Where Are The Now? The Master List, and How YOU can help


Since the fandom began, there have been many names and faces that have come and gone. Some with dramatic exits, others who have vanished without a trace, and some who just changed their name and were generally lost track of by the fandom at large.
With the announcement that 2019 marks the final year of BronyCon and the knowlege that 2020 may very well mark the end of Friendship is Magic as we know it, Horse News is attempting an investigation, into the fates and futures of the fans that have fallen off the radar, before it's too late.

We asked you, our readers, to make suggestions of who you would like to be updated on from wayback, and you delivered, big time.

We have compiled a list, in no particular order, of the screen-names that people want to know about, and have attached it below.

Many of these names are not "gone" by any means, but have simply stopped producing much in the way of pony-related content in recent months and years.

We make no guarantee that we will be able to provide conclusive, or satisfying answers to all of these names, but we will put all of our collective investigation skills to work to do our best.

How YOU can help:

If you have any personal leads, information, or contact details for any of these names, please leave either a comment, or Twitter DM

You can also ask to be added to the Horse News Discord chat if you wish.

Together, we can bring closure to some of the mysteries of the old fandom, for better or worse.



Here's the list that you wanted to see, and some of the statuses of our investigations. If you would like to add to this list, please leave information in comments.

The My Little Resume Creator - Article Completed
CSIMadMax - Article Complete - Cold Case
PinkiePieSwear
SweetieBot - Information acquired, attempting verification
TheLivingTombstone - Active online, In-contact
Swagberg
Little girl named "Rainbow Dash".
Child named Pinkamena Zecora
The Burdened
NotACleverPony
Jackleapp
LaserPony  - Active online, In-contact
Petirep - Active online, In-contact
DawnSomewhere
Shroo
Filly Funtasia
LPU scammers - Sandi and Eddie - Active Lead, active on Facebook, still somewhere in Vegas.
My Little Porny actresses
ChuckyBB
YellingAtCats
Cast of Bronies Musical
Tirarawhy
Archie / Desso  - Active online, Seeking contact
MicTheMicrophone  - Active online, turned Furry, In-contact
Aviators  - Active online, In-contact
Jin
Final Draft  - Active online, currently working in Japan as ESL Teacher.
SimGretina
KyroSpawn
SoGreatAndPowerful
SixOfLasers
The Brony Network - Ended the Brony Network after 7 years, currently taking a break on social media.
GeneralZoi
PensivePony
The Happiest Brony
Deaf Pony Jesus
Sherclop Pones
Boxxy  - Active online, In-contact
Jenny Nicholson - Active online, Star Wars Vlogger
Yaplap / Solrac
MrPoniator
DawnSomewhere
RobCakeran
Canapplejack
DigiBro
JHaller  - Active online, In-contact
MysteryBen27
CrookedTrees
omnipony (OmniEDM)  - Active Online
AlexS (@Andromulus)  - Active Online
WoodenToaster
Le Soldat Pony
WoodLore
SillyFillyStudios
Peak Freak
Alligator Tub Productions
AcousticBrony (@Official_Remake) - Active Online
MisterDavie
Glaze
Bronyfied
Poni1Kenobi - Active Online.
Veggie55
EquestriasReflection
Kreühn Pöny
Pokehidden
Drawponies
Feather
Purple tinker  - Active online, In-contact
General Mumble  - Active online, In-contact
Sergeant Sprinkles (Creator of Cupcakes)
All Levels At Once
Wind Harmonic (inactive Twitter since 2016)
Assertive Fluttershy - active, in the J-Core and UK Hardcore communities.
D.notive - active, online
Exiark - active, online





What we will be seeking from each of these that we can, is information regarding their current projects, career progression, wellbeing/health, future plans, major life events, and potential reason for becoming uninvolved (or less involved) in the fandom.



Comments (63)

  1. SimGretina's still active. He stopped doing pony music and turned to electro-swing and other stuff. https://www.youtube.com/user/SimGretina

    Jenny Nicholson from Sherclop Pones does Star Wars analysis videos on her channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/JennyENicholson

    And ROBCakeran, really? c.c He's still active in the fandom, guys, c'mon, I was at a convention with him like two weeks ago.

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    1. These are literally just the suggestions that people sent us.
      Many of them are not "missing" in the slightest, but we may still do a "what are they up to?" update

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    2. Well , some got c&ds due to the fact that hasbro shut some down and others moved to other places , You can ask some from derpibooru for this info

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    3. On that note CienmaQuestria is still up despite it getting a C&D over 3 years ago. They seem to have a discussion show called Equine Episode Examination and still streams other content outside of pony.

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  2. I sponsored the My Little Porny film and sent a few emails back and forth with Cupcake who played Pinkie in that dire abomination. You might be able to contact her via http://harleesyn.tumblr.com/ if she still uses it.

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  4. Good news! MisterDavie is still animating on commission, though it would seem very quietly. His most recent: https://youtu.be/Q5wkxOVrfEs

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    1. So maybe there's still hope we'll get Rainbow Factory HD?

      Also was it ever confirmed if it was Hasbro that got his stuff yanked or someone impersonating them?

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  5. I have read about it, but Sprocket and Lavender confirmed to me that Peak Freak was forced to delete his stuff by his record label. No info what is his non-pony handle, though. If anyone knows that, it would be good to add it.

    https://imgur.com/a/9tPGmvP

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  6. Bronyfied is still active online under the name "Nirre".
    He does videogame music covers on this channel:
    https://www.youtube.com/user/Nirrepwn/videos

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  7. Some others I can think of:

    RainShadow - Still active uploading bgm from the show

    Foozogz - Appears to still be active occasionally online.

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  8. I've seen pokehidden on e621 every once in a while, so he's still drawing.

    Dawnsomewhere became an animator and comic artist all while starting a family!

    MysteryBen27 is animating videos with Mystery Skulls, and that generated it's own fandom.

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    1. pokehidden goes by pokefound now apparently

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    2. Not true at all, two different people entirely, pokehidden disappeared. Pokefound is an imitation artist.

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  9. Swagberg is still somewhat active as a hip-hop artist. His bandcamp page is ziegler.bandcamp.com . Not much in the way of new releases since 2015, but his facebook page (Link found in the page above) got a few updates this year.

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  10. Oh man, I missed a call to action about making a list, I would've liked to know where the BeatleBronies have been for a while, they just uploaded some old convention footage but no music in forever.

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    1. BRONYMIKE, hit me up on discord or wherever you can find me, it's been forever.

      As for the Beatle Bronies, lets just say they might have an "Active" next to their names soon (if they were on this list asdf).

      As for individual members:
      P1K - Stayed in the fandom making music
      qD - pursued his own music
      ED - pursued his own music
      Hergest Ridge, Osoth, and DreamHuk dropped off the face of the earth.

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  11. Tirarawhy is still making shit. A simple Google search could have told you that.
    Don't for get to donate to their Pateron.

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    1. Isn't Tiarawhy at least tangentially tied to spookitty and the Pony Tale Adventures project?

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  12. DrawPonies is alive as ArtWork-Tee nowadays (on dA), but they dropped trac-... drawing colorful micro equines. They comment and are online everyday.

    Veggie55 disappeared from DeviantArt, which was his main base of operation, deactivating the account, and moved to YT at Veggie449, but is not too active.

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  13. Dawnsomewhere is is still very active; Though through youtube algorithms and plateauing view counts, Greg has changed vehicles and is wrighting comics, three at the moment. Steb boy hotdog, which he draws. Simiantelligent, drawn by Pencils. And Kit's Orphanage, drawn by Copy(I'm sure that's her handle).

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  14. Dawnsomewhere was supposed to be working on the Nepotism Adventure Series, effectively a sort of finale for MAS/RDP before moving on to other things, but Greg appears to have lost interest. No surprise there as he vocally admitted his nose diving interest in MLP and creating pony related content.

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  15. Does anyone ever know what happened to AskPaletteSwap? She was a good friend, but just COMPLETELY dropped off the earth back in 2016, not a peep since, even under non-pony username or content.

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  16. Brony Network is not technically dead, it's just been rebranded to [BN]. You can still access the stream for pony here: https://cytu.be/r/bntheater

    The Discord group explains the situation a little more.

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  17. this big gay sucking horse cock lmao
    with your gay horse celebs

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  18. So I dug through my heaping pile of all things pony and I've got quite a handful of peeps to add to the list who either haven't been mentioned yet or not currently listed.

    I'm mainly interested in finding out what happened to the following folk: oodorato2, Aftermath, FraGmenTd, Echelon, Infinity Dash, StormWolf, LookoutLondon, olibacon, PhonyBrony, Psycosis, PWaaMLPfim (Jenna Artemis), shiropoint, ThatSonofAMitch, TheSaltlakrits, TheSlutfox, TripleBlueShell, and Underpony.

    Pretty much all those I listed above haven't been active in a few years or have deleted their channels so it would be nice to have some light shed on what's going on with them.

    Also, even though she's on the list already, I too would love to know what happened to NotACleverPony, as her music served as a gateway for me when I was joining the fandom.

    I was gonna list some extras but I feel I've already provided more than enough for thought. May post them later as things progress.

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    1. Not that this matters much, but I'm still around... I pretty much just lurk these days though. Unfortunately I just don't have nearly as much free time as I used to. Back when I was in college (and while unemployed for a while after...) I had tons of free time to dedicate to pony stuff. But in 2014 I started my first full time 9-5 office job and have been working full time ever since, and I now have even more IRL responsibilities and stuff, so I sadly just don't have much if any time for MLP stuff anymore. I'd still *like* do to Pony related stuff. But it's very difficult to make it a priority these days.

      As for NotACleverPony, there used to be a detailed goodbye post on NotACleverPony's deviantart page, but it looks like that account has been deactivated. There's most likely a screenshot or something somewhere.

      Personally I don't plan on taking down my uploads or deleting my deviant art stuff, etc. It annoys me when other people do that, and I feel like it's kind of disrespectful to the fans, but I suppose people have their reasons for doing so.

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    2. Hey, I'm just glad to hear you're still alive and doing well. Life does take priority after all though so I understand that. Your work undoubtedly helped a lot of folk out with their videos back in the day. Heck even giving people instrumentals and things from songs we loved in the show so thank you for all that and for keeping it up on your channel to this day.

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  19. Yeah dude Oodorato2, great suggestion, isn't he Japanese?

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    1. Judging by his video titles I would assume so, he didn't really have a social presence so his abrupt disappearance has me wondering.

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    2. Looks like he last uploaded in January on his niconico page. The last few songs are not pony related.
      http://www.nicovideo.jp/user/8374852/video

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  20. donglekumquat

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av3ZhqGwwAE

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  21. You have DawnSomewhere twice on your list. Also, WoodenToaster is the same guy as Glaze.

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  22. Can we add RainbowBob? I miss him :,(

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  23. what about "The Decedent"? a writer on fimfic.

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  24. Great article and interesting, thank you for sharing.

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  25. What about the people who did Dusk's Dawn?
    Makes me wonder what happen to the people who got involve in it?

    Also, remember JennaBunVA? All I remember her is that the last time of her existence, she voice LUNA on Dinkey's Destiny(The most wasted animation). After that she suddenly disappear. like a snap with a finger and *Poof* GONE.

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  26. how you gonna ask where final draft is without asking where silver eagle is

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  27. Ashley Coulter AKA Buttercup Saiyan AKA ignominious (@BCSart) AKA watercolorheart AKA whatever she's calling herself this week.

    I know she's had troubles, not really into MLP much any more (last pony thing she did was over a year ago, of course it was a porn animation), seems to be concentrating on SFW art and indie game development now.

    Would be cool to have some sort of update/retrospective.

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  28. I know The Burdened. He auctioned that suit for charity years ago. He got four figures for it.

    He's still a fan, but he got married a few years ago. He and his wife have kids now, and they're both working professionally, so he's not into doing fan works much any more.

    He and his wife are pretty cool people, and some of the nicest people I know. He takes the failure of the suit well.

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  29. What about Mandopedo?

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  32. Where is carbon Maestro?

    Almost 3 years without any news of him

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  33. Lets see...

    Redd Pony had nuked his channel about a year ago, his music archive can be found in the description box on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRjIPDpcHNc


    Flutter Rex, (maybe) its been a year since he posted anything, so maybe he's really drawn out about it. https://www.youtube.com/user/FlutterRex

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  34. DigiBro is still very much active online. He is just focused on anime now.
    One example video - His channel.

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  35. https://thesassyjessy.tumblr.com/
    She said she'd be back.
    She wasn't back.

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  36. Here's some names for yah (as if you didn't have enough):
    AgileDash
    F3nning
    Flaedr
    Griffinilla
    Toastwaffle
    Jeffthestrider
    Jeff Burgess
    Cherax Destructor
    Makkon
    Nicolas Dominique
    Princess Addictia
    Metajoker
    Replacer
    Rhyme Flow
    Sci
    Thorinair
    Seventh Element
    Underpony
    Voodoo pony
    5 copy

    I'm sure some of these are already listed/mentioned while others are still quite active, but I've been out of the loop for quite some time, so forgive me my lapse of awareness if you'd be so kind. And man, going through my old ipod and picking these names out brought back a flood of memories. We've had some great talent come and go.

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    1. >Jeff Burgess
      He went tranny and publishes now under name "Just Fern": https://www.youtube.com/user/vulpicidefilms/videos

      Speaking of old fandom names, would really like to know what happened to Cats Milly though.

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    2. Princess Addictia has resurfaced as Superplastic and they recently put out a couple of pony tracks to boot. Replacer is still quite active in the fandom, particularly in the Ponies at Dawn collaborative album project. I last saw Seventh Element at EFNW this year so he's still around as well.

      That's what I know off the top of my head anyway.

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  37. Oh man...
    If you manage to crack Woodlore’s case I’ll throw you a party.

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  38. Don't forget to mark The Burdened as done.

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  39. Crookedtrees changed monikers a few times. He goes by cassetterecorder now. @cassettedraws on twitter.
    But he hasn't drawn anything MLP-related for a long time, he isn't as active or public as he used to be either.
    If you manage to get more info on him, it would be nice.

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  40. NotaCleverPony was a friend of mine back in the day, and the reason I got into the fandom, right alongside him was Makkon. NaCP was suffering from many problems then, and I heard he transitioned into a woman named only as "Sarah". Makkon would know more, but good luck getting it out of him.

    "Sherclop Pones" was a the duo of Jenny Nicholson and Griffin Lewis, both of which are successful on the internet now. Jenny's a Star Wars vlogger, and Griffin Lewis runs a gaming channel called "Fandroid: The Musical Robot"

    Yaplap/ Solrac is living in LA now, and is currently seeing former Pony VA "Missbunniswan". Trying to get into CalArts last I spoke to him.

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  41. Now whatever happened to Duo Cartoonist?

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