Night Glider, Party Favor, Sugar Belle, and Double Diamond were all sitting around a fancy desk in their computer chairs, doing nothing. Cameras pointed at them, but no ponies operated them. Usually at this time, they would be speaking about current events and the commentate on the news, but no one was watching, so they had given up even trying. The Young Equalists was no more.
"Just to think....nopony trusts us anymore..." Sugar Belle sniffled. "And I just started to like being a morally-driven journalist."
Party Favor slowly spun around in his chair. "Well, when the pony population loves to consume lies from Celestia, it was bound to happen."
"It's Bullshit!" Double Diamond slammed a hoof on the desk, leaving a small dent that had been getting deeper every time he did so.
Night Glider leaned back in her chair. "We're like, the best news on the internet and TV. I mean, c'mon!"
The quieted down, not knowing what to do next. Starlight, their leader, was still doing time from her act of impersonating a police officer. So like any leaderless bunch of hive-minded followers, they could not do anything for themselves and had to wait for her to return to give further orders.
"With nopony watching, who is gonna know 'bout the oppression of pegasi?" Night Glider grunted.
"Or that Celestia is literally King Sombra?" Party Favor added.
"Or that unicorns are like, the absolute worst?" Sugar Belle whimpered.
"Or that Celestia's followers have been faking all the riots to make equalists look bad?" Double Diamond huffed. "I mean, they are right? Ya know, dressing up and beating everyone up? Our side would never do that, right? I'm right? Right guys?"
"Yeah yeah..." they gave approval in the slowest, most pitiful way possible.
Once more, the deafening silence returned. They all looked at each other, waiting for something to happen. Nothing did of course, as that would mean they were able to do something on their own.
"I can't believe we're losing views to a cartoon frog..." Sugar Belle sighed.
"I can't believe ponies don't believe us when we warn them about the Dragons..." Party Favor grumbled.
"I can," Night Glider growled, "cause they're stupid. They know we're better than them, so they jus' don't listen to us."
"Maybe we should...I dunno...try to earn their trust back?" Sugar Belle piped up to the annoyance of her comrades. "I mean, we haven't been unbiased in our reporting."
"Just shut up, Sugar Belle," Double Diamond yelled. "We have done all of our reporting with complete integrity. We are not biased at all."
"Then why are we called The Young Equalists?" she retorted.
The other three did not answer. Not until Night Glider furrowed her brows.
"That has nothing to do with anything, Sugar. Stop being an idiot."
Sugar Belle just nodded in submission. "Oh...alright guys."
And then, something amazing happened. Just kidding. They still didn't do anything. What, you think they would learn? Pfft! Haha!
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