Behold and Beware: It’s Cupcakes, the Animated Story
So. You guys remember that My Little Pony fan fic titled “Cupcakes” that a variety of people keep trying to get me to run in FFF? Well, if you have been desperately wanting to learn more about “Cupcakes” but didn’t want to do so in a non-TR environment, I have good news — the story has been re-imagined as this animated music video. It may miss a few of the details, but it certainly gets the overall conceit correct. To everyone else — holy shit some lunatic animated a version of “Cupcakes,” and may god have mercy on all our souls. Warning: Since this is animated and contains no nudity, this video is technically safe for work. It might, however, contain the tiniest amount of graphic violence, and when I say “the tiniest amount” I mean it makes the Saw movies look like… well, an actual episode of My Little Pony.
All of you who sent this in to me should be ashamed of yourselves. The only silver lining here is that it’s still less disturbing than that fucking E.T. figure.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.