Aug 102012
It caught the world by storm when My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic took off with widespread popularity and fandom. However it wasn’t the fact of the size of the fanbase, but mostly who composed the fanbase. Through a weird twist of fate and marketing, MLP became a favourite of quite a few men starting the group known as ‘bronies.’ Mike Rugnetta of the PBS Idea Channel on Youtube took this topic and ran with it in an interesting video which explains the phenomenon and what it means for what we consider masculinity.