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> I will use the power of my old laptop's hopefully still functional hard drive to retrive my old search history 
My little 90s laptop: Technology is Magic ladies and gentlemen.

> Hopefully both.
good luck on that.

> I do wonder of their influence, if much at all
their influences are a lottery, maybe some of them still live in the same bubble as if nothing has changed. 

> I barely run into'em and hardly watch any of there content on a regular basis.
I watched a few around 2015-16. They brought good points that I wouldn´t imagine and I learned a few lessons from them but I doubt I would dedicate as much time to them as I did back in the day. 

> they maybe split into a few different groups.
that sounds pretty realistic before revisiting them.

> Another interesting study would be to see th attitude of those who used to be involved in this fandom but have sense had actual careers take off in the area.
most analysts/musicians that relied on Youtube have left behind MLP in order to grow in a more serious way. If you get to see those youtubers, you will notice that they don´t talk about MLP nor show their old content that much. What I am describing is exactly the same practice as those Deviantart users who delete their account and the pony content is lost unless it is uploaded on Derpi. Or like this edit, someone managed to save the material before deleting it and a copy of it is saved but not from the author himself. 

> Should it just be by websites? But what about generational? How big is the fandom that primarily hangs out on social media and should they be there own group? Would there be a difference between oldfags who were more or less involved from 2011 and 2012 vs reactivated fans who have come just for season 9? So many questions.
indeed. So many that it could be thesis material to report in an organized way.