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Huh, Cracked let me post it. · 12:17pm Aug 9th, 2013
In the event anyone cares, I wrote an article for Cracked that included some offensive material a few months ago. Lately I felt bad enough about it that I decided to post an apology in the byline for my latest article for the site.
Given that I haven't heard a word about it from any angry fans in all that time since, I assume it was mostly water off a duck's back anyway, but maybe some people that hate the community will be surprised by that and reconsider their positions. Probably not though, but it doesn't cost me anything to hope.
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Neat. I read your post on Reddit about this, and I read that article you reference here, but I didn't actually notice the byline was in there. Thanks for doing that! :)
How funny to find out you're a user here! You get my sincere congratulations for being able to get an entire article about bronies past Cracked's editorial team, even though it wasn't particularly flattering.
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You're very welcome. I'm considering just making it a running gag and having that be in all my future bylines.
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I wouldn't say I got it past them. It's more I tried to sell them this mildly self-deprecating article and they pumped it full of bile because that was all the editor for it knew.
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I will say that it was a relief to discover my Vault post about Romance Reports ended up cut from the final article. I did get a kick out of the article overall, but I do wish Cracked would grow up a little and let someone do an honest accounting of the fandom (warts and all, instead of just the warts). Ah well.