Anon 01/21/2018 (Sun) 16:32:34 No.530 del
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>I ain't sure if it's the first, but one of the earlist acknowledgements I can recall was a hub promo all the way back in 2011. It's a pardody of one of Katty Parry's songs. They made an extented version and sent it directly to EqD themselves. It even mentioned the word "brony".
Back when Equestria Girls didn't mean what we are already used to hear. It feels weird. I guess,that was pure joy to notice the fandom so carelessly and even admitting it loudly with a celebration.

>Here is the link to the old EqD article on it, they were a far different animal back then.
8 years seem like nothing for a grandpa but in the internet era when eveything happens so fast, the fandom are not the new born children. There was excitement, a huge bandwagon, hype for very different reasons and something new to explore out of nothing. However, that also brought a lot of harsh and destructive moments, lots of traitions over time, death threats and huge disappointment out of nowhere. The maturity was lacking and the enthropic years showed it. Not even EqD has resisted to the changes.

>Now, granted I am barelly awake right now and still sick and I only was in partial, not admiting it to myself orbit of the fandom, so there maybe something huge that I am forgetting. Then again, you may have seen this already, making this post pointless
I haven't watched it before your post. It's still nice to check where this fandom came from and what the purposes and illusions were back then.
And here we are, building something out of nothing but with a pretty different perspective. Everyone changes,history does not, that video shows the first magical