One of my friends is a cartoonist, so you'd say I'd take his opinion about cartoons in general quite seriously. The opposite is true though. Last year he tried to get me into Panty & Stocking which was the moment when I stopped taking him seriously. At some point in january/february he approached me with ponies and I... well... I still frequented his streams and met up with him but as soon as he started talking about ponies I was like "okay, stop it :l". Apparently my ignorance amused him, as from that moment on I was known as his 'faithful student'. So, when I was co-hosting one of his streams and he went out to do groceries or eat a pizza or something (I don't remember) I was telling his watchers I was going to check out what the fuss was about, and see how stupid that show is so I could laugh at them. I watched the pilot and was still "meh, ponies..." but I had to admit that I was impressed. So in the next few weeks I started watching a few more episodes at random intervals when I was bored and around episode 9 I was like "You know what? Screw it, this show is nice". And then I registered an account on Ponygoons, frequented the brandnew Ponychan (at the time) and subscribed to Equestria Daily's blog. This summer I had a euro-brony meetup in Hamburg from August 12th til August 15th. It was a great experience, and I'm grateful to be part of this amazing community. But seriously... Artrix, don't ever introduce me to random crap like this again!