Many of you may already be familiar with this story, but it's gotten so enormous even non-bronies will get a kick out of it.
Back when the premiere episode of the animated series "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" aired, the animators made a minor error and one of the background characters was cockeyed...
Well, some of 4chan's /co/ board adopted her, named her "Derpy Hooves", and created a fictional background for the character. The animators, seeing how popular she was getting behind the scenes, gave her cameos in more episodes. Things changed recently, though; she was given a secondary character role in an episode, where she was called by name, and acted and sounded "derpy".
The fans went wild.
Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, the episode was yanked from TV and iTunes. Fans feared the worst. When it was put back up, it had been edited, de-derping the voice and removing her name.
And now the fans are crying.
Back when the premiere episode of the animated series "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" aired, the animators made a minor error and one of the background characters was cockeyed...
Well, some of 4chan's /co/ board adopted her, named her "Derpy Hooves", and created a fictional background for the character. The animators, seeing how popular she was getting behind the scenes, gave her cameos in more episodes. Things changed recently, though; she was given a secondary character role in an episode, where she was called by name, and acted and sounded "derpy".
The fans went wild.
Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, the episode was yanked from TV and iTunes. Fans feared the worst. When it was put back up, it had been edited, de-derping the voice and removing her name.
And now the fans are crying.
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