@Japanese Teeth  
True.  
How many people actually understand how the internet works?

@Background Pony #A89A  
It’s totally possible that he had friends, but just didn’t understand the attendant magic enough to use the elements. Or he got grumpier as he aged or something. There’s a gap between not understanding something at all, and not understanding something sufficiently to use it.

@PonyPon  
If Scorpan didn’t really agree with Tirek to begin with, it’s possible that he would have been willing to help the ponies anyway.

@Ridley Wolf  
What’s there to understand, you either have friends or not. If he didn’t understand it then it implies he never had friends.

@Ridley Wolf  
yet somehow, enough to turn an enemy into an ally.

@Background Pony #A89A  
It didn’t say that he had no friends, it just said that he didn’t understand friendship as well as Twilight.

Except MMC established that Starswirl had no friends. Canon fail.

@PonyPon  
Oh.

@Background Pony #3E68  
This guy made friends with that guy, so this guy sold that other guy out.

So… what happened?

it’s the same look as the comics :D

Aaaaaand it was Starswirl.
 
Fantastic.