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>What is it about this show that drives people to such?
if you make a thread about that,/mlp/ will respond you with the word autism (as the lazy meme answer for this question). Any outsider will see it as degenerate so why bother answering profoundly to someone who might not give a fuck in the first place. Nonetheless, you have shown genuine interest with your post so let me answer this.

All the fans pretend that nothing exists in their IRL routine, they simply carry on with their lives until they get access to the internet in private. All the thoughts they had in their minds gets exposed in the inner circles without revealing them to anyone else. And so, any MLP related thing will happen to count as MLP content either way because the MLP brand filters effectively any interest from anyone else. You want to discuss about MLP? EQD, Derpi, Fimfiction, the imageboards or forums/blogs related to it are your place to do it. Otherwise, no one has that mentality to share it somewhere else with such ease, much less IRL. So all those inspirations, desires, requests...are only delivered in counted places with the same people that won´t judge you for liking it. If you want more, you cannot ask from outsider help unless you pay a furry artist for a commission related to MLP. Those are the most likely group to come and go indifferently because they share that degeneracy and carry a similar mindset as well.

>Even here is following that pattern. Since when do two anons who bump into each other on a backwater board set up there own community? There is no other fandom where I have seen all these elements at play at such full force.
because I don´t have anywhere else to expose my ideas and when you get used to the fanbase, you feel at home. The internet can be really wild and going outside feels cold and even shittier than the autism that we know. Better the Devil that you know than the Devil that you don´t. Not only the chan format is the nature for MLP, but it has proven to be really useful to share the fan content you want to expose to other fans.

Not only that but fans hold this franchise as part of their lives and the interest is still alive because of the ride. One always wonders what´s going to happen next in this undefined path. This mindset prevents from anyone to leave in the long run or even come back after taking a break.