soryualeksi:

tenaflyviper:

This is an actual Google search for “My Little Pony”, in a private browser (not sure if that still customizes your searches or not), and with Safe Search OFF.  I repeat:  This is with Safe Search OFF.  This is a basic search, and is not limited by image size, or any other constraints.  If you open the images individually, they are as large as my browser window (except for the last one, because tumblr said the filesize was too large).  All images should be large enough to see what they are.

The only editing done to these images was to piece them together to fit within the number of pictures allowed in a photoset (which is why you can see some where the pictures appear to be overlapping themselves).  These were taken by scrolling and screencapping down the entire page.

The most “mature” content you find here is:

• Four grimdark images, which may be the result of the fact that I actually like grimdark.  One is simply a Pinkie Pie vector with blood on it, another is a creepy Twilight Sparkle wallpaper, another is a “horse meat factory”-type scenario played out with toys, and the other is a piece of fan art of grimdark variations of the characters.  All of these (aside from the toy image) link back to deviantArt, and none of them are explicit in any way (even in terms of gore).
• A single image of humanized ponies in one-piece swimsuits.  Their bodies have less definition to them than the Equestria Girls character designs.  Found in the lower left of page five.
• The anime-esque drawing seen at the bottom of the results.

If one continued further by clicking “show more results”, you’d turn up an image of battle-worn Equestria Girls that could be considered “questionable” because their clothes are torn.  It was drawn by a woman, and is clearly played for comedy.  You’d find more grimdark here and there, but really just the kind of images used in the “Luna Game” games.  You’d also find an image of one creepy-ass Chinese bootleg inflatable anthro pony, but again:  This is with Safe Search OFF, and it probably turned up because the article it came from mentions a Horse News article about the same piece of PVC nightmare fuel, and I occasionally read Horse News.  There’s an image of a G3 custom made to parody The Human Centipede, and a single Slugbox image with humanized characters wearing clothing.  It is shortly after this that Google does not bring up any more images for me (i.e., no “show more results” bar at the bottom).

So, to recap:

• Private browsing window (in case that might effect search results).  Not signed in.
  
• Safe Search OFF
• On the computer of someone who likes scary/grimdark stuff and occasionally reads Horse News, so more involved in the fandom than a random child
  
• Didn’t turn up one single piece of “pony porn”

I also ran searches for individual characters, and still didn’t even find anything with kissing, nudity (not even partial nudity), or “pony porn”.  And, once again, that’s with Safe Search OFF.

Gee, I wonder why that might be?

• Safe Search Wrap Up (fans actually taking responsibility to ensure that Safe Search is as safe as the name implies, and not only in the MLP:FiM fandom, but any fandom the participants in the Wrap Up decide to search for)
• Sites like Paheal have filters now
• Anything from a tumblr marked as NSFW will not show up in a Safe Search (and apparently not in a basic search either…)
• Derpibooru has their images so heavily filtered, you would not only need to become a member of the site to view adult content, but you’d still have to actually go into your filter settings, and disable multiple filters.  Even grimdark and “questionable” content (“suggestive” poses, pinups) are filtered by default.

Oops.  So much for your “little girls can’t search for ponies without finding porn” argument.  If you ARE, that would actually be due to your OWN search history.

Besides that, children shouldn’t be on the internet by themselves in the first place if you’re so terribly concerned with what they may find.  It’s the goddamn internet.  The internet can’t tell who’s using it at any given time, and it’s packed full of content by–and for–people of all kinds.  Just be glad the kid can’t get into the deep web and find all the human trafficking sites and cannibalism forums.  Hell, you can literally watch a man blowing his own brains out at a press conference on regular ol’ Youtube, complete with blood running out of his nostrils like a faucet.  And how old were you when you first encountered “goatse”?  Pretty sure fan art is the least of your concerns.  If you wouldn’t let them wander around downtown unsupervised, then don’t leave them on the internet unsupervised, or without parental filters enabled.  The computer isn’t a fucking babysitter.

BUT LOOK AT ALL THAT PORN THERE IS PORN EVERYWHERE LOOK HOW WE MADE THE FANDOM INACCESSIBLE TO MINORS LOOK AT THIS LOOK AT ALL THE PORN EVERYWHERE AAAAH!!!

It’s almost as if the shitheads who also fucking photoshop Rainbow Dash onto the shirt of a racist mass murderer are just making shit up because they can’t stand the fact that we are having fun in our fandom, and because they are overall vile, hateful, vaguely human-shaped pieces of filth that have no life or joy or hobby besides hunting “icky males” and those they take as their associates online.