If you don’t know what a “Brony” is by now then I’m assuming that you lead a very fulfilling or, at least, active life away from your computer. You probably read books often and have a subscription to a print news publication. But if I’ve piqued the interest of anyone who has yet to hear about this fascinating community, Bronies are adult male fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. That’s right, brony is another one of this generation’s clever portmanteaus. Friendship is Magic, which debuted on relatively new cable network The Hub in 2010, tracks the magenta, lavender, and baby blue adventures of unicorn pony Twilight Sparkle and her equally cutesy-named hoofed friends (Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity). The cartoon, like its animated film and TV predecessors produced in the ’80s and ’90s, is based on Hasbro’s toy ponies (Hasbro co-owns The Hub) and targeted at little girls. But, as many of us have discovered in the past couple of months, the show’s most ardent supporters are Bronies; 4,000 pony enthusiasts attended Bronycon 2012, a Friendship is Magic fan convention. That enthusiasm has a lot of people confused, but I think it’s exciting.