User blog comment:JKGame/Discord vs Deadpool: My Little Rap Battles Mid-Season Finale/@comment-31278711-20180825185025/@comment-4115159-20180911203708

If I may throw in my 2 cents here. MLP IS written for a much bigger demographic now than when it first started. They really struck oil (probably to their absolute shock) when regular guys started becoming fans. But think about it this way. If they're gonna make a show where their fanbase is entirely made of little girls then why the hell would it be aimed at anybody BUT them?

Obviously it's different now but what this means is that there must have been quite a lot of people at the very start of the brony explosion who liked the show. I mean... who the hell was the first brony? There must have been one. And he was probably a bit special.

What COULD have happened however is that people liked it ironically, the creator and writers etc saw this and interpretted it as genuine, so they started writing the show to appeal to their demographic a bit more, so now more people like it.

It's a bit like the flat earth society that way.