Okay, I guess I'm gonna just say this directly now.
I was extremely cautious when I first took a look at this show, since I didn't want to be captured by the same force that captured so many other teen and young adult guys.
I watched it, and it was decent, and I was like, "Well, it's ok. Luckily it's nothing I need to go nuts over." And so I concluded that MLP contained no bizarre mind control schemes... and proceeded to let my guard down.
Confound these ponies... they're smarter than I predicted.
Somehow, the ponies didn't strike me with sudden likeability until I let my defenses down and stopped trying to stop them from doing so. Then they struck.
So yeah. Just felt like announcing to my brethren that I am now officially a pony fan, which I guess means I am moving from "Fluttershy" to "Twilight" on that scale back on the first page. Or at least Applejack, until I can forgive them for their underhanded deceptions they used to rope me in.
Then again, I felt the sudden urge to come share my inductment into this weird fad with you people. So I guess I'm halfway between AJ and Twilight.
*Wanders off to ponder whether I should dedicate my life to protecting others from the ponies' evil plots, or tricking them into joining us*