Trivia / The Conversion Bureau

• Creator Backlash: Many authors who've written for the subgenre went through this.
  • Blaze, the author of the original story, later expressed regret at having written it due to the backlash he got for the misanthropic implications he never intended to convey^note it was supposed to be Wish-Fulfillment, about going to Equestria without leaving your human friends behind; implications of genocide were the last thing he wanted to convey, viewing it as a poorly written work who's concept is best left to other, more capable writers.
  • Starman Ghost, the author of The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone, came to dislike it over time in spite of its popularity and influence due to his own hatred of the TCB genre as a whole and didn't ever want to write for it again.
  • The group of authors behind The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum came to feel this way over the story due regretting certain creative decisions and the behind-the-scenes problems going on during the creative process that soured their memories of working on the fic.
  • Bendy, an author known for writing anti-TCB parody stories and a brief member of the writing team for Other Side of the Spectrum, stated in 2020 that he regrets writing TCB stories.
• Referenced by...: Conversation Bureau-type settings are a known type of Variant Loop in The Infinite Loops, and the ponies In-Universe consider them very shameful.