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I have no memory of any charity drive organized by Equestria Daily or Derpibooru themselves.
I remember having seen those sites advertising other people’s charities, but I don’t think that both sites ever organized one of their own, because if they had done it, they would have never stopped bragging and grandstanding about that whenever they were on their usual “4chan sucks, unlike
US!” rants. If anything, all I remember was Lightingbolt hijacking the Mareheit charity artpack to complain and demand some artists to make a piss fetish artpack to suit her repugnant sex fetish and that’s it.
/mlp/ alone made some charity blood drives, food drives, pasta drives, fundng drives and at a point, the musicfags created original music and all profits from it were sent to support an autism fundation. Probably I’m forgetting other charity drives as well.
Regarding Pencils, yes. A group of very loud and tiring derpi members used to shit on his fancomic at a daily basis until he got hired by IDW and so they changed their tune to try to praise and claim they loved him all along so their previous bad behavior was just a misunderstanding and excuses like that. However, they still go to /mlp/ to shit on him and vandalize his comic threads while Equestria Daily also shits on his IDW comic issues just because of his link to 4chan, because people who live on the internet can never admit they are wrong about something, period.
Pencils has been incredibly patient about that bad behavior, though.