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Computer error messages are often rather baffling for those who don’t speak fluent tech, but recently Xbox One owners have been receiving errors that are confusing for…a different reason.

A number of Xbox One users have reported getting a rather strange error message when trying to buy things from the Xbox store. The message written in strange, broken English, references My Little Pony, and just generally doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Check it out for yourself, below.

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For those who can’t see the image for whatever reason, the message reads:

Mock Error Title

This would be some long description about the error. Read it and weep! And if you haven't looke up this phrase on the Internet, please do! You'll find a My Little Pony episode called "Read it and Weep." Cloudchasers and Wonderbolts, you'll never be forgotten!

Sure enough, there is an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic entitled Reed it and Weep. In the episode Rainbow Dash discovers a love of reading while in the horse hospital, and then tries to hide from her friends. I had to Google that information – I didn’t know it off the top of my head. I swear.

So, how’d a seemingly random My Little Pony episode end up referenced in an Xbox One error message? Apparently, the error message was only meant for internal testing purposes, but accidentally made its way into an actual Xbox One update. Xbox vice president Mike Ybarra has promised it will be removed.

Fix will be in tonight, sorry about that. Test string that shouldn’t show up. — Mike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) July 19, 2017

Honestly, Brony in-jokes are about as useful as most actual error messages. Leave it in, I say. You can check out WWG’s latest Xbox coverage here.

[via VG 24/7]