The mane six are with the mixels now.

Thank you for making me like ponies and it changed my life and it did

Will always remember you girls it’s been lots of fun having adventures with you and friendship will always be magic Thanks Lauren Faust

All of you taught me a lesson of liking ponies and that changed my life and it did

@neo4812  

 
You should read it, because it REALLY is beautiful. It made me tear up again

@Background Pony #EA84  
I’m crying again, damn…

@Background Pony #EA84  
beautiful, I didn’t read a word of it but its beautiful

Bronies of every age, country, and race.
 
You are about to embark upon the final chapter of the show that has kept us all together. We’ been together nine years now and soon it will be time for the show to go. But it is not a ending, simply a next chapter in life.
 
I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I have been thinking for a long time. I have always lived in Britain and never have attended a brony con, or probably never came across many fans, and I only discovered the show in early 2013, but I, or anyone else, will never forget what we had experienced over the years. Most people say that it was Lauren Faust who deserves the credit, and that’s true. But I’ve always felt that the Brony fandom was really the one that gave the show the love and strength it received over the years.
 
It has made us the people we are, including myself, into people who are happy and feel like new men and women. And now that it is all ending, it kinda makes us feel we have lost our purpose. Honestly, I understand that truly…parting is such sweet sorrow.
 
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a cartoon that has never struck such an impact with me. When I first came across it, I was always of the assumption that it will just not appeal to me, as to me and others, most modern cartoons were terrible, and not like cartoons we have seen in the 90s, and 2000s, but when I watched it for the first time, I felt like I had reunited with something. I felt happy, I felt like I had escaped the real world, but most of all, I felt like I had found a purpose…
 
All the wonderful fans, who helped the show and the fandom become the way it has been, had likely been people who have been trying to find a purpose, and they have now become filmmakers and people different then they would have been years ago. Even me. I have would never become the person I have become if it wasn’t for this show.
 
I think the reason we don’t want to see this show end, is because as some episodes have shown, the characters are ageing, and getting older, and the image that still remains in our minds is of the characters when we first met them, before Sweetie Belle’s voice starting growing older, before Twilight became an alicorn, before Spike gained wings. One of the driving themes has long been that, whatever the differences between the members of the Mane 6 team, they were ultimately stronger and better together. They would break apart, but they always came back together. They formed a family, this motley crew. They did terrible things to each other, but somehow always circled back around to each other. That’s how families (mostly) are. They were characters who were like people, and we never connected with cartoon characters on this level before.
 
I know, these are imaginary characters. But they have struck a place in my and others heart’s no other imaginary character ever has, and I’ve been watching cartoons just like most bronies have probably been. I never felt much when it came to other cartoon characters, and the MLP characters were the strongest characters I have ever seen in my life. I think when we see them age, we realised that one day, their stories would have to end. We wish it could go on forever, but just like reality, nothing last forever. But most of all, I think that we can actually be grateful we saw it as it happened; while there will more shows and fan stories in the future, nothing will be like those years of 2010 to 2019. Bear in mind, that all of us were alive to witness this show come into existence, and fall deeply and passionately in love with it, and that we had an amazing, dream come true because it helped define the person we became.
 
It is my firm belief that MLP was not a cartoon or a show, it was an experience that made us connect more with reality. It awoke the child inside us, made us reach out to others, made us fall in love with the characters, and gave us the opportunity to spread our wings.
 
I believe that no matter what happens in future for this franchise, or where it could go, it will continue to spread love and joy, not just in children, but adults who have not realised that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. It will go on, not for 100 years or 500 years, but until the sun burns out.
 
As we embark on the final chapter, it is fine to admit we are heartbroken to see it leave. The task will not be an easy one; a part of our hearts will go with the show when it ends on Sunday. It will be sad seeing the book close for the last time, it will be sad seeing the characters age as they go into their later life. But that is the nature of life. For one moment it is possible to dream that we can go back and start the cycle all over again, back in the show’s first chapter. But we should be thankful instead, that we got to experience it. It would never be the same watching it again, and knowing what is to come, because life is unpredictable, just like how nobody, not even Lauren Faust, expected this show to be such a hit, to revive the MY Little Pony franchise for a new generation, to get it more love than it ever had before, and most of all, to awaken the person inside us, and make our own films. None of us had no idea what we were starting. The first pebble in an avalanche of fan art, fanfiction, cosplaying, fandom, shippings, pairings… We started a legacy, whoever any of us are.
 
MLP is not a cry to cartoon or to silliness. It’s a rallying cry for the awaking of the human spirit. To make people smile and show kindness. All the characters taught us. No matter where we go, whenever we will see an act of kindess, we will remember Fluttershy, whenever we see a generous act, we think of Rarity, whenever we see any act that any of the characters did, we will remember them all.
 
And that how the MLP fandom is, in my humble opinion. It is not a fandom; it’s a family. It’s not perfect, and there are things we can’t give each other, but what family is perfect? What matters is that we are not alone in loving ponies, we accept each other, and our flaws. We may exasperate each other, frustrate each other, and push each other to the point we wish we didn’t have to deal with each other… and then we show ourselves we care by doing something for each other that we can understand and appreciate, telling ourselves that we can get each other even if we don’t always show it. This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning
 
So as Pinkie Pie might say, wipe those tears away, and smile, because one day, down the road, you find yourself moving into a new world. And when you are old, you start sorting through various boxes and drawers, and you discover all of those old photos and mementos. And it is all ponies. And your grandchildren sit on your lap, listening to you describe the show, and they would never understand what it was like, as they were never there to experience it as it happened.
 
We have done our duty, and as I walk of into the new world, I will release my heart to the show that defined me as the person I became. I will never ever watch MLP again, as I want to remember it the way it was before G5. I’m sure G5 will be good, but it will never hold a candle to the prime years of the 2010s. We will never forget the characters that we came to know in G4. And I won’t forget them too.
 
My fellow bronies, we did it. We not only gave love to a show, we made a difference, we made a franchise stronger, we made ourselves known in the show itself, and we left it in good hands, but most of all, we all became a family. All in all, not bad… not bad at all.
 
And so goodbye, take care of yourselves, and, most of all, realise that there is no greater gift then Friendship.
 
Sam Fraser  
March 1, 1998- ???????  
Briton, once a Brony, always a Brony  
#MyLittlePonyFIMForver

@Background Pony #B7BC  
Agreed, but I do hope G5 does well though. Even if it doesn’t carry the same weight as G4

As we approach the end, I will believe that FIM wasn’t just a show. It was an experience. G5 cannot possibly hold a candle to it.

And besides even if this is really intended to be the end, you never know what the future brings. We may see these characters again some day. Look at all those times where something returns many years later (like Toonami after it was cancelled) or those sequels to those movies made decades later with the original cast.
 
Even in a franchise with different versions of the characters, we have seen a specific incarnation of the characters return… Nostalgia sells.

@Background Pony #1FFC  
Like I said, still here. And yeah, some of the fandom might jump ship when the episodes are all aired, but fandoms don’t just die. People don’t just stop loving a thing.

@Darth Shy  
You say it like that’s easy. If it was that easy, I would already have other things to live for

@Background Pony #1FFC  
Show is still available. Still as good as it was. 9 seasons of it.

@Background Pony #1FFC  
Find new interests and move on, you can still have a place in your heart for pony but you need to find more to live for beyond it.

@Background Pony #2481  
But what if it’s the only thing you got? The one thing in your life?  
How are you supposed to get over its end then?

There will always be a My Little Pony, even in 2110, I’ll bet, because of its simple formula, dense mythology, good morals, sharp writing and fascinating characters. One thing’s for sure, the Magic of Friendship will continue to sparkle until the sun burns out.
 
Bear in mind, that all of us were alive to witness this show come into existence, and fall deeply and passionately in love with it, and that you had an amazing, dream come true because it helped define the person you became. Then imagine the show ended abruptly and was forgotten into the category of every show in history – without warning. For many people, the only way they could move forward and overcome the depression and despair over the loss would be to put all of those memories into a box and shove it under the bed. Out of sight, out of mind. Then, one day, down the road, you find yourself moving into a new house. You start sorting through various boxes and drawers, and you discover all of those old photos and mementos. And instead of depression, sadness, and anger, you find yourself smiling, just a little bit.
 
We (fans) are part of MLP’s legacy. We made the show what it was and made it into what it was; we had the opportunity to see it when it was first around. We are an appendage of that history, forever associated with it.

@neo4812  
I Was Joking.

@Background Pony #4A74  
Well said.

@Background Pony #AAEB  
oh man it would’ve cool if that got to air the last ep the same day the first ep aired

So the First Episode is October 10, 2010 and the Final Episode is October 19, 2019.

@Background Pony #4A74  

@Background Pony #4A74  
Agreed full heartily

This show isn’t just a children’s show. MLP is something that should be seen, or at least ignkowleded by everyone. Age doesn’t equal wiser. And gender doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be enlightened on the power of friendship, just because the “theme” is girly. For every person or child that grows up watching this series; hopefully you saw this show for what it was. Hopefully you saw the lessons it teaches you. And hopefully you will use them in your everyday life. This show taught lessons like; toxic friendships, hardships in friendships, happiness in friendships, and the love in friendships. I pity those who make fun of the people that watch MLP, because those are the people who don’t truly see what friendship is, and how it effects you.

Hard to believe an era is ending…