Bionicles were a popular toy with boys, Fallout and ME were the highest fidelity rpgs you could play your female self-insert in at the time, MLP is a cute show about cute girls being cute, it lands in the same space as moe anime, or things like Jem did for ancient trannies, all it really highlights is that you were comfortable leaning feminine very young.
Everything else is media literate types fellating themselves.