Talk:Derpy/@comment-98.91.30.102-20120327232202/@comment-89234-20120328014212

Could someone please tell me when the "Save Derpy" website was first created? It sounds like it was established back when people thought there was a risk that Derpy would actually be removed from the show.

As it is, the letter from Amy Keating Rogers is now on the front page, it says up front that they now know why the edit was made, and they only hope that Hasbro won't go overboard and remove her from the show. I believe it's been there for a few weeks now.

Fortunately, we now have it on good authority, from multiple sources supported by several of her ususal cameos, that Derpy will not be removed from the show.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the idea of "Save Derpy" was founded on the fear that Derpy might be removed from the show and needed to be "saved" -- not that she needed to be "saved" from having a different voice and mostly (even then, not entirely) un-derped eyes in one scene to avoid looking like an unintended caricature of mental retardation.

The former has been laid to rest. The latter is kind of a stretch, and I think that the rallying cry of "save Derpy" might have contributed to how so many users still talk about Derpy being "removed", "killed", "pulled", "cut", "erased" or "deleted", when none of those things have happened or will happen to her.