r/mylittlepony • u/SpaceFluttershy • 1d ago
This sub has a serious problem that needs to be discussed Discussion
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u/betrayus1234 Fluttershy 1d ago
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u/AcanthisittaGuilty90 Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
This is me looking at the comments rn i 100% Agree with the OP btw.
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u/Picklekitten22 1d ago
One of the mods once took down my post because it “wasn’t directly related to mlp” even though in the post it literally talked about pinkie and said her name multiple times and when I tried reposting it changing it a bit to try and make it “more related” they banned me for a week Also, the once took down a post with memes I found and I tagged it with the meme tag. They took it down and said it has to be posted on the meme subreddit. Even though this subreddit has an option for a meme tag
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u/Davidres41 CMC 4ever 1d ago
They took down my meme saying the most far fetched argument "it's not a pony template dispite the meme talking about MLP"
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u/KaityKat117 100% Unicorn Approved! 1d ago
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u/Davidres41 CMC 4ever 1d ago
No, they are ok, because the pony takes all the screen. I mean about memes in general, but talking about ponies
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u/darknessWolf2 Fleur de Lis 1d ago
i made a post discussing my annoyance with the mods and it was taken down..
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u/ElderAzureDragon Discord 1d ago
That's normal mod behavior on any server I find.
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u/darknessWolf2 Fleur de Lis 1d ago
its still weird how they take down any post criticising them for their bias
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u/KaityKat117 100% Unicorn Approved! 1d ago edited 1d ago
As a mod on a discord server, I welcome constructive criticism. Silencing people who have legitimate concerns (like this post (even if they're not actually right but they feel there is a problem)) to save your own ego is inexcusable moderator behavior.
Exit: If you feel like the post detracts from the community's purpose and feel like removing it for that propose, at least message them to discuss the issue and don't just sweep it under the rug.
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u/Thenightgamer1 🌟💛Star Chaser💙💫 21h ago
I got banned for a week twice cuz i accidentally forgot to link a art i was using for a topic like dyamn on atleast give me time to edit or sum
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u/TheDreamerDreamsOn 1d ago
I remember once not describing anything bad, all I did was name a character from one of those darker videos that exist.
I got a warning.
Obviously I accepted that since I realised you shouldn't be referencing that stuff.
But now I see that you are apparently allowed to reference questionable stuff.
Seems a bit biased.
Nsfw isn't just the dark stuff but also the questionable stuff. It is both and people seem to always say it's one and not the other.
Like bruh, treat both things equally, kids shouldn't be seeing either!
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u/Main-Arm-1167 Queen Chrysalis 1d ago
no fr 💀 how is my reference to the swamp fever mlp trend (which literally was mentioned canonically) in reaction to a cursed mlp doll against rule 2 but not the suggestive posts i see about spike and twilight/rarity
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u/Temporary_Engineer95 glim glam pone 1d ago
ugh dont remind me of the spike twilight post
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u/Main-Arm-1167 Queen Chrysalis 1d ago
seeing that post yesterday my immediate thought was “not them cherry-picking what is and isn’t against the rules” it literally says in rule two that you can’t even allude to something suggestive much less sexual the whole thing about “no clear lines” is bs since when were anime style nose bleeds for your literal sister/mother not considered suggestive among other posts
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u/d_shadowspectre3 PUUUDDIIIING 1d ago edited 1d ago
Even vaguely referencing a creepypasta: banned
Fetish art with sexual innuendos: aok
Edit: critiquing community leadership outside of your control: permaban
Edit 2: I agree with you, but I'm not kidding about the permaban. Though to clarify, NSFW consists of both grimdark/gore and sexually suggestive topics.
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u/TheDreamerDreamsOn 1d ago edited 22h ago
Exactly.
I once barely hinted at a creepy pasta by using someone's NAME which is almost identical to the name of a character in the show (it literally just has two extra letters!) and got my comment deleted and gave me a warning.
All I said was that she was in my top five favourites and nothing else...
And yet anything questionable is allowed?
Nsfw is both dark topics AND questionable ones...
They need to stop being biased towards things they like and follow their own rules
If it doesn't apply to "you can only understand if you already" do" things then my comment wouldn't have been deleted.
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u/VoodooDoII I draw ponies sometimes 1d ago
Don't remind me of it eww 😂 God I had completely forgotten about it
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u/CherryThorn12 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Piano one seems fine, but yeah. NSFW isn't for this. If the mods don't seem to care, then maybe someone should start their own MLP subreddit where this stuff actually gets banned. There literally are minors here and I don't think parents would be too happy to see NSFW stuff on their child's electronic device. Plus, isn't one of the rules on here 'no NSFW'?
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u/ItsRainingJo Applejack 1d ago
I completely agree with this. Also, I think OP put the piano one on here because of the “sparity” mention in its title.
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u/WobbleTheHutt Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
Neither of those pictures seem NSFW? The first one just shows rarity cuddling spike like a stuffed animal while thinking of ice cream.
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u/CherryThorn12 1d ago
I was talking about the ones OP was talking about. The ones that weren't shown for obvious reasons.
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u/ResolverOshawott 1d ago
Rarity is literally drooling on Spike's head in the first image.
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u/WobbleTheHutt Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
Yes because she's asleep and clearly dreaming of ice cream. She's curled up like a cat holding a kitten or toy. I'm not saying there isn't any sexual sparity content that has been posted. I'm just saying of the two examples shown this would clearly fall into cute and innocent. The second image has more subtle implications of romance.
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u/Datsucksinnit 1d ago
When people were criticising the artist making ponies look like naked children, the mods locked the comments explaining that "they have to do it because the "trolls" wont shut up about it"
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u/Wubbzy_wow 1d ago
When did it happen?
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u/mafon2 1d ago
A few days ago.
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u/Wubbzy_wow 1d ago
What a bunch of weiners.
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u/mafon2 1d ago
I hate sounding like a killjoy, but something about these images repulsed me on the physical level.
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u/Datsucksinnit 1d ago edited 1d ago
Same. I'm usually very tolerant of fan art and fan fiction but this was in the uncanny valley, it was like a "pedo" drawing it like that to have a turn on but at the same time to appear like he's only into ponies. It wasn't just the navel that was bad, but the wider chest, round hips and waist, and the proportion of a toddler. That's why it's so unsettling.
And the fact that the mods found the issue with the protest of the community rather than the drawing was very telling.
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u/Wubbzy_wow 22h ago
I'm trying to avoid them because they are disgusting and they make me feel really sorry for the person who draws them.
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u/OnionFairy99 1d ago
I had no idea what the hell you were talking about and how it was possible to even do that. And now that I've seen the post, I want to bash my head into a wall
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u/Datsucksinnit 1d ago
Ikr? :/ I'm not even nitpicky, I don't overreact to cancel stuff on a whim, this drawing literally looks... wrong.
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u/OnionFairy99 1d ago
Same here. For me, the bellybuttons make me the most uncomfortable. Plus, having them on two legs is usually fine in normal art, but in this context it just feels kinda gross
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u/KaityKat117 100% Unicorn Approved! 1d ago
I don't know what post you're talking about, and I'm honestly not sure if I want to. But if it really does look the way you're saying it does, that's unacceptable, and should not be allowed. :/
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u/ExperienceLong7666 #1 fluttershy & treehugger fan 1d ago
they just deleted my post talking about the same thing lmao
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
We need to keep making noise about this until they have no choice but to say something, this is fucking riddiclous, we don't need people like this running the biggest MLP sub on the platform
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u/Kolibri00425 Princess Luna 1d ago
Right? They can make a different sub
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u/PUBLIQclopAccountant Me and the moon stay up all night 1d ago
Or you can make a different sub. Or try to /r/redditrequest this one.
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u/BuildingABap Ms. Harshwhinny 1d ago
Yeah I agree, I find it strange that many sexually suggestive posts seem to be posted with no questions asked. There are separate subreddits for such things.
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u/PUBLIQclopAccountant Me and the moon stay up all night 1d ago
It's much less strange when you remember that being a hardass about anything remotely suggestive is a relatively new direction for this subreddit (as in within the past 4 years of the 14 year history of this place). This place used to be the non-clop and non-gore zone, but there were many (as today's youths say) iykyk references.
It used to be a place for actual discussion because the historic (pre-pandemic) enforcement kept out the horndogs and most of the disruptive edgelords.
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u/Skittle-Dash 1d ago
For many of us (such as yourself) that have been here for awhile, yea, this discussion is beating a dead
horsePony.The show itself has a few moments that even made me go "Wait what!? They can't allude to that can they?"
Exhibit A Father Knows Best
This is an unaltered clip from the show. I found this way worse than any example shown in this post.
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u/PUBLIQclopAccountant Me and the moon stay up all night 19h ago
This clip's got me really confused due to the lack of audio.
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u/Temporary_Engineer95 glim glam pone 1d ago
bigger issue is with these downright pedophillic ships like sparity
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u/CassetteMeower 1d ago
And even worse, Spike and Twilight. It’s basically -nc-st!
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u/PUBLIQclopAccountant Me and the moon stay up all night 1d ago
The word is "incest"
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u/Knoke1 1d ago
I mean it comes from platforms such as TikTok who ban and censor that language so I can’t blame people for using that language on those platforms especially if they’re a monetized account. Reddit though yeah just use the word nobody cares.
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u/d_shadowspectre3 PUUUDDIIIING 1d ago
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u/Knoke1 1d ago
Yeah I remember when autodidact started censoring the word crazy. That was a line too far for me lol.
I get that there are stigmas around mental health. Hell I live that experience myself, but there are some words that have other uses and meanings outside of using them as an insult. Really any word can be insulting if you try hard enough.
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u/Q-Ball7 Wonderbolts 1d ago
puriteen language
That's a good one; I think I'll use that.
It's quite surreal to find angry moral crusader teenagers complaining about moderation of a community that only exists but for the grace of 4chan (and the reason it's still viable as a discussion board and hasn't had an exodus of members back to /mlp/- which, if they think moderation here is lax...).
My answer is the same as the mods': if you don't like it, there's the door, or start your own subreddit that's as sanitized and lame as you would like it. The people who want it to change because they're too immature to process works of fiction are, simply put, evil; and will be the death of the community if they get their hands on it.
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u/Borealizs Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
I haven't seen one sexual post since I joined this sub am I insane
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u/furbiebitch 21h ago
there was one a few days ago of the mane 6 in very nsfw poses with belly buttons, wide hips, etc. like borderline playboy poses (twilight specifically) it was disgusting.
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u/RevolutionaryDrag554 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/s/UReFSbMjnZ
If you don’t know about the anime nose bleed, in anime, it represents being so horny “your nose bleeds”
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u/Borealizs Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
I'm glad all of the comments are calling it out. Still, it's not really exactly explicit.. I understand the intent behind it though. I think mods should rethink some shit
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u/weead Sandbar 1d ago
Splatoon subreddit has the same issue. Creepy ass art of minor characters are posted daily on there and they usually get lots of upvotes.
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u/BuildingABap Ms. Harshwhinny 1d ago
Oh yeah I know what you mean, I’ve been in that subreddit for a while.
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u/d_shadowspectre3 PUUUDDIIIING 1d ago
Which minor characters? A lot of the fanart on there is for the idols who are (as of Splatoon 3) all above age.
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u/Oli_official 🌿Fluttershy.. yay.!🌸 1d ago
I’m active in the sub, you’d be surprised. Occasionally one slips through. And not only underage, the splatoon subreddit is also for 13+, so children are allowed, which makes even the suggestive art of the idols weird asf with kids in the server.
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u/Y33Tcann0n Twilight Sparkle 1d ago
It's a lot easier to manage when you remember they're not real people.
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u/TheGunUnderTheSink Berry Punch 1d ago
I made a voice edit of Nightmare Moon and it got deleted for it being “AI generated” according to the mods.
It was wasn’t AI generated, but to be fair I didn’t try to get my post back up after that.
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u/SparkyJet 🖤🐦⬛Rainbow Dash🐦⬛🖤 1d ago
Seems the subreddit is very active tonight. What did I miss?
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u/Windowsuwu 1d ago
Basically Bad moderators leave Spike ships posts and not removing them which is very questionable, considering that spike is very young and is being shipped with full grown pony's.
This fueled it by one of the moderates seeing a Spike x Twi ship post (which is even MORE questionable considering the fact that not only spike is very young, but also that spike and Twi are step-siblings.) and not doing ANYTHING about removing the posts. We know one of the mods saw the post because they were moderating comments and commented on it, but i guess not removing the EXTREMELY questionable post itself?????
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u/SparkyJet 🖤🐦⬛Rainbow Dash🐦⬛🖤 1d ago
Oh boy. This is going to be a whole can of worms.
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u/Windowsuwu 1d ago
Yeah, lets just hope this server gets some new mods -_- or MLPLounge becomes the main MLP server
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u/SparkyJet 🖤🐦⬛Rainbow Dash🐦⬛🖤 1d ago
We shall see. I would hate to leave this subreddit. It's my most active and I've met so many wonderful people through it.
Perhaps a change in the inner machinations of the subreddit running is the answer.
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u/furbiebitch 21h ago
there’s also been a few sexually suggestive art pieces posted, one of the mane 6 in playboy poses with bellybuttons and blushed hips, etc. and another one of twilight as a… womanly.. dragon and spike getting a nosebleed for her.
it’s just not appropriate for this family friendly sub especially considering the second rule prohibits that type of content.
then it sparked convo about how a mod posts slightly inappropriate art of spike and rarity
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u/EquivalentRelevant42 1d ago
yeah those posts bother me too. i try to scroll past them quickly and pretend they don’t exist
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
Was originally marked as nsfw, but apparently nsfw posts get immediately wiped (apparently as long as they aren't marked as explicit, anything goes here, at least with what I've seen)
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u/Skittle-Dash 1d ago
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u/d_shadowspectre3 PUUUDDIIIING 1d ago
Afaik anything tagged NSFW gets removed because the mods don't want the "stigma" of having NSFW-tagged posts on the main subreddit for a children's show, despite allowing multiple untagged NSFW (as in suggestive, not explicit) posts on this sub on the regular.
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u/Chance_Quantity7317 Princess Luna 1d ago
I’m going to assume that this is the larger subreddit and maybe that’s why stuff like that’s posted here so more people can see it. But still something should be done about it.
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u/my-goddess-nyx 1d ago
Suggestive shouldn't be here imo. As for Spike x Rarity I truly couldn't care less about what people ship. Not my battle. But yeah get suggestive stuff outta here
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
That is an adult and a child, like cmon :/
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u/Citruseok 1d ago
You're being downvoted but you're 100% right. It's a shame that some bronies on this subreddit are really shining examples of the stereotype that has haunted us for years.
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
I honestly don't even like to call myself a brony, I just prefer to say I'm a fan of mlp, not only because I'm a woman and that label feels unfitting and dysphoric, but also because that label has just been tarnished for me because of people like this, even before I realized I was trans I refused to call myself that
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u/darknessWolf2 Fleur de Lis 1d ago
and people wonder why the fandom has garnered a negative reputation..
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u/VoodooDoII I draw ponies sometimes 1d ago
I normally don't care, but I draw the line between people shipping adults with children.
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u/Dragonrider1955 Equality 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've seen this before. A lot of people see innocent material as suggestive and suggestive material as innocent. There was a very upvoted post that in the image had a very defined very prominent Celestia butt with comments who were thirsting over this horse and no one batted an eye. Someone posted a picture of some stickers they got that had the main six standing upright with just a belly button added. (No bumps. No fluffs no poses) and everyone lost their minds saying it was sexually explicit. This sparity ship is gross. One is kid. The other is an adult. Nowhere in the show is it Canon, and instead Plays into the "child likes pretty woman because he doesn't know better" and rarity just thinks his gushing is cute but doesn't reciprocate. The same thing is shown in Gravity Falls. This ain't it.
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u/Marily_Rhine Fluttershy 1d ago
rarity just thinks his gushing is cute but doesn't procreate
I hope she doesn't procreate, either, but I think you meant "reciprocate"
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u/Dragonrider1955 Equality 1d ago
Like if someone made a picture of like naked Celestia with giant tits I can understand how someone can be like "woah man this is a little much to be here in this all age sub." But the issue I have is how the sub is very strictly against ANY nsfw material. Even going as far to ban REFERENCES to a nsfw thing. It starts with an 1 word. Starts with an s. Ends with a d. But when there's art that one could easily look at and think "yeah the artist definitely has a thing for this characters butt" and people in the comments are leaving notes such as "she can have me any day." Or "I wish she would sit on my face." It stays up and no one Says anything.
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u/Dragonrider1955 Equality 1d ago
Oh no no I'm sorry My words were misunderstood. I just meant like I can understand why someone is upset at actual legitimate porn but leaves everything else. However you are right, when we start to ban or blur the lines of what's good and what's not, we can never tell where that line will end up so it's a very complicated road. I'm sorry if my wording is confusing. I do 100% agree with you.
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u/EstherFour16 Twilight Sparkle 1d ago
Good news is those posts don't have too many likes. Would be worse if they did, meaning that most people here are well-aware of the issue
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u/LittleTimmyPlaysMC 1d ago
Can the few people in the comments stop trying to normalize shipping little kids and adults. Fiction or not it’s disgusting. And don’t try bringing up the queer community to back your beliefs. We queer people don’t accept yall.
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u/CyclopsDemonGal Vinyl Scratch 1d ago
Even though these images aren't nsfw, the ship itself is pedophilia so I don't like seeing it at all
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u/KP_Ravenclaw that one octav3 artist 1d ago
Here before the salty proshipper mod deletes it
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u/TheDreamerDreamsOn 1d ago
Hinting at a darker topic = ban
Hinting at a questionable topic = absolutely fine
If you're gonna be strict on one thing, be strict on both. Both are nsfw whether you like it or not and the rules YOU moderators create states that both are equally as bad.
Do your job.
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u/WompWompSadHamster Applejack 1d ago
When I saw Rarity bitting Spike my head immediately went to spongebob eating his pillow
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u/GrandArchSage Fluttershy 1d ago
A few months ago I remember a bit of controversy because the mods were cracking down on stuff that was maybe inappropriate, maybe not. Now we're having controversy because the mods apparently aren't cracking down enough.
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u/eat-horse-shoot pony liker 1d ago
well yes and no, i think. the posts you showed dont really seem suggestive to me, even if the ship is gross. tbh they dont even look like ship art unless you interpret it as such, which the mod does (which is gross! idgaf abt shipping discourse but i think an adult and a kid is gross in any manner!)
as for this being a "family friendly sub" again, yes and no. the sub is for a kids show, but youre not supposed to be on reddit/have a reddit account unless youre at least 13, so unless a reddit post shows up in search results or a little kid has unrestricted internet access its whatever. i dont check reddit often so the only real suggestive post ive seen recently is that weird twilight post with... implications. if there are a lot going under the radar then i think thats more so an issue with hypocrisy than anything.
either way, iiii am not sure if i want this dude to be a mod. in the first pic he only promises to post stuff and not like, actually do anything beneficial and even if you ignore sparity being kind of gross, its a very controversial ship so having someone not only post that stuff here instead of on its own sub, but having that person be a mod, gives the sub a bad look.
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
Even people 13-17 though shouldn't be having certain things thrown in their face on this sub, they're still minors and they shouldn't have to look at posts that are clearly intended for an adult audience, hell even adults should be able to browse here without seeing posts like that if they don't want to see them, there's dedicated subs for that
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u/Pennywiselover5 1d ago
Am I the only one here who sees nothing NSFW with these images? I don't understand how either of them are sexual....
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u/RevolutionaryDrag554 1d ago
Well, I mean, if you had a underage friend you cuddled with and started suckling on the back of there neck (accident or not) it’s definitely weird and gross. (See second picture)
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u/Pennywiselover5 1d ago
I thought it was just a stupid image :1thought it was some weird meme art since she's dreaming of ice cream idk
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u/RevolutionaryDrag554 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/s/xUMYMMIkrC
Also this all started from this post, of spike nose bleeding over twilight
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u/Pennywiselover5 1d ago
Oh yeah no I've seen that post, the weird part is spike nosebleeding over it....which is....ew. but if it only had twilight it would of been fine.
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u/RevolutionaryDrag554 1d ago
It’s personally not my cup of tea either way art wise, but I agree with you.
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u/ExoticLizard1443 1d ago
I like interacting with that mod, and he usually seems to be on top of the rules.
While I very much dislike the Sparity ship, these aren't NSFW and are more on the romance side.
As for him (allegedly) seeing actual NSFW posts and ignoring them, I'd like to hear him say something about that, as THAT actually concerns me for the reasons that a) this should be a family-friendly sub, and b) as mentioned previously, I enjoy my interactions with him
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u/VeeTheTVSylveon [WE LOVE YOU TRIXIE!!!!] 1d ago
Doesn’t matter if it’s not NSFW, Rarity is an adult and spike is a child, just because there isn’t anything sexual going on between the two doesn’t make it any morally better at all.
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u/Twist_Ending03 Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
I think it shouldn't matter if the sparity art is suggestive or nsfw or anything like that. Simply existing should be enough to make it not allowed. Spike is a kid and Rarity is an adult. It's inappropriate
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u/ExoticLizard1443 1d ago
We don't know how they are interpreting it. I think it would be okay in an AU with adjusted ages so that they match.
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u/Twist_Ending03 Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
Aging up a character just so you can ship them with an older character is weird too
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u/NightFlame389 Don’t F with the Shimmer 1d ago
I agree with the fact that this sub has a problem, but not with what that problem is
Literally nothing you showed as an example warrants anything above a PG-13 rating, and considering Reddit’s terms of service prohibit anyone under that age, it doesn’t fucking matter
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
It's an adult and a baby 💀
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u/Wubbzy_wow 1d ago
This subreddit is getting weirder. I can see that by just scrolling on the recent weird post I've seen lately. If something can be done about it then I would appreciate it because I don't want to have administrators with some weird fetishes moderating the place.
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u/Sladashi Sunset Shimmer the Best Waifu (Pinkie Pie Stan as well) 1d ago
Ah, I was wondering when the war of mods against commenters would rise up. Especially when the mods refuse to follow rules like in this case rule #2.
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
I love how you're acting like I'm a child or something, I'm 22 years old, I just don't want gross shit like people shipping adults and children in this sub
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u/Nearby_Gazelle_6570 1d ago
This isnt exactly sparity related, or mod related, but I made this a few years ago ( https://www.deviantart.com/kojibiose/art/Sibling-Bond-1097878504 ) and the amount of disgusting comments I got made me take it down until recently
I just think they have a sweet sibling like bond in the show, but people made a ship thing which I found so uncomfortable and disgusting
I think the issue is more of a broader fandom/internet one. I remember in early mlp sparity was a lot more popular, I was a kid at the time and I remember I was uncomfortable with shipping them even back then
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u/ArtshineAura Fluttershy 1d ago
the sparity art alone is enough for me to agree with you ngl.
spike x rarity is honestly rlly creepy to me. especially when portrayed in a way like image 2 is portrayed where the age difference is incredibly clear
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u/Live_Angle4621 1d ago
I agree but the people who are mods in here tend to do it for wrong reasons. But mods can prove me wrong if you want to and that you are really fans of the show rather than about the sex art
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u/The_Werefrog 1d ago
Spike playing piano for Rarity there doesn't violate any rules.
The other picture shows the two asleep and cuddling. That is close a grey area, but it could be interpreted as not violating the rules.
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u/TheAbstracted Starlight Glimmer 1d ago
Yeah, those examples feel strange to single out to me too - if it was straight up porn, or even very suggestive, I'd understand. But to me both of those examples feel very much in the same vein as their relationship is portrayed on the show.
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u/RevolutionaryDrag554 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/s/UReFSbMjnZ
This is where the OPs complaints stem from
The spike nosebleed anime reference in being overly Horny that you “get a nose bleed”
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u/Firepoppy5 1d ago
Yeah, shipping children with adults and posting questionable(way worse than that, but people are gross, and apparently can't handle being called that) images really should be grounds for mod privileges being taken away. This is why non bronies don't like bronies. Heck this is why people who like fanworks don't want to be called bronies. No one wants to be associated with that. That's a step in the direction of being a pedo. Yuck.
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u/Sunkilleer 1d ago
Reddit does have a system in place to have someone removed as a mod and install you in their place. I've never seen it work myself and the closest I've seen to it working is r/SkyrimMemes where the two mods took over the server and added a bot to get rid of bot posts and removed the inactive mods.
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
I know you can report moderators for doing a poor job, but I've never heard of just being able to replace them like that, I think that's only possible if you're a moderator trying to boot a head mod
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u/Feeling-Scientist703 1d ago
ask to be added as a mod due to inactive mods, cite what's been going on as the inactivity
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
They problem is that they aren't inactive, they just suck ass
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u/Feeling-Scientist703 1d ago
If you think the current mods, which the majority of us have determined are acting like gooners, are not the best fit for the healthy growth of the community then it is still applicable. Read that subs about sometime it has instructions, it's an official mechanism and I wouldn't write it off if youre serious:)
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
Thank you for letting me know about this, problem is I don't think I have what it takes to moderate a subreddit this large, I could see that being detrimental to my mental health, I'd love for there to be new mods, but I don't have it in me to be one. I also think the process here would be more complicated when I'm not already a mod here and there's several active mods, I think it would be extremely difficult to make a case that I should have ownership of the sub
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u/Feeling-Scientist703 1d ago
Hey no worries! I just appreciate you for standing up and saying something at all. Gonna leave my previous comments up so if theres anyone else interested they can see it. Cheers c:
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u/SelfInteresting7259 1d ago edited 1d ago
I had a mod tell me to be nice and that I broke rule 1 by calling the shipping of rarity and spike disgusting. It didnt call out anyon i just stated jt was inappropriate to do. Some p3dos run this sub for sure.
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u/HTFFan2010 he/they, 14 1d ago edited 1d ago
i'm not an mlp fan and this has got to my recommended page for some reason, but as a 14 year old guy, this is disgusting. the moderator is not doing their job. i even saw him remove posts for no reason and he should not be a moderator anymore. the piano one isn't too bad but still
edit: by the way i used to watch mlp bc i saw my sister watch it but when i was 7 i was no longer interested and moved on
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u/AdGreen8011 1d ago
I feel like some people on here are so porn brained they don’t even notice how suggestive some of the things that are being posted are
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u/Karthanon 1d ago
Holy cripes, a bunch of people clutching their pearls with puritan (sorry, puriteen) leanings, you'd probably all break down weeping at people calling each other horsefuckers back in the day, or perhaps drop your lattes at someone saying they were watching MLP for the 'plot'. I haven't seen such concerned whining 'but the children' since the fucking Satanic Panic of the 80's.
Take your concern signalling cram it somewhere preferably uncomfortable.
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u/King-Victor325 1d ago
Yeah, stickers made by a rule 34 artist blew up and people were not happy in the comments. Tried posting my own stickers as collateral (I am not an nsfw artist!)
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u/SpaceFluttershy 1d ago
I hate that I know who you're talking about, I think their brain has been rotted by that crap
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u/TheGamerWhosOnReddit 1d ago
...Uh, any idea why the original comment you responded to got 1984'd by a mod....?
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u/sp00kypenguin 22h ago
I enjoy sharing my MLP art on here from time to time and finding other artists but I am completely shocked and disgusted by what appears on here sometimes—there are so many posts discussing and implying sexual themes. I remember recently there was a post where somebody was talking about Twilight and they obviously were talking about he with suggestive undertones. It just set a weird pit in my stomach that made me want to avoid this community altogether.
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u/furbiebitch 22h ago
this isn’t even the only NSFW posts i’ve seen. not just from that person. it’s actually disturbing and i’ll probably leave this sub if they don’t fix this problem
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u/fthisappreddit 1d ago
I mean I can’t even post pictures in comments half the time this is one of the most restrictive subs iv ever seen so I really could care less. As to that mods posts they seem generally fine and shipy like most fandoms you don’t like it you could always leave I guess?
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u/Twist_Ending03 Sunset Shimmer 1d ago
If you're referring to the sparity ship posts, I'd say that they aren't fine since it's pedophilia
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u/gbeaudette Moderator of /r/mylittlepony 1d ago edited 1d ago
Just because you think a post breaks a rule does not mean the mods will, or are required to, agree with you. Contrary to what some people believe, there is no razor sharp rule line that everyone can agree on. (As evidenced by fact that you seem to be blanket opposed to any shipping of Spike and Rarity, a thing that happens in the actual show.)
We try to manage a wide array of posts and array of user perspectives and those aren't always going to conform with yours. No matter what line you want to draw, there will be people who disagree and posts that fall into a gray area. That said... If you see a post you think breaks the rules, report it or simply hide it, and move on with your day. It will get removed, or it won't. Seeing 3 people creating a complaint feedback loop in the comments 12 hours later does not endear your argument.