Im 21, and live in Florida I actually knew and half watched the old MLP when I was younger, but I didn't really like it a whole lot, mostly I just watched it because my sister was watching it. Though a few monthes ago some people I was watching in deviantart had posted some MLP:FiM fanart, I looked at them and thought, 'what a great style (the g4 style) for MLP, if only the show was like that!' The a little while later I saw the threads surfacing on /co/ and I realized, 'omg that mlp is real' I went to youtube and found masterlinx's episodes and was hooked after I first saw the new art, and then the characters, and the pure awesome that followed is, as they say, history.