it is on does not make it any less fan-made fiction, and he did acknowledge that it is sexualized. As off-putting as it is, it is as “fan-fiction” as it gets,
Your passion is so inspiring. 😊
I remember seeing that pinkie pie video as a kid and I was one of those kids traumatized because I was mostly sad than scared seeing one of my favorite characters harming their others and it’s just something I wouldn’t want others to experience. Even till this day I still watch my little pony as a adult, I didn’t really let those videos ruin my show😂😭
First of all, thank you so much for this video. Ive seen a lot of videos talking about the horrors of the brony fandom in the early 2010s, but not much about the consequences of it in children.
Talking for experience: the first time I came across gore was the cupcakes video. I clicked thinking it was something inoccent and then, I was traumatized, to the point I would have nightmares constantly and couldn't sleep properly or watch the show because it make me sick. I would cry out of fear because of how terrified I was everytime I saw Pinkie Pie anywhere.
Up to this day, even tho I'm a grown adult now, I still can't eat cupcakes (the actual food) because it gave me the ick. It sucks
Oh that cursed rainbowdash inflation is one of the deleted one i still remember back in 2015 , me who was barely 17 was just watching tf2 content and those kind of contents shows in my feed , and it was a gate to hell for me
I can draw a direct line from watching mlp nsfw at a young age to developing OCD
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omg same @___@
Wait-
@Spencer7718 did I say something wrong on accident 😭 /gen
@AROCODED oh not at all, i just now made the connection from your comment and it made me realize some things/Gen (I think I used that right may be /Pos?)
this is a MASTERPIECE 👏🏾 thank you for being this into the light. ❤️🥺
i’m forever grateful that i was such a chicken as a child and my parents limited my internet access, so if i saw something remotely creepy i just clicked away. mlp was my whole world as a kid, it would’ve been so sad if my view on it had become tainted.
1:13:54 4chan is so screwed up. Almost all of these posts are the absolute fucking worst things to say to someone in this state. As a schizophrenic, this actually kinda pisses me off.
@skylarsworld9477do you even know what schizophrenia is? I'll give you hint: it doesn't mean someone with it can't still function.
The rainbow factory was single-handedly probably the most traumatizing part of the brony fandom for me I think. I distinctly remember how my friend who introduced me to mlp and I were sitting in the 4th and 5th grader wing of my elementary school looking at pony stuff and pony music. A friend who wasn’t a brony was also joining in and I think we stumbled upon the SFM rainbow factory music video and it scared the hell out of me versus my friends seemed to enjoy it. There’s just something about how rusty everything is and the slamming in the song paired with the super robotic sounding vocals that just terrified me as a ten year old. When my brother and I were home alone he found out how scared I was of the song and started tormenting me with it to the point I had to call my one friend who had taken her little sister to the park and bike all the way there after begging to join them because of how upset and scared I was. I was crying while frantically biking away from home because my brother thought it was funny. I’m 22 now and it was only a few years ago that I watched that video again and even hearing the first few seconds it just gives me these alert bells in my head and makes my skin crawl. I’ve seen way scarier stuff and I’m a horror fanatic now but that SFM music video gives me the heebie jeebies
Also on the topic of the grim dark fanfiction, there was this one halloween one about this candy monster pony that was super gnarly and gorey but I really loved the fanfiction. There were readings of it on RUclips that I would listen to occasionally
Y'know it's ironic that you mention the reuploads aren't age restricted because I remember briefly when Cupcakes HD (either it was a reupload or the original, I don't really remember) was not only not age restricted, but was falsely flagged by the algorithm as specifically for kids. Pretty sure the uploader took it down after that or it was flagged by very confused and concerned watchers/parents.
I was someone who grew up with the older generations of mlp, I had watched both the 80s specials, my little pony tales and the G3 movies came out right when I was the perfect age. And then I heard all these grown men, who never grew up with them and never were the target audience, making videos talking about how bad all the previous generations were and G4 is the only good one. Of course, G4 HAS better writing, I do admit that, but the other generations still were perfect for someone who was the target audience for them.
Watching the old movies as a kid I got inspired to play out the plots with my pony toys. I especially loved the plot of "Escape from Midnight Castle", where all the ponies got kidnapped and needed to be rescued - I always played out that plot. Also the G3 movies, especially "Runaway Rainbow" inspired me a lot, and I always had a pony being the mischievous one breaking the rules and then surprising everyone, like Rarity in the movie. So they weren't "brain rot movies" to me, and as a kid it hurt to hear all these adult men basically telling me these were garbage and I should be ashamed to like them.
I do love people being like "omg Rainbow Dash was so girly in G3" because I had the opposite experience - watching G4 for the first time going "Oh! Rainbow Dash can fly now and has a different personality!"
Anyway. I did also really enjoy G4 and as a preteen in the early 2010s, I encountered a LOT of these stuff brought up in the video... especially in the fanart, because I loved looking at fanart... :,)
32:00 fun thing about that project is that i wanted to do a scary halloween animation as I've never tried before, and I'm a fan of Sweeney Todd. I saved time by making it a silent film horror which also made it a bit more artsy than other cupcake videos. It doesn't hold a candle to the quality that MisterDavey made.
The video was age restricted around the 6 million view mark and hasn't made money since.
Funny enough, tiarawhy and I were racing to see who finished their cupcake video first 😅
Holy crap the creator!! Your work is awesome
Woah its you, you made a great animation btw it was one of the very few cupcake videos I could stand watching
There's so much content here, I love it. I especially love the RF cover. 😭 My inner child is happy.
Bro giving a whole movie, just for his love for Derpy. awww.
It’s crazy how I was exposed to these exact videos at like 8 yrs old and even 10 years later when I’m 18 it’s still don’t fail to make my stomach feel SICK 😭😭💔
Honestly, all things considered, the fact that adult men were in fact able to unironically like a My Little Pony show, of all things, just goes to show that a quality show is a quality show. And also...cutesy "girl shows" don't seem to be made with quality all that often. It's like that kind of audience is just taken for granted by most big creators.
Thank you so, so much for making this video, as someone with a brony past, i unfortunately watched the cupcakes video made by Mr Davie, and as a huge Rainbow dash fan, so much in fact some of her colors were used in the making of one of my OCs. After I watched the video... I ended up kinda traumatized and very upset, and it gave me an unjustified hatred towards Pinkie pie... naturally as a kid... I just drew her in ways that a kid souldn't be drawing anyway and.... well you get the idea. This kinda also made me get obssesed with Rainbow Factory, wich was also kinda bad for my age but i don't really complain on this one tho as an edgy scene guy myself, loved the aesthetic and being involved on my favorite mlp character at the time.
This... was... a subject I would rather forget on my life, it kinda distorted some of my visions on certain things really, some of the for the good, yeah, but mostly for the bad...
Again, thank you for showing and exposing this kind of content the brony community did and how it ended up toying with our minds as kids.
Edit: That Rainbow factory cover was really dope tho XD
i remember seeing this type of content way back when i was really into MLP, I think what I saw was so bad my brain has actually just tried to forget it but those memories were again once unlocked by this video. Man did the MLP community mess me up