Meet the Bronies

<p> In 2010, <I>My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic</I> premiered on television. A large, avid fandom soon emerged--not the pre-teen female demographic earlier versions of the franchise had been created for, but a roughly 80 percent male audience, most of them age 14-24. With this came questions about the nature of the audience who would come to call themselves "bronies." Brony Studies was born.</p><p> Approaching the fandom from a perspective of clinical, social an