Talk:Derpy/@comment-32136229-20140330184752/@comment-5870562-20140405140550

@Epicalaxy you have it pretty much correct. It's possible there MIGHT have been a real complaint from the public at some point, but nopony will ever know because the ONLY complaint Hasbro has ever admitted to receiving at a corporate level before they altered Derpy was from iTunes as a business, not any individual. AKR stated she got "some negative emails" out of the total response she received but it is unknown if these were ever forwarded to or read by anyone at corporate Hasbro. I think its a safe bet to say that iTunes did NOT care about her appearance because that has remained basically unchanged and continues to be distributed on iTunes. iTunes felt her NAME and her VOICE were offensive, because those are the aspects of her character that were retconned and have not returned in the show. Hasbro itself has never been proven to have any problem with Derpy in her original form, in fact Hasbro VP Mike Vogel at Hasbro seems quite supportive of Derpy, although he never directly names her. I think this is because Hasbro wants to distribute or has a contract to distribute through iTunes currently and into the future. This means if iTunes finds Derpy's name and original voice offensive to the point that they refuse to distribute the material, Hasbro cannot use her name or original voice anymore in the show. It seems like if Hasbro wanted to they could fight iTunes over this and honestly I believe they would most likely win in a legal battle if there is a distribution contract, but they're not obligated to do so. Would be nice though......