APRIL FOOLS! Showrunner Reveals Dark Twist for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

This was an April Fools joke… did you fall for it?

Jayson Thiessen, who took over My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic after artistic director Lauren Faust stepped down, revealed to Friendship is Magic fansite FYBRONIES today a dark twist to the popular series to be revealed at the end of the current season: all of the ponies of Equestria are reincarnated humans who died in horse related murders.

“We’re trying to stay true to Lauren Faust’s original vision,” Thiessen explains, “and that vision is that in a previous life, Fluttershy was a young boy who was maliciously trampled to death by Kentucky Derby winner Secretariat.”

Fans are understandably outraged, as this news lands quickly after Michael Bay’s announced intentions to make the Ninja Turtles aliens in his new reboot of the TMNT franchise. Thiessen, however, aims to calm the Pony community: “We have one of the strongest, most loyal and wonderful fanbases on television, and we want them to feel confident that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic will continue to focus on sheer and utter joyfulness and that Twilight Sparkle will continue to learn lessons based on friendship, kindness, and respect, but that now she also has to figure out who killed her in that barn in 1994 and why.”

Lauren Faust could not be reached for comment.