For example, 80% of the posts here are by 1 person.
Yet 22,000 of the views are not.
This thread has 44 views per post. ATOT may not be into collecting and posting pics of ponies, but they do seem to enjoy looking at them.
For some reason claiming that a fictitious pony is your wife seems a lot more creepy than claiming a fictitious human female is.
It's said as a humorous in-joke, genuis.
Everyone daww's at Fluttershy, so saying 'Fluttershy is mai waifu' is just a shorthand way of saying, "I ,too, have watched the series and find that Fluttershy is moe as hell."
Using tags as light by-play is a well-established meme on Anandtech.
It ain't the rest of the world that's gone down the tubes, it's just you who've fallen way behind the times.
Catch up or get back to your soap operas and prune juice, grandma. You can pronounce that your static frame of reference is the only frame of reference, but the rest of the world is just gonna keep moving along, paying you no mind.
Now for more ponies!