There's a 29-part video I know of that I could post (yes, it's something POE-suitable), but I'm scared I'll fuck it up or get an auth error.

While the bronies have strange parts to their fandom, its a very large one. Bronies are really no more strange than other groups of fans on the internet.

"... on the internet."

I see what you did there.

Don't act like you're above this level of dorkiness.

And about twenty feet away from the mic.

Same to you, Cena! Quit fronting and listen to it, Brony!

620,000 words, according to the wiki. Longer than fucking War and Peace.

I hope this eventually becomes the biggest written work in human history, just as an unceremonious "fuck you" to the literary world.

Ask any good author, word count = quality.

It's how anime scripts seem to work. Why say clearly in two words what you can drone on about with a hundred?

Juice: If that's true, then say hello to the greatest work of fiction ever written:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4112682/1/The_Subspace_Emissarys_W orlds_Conquest

3.4 million words. 3.4 MILLION. That means this dude has been going at an average of 2000 words a day for over four straight years.

Some guy wrote 3.4 million words about Super Smash Bros. Really let that sink in.

Ooh, so close, just missed being three times as long as A la Rechere du Temps Perdu

Rememberence of Things Smashed

It's like the Patton Oswalt "Death Bed: The Bed that Eats" bit.

Either this guy had no doubt this was the best thing ever, or he HAD DOUBTS AND WORKED THROUGH THEM.

Having written a 300,000 word Sonic the Hedgehog novel, I can perhaps offer some insight

When you start, you think it's your masterpiece, or you wouldn't do something this fucking crazy. By the time you're about a third of the way in, you start really, really hoping it's not

You're like Nicole Kidman's character in Moulin Rouge, wretchedly hoping that one day you will be a real writer, only instead of being fucked by wealthy patrons you're being fucked by yourself

Oh god, what am I fucking doinBLUDUBUDUBUDUBL NO NO I WILL FINISH WHAT I START

I'd have a hard time coming up with 300,000 words ABOUT Sonic the Hedgehog, much less that many for any kind of narrative beyond multiple pages of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Value your properly functioning human brain

At one point during the relevant period in my life, I got smashed and was later shown chatlogs in which I insisted that the spin-dash was a Jungian symbol of uroborotic incest

During the relevant period in my life, I wrote a Pokemon/Command & Conquer crossover. I don't remember how many words it had in it.

Proud to say that I've never written fan fiction.

I once knew a 15 year who was writing a fanfic for Zelda and was planning to get it published. I mentioned copywrite being an issue and she dismissed it as "this was just so good, of course they'll publish it."

I just looked her up and she's currently unemployed.

Technically, Fallout 3 doesn't end anymore (with Broken Steel, anyway) and you can decide, if you want, to nuke the Citadel.

It's the natural outcome of adolescent sensibilities meeting a childish interest. When a socially maladjusted nerd whose idea of "mature" media consists of gratuitously violent power fantasies finds himself inexplicably attached to lighthearted children's entertainment, it's almost inevitable for him to try to combine the two, wishing to create his own ideal universe to escape into while having no creativity of his own. Basically thinking that a mashup of "stuff I think is cool" is going to produce anything good or valuable.

He just fucking leveled up and chose the Cherchez la Filly as his perk.

I'm sure he just chose that because the 10% damage bonus to the same sex will come in handy in an almost all-female universe and not because he wants to make the ponies have gay sex.

Seriously, we can take the piss out of this thing as much as we want, but I'm sincerely glad the Internet causes things like this to occur.