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That is mighty impressive. Good work.
Impressive detective work there.
Of course having fan names that match (Doctor WHOOVES and Derpy HOOVES) helped. as did the Doctor Whooves and assistant audiobooks.
originally, he Doctor was paired with Twilight for a companion. This took of enough to birth a few pictures, some fanfics and the Doctor Whooves Advantures audio series.
Then we got Doctor Whooves And Assistant which as far as I remember was one of the first “big” things to associate th two characters with each other.
The some time in 2011 June we got some more shipping pictures, for example I’m pretty sure this was one of the first ones:
http://turbojuk.deviantart.com/art/Stallion-and-Wife-212710851
(if you go to the DocxDerpy DA group you can actually follow it quite well).
There were actually a few pieces of Derpy stalking the doctor before, but these were humorous and one-sided (with the Doctor being unwilling). It was during June-Dec 2011 that people started shippin them hard.
I think that it definitely helped that people wanted a stable father figure (even if surrogate) for Dinky too.
I may be giving too much credit to saturnspace, ’cause there are no traces of her activity (her tumblr starts with a mass upload in 2012 Jan), but I could swear that art like this one started a good half-year earlier. To me the reason she was so important was not just because she showed Doc # Derpy going the whole way being intimate (I think Dr Whooves was a more distant, outsider type, cameo character) but because she reconciled the Dinky x Sparkler crisis in the fandom after Sisterhooves Social by simply drawing them consistently alongside each other. Obviously it is bad to credit a single artist with this, there were actually a lot of people on in this at every step and I wish I could credit them all. But saturn may I think have made the most pictures on the topic.
And well, from then on it was pretty obvious development with Doc and Derpy being in the top 10 most popular BG ponies.
And of course new fans after that, like post mid-2012 just took the idea whole as they did the rest of our pony memes.
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I belive it is a combanation of all these factors together, with some reasons more important than others for each individual.
Three years? You mean the animators shipped them for some eight months before the show premiered? That’s gotta be an academy record!
Also, there’s this from Heart and Hooves day