Chapter 1
Cease and Desist
‘Knock, knock’
A light tan mare with blue eyes, and a brown mane that was tied in a ponytail with a red headband knocked on a blue door for about the dozneth time that day.
“Button, sweetie?” Love Tap called as she stood in front of the blue door of her son’s bedroom. “I know you’re still upset… Please let mommy in and we can talk about this…”
Love Tap placed her ear against the door and listened, hoping for a different response then the one she got the last several times she had attempted to talk to her son.
She heard the gentle sobbing of the young colt, which was something of an improvement over the tortured wailing she had been hearing for the last several hours.
“Whuaaa… hic… GO AWAY!” Button cried from inside his room.
Love Tap’s ears flopped down around her head and she sighed. She raised a tear stained scroll in her hoof and glanced over it.
‘Dear Button Mash’
We are the council for Ponyville, the organizers and approvers of all events that take place within the city limits.
We write concerning “Summerween: Nightmare Night 2: Nightmare harder.”’
Love Tap paused. She probably should have talked to her son about showing some restraint with the name, but she suspected some of his friends may have ‘helped’ in that department.
‘The event you’re organizing concerns large groups of ponies congregating, musical events, the city being decorated, and other such elements associated with a holiday.
Your copying of Nightmare Night special events infringes on Ponyville council’s rights as stated in bylaw…’
Love Tap sighed and skimmed the numbers and references to laws buried somewhere in the Ponyville charter or wherever the heck such things were kept.
‘Blah, blah, blah… by creating a likelihood of dilution and of confusion to Ponyville’s authorization or sponsorship of or association with your holiday.
We appreciate your enthusiasm, but we must protect our rights as city council…’
Love Tap shook her head and dropped the note. The rest basically a professional sounding, but curt ultimatum. No offer to work things out or come to a common understanding, just a ‘request’ to stop.
The scroll had elected emotions in her similar to those in her son. Sadness, disappointment, anger… Now, she was simply concerned about her son who decided self-imposed exile in his room was the most appropriate response.
Love Tap decided she wouldn’t be turned away so easily at this point. “Button! You’ve been in there for hours! Everyone is worried about you! Apple Bloom, Scootaloo… even Sweetie Belle has been over several times to try to see you…” The fact that Sweetie Belle wasn’t even enough to get Button to open up was of particular worry to Love Tap. Aside from herself, no other pony seemed to so easily comfort the young colt when he was feeling down, but even the young, white unicorn wasn’t allowed into her son’s fortress of solitude.
“I don’t want to talk to anyone right now…” Button uttered out.
“Button, you need to talk to somepony.” Love Tap decided to assert her rights as mother and opened the door to her son’s room. Button glowered at her with puffy, veiny eyes. The colt was belly down on his bed and held a pillow over his head.
“Button!” Love Tap said, adding a little more force into her voice. “You can’t just stay in your room forever!”
“Watch me!” Button replied as he pulled his pillow down over his head.
Love Tap scanned the room. It was clear that Button had done almost nothing but lay in his bed and cry since he gotten the note. The only change she noticed was that his favorite red, yellow, and orange hat with a green propeller was thrown in the garbage. Love Tap trotted over to the small, metal garbage can, took the hat out, and brushed it lightly. “You threw your hat away…” she said simply.
Button sighed. “Who cares?” he huffed out from under his pillow. “It’s not like anypony is going to see me in it again. It’s over...”
Love Tap placed the hat on her own head and trotted over to Button Mash and began gently nuzzling her son.
Button clenched his pillow down around his head with even more force.
“Come on Button, tell mommy what’s wrong…”
“You know what’s wrong!” Button cried from under the pillow.
“I want to hear you explain it to me,” Love Tap said gently.
Button Mash lifted his pillow and looked out at his mom with his red, puffy, amber colored eyes. His cheeks were still soaked and he his face was scrunched up in anger and frustration.
“It’s just… it’s just not fair!” he cried.
Love Tap nodded. “I know, sweetie…”
“I just…” Button took a deep breath as his eyes began to water again. “I just wanted to make everypony happy… that’s all… I didn’t… hic… I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong.”
Love Tap shook her head. “You weren’t doing anything wrong, sweetie.”
“But…” Button’s lower lip began to quiver. “But why then…”
Love Tap slowly raised herself onto her son’s bed and gently took the pillow from the young colt and set it aside. She placed her forehooves down under his arms and helped raise him so he was sitting on his haunches next to her.
“Button, you’re going to do lots of things that you think will make people happy… sometimes you’ll succeed, sometimes you won’t… and often times, you’ll make people happy but things still won’t work out quite the way you would have hoped…”
“…I don’t get it.” Button said simply.
Love Tap paused and knitted her brow slightly as she thought about how to phrase her statement in terms her son would get. “Okay… so sometimes you beat a game but you didn’t get every little thing, so you don’t get the best ending.”
“OooOOOoooh…” Button uttered and nodded in understanding. The colt frowned. “But I was trying to get the good ending!”
Love Tap nodded. “I know sweetie.” She smiled. “But you made lots of ponies happy along the way, that’s what’s important.”
“I guess so…” Button Mash said. He looped up with his mom with sad, hopeful eyes. “Do you think… do you think if enough ponies talk to the city council they’ll let me do Summerween still…?”
Love Tap pursed her lips. “I don’t know, Button. Maybe. Lots of ponies really liked your idea, and I’m sure they’ll make their voices heard.” Love Tap took a deep breath. “But you can’t let this get to you… Maybe they’ll take back their decision, maybe they won’t, but there’s always other opportunities out there…” Love Tap smiled. “You should be hopeful, but remember; you’ll have lots of other chances to make ponies happy and figure out other ways to do it. You’re a very special, talented, interesting, and extraordinary young colt, Button, and you’re capable of amazing things. You just have to believe.”
Button paused. “…That sounds like a cat poster, mom…like… specifically that cat poster that’s down in the basement.”
Love Tap frowned. “Well, maybe it does.” Love Tap smiled at her soon. “But that doesn’t make it less true.” Love Tap smiled warmly at her son and wrapped her forearm around his shoulders. “Look, this will pass and you’ll grow stronger from it. You’re not going to just go and hide in your room forever because of this.” Love Tap’s sapphire eyes began to water up. “You’ll find other things to do, other ways to express yourself, other ways to show everyone you’re a special pony. You’re a very special pony to a lot of other ponies, Button…” Love Tap wrapped her other arm around her soon as tears began to fall from her eyes. She unwrapped her arms from around her son to take the propeller beanie from her head and placed it on her son’s fiery brown mane. “… And you still have lots of time and opportunity to prove it.”
Button’s eyes began to water up again, but instead of crying he smiled and wrapped his own arms around his mother. “Thanks mom, I love you.”
“I love you, too, sweetie.” Love Tap said as she returned the hug.
Button glanced out through the open door. He noticed a red, rectangular, metal item that had been set out in the hall.
“Mom… is that a … gas can?”
Love Tap’s eyes shot open wide. “Shhhhh…” she hushed softly as she slowly relaxed. “Mommy’s comforting you…”
Twilight Sparkle sighed as she trotted slowly through the streets of Ponyville as other ponies screamed and galloped about in a panic. Twilight had become a tad desensitized to panic of the townspeople at this point and decided a calm, collection, and somewhat annoyed response was in order as she approached the city hall which was now engulfed in flames.
“WHAAAA! PANIC EVERYPONY! PANIC!”
Twilight turned as she heard a familiar shrill voice in the crowd.
“Pinkie! Calm down! City Hall is just destroyed… again.”
“Oh!” Pinkie said as she immediately ceased her directionless galloping about to and fro and trotted up to her friend. She giggled. “Heheh… I didn’t know we were having a bonfire at City Hall.”
“Uhhh… I don’t think this was exactly a planned event, Pinkie.”
“Twilight! TWILIGHT!” A light brown mare with a grey mane called out. “This is terrible!”
Twilight nodded. “I know Mayor Mare. Don’t worry, we’ll do-PINKIE! STOP WARMING YOUR HOOVES BY THE TOWERING INFERNO!”
“But it’s so warm and toasty!” Pinkie protested as she held her forehooves out towards the flame.
Twilight sighed and turned back towards the mayor. “I’m sure we can get the weather ponies to get some rain going and...”
“Whoa! What the hay!”
The group looked up as Rainbow Dash approached the burning building
“Don’t tell me someone let Derpy cook in city hall, again!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
Pinkie giggled. “Silly Dashie! Derpy couldn’t have done this! She was making breakfast for her doctor friend!” Pinkie motioned her hoof out to an upright, rectangular blue box like structure that stood several feet above a ponies head and had flames pouring out from an open door.
A light tan stallion with a brown mane and an hourglass for a cutie mark smacked a forehoof against his forehead.
“I’m sorry, Doctor…” A grey pegasus with a blonde colored mane said. “I just don’t know what went wrong…”
“It’s okay…” The Doctor sighed out. “The fire will stop at some point… it always does…”
Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and the Mayor turned back to the flaming city hall building.
“Well… how! I mean… who would do such a thing!” The mayor cried.
“I guess, maybe somepony wasn’t happy the city council canceled Summerween,” Twilight suggested. “I mean… this is a bit extreme but I don’t know very many ponies who were happy about it…”
“WHAT?!” Pinkie cried.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “Summerween was canceled?! But I… I had so many pranks planned and was almost finished with my Daring Do costume!”
“AND I WAS GOING TO GET BAGS AND BAGS OF FREE CANDY!” Pinkie shrieked.
“Uh… I’m sorry girls,” the mayor offered, “but the city council thought the whole day would be confused as an official endorsement of a second Nightmare Night, and…”
“Oh who CARES?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed. “It’s not like it was going to hurt anyone!”
Mayor Mare pursed her lips, “The city has a right to…”
“Ruin the fun of everypony who loves it?!” Pinkie interrupted. Pinkie zipped up to the mayor and pressed her face against that of the light brown mares. “Control the flow of free candy?! Tell ponies specifically when and how they can have fun living in Ponyville?!” Pinkie continued to press her face forward. “What?! WHAT?!”
“Uh…” The mayor backed up a few steps nervously. “Maybe we should talk about this once the fire is put out…” The mayor suggested. “Rainbow Dash, if you could…”
Rainbow Dash sighed. “Yeah, yeah… I’ll go get some sticks and marshmallows.”
“Huh?!” The mayor uttered in confusion. “How does that…”
Rainbow Dash flew off into the sky without another word.
“Ooooo! Ooooo!” Pinkie said as she clapped her hooves together. “I’ll go get some chocolate!” she began to happily bound away from the fire, singing to herself. “Tra-la-la la-la la-la la-la la-la…”
The mayor looked at Twilight with a desperate, pleading look.
Twilight looked back at the mayor blankly. “Hey, girls!” Twilight called out “Wait up! I think we have graham crackers in the library!” she added as she trotted away from the fire.
“What! Twilight!” The mayor protested. “You can’t just… I mean… the city council has a right to protect its interests and…”
“CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS FIRE FIGHTER’S YAY!”
Without warning, a high-powered jet of water fired out, striking the mayor directly in the face. ‘Wharrgarbl’!
“Uh, girls?” Apple Bloom said as she hugged a fire hose tightly with her arms. “I think we’re missing the building by a good several dozen yards…”
“Sweetie Belle,” Scootaloo spoke up as she, too, gripped the fire hose. “You’re supposed to at least aim for the fire!”
“Don’t worry!” Sweetie Belle said small, somewhat sadistic looking grin. “I know exactly what I’m doing!” she asserted as she continued to point the fire hose at the mayor.
The End.
Just a short little story to make me, and hopefully others feel better about recent events.
Please no one set any fires. Concentrate on Love Tap's words, not her actions... 
Thanks for reading and stay strong everypony. C&D or no, Button Mash will continue to live and thrive in all our works. 
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Out of all the JanAnimations C&D satires I've read (all 3, 2 if you count the second was a carbon copy of the first) This is the best one due to it's comedic take on the issue
Heh heh! You go Love Tap!
Awesome and brilliant as always.
Even though it's looking more and more like the C&D did NOT come from Hasbro...BUTTON MASH FOREVER!!
Sweetie Belle you adorably devious little filly.
4119723
Yeah, I've seen some posts to that effect and it looks like it's being investigated.
Still, the desire to put a somewhat positive spin on this won out...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! but i'm still sad.
This is fuckin' hilarious, and random. :3
That was glorious.
You sir are a saint. *wipes tear*Button Mash lives on forever.
...I just somehow gave this fic two thumbs up. I had already clicked it once for it and it went through but then I clicked it again and another thumbs up was added.
What happened?
I haven't heard anything...
Nice Lego Movie reference!
This is why we haven't had an update for awhile?...Time well spent.
4119827
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but JanAnimations got a Cease and Desist over the Button Mash animations.
It may not be genuine and there's a lot of heat from the brony community over this considering the Button videos where pretty much completely inoffensive. There's already some internal investigations in Hasbro about this.
I think it should be dozenth.
Go Love Tap go!
( on that day forward ponies all gather towards city hall on the same day every year to eat s'mores over a burning building.)
I'm gonna miss the videos. They may make new stuff though but still.
Oh my sides! There were too many funnies in that!
That ending was just too funny!
4119842
Whoops! Fixed! Thank you.
The videos have been re-uploaded to Youtube outside JanAnimations channel. Kinda the same deal with Double Rainboom, the videos themselves are sort of impossible to kill.
4119838 NOOOO!!!
I hope it's not genuine. I really liked those videos and characters. I know they'd still live on in things like this, but it would be sad to see all that go. I understand, now, what you were doing with this fic too, and it's hilarious.
Good satire is always appreciated.
4119857 The magic of internet, I'll never lose hope on humanity.
4119857 Wait. I thought Double Rainboom didn't have any copyright problems. Zackary got permission from both Hasbro and Cartoon Network. Did that get a C&D too?
4119959
Not so much C&Ded as politely asked to be taken down after it was up for a bit and their agreement with Hasbro expired, as far as I know.
Yeah, I don't really get it either.
4119918 It is genuine Hasbro turned this into a big cluster fuck real quickly. They keep going on like this and next thing you know it'll be the writers or the musicians turn for a legal beating. Well done Hasbro you opened your asses up for a swift kicking.
F'TANG!
Damn you, Hasbro!~ Klaus from American Dad.
Love Tap strikes again.
4119959
I just looked. Also, a Hasbro VP is looking into the C&D of JanAnimations. 
I just read a bunch of articles.
4119965 It's still up, though.
4120062
It's on YouTube, but not the official site.
The comments here might shed some light on things.
The Lego Movie!
Doctor Who/Whooves!
4120211 Ah. I see. So, there was no C&D. He just decided, for some personal reason, to disown the production as he moved on to "bigger and better" things...
Thanks for making this story. It improved my mood regarding the C&D of Button's adventures.
Another great story--be it a one-shot or a long story-arch. I hope that things work of for Jananimation
4120266
Hehe, yep! I just watched it last night. It's already become one of my favorite movies ever.
4120345
Good, then it did exactly what I hoped it would do.
"So sorry, did not see you there! Or there!"
I am happy now!
4121133
I'm glad the story helped your mood.
I wasn't aware they still made those out of metal.
4119723 oh please... yes, let it turn out to be fake. Hasbro's been fairly cool about fan stuff till now...
But what kind of douchebag would send a C+D like that?
Please, someone tell me that the Janimations have been saved someplace for posterity.
4122096
Pinkiepony, possibly? She's certainly dripping enough joy juice over the whole thing to be a likely suspect.
Not that she's intelligent enough to even BEGIN to fake a C&D letter, but I wouldn't put it past her or one of her asshat friends to try.
4122106 It wasn't her, stop blaming her
4122121 "Stop"? I never started. All I even know about Pinkiepony is that she's one of the most hated drama queens on the Internet and was a chief proponent of the whole APM mess. Since I never even read the Molestia tumblr (or heard of it until it was shut down) I know nothing about it. All I know is that EQD's article (or something linked from there) about the Button Mash thing screencapped a Twitter or something post from her.
Besides, there are literally a million assholes out there who like to mess with bronies just because they have nothing better to do, so it's likely we'll never find out who's behind this, if it wasn't legitimate.
4119723
JanAnimations confirmed it did come from Hasbro. From their YouTube channel -
4122148
Oh well.
4122159
Yeah, I know...
It still doesn't make a whole lot of sense, though. My best guess is that either Hasbro hired a new third party legal firm that got a little overzealous, or this is part of a larger campaign to reign in fan content. The latter seems unlikely unless there's a new chairman or something that reacted especially harshly to a plethora of soccer moms complaining about some clop their kids found on the internet or something along those lines, but you never know.
4122164 I think the former is more likely, given that the VP of Hasbro Studios seemed to not know anything ABOUT this and is investigating it.
4122096
Just like Double Rainboom, quite a few people have quickly mirrored them or re-uploaded them to their own YT accounts.
http://www.fimfiction.net/blog/300738/dont-say-i-never-do-anything-for-you-guys
4122170 Exactly, the appropriate response to internet cencorship of any kind is copy copy copy!
This is a really good one shot story. I really like how it came out.
A few friends and I been picking apart the C and D order, we found something really interesting about it, the Button Mash episode they used as a reference in Pinkie's Pride with the goof off song at the start with Pinkie Pie wearing a hat and moustache (Scene of Button Mash adventures in his mums room months and months before the creation of season four), second they knew of Jan's work for years, DHX even offered him a possible job when they notice his fan made animation of Photo Finish song created by Mandopony, third the order spelt Scootaloo's name wrong, it on there spelt as 'Scootalo'.
Thought I share them to you all ^^
Poor Button Mash.
Dude, I see what you did there.
I haven't even read this...
4122096
From what I understand, youtube itself has recently been sending out C&D letters on the BEHALF of various companies. For example, if somebody uses video game footage, they will write a cease and desist letter on the behalf of the game company that made it. Presumably to cover their asses and get rid of potential violations before they actually even become noticed and become an issue or something.
It's been affecting a lot of people on youtube and NOBODY is happy about it, not even the companies that are supposedly having their copyright violated. A lot of companies write letters to the people affected saying that they never sent any C&D letters because they don't want to step all over people, don't want to be blamed for things they didn't do, and don't condone what youtube does.
My guess is that this was youtube acting on Hasbro's behalf.