I was one of the first people who started the MLP fandom 'meme'. Yeah, that's how it all began; Me and some other fellows from /co/ IRC thought it would be funny to pretend to like MLP, a random kid's show. We didn't think too hard about it, we figured it harmless fun. How couldn't we at the time? But we should have considered what potential damage this would cause if it really worked. Not just to 4chan, but unbeknownst to us, eventually the entire internet. It wasn't long before people started taking it seriously and giving MLP a chance, and what do you know, people who actually ENJOYED this fucking kid's show emerged. We were stunned, and the joke wasn't funny anymore. We had to stop things before it got out of hand. Unfortunately, they spread like cancer. Even after ending our involvement the MLP trend grew and grew, we couldn't prevent it. It engulfed the board and soon 4chan. We even tried coming clean about the troll we made, but it was too late, and we were ignored or called trolls (ironically).

I'm sorry /v/, I really am. A day doesn't pass by where I don't cringe and hate myself for what I did. Those friends I mentioned I can't even speak to anymore, since they ended up giving in to the trend and becoming ponies themselves. This has all made me uncomfortable enough that I'm considering moving on from the internet. But before I do this, if you could somehow see it in your hearts to forgive me I would appreciate it. But even if you do, the damage has already been done and there's no way I can make up for it, and that will always haunt me.

Sometimes I wonder, if we hadn't did what we did, could this all have been avoided? I wonder...