Thanks for watching this pretty short history of PMVs! While you're here, consider joining my Discord server! It has many other like-minded obsessed MLP fans in there! discord.gg/7KCGRQwrNb 💯

@RudolfJelin

9 ай бұрын

"Pretty short" 💀 More like "epic in length"

@tsunsu

9 ай бұрын

Grate history lesson short but good. Amv pmv Pmv Sfm pmv All things are grate and certainly something new has been lerned. This was cool ty. /)(\

MLP Music Videos are the reason why that got me interested in the fandom and it inspired me to make one 😔💕

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

That's really awesome to hear they got you interested in the fandom lol. Glad you enjoyed the video!

I remember when I was so obsessed with MLP and I would spend endless hours just scrolling on my Dad’s computer watching PMVs and Fan Pony content. I still love them so much

I've seen many non-bronies, no matter how much they dislike MLP, always give a credit for the good songs this fandom has

PMVs were the gateway for an immeasurable amount of bronies both active and inactive. They certainly were for me, and you mentioned the specific one by name that sent me down this now 12 year journey of equine obsession. I think we should dub you the official fandom historian based on how much collective nostalgia you've induced with your videos.

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

PMVs definitely were a gateway for an incredible amount of pony fans alike. I humbly accept the title of fandom historian :P

@banquo0

10 ай бұрын

@@lazyst9417 PMVs in this context are Pony Music Videos. If you watched this video at all, you would know that.

@lazyst9417

10 ай бұрын

@@banquo0 well the video is an hour long and I don’t have my headphones so I just added it to watch later and searched up what pmv meant and that’s want it showed online Ben when I searched mlp

@SunIsLost

10 ай бұрын

Yea

@SunIsLost

10 ай бұрын

​@@TobbyMLPyep :P

Honestly ever since I was a child and still into these days I never could stop being amazed at how many talented people that truly love the show and being a part of the fandom MLP has united! And just how much dedication, appreciation and love was always put in any project, be it big or small, edgy or cute, simply written down one evening or turned into a multiple years project! Many of these videos inspired so many more people to create their own content and it's absolutely incredible how many creative paths people took, whether the result ended up being heartwarming, heartbreaking or an absolute mess of a silly (and enough of them pretty violent/disturbing) meme lmao Lately I often think how people usually look weird at you if you as an adult say you enjoy a cartoon about funny colorful horses, and that may upset and make one lose their confidence for it seeming "too childish", but thinking about how many adults contributed and still make literally legendary content and how many younger people and begginer artists had their first spotlight with MLP content, it just shows how actually mature this fandom can be for being based on a cartoon mainly meant for gils of the age of like 8-12 wlhfvbwljhfbv (And we're not even talking about when the cartoon starts to introduce insanely serious topics itself) Still, many of these vids bring mack massive nostalgia, for me personally it was also a Hijo de la Luna PMV that I watched like every day back then and also the amazing works of Dawn Somewhere and Sherclop pones, don't know how much they'd suit in as PMVs, but there certainly are ponies and there certainly is music in the videos hnnhn Also thank you for another video, it was a blast to watch, as always :]

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I think some of Sherclop Pones's stuff could probably be considered PMVs, and I definitely agree with you on Starlight :V

what a literal THROWBACK!!! Possibly my fondest memory of the fandoms of early internet days were AMVs/PMVs, and I loved the ones you mentioned but the Twilight Satisfaction pmv is one of my favorites along with the PMV of Applejack to one of the earliest mlp songs dating to G1, Who's a silly pony. One not mentioned is also Little Talks PMV with Applejack and Braeburn as it literally introduced me to the song by Of Monsters and Men.

Oh my god I totally forgot about the sad my little pony video. I used to sit and cry to that video so often. XD

the mlp songs both of the fandom and the show it is why I found my love for music and different type of songs: Electronic/Dancepop/Dubstep/Funky/Electroswing and Melancholy songs

Honestly PMV's were easily one of my main driving forces for joining, and staying in the fandom! Like despite the fact I didn't grow up watching the show, I get really nostalgic seeing some of the PMV's people made in the past. Especially that particular 1000 years PMV, and PMV's of Lukas Graham's "7 Years", and Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" made by "Lucinda MorningStar". I'm very much a sucker for late 2000s, and early 2010s KZread content!

A new pair of wings was a very fun pmv

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Yup, it's pretty good

This is incredibly lovely! 1.5 hours of PMV commentary 💖 It's definitely sad that G5 hasn't had the same PMV trend going on as G4 did, but PMVs were indeed a reflection of the state of the fandom, especially 2015 when the show and PMVs were at their peak. I was a contributor on the old PMV Today website and the reason it died out was also just a reflection of why we did PMVs in the first place too, that is the burning passion we had we doing cool things with the tools we had available and the canvas of ideas MLP G4 gave which had run its course unfortunately. I'm still so glad to see PMVs have carved this little subcommunity of the fandom, because it gave us all a space to inspire one another and share neat techniques and story ideas. I would like to also mention PMVs not on this list that are made by MrDeLoop! They're well known for creating the original Discord PMV, and many others that focus on the simple yet masterly edited clips of the show. Thank you Tobby for taking all of us back on this journey 😊

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

I'm really glad you enjoyed this, and thanks for your insight for the PMV Today stuff! In hindsight, I also probably should've mentioned something from MrDeLoop in here too, but either way, thanks for the kind words!

This video has given me a lot of nostalgia

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Glad to know you enjoyed it :D

I watched many PMVs back then. My favorites were Brony Polka, Beat It, and Don’t Mine at Night. The latter is still an absolute bop as I can’t keep it out of my head lol. Excellent deep dive on the history of those PMVs Tobby!

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Thank you :D

There is another very popular sub-category you didn't mention. You could best describe it as the "Flashy Effects-PMV Style". Back then, I was the most popular PMV creator in this genre ("Breezy Blue"), so I can give you a little insight. So basically, all creators in this genre were young girls, which defined the video content a lot. Nobody was older than 15, most of us were 8-13. What made this genre unique was that it was all about adding lots of color corrections, blurs, flashes and transitions over clips from the show. It was not really about a deep story or message, like classic PMVs, but rather about nice to look at pop music PMVs that were fast-paced. Most of us used Sony Vegas for this, in combination with add-ons like Magic Bullet Looks and NewBlueFX. The songs we would use were mainly nightcore songs, especially pop songs that were popular at the time (often inspired by Chipmunks or MovieStarPlanet music videos). The PMVs would either focus on ships, or on popular antagonist female characters from S1-4 and Equestria Girls, like Sunset, Sci-Twi, the Dazzlings, Trixie, etc.). At the time, most of us didn't know English very well, so a lot of the videos didn't really match with the content of the songs. This was also a unique aspect of this genre. We would upload multiple times a week, unlike the older PMV community. Collabs within our own subgenre were also a very popular thing. As you can imagine, our target audience weren't classic bronies, rather just other young girls. But despite that, our videos were very popular. Each video would make around 80k-300k views, and they would often get hundreds of comments. The reason why most of our videos aren't online anymore is that, well, we were so young at the time. People from our schools would find out about our channels, and bully us for liking MLP. As a result, some of us stepped away from the show. Others stopped uploading because they were disappointed that Sunset Shimmer didn't return to Equestria, that she wasn't officially an alicorn, that Trixie didn't appear again in the show, and that the Dazzlings weren't in Equestria Girls 3 and 4. Our subgenre didn't really make beyond 2016. There were several reasons why everybody stopped making videos, but it was often connected to real life stuff. In my case, it was just that people from 4th grade knew about my channel, but I know from some other creators who were a few years older than me that they actually had mental issues at the time. It might also be worth to mention that our subgenre was also part of the speed-edit video and Instagram manip community. It was basically one large group of people who all did similar things. If you need examples for these types of PMVs or Instagram edits, I have all my content on private, but I can send you them if you like. Another creator, MLP Lights, is one of the few people who still has her videos online. You can also check her channel. I hope this was interesting to you, have a great day.

@TobbyMLP

9 ай бұрын

That all sounds very interesting, thanks for sharing your knowledge about it! I believe I may have stumbled across one or two videos similar to what you're describing when I was researching stuff for this video, but I didn't know it was an entire subgenre or anything.

Ever thought of doing a video on Kyrospawn a mlp clip channel that honestly disappeared after s2 and he had a huge impact on the early fandom

@TobbyMLP

9 ай бұрын

I think it could be interesting. Though I'm not sure if it would be interesting enough for an entire video, but I could probably mention it during smth like a video about early-fandom videos in general.

YAAY!! 1 hour+ story video from my favourite mlp content creator. Happy to watch it!

As someone thats been making PMVs since 2012 (still going strong uwu) It's such as shame that they barely have any relevance anymore. My most popular one has just over 750k views, (which was 2015) now I'm lucky to break 5k. Also, my favorite one definitely has to be Lullaby for a Princess, which is a coincidence since I changed my name to Loona a couple years ago :3

I'm EXTREMELY late to the brony thing, so videos like this help me get a better understanding of what the community has come up with over the years. Thank you so much!

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

You're very much welcome :D

I’m so happy you mentioned the toy pmvs at the end of the video!!! I used to make those when I was younger and it was probably the section of the fandom I interacted with the most, it’s nice to see it mentioned outside of mlp toy creators! Awesome video dude 😁

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Thanks and I'm glad you liked the video! And yeah, not a lot of people mention toy creators outside of the toy creator space, so I thought it would be good to mention them here.

Don't Mine At Night was a parody of a Minecraft parody, which itself was a parody of a Katy Perry song.

@TobbyMLP

9 ай бұрын

Parodyception

I'm watching this video and discovering some pmv that I hadn't seen at the time, and I came across the garden which surprised me for having a remixed Brazilian song, and it kind of changed my feeling for the lyrics which are totally different from the clip, but I was happy because it is difficult even here in Brazil to use some music for this type of video even if it is very good for a music video

A lot of my favourites present here, glad to see Racecarghost have a mention in there, their rendition of Innerpartysystem’s “Don’t Stop” is my all time favourite PMV! 💕 (aside from all PMVs of Starlight, of course ✨) Glad to see a mention of live action PMVs here, though I am surprised you missed out SillyFillyStudios’ “Daylight’s End” - very iconic!

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! I think a SillyFilly mention would've been cool too now that I think about it lol.

I really want to explore and watch more of these and this video definitely helped, but also did a great job showcasing so much the vast world that is PMVs. It is incredible how many they are, really. Also, one of my favorites ever is the music video that acompanies ANTONYMPH, by Vylet Pony, very wonderful video.

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree, Antonymph is pretty awesome.

I do recognize some of them, especially the more popular one, but it was really cool to see bit of the mlp internet history! i'm always interested in the 2010's internet history, since I was bit active back then even tho I was younger i still have some nostalgia to it. this must've took so much research huh

Thank you for making this! It took me over 3 hours to watch this hour and a half video, because I kept pausing it to watch the PMVs you were highlighting!

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

You're very much welcome!

I made a bunch of PMVs myself back in the day. Admittedly, most of them weren't very good, but I did get one of them featured in one of Equestria Daily's Simple PMV round-ups which was really cool.

This is a really well put together documentary of PMVs. You covered most of the landmark videos. It's a shame so many have been deleted. People today take for granted modern PMVs. But when you realize the software they were working with 10+ years ago those old videos are very impressive. The Magic PMV by MadameLeFlour for example was made in Sony Vegas which isn't even animation software. Thank you for this walk down memory lane.

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! And yeah, I noticed when editing that the Magic PMV was made in Sony Vegas, which made it even more impressive lol.

So this was that hour and a half video you mentioned in lerovuns stream

PMVs are friends of mine ❤

@TobbyMLP

10 ай бұрын

PMVs are friends of mine too 💯

@Mr_Some1

10 ай бұрын

PMVs are friends of mine ❤

I still listen to all of these religiously

4k likes. 1,221 views.

this is a pretty interesting topic to look into. great video!

Very interesting video, and you have serious editing skills, so fun to watch! Thank you! :)

I am huge fan of mlp always will be

I love all the time placed into making this video. Very informational. Thank you.

damn, i never got to experience any of this lmao

12:25 oh yes!

at first i was put away from watching this vid cause its hour long but it passed to quick so ummm good video

My favorite PMV is Usseewa

It is strange that there is no mention of Cupcake HD

Still mad pps had to blur the flutterwonder video

@TobbyMLP

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's a real shame :(

1:23:05 yea

1:24:25 yea

Grate video and a happy one to. Ty. /)(\

9:08

why am i banned from the pony place

@LongTailCat3

9 ай бұрын

i woke up and it was gone, isk what i did

@TobbyMLP

9 ай бұрын

The staff team decided that you were being exceedingly annoying and rude to other members of the server for petty reasons despite being warned several times to stop.

@LongTailCat3

9 ай бұрын

@@TobbyMLP sorry

@LongTailCat3

9 ай бұрын

may i please have another chance

@LongTailCat3

9 ай бұрын

i didnt realize i was being annoying

I was kinda surprised to not see Discord.pmv and Strangers.pmv, howeevr you did say you wanted to forcus on a few most influential. However, what really is a crime is that you didnt mention 4efb at all! This guy is legendary and well known in the fandom!