Īfter its creation, the blog began to gain attention from the fan community.
Posting a message containing the word 'pony' became a bannable offense, and this was the final stimulus that had prompted Scotellaro to launch Equestria Daily. Towards the end of 2010, when the fan-following was still in its infancy and confined mostly to the /co/ and /b/ boards of English imageboard4chan, all pony-related content was banned by a moderator who had enough of the flame war that was being waged between those who enjoyed the show and those who did not. He has explained that he believed the show needed a unified fan base at the time, as he and many other older males had recently become supporters of the show – known as 'bronies' – and an overarching concern was that Hasbro would not be authorizing a second season. In order to establish the site, Scotellaro had to cut back on his community-college classes in order to run the site out of his parents' house in Glendale, Arizona. Shaun Scotellaro, a 23-year-old Arizona college student, established the website back in January 2011 to collect fan fiction and news specific to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
