Back when it got momentum, I was one of the idiots who got sucked into it because of “lol, let’s hate watch it” and actually enjoyed it up to a point (S5, I think? First season after Twilight became princess). Season openings and finales were usually the best episodes, taking the cast out of slice of life situations and dropping them into dangerous adventures.

I wrote some fanfiction that never saw the light of day - thankfully for me and anyone who would end up reading it