 The Pirate Party Germany 's parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin ( the Berlin state parliament ) has insisted on the inclusion of a break called " pony time " , in which an episode from the series is shown , during their meetings at their parliamentary office , which displeased many other members in the Berlin parliament . The internet activist group Anonymous used the character Rainbow Dash to deface the website of the Social Democratic Party of Austria in 2011 and 2012 . A teenage white hat hacker used the name " Pinkie Pie " for anonymity and a fan drawing of the character wielding an axe as part of a successful entry in an early 2012 contest sponsored by Google Chrome to break the security of the web browser ; the same user also was the first to break the security in a second contest held later in 2012 , and found an important security flaw in the Linux kernel A May 2013 update to Google Hangouts included an easter egg that would have Friendship Is Magic @-@ inspired ponies run across the chat window . A similar update in August 2013 as part of YouTube 's " Geek Week " added two easter eggs , one that would cause ponies to cross the screen on searching for " bronies " , and a second that , if searching on a number of different pony names like " Twilight Sparkle " , would change the site 's title bar to a representative color of that pony . 
