Scene: new year 's eve dinner at my parents in law place

Characters: my two kids who lately are absolutely obsessed with the "my little pony: make your mark" show and everything about it, my in-laws, my partner, me.

So, as I said, both my kids are absolutely obsessed with the ponies lately, so we took a couple of figurines to dinner with us. They were telling everyone who every pony was, and suddenly my brother-in-law was "oh wait a second", went to his old bedroom, and came back with a old pony to give to them.

Brother-in-law: here, you can keep it!

My kids, vibrating with excitement: iiiiiiiiiiii this one is not in our show! What's her name???

Brother-in-law: I don't know know anything about it, I got it with a MacDonald menu maybe 15 years ago and it had been in my room since.

Me, without really thinking: oh, that's Rainbow Dash.

Silence.

Everybody staring at me.

My partner: wh.. how do you know that??

Me, embarrassed: I'm from the internet??.

And, everypony, this was why I spent a chunk of new year's eve dinner explaining why I knew the name of a character of a early 2010s kids show I never watched, who the bronies are, what is 4chan, and how everything connects to the downfall of Western democracies to my extended family.