>>41976105Look, be honest, /co/ needs this.
They need to, in some way or another, feel that they had an effect on popular media. Anything at all. They need to think that not only did they create this fandom, but they could have killed it if they wanted to.
Because the opposite of that, that /co/ is just another one of hundreds of message boards, and could neither have started nor stopped this, and who's only real contribution was accidentally creating Derpy, is really, really depressing.
Let them have this little victory. This tiny sense of importance. All that will happen is that they will bitch at fandoms. It's a sacrifice worth making.