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( ^  x  ^ ) HPBS!!!!!! They've invaded! Maybe thats why we have been having so much glitches...... 

I FOUND THE TRUTH!!!

MUSE readers realize pretty much straight away that the magazine’s unofficial mascot is the hot pink bunny, or HPB. Much has been said and written about the HPBs, especially in the popular MUSE Mail section. According to fans, they live inside the “Fan Mail Pit” where rejected mail is laid to rest but occasionally escape and wreak havoc on the magazine (like in the 2017 April Fool’s issue). It’s been said that they glow during phases of the moon, that they eat fan mail and human souls, that they migrated to Earth from the planet Pirikold, and much, much more.

We’ve even received letters from a purported representative of a HPB rights organization, a hot pink bunny geneticist, a HPB historian, AND the president of the Intergalactic Organization of Hot Pink Bunny Hunters. It’s an inside joke that’s been going on for so long that most fans don’t even know how the HPBs hopped on to the pages of the magazine in the first place.

To discover the true answer, we turn to the Dark Ages, the very dawn of recorded time, before the birth of emojis as we know them: 2002. With the help of ancient texts, a helpful fan letter in the May/June 2017 MUSE, and memories of Cricket Media staff (at least one of whom were actually MUSE readers in 2002), we’ve managed to piece together the truth.

You’d think that this would placate the MUSE readers. But if you thought that, you’d be underestimating the passion, tenacity, and borderline obsessiveness of MUSE readers. Letters debating the merits of cats versus dogs flooded in, with fans of each pet fighting like, well, cats and dogs.

It all started normally enough, with fan letters demanding issues about their favorite topics. The most popular of these requests were cats and dogs. A Cat Counter was set up to tabulate letters begging for a cat issue, followed shortly by a Dog Counter. At one point, the ‘machine’ malfunctioned and exploded from trying to count too many cat and dog requests.

Finally, MUSE conceded to the overwhelming roar (or meow, or woof) of the crowd and published a cat issue and then, two months later, a dog issue.

Something had to be done, so the editors banned discussion of the topics, choosing to discard letters about them into the FMP. But what about letters that only briefly mentioned cats or dogs? Editors replaced the offending line with a row of cute hot pink bunny faces. Fans immediately fell in love with the little guys, and the myth surrounding the HPBs grew from there.

“It’s hard to pick what charms me the most about the hot pink bunnies, but I think it’s the way this silly and slightly offhand detail has, over the years, spiraled into some of the smartest, strangest, and most inventive fan fic around. In fact, the HPBs help showcase our readers as the intellectual and imaginative co-creators of MUSE they are. Their sense of community, their playfulness, their fierce intelligence: it’s all on display in reader interactions around the mysterious HPBs.”

Johanna Arnone, Editor of MUSE Magazine

@admins, I posted something about personality types on Down to Earth that was up for a brief time but now I can't find it anywhere...idk what happened?

I didn't delete your post. Try clicking twice on "Submitted by" at the top of the column. You can also check in the back pages of DtE. The first comment on a post can often send it to the "bottom," which is why many CBers "top" their posts to make them visible again. - Admin

Hey uh...I entered a Ski Lodge yesterday crated by Jasmine& something, I made a second post to make sure it would top but it's not topping...

@Admins, I posted an MCU planning thread, but I think I wrote "July MCU prep" by accident - could you change it to "August MCU prep"? Thanks :)

Done. - Admin

Would it be okay if I made a thread were we post pictures of our bookshelves?

Yes, as long as the titles are CB appropriate and there aren't any pictures of people. - Admin

considering how Poinsettia's world affairs thread, is my thread that i just made going to be edited or not go through? if it's going to be edited just delete it

I just posted your thread.

Admin

@Admins, do you think Star-Lord will eventually have a movie of his own (if he does but they replace Chris Pratt... I will NOT be happy)? Also is Chris Pratt your fave actor???

I guess it would depend on if there are Marvel comics to base a story like that on. No, he's not my favorite actor. I'm not sure I have a favorite actor! - Admin

@admins,when are the changes to the CB happening?

I don't have an exact timeline yet, but we are working on it! - Admin 

hi there admins!

are we not allowed to say specific influencers/celebrities names? i didn't think that was a thing, but then a whole paragraph of my post in the overconsumption thread got changed. and the only reason was because i mentioned a specific youtuber who is pretty famous. it kind of annoyed me, and i was trying to understand why that was. i understand if we're sharing our youtube channel names, or other things like that, but idk i was very confused--i have mentioned celebrities and others before, and it never got taken away. 

anyway, i get the ground rules for what you're allowed to post on the CB, but some of the little rules are changed depending on the admin, and it's frustrating because i don't know if my post will get posted sometimes.  

Thank you for asking. One of our base rules is to avoid mentions of any websites other than the CB, since we cannot control the content on the other sites. To me, mentioning a specific influencer just felt too much like directing to a specific person on a specific website (although I know you were being critical of them). It is possible there have been discussions of specific influencers before, and I know that we usually let you discuss celebrities. I apologise for the confusion and frustration. Please know that our intentions are always to keep the CB as safe for everyone, at a wide range of ages, as possible. The other admins and I do our best to remain consistant in adhering to guidlines, but we determine what should or shouldn't be in each post on a case by case basis. - Admin