The Viral Video Voyagers

by CassandraMyOCisBestpony

If At First You Don't Succeed... alternate ending

"Maybe next time" said Scootaloo, "I've got an idea too, and it'll work better if it's just me. You understand, right?"

"I guess so." replied Applebloom glumly.

"Great! See ya tomorrow!" she hurried off too, leaving Applebloom standing alone in the corridor. Applebloom stood still and watched her friend go. She leaned against the wall and slid down into a sitting position. For a long while she sat there, sniffling as tears welled up in her eyes.

"Applebloom? What ever are you doing down there?" Applebloom looked up to see Ms. Cherilee standing over her, looking quizzicaly down at her. She noticed Applebloom's tear-streaked face. "Is everything all right, dearie?"

"P-please don't ban us from th' library, Ms. Cherilee!" sobbed Applebloom, "we weren't watchin' lewd videos! Honest!"

"You and and your friends have had several... unusual outbursts the past couple of days. What in the name of Canterlot are you three getting up to?"

She wiped her eyes, "We're tryin'a make a viral video, but nothin's workin! I-it's kid stuff, you wouldn't understand."

"Applebloom, please, give your teacher some credit. Video-sharing may be a new technology, but people have wanted to get famous overnight since the dawn of time, and most of them failed. And the ones that did succeed? Well, they had to work at it for years!"

"Years? But ah want it now!!!" whined Applebloom.

"Walk with me, Applebloom. There's something I want to show you." She led Applebloom over to the audiovisual section and pulled a CD off the shelf. "Do you know who this is?"

"Course ah do, that's Elvis! Mah granny has all o' his records! But he was born with his singin' voice, it was obvious he'd get famous."

"You'd think. But in his early years, many people told him that he couldn't sing, and that he'd never, ever make it as a musician."

"They musta been crazy!"

"Well that's obvious now, but just think about how a kid, not much older than yourself, would deal with that kind of feedback."

"Prolly none too good." said Applebloom pensively, "he'd prolly just give up on music ferever...but he didn't! He kept at it an' now he's one of th' most famous singers ever!"

"Now you're getting it, Applebloom!"

"Thanks fer cheerin' me up, Miss Cherilee! Ah know what ah gotta do!"

"That's wonderful, Applebloom! I'm so glad I could help you."

"Can ah borrow this CD Miss Cheerilee?"

"Of course you may."

"All right!" cheered Applebloom, and she dashed towards the exit.

"Oh, and Applebloom?" called Cherilee.

"Yes?"

"Use headphones."

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"I can't believe it! 50 thousand views in a single day!" exclaimed Scootaloo

"Ah know right! All ah had ta do was make a slideshow of th' lyrics in Windows Movie Maker an' splice in th' song"

"I like how you used a picture of blue-suede shoes in place of the words," complimented Sweetie Belle, "but won't people notice the stock-photo watermarks? Or that you misspelled a word right there?"

"Nah, nobdody's gonna care." said Applebloom, "they get ta listen to some of th' most famous music in th' world! Who wouldn't wanna watch our videos?"

"And just look at all these comments! Elvis for the win....best song ever, they love us!"

"Well girls, looks like we've done it!" cheered Applebloom, "we've finally become internet famous! Viral Video Voyagers, mission complete!" They high-fived.

A week later, the FBI arrested Applebloom for copyright infringement, and she was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Her entire family was ashamed of her, even her dog. Her cellmate, Queen Chrysalis was appalled when she heard what Applebloom had done.

"You disgust me, Applebloom." said Queen Chrysalis.

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Comments

[MistyShineStar]

XD Oh my god.
Only problem with the lyric videos is that nobody gives a fuck about who made it, and don't really care about the video.

[Justice3442]

Hehehe... The ending was kinda mean, but I liked that the little reality check regarding how viral videos worked.

[CassandraMyOCisBestpony]

4267427 they had to have been singing some words in those "gaps" in the song. One purpose of fanfiction is to try and explain unanswered questions from the canon. Saying that EG isn't the real world makes things more confusing, not less - how do they have cars, phones, and computers without Ford, Bell, and Jobs? Did you notice we didn't see Dr Whooves, Photo Finish, or anypony else based on a real person? The inclusion of "Cheese Sandwich" would complicate things immensely, since he isn't a songwriter. My headcanon is that Canterlot High is located in a small town in California where people have a strange obsession with horses, if that's not the case I'll remember it going forward.

Maybe I wasn't creative enough to make this more allegorical, but I used real world references because the material is so obscure that I thought it would confuse people to try and ponify everything.

[Justice3442]

4273564

Equestria Girls fics are kinda weird like that. On one hand it makes sense to use some good ol' earth references so the audience will get the joke. On the other, everyone clearly has names analogous to their Equestria counterparts.

I tend to kind of blend things by trying to use names you might hear from the show but keep the references easy enough to understand in All That Shimmers. Of course all the Dan Vs. stuff is easy since the show itself used real world and fake versions of stuff.

[Alticron]

There's some things you may want to edit.

"Maybe next time." said Scootaloo, "I've got an idea too, and it'll work better if it's just me. You understand, right?"

Applebloom looked up to see Ms. Cheerilee standing over her, looking quizzically down at her.

"P-please don't ban us from th' library, Ms. Cheerilee!" sobbed Applebloom, "We weren't watchin' lewd videos! Honest!"

"he'd prolly just give up on music ferever...but he didn't! He kept at it an' now he's one of th' most famous singers ever!"

"Nah, nobody's gonna care." said Applebloom, "They get ta listen to some of th' most famous music in th' world! Who wouldn't wanna watch our videos?"

Her cellmate, Queen Chrysalis, was appalled when she heard what Applebloom had done.

[KiKo4]

Best ending XDDD

[Pinkra5]

This was really funny

Especially the ending.

[The Blue EM2]

Looks like somebody fell foul of Article XVIII...