Tag: Rule 34

http://a-place-for-markk.tumblr.com/post/75609263236/rotheponymod-needs-more-pony-heartlinda

a-place-for-markk:

thank god for the safesearch filter….

What bothers me the most is not that a 5 year-old can’t use the internet if he/she wants, but the fact that this exists. This is a thing. At some point someone watched the show and said “Oh god I want to fuck those ponies”.
You couldn’t respect the target audience or the innocence of the show and instead made all kinds of porn and complaint when anyone said it was wrong.
And before you start saying “CLOPPERS R NOT BAD PEPOL U SHUDNT JUDGE THEM FOR LIEKENG SOMTHING U DONT!!1!1!!” let me tell you: Easily 90% of the cloppers I met IRL are the kind of people you would like to punch in the face. Disrespectful,annoying, stupid, perverts… they all are. Even when I told them I don’t like clop, they will insist in discusing the topic with me, showing me pics and TF2 sprays. Even in meetups: And have I told you about that time someone drew FIFTEEN CLOP PICTURES AND SENT THE TO ME VIA FACEBOOK?  no? well, that.

See this post for my main response to the whole “porn of a little girls’ show” lot.

Okay, I’m sorry for your unfavorable experiences with cloppers, but this whole argument of, “The majority of them I’ve met are terrible, so most of them are like that,” doesn’t make a lot of sense, for either cloppers or bronies.

A lot of the hate that bronies get seems to be due to negative experiences with certain fans, either online or in real life. But this isn’t good evidence because the ones who are terrible tend to be more outspoken; this is sometimes called the “vocal minority.” The same argument applies to your experiences with cloppers.

But this “vocal minority” argument applied to any diverse group is highly debatable, so my philosophy is to just judge people individually for their actions. The people whom you’ve had the misfortune of encountering are not cloppers. They are assholes.

http://tyrongtyger.tumblr.com/post/75609394847/dazzlemcpaw-tyrongtyger-needs-more-pony

tyrongtyger:

dazzlemcpaw:

So here’s the biggest question of all:

Why did this ‘Lori’ woman have her safe search off while her four year old daughter was on the internet by herself?

Probable short answer?

She didn’t. Made it ALL up.

I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it like that. Maybe SafeSearch was just turned off without anyone’s knowledge (that seems to be the case with my computer), and Lori didn’t know about it.

My “So much porn!” post pretty much exploded. I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve added some links to posts that go into detail about my response to these accusations.

http://needs-more-pony.tumblr.com/post/75571078283/masteroflag-meh-needs-more-pony

needs-more-pony:

masteroflag-meh:

Dude I got porn for mlp looking up Babs seed pic even with the damn safe search on months ago. And when I typed in sweetie belle to look up the actors name the second suggestion was rule 34.

Just face it. There are too many idiots who don’t properly tag shit and so much of this stuff it becomes a top suggestion by google.

I’m not saying it should be made less, but a lot more agreement on self regulation helps.

And don’t forget to even see comments on YouTube now you have to turn off safe search.

So basically it’s really easy even then to forget to turn it back on if you turned it off hours ago to do other stuff on Google and don’t even think of it.

You can still blame parents for that but don’t just ignore that there is some form of an exposure problem with mlp porn right now cause there really is.

Of course there are always exceptions to a rule. But consistent tests seem to demonstrate that it is super rare to find NSFW content when not looking for it.

And frankly, that applies to anything, even outside of MLP.

I’m a firm believer in the idea that it’s a parent’s job to parent their child. Not everyone else’s. We can certainly make their job somewhat easier by developing effective tagging standards, but that’s the most we can compromise. It’s up to the parent to ultimately monitor what their kids see on the internet.

I mean, as a parent, do you just let your kid wonder the mall aimlessly? I sure hope not. The internet is the same. There is a lot of awesome stuff here for kids to find and enjoy, but a parent needs to be there as chaperone to make sure their child is safe. The community in general can help by not allowing public displays of things deemed inappropriate (as they already do), but shit still happens, and it’s final responsibility is on the parent, not everyone else.

crocodilenecktie:

When I got these messages I nearly cried because I felt so bad for her. 

And people still wonder why I’m very Anti-Brony. 

Its seriously shit like this that makes me want to vomit every time I see a Brony related thing.

Because, Bronies have no fucking feels for people other than themselves and their precious ‘fandom’.

Seriously, FUCK BRONIES.

Oh, goodness.

(Reblogging for the record.)

EDIT: I’ve included a link to the original post for context.

Well, I’m not “literally” standing up because I was sitting when I wrote that post (and am sitting now as I answer this). But I am literally supporting them. (I’m one of them!)

Just because you focused on the point of children finding this content (which is justified, I suppose), I decided to do an experiment: I went to image search on Google, turned on SafeSearch, and just put in the names of the main six characters: Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. The most sexually suggestive images I could find in the first few pages were Twilight Sparkle in bed and a back-nude humanized Fluttershy, which aren’t explicit. Down the list are some “wet-mane” and “bedroom-eye” ponies. You can try this for yourself to draw your own conclusions, but I think people who are into this (actually Google and SafeSearch, really) indeed have done a generally good job of keeping this away from children.

I also want to bring up a post I reblogged a few months ago. It specifically concerns the blog “Ask Princess Molestia” and the “Down with Molestia” movement against it, but it makes a good point about the whole “children might find it” argument. In short, it’s the parents’ responsibility to make sure that children aren’t exposed to things they shouldn’t be seeing. The post states that content creators have given parents the tools to do so (“ratings and tags”). I think I’ve taken the appropriate measures on my end. My blog description advises that this blog is “highly NSFW.” The blog has been marked so on Tumblr since I created it, meaning that my posts are generally hidden from people on Tumblr unless they disable “Safe Mode”. (More information.)

I am concerned about young children being exposed to this sort of content. But the Internet has much more than this that children shouldn’t be seeing, including content based on other cartoon characters children enjoy. This, too, has been kept out of “public” view, and My Little Pony is no different. (Just for reference I searched Princess Peach, which as I’m writing this is at the top of this list, which is basically a “most gotten-off-to” characters list. I didn’t find anything inappropriate for children.)

This is a statement sometimes made to criticize the “darker” (that is, more sexual) part of the fanbase surrounding “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” (“bronies”) and the fan content it produces.

First things first. Heard of Rule 34? Rule 34 is a “Rule of the Internet” that states: “There is porn of it. No exceptions.” (Phrasing may vary.) You probably have heard of it, but I want to clarify this because xkcd seems to apply Rule 34 as: “There is porn of anything you can think of.” However, currently Rule 34 is generally applied as: “There is porn of any existing fictional character.” Kinky porn that isn’t based on any existing character isn’t really considered an application of Rule 34, nor is porn of celebrities (real people). So when I refer to Rule 34, I am referring to sexual content of pre-existing fictional characters.

I get it. A lot people don’t like seeing sexual content of stories and characters they enjoy. But some (myself included) do, so Rule 34 rings true, for ponies as it does for everything else.

About this content being exposed to those who don’t want to see or shouldn’t be seeing it: This is a problem of Rule 34 in general. I think people are doing a fairly good job of preventing this from happening, but I haven’t looked into this much.

It’s a show (mainly) for little girls. That’s true, but this argument fails in pretty much the same way as it does for bronies themselves: People can enjoy things that weren’t originally intended for them.

They’re horses, not people! Okay, okay. But you only have to look to the furry fandom for a counterargument. Some furry fans/“furries” create sexual content involving animal characters. Sure, “Friendship is Magic” characters aren’t anthropomorphic like most furry characters, but they have the same sort of intelligence that makes them human-relatable characters. (Plus, there are plenty of anthropomorphic ponies to go around.)

TL;DR: Yeah, it’s disturbing for a lot of people. But it’s Rule 34. What did you expect?

Want to see something? Just ask!

Oh, hello! For some reason I wasn’t notified of your question. Sorry for answering so late. I hope you are following my blog so you can see my apology.

Regarding your comments: I noticed that it did say “in first season,” but I wasn’t sure how the story progressed from then. So thank you for the information.

Even before clop, one of my favorite areas of Rule 34 was Winx Club. Yep. I was thinking about posting some here, but after expounding my philosophy on porn I knew I needed to check the ages of the characters. Most are around 16 or 17…

Most people associate age of consent (to sexual activity) with age of majority (being a legal adult). However, while the age of majority is 18 in most parts of the world, the age of consent is often younger, 16 or even younger than that. Even the majority of U.S. states set the age of consent at 16. More info on Wikipedia (Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Please consult a professional for legal matters.)

Given this I might just start posting Winx Club. :D