How’s this for a retelling?
>they bring spike, either ignoring the table or it doesn’t care
>still get captured
>Rarity realises Glimglam can always jet with whatever marks she grabs and hide
>likely will if she smells royal intervention
>uses shenanigans to get a letter back to ponyville
>CMC hear somepony’s handing out cutie marks
>they rush over asap
>join the club
>every marked member of the Hay-rison Percheron club is now as good at cooking as sweetie belle
>two days later, as the only person who didn’t have to stab their meals to death, the people of ourtown mob her to death
>problem solved

@CottonTales  
I figured just as much. The idea of her giving little kids equal marks before they could even get the feeling of having a Cutie Mark is a lot more terrible than I thought.

you
 
you bad person
 
think bad things

@Wayneponeth  
Id imagine the spell has two parts. Making the equal sign mark and moving the old cutie mark, we could see her using the second part of the spell on Celestia and Luna when she switched their cutie marks

Now that I think about it, how would Starlight take away Cutie Mark if there wasn’t any Cutie Mark to begin with? There were foals in Starlight’s village so does that mean she could just put equal mark on them anyway?

I have a 100% feeling that if Starlight stripped Apple Bloom Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle of their cutie marks, that would be the end of the bronies.

God…dammit, Starlight.

little late for that now