You think that's a lot of Grimdark? you should have seen the fic queue in October... we once got 76 fics in one day. 37 of them were grimdark. EIGHT in a ROW were grimdark. It nearly made three of us quit.
And Grimdark's popular because of the pile of trash that is Fallout: Equestria. No, we're not kidding. We didn't have this problem before we stupidly agreed to post that fic.
Then Kkat, the author, has the damn nerve to tell us that A., we're wrong in our assessments of most fics, and B., she can do our job better than our collective 30+ plots can.
/Bitter, me?
//Oh, you betcha
/// By Celestia's Beard, We Do Not Like Her.