Bold of you to assume that we partook in the devil's sacrament. You forget that the early 2010s was a fucking unfiltered cesspool of degeneracy where the horsefuckers were consistently the loudest voices. It's truly impossible to underscore how inescapable they were. I was a maladapted teenager who had exposure to 4chan when I shouldn't have, and the edgy fluffy pony shit was omnipresent (anyone remember Fluffybooru?). Even then, normie spaces were clogged to the brim with brony spam too.
The Hub was a fantastic network that had shows like R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour and Dan Vs. It didn't take long for it to devolve into constant MLP marathons and MAYBE another show like Littlest Pet Shop or the odd episode of Dan Vs playing late at night. Facebook pages and groups sprang up shoving pony artwork into just about
everything from Discord being Samurai Jack to friggin
Carl from ATHF.
Forgotten fact: Mr. Enter was initially an MLP content creator and only started Animated Atrocities when MLP was between seasons.