I hope best IRL pony is having the time of her life, thanks to the donations.

@Bexar Bandito  

 
Verity was rescued during an operation that rescued four other horses and some pigs. The original call they were responding to was just the four adult horses. The pigs were a tack-on request they accepted while on-site. They didn’t even know Verity was there until someone heard her pitious cry.
 
The funds go towards the operation of the organization. It’s not a clear case of “ok, $5 means we can do X.” It wasn’t a case of, “whoah, this $12k means we can go save this one horse!” but that $12k certainly goes a long way to paying transportation and lodging they would otherwise not be able to afford. It pays for cleaning supplies they need for their quarantine process to keep each horse safe. It pays for food and medicine for each horse. It pays for the training each horse needs to make them adoptable to ensure they have the best chance at a happy life after they’ve recovered.
 
That money didn’t save just one filly. It works to help many horses. Verity is an adorable face and a heartwarming story that gives us a concrete thing to focus on to easily digest the overall good that was done.

I love everything to do with this

@Bexar Bandito  
I’m always glad when something negative can be turned into a positive. Also, as far as I know, the money is going to helping other horses too, not just Verity. She’s just a good example of the work they are doing. It should be enough to pay a year’s upkeep for at least a couple of horses.
 
That being said, I believe there’s a letter to Celestia that you ought to be writing. Here, I’ll start:
 
“Dear Princess Celestia,
 
Today I learned that participating in moral panic is a bad idea, because it aims to destroy conversation and oversimplify complex issues, while demonizing all other points of view. Once those blinders are on, you just end up calling random Background Ponies terrible names, without even knowing who they are or caring to listen to what they are trying to say…”
 
No hard feelings.

dawww, she’s such a good lil poner, lookit her with her lil blanket!
 
for real tho, i’m glad the pack was used to do an actual, tangible act of good and that they didn’t just use it as an excuse to virtue signal (or straight-up scam people for that matter.) they came a long way from wanting to charge $14.88 for it and donate the proceeds to a holocaust memorial as a joke and i can’t fault them for that (although i’ll admit the fact that they had to put up a censored version of their anti-censorship pack’s cover art on ejunkie because the original violated their terms of service was pretty fucking funny.)
 
_{i was kinda hoping all that money would’ve been able to save more than just one single horse tho; not to look a gift filly in the mouth or anything, guess i didn’t realize just how much of an expensive endeavor saving horses is 😕}