why is Wild Manes content not allowed on Derpibooru?

I noticed that some screenshots and vectors of the characters have been removed today, and I wonder

why is Wild Manes related content not allowed here anymore?

I’ve seen other pony related art or real life photography of horses get uploaded here that has nothing to do with the MLP at all, so how is Wild Manes not considered pony related enough for this site?

It is weird that this place accepts TFH despite being only tangentially related, and that’s not even getting into the stuff this place DOES let slip like AI. But I’m guessing it’s just something about it not being made by Hasbro or such that has people mad, which is also kind of funny since it’s not even out yet so no knows if it’s even good or bad or not.

Can you like not wait a full week before rushing to condemnation or judgement.

@Background Pony #6F9E
Because it’s not MLP or related to MLP. If you see images here that are not rule-abiding, please report them.

@evocov
TFH has a history of originally being an MLP fangame that got DMCA’d and got transformed into TFH, so it has a place in the fandom due to this. As far as I can tell, Wild Manes is just a random horse cartoon.

That being said, staff are working on figuring this all out for now…

I know the history of TFH but there’s honestly not much overlap left between the fandoms, especially since TFH has tried to ditch it’s connections over time. Regardless it’s just amusing to see panic over whether a show made to sell toys of cartoon ponies might have overlap with a show made to sell toys of cartoon ponies, all just cause two different toy companies are making these.

@evocov
It’s already determined to be ‘surrounding community’ per Rule #3. If you don’t like it, filter the tag. And let people get back to their thing that this thread is for, ok?

Derail attempt denied.

@evocov
This is a site about my little pony, not ponies [or horses] in general. That is the important distinction.

Just because something has horses in it doesn’t automatically make it My Little Pony related.

@Background Pony #6CD2
So then they should be delete all TFH and Filly Funtasia images.

@Background Pony #D901
Not to backseat mod, but TFH has already been addressed above multiple times. Funtasia barely has 100 images and the most recent was uploaded 7 months ago. You’re making mountains out of atomic molehills.

Rule 3 says if something is mlp related or related to the fandom, it’s mlp related through that wording of the rule 3 in that it’s a fandom interest. Fans are going to watch and make art and all other none mlp art on the site makes this whole issue stupid as fuck. People say it’s stealing from mlp and it definitely is inspired by it so doesn’t that make them jakks Pacifics ocs and the story no different from a fic using just ocs? No one questions last unicorn art, also I like tfh but it is a good point that that and many other horse media has always been fine.

If I draw a wild manes mare next to an mlp mare how is that gonna be handled? Cause this exists https://derpibooru.org/images/1637205?q=Homer+Simpson%2C+South+Park
Weird to allow this level of something so not mlp but not let wild manes here

Honestly if people like Wild Manes so much, go make your own booru for it. Philomena is free and open-source to use and set up, and there’s The Booru Project too if you don’t feel like learning a new skill.

@Background Pony #6CD2
Plus, most of the Filly Funtasia images are MLP memes or MLP characters done in the Filly Funtasia style (or vice versa). Most of them aren’t solely Filly Funtasia.

@JCV
Manebooru is already taken by as a alternative ponybooru. Besides they don’t want to create a new community, they want to use the popularity of an established one while posting content that has nothing to do with it. That’s why you get posts of Wild Manes here not elsewhere as the altbooru scrapers just port over content down the grapevine.

@Background Pony #B6C2
Then make a new booru. This site isn’t named “friendship is magic”. Name it after a character in the show you like or something. Maybe their town, assuming they have one?

@Ciaran
Tfh being made by old fans, and having lauren on it doesn’t make it my little pony at all. Also them fighting herds has non my little pony designs for species in mlp making it even more not my little pony. If all something needs is vague relation to mlp in completely autistic ways then wild manes being made as a literal knock off of mlp shouldn’t. The weirdest thing about all this is some people’s art arnt mlp. And their ocs arnt mlp, so oc art isn’t really mlp it’s just random horse(most of the time not eqg styled ocs or none mlp furries) art people make.

Crazy thing is most of the people that are gonna watch it will be fans from this fandom but that’s not good enough to say it’s mlp related, but if I went and drew an anthro shark oc you guys will defend that as mlp related somehow

@Ciaran
Literally them fighting herds exists because it’s legally not mlp, so saying wild manes isn’t legally mlp is bullshit what is the real reason not to let it on this site? It’s hypocritical to bend the rules for so much garbage but not let it for something when the reasoning isn’t followed anywhere else

All arguments about this can be said about tfh and all the non pony oc stuff that clearly doesn’t fit the rules but you guys allow anyways. Not saying to remove those things at all, just saying it’s weird and makes you guys look like asses just a bit tbh

Christ alive and bleeding on a stick. This shit is being discussed. Until then the current policy is in place (and may still be after).

Crap like this definitely doesn’t enthuse the staff that would be on the side of changing policy.

Yet again the virtues of patience or civil discourse remain a complete fantasy in the online world, much better to demand immediate results and hurl insults around.

I don’t understand this obsession with Wild Manes, and it’s not like it’s completely banned. The mods are generous enough to leave some fanarts and a trailer on the site. Some of the art don’t even have any MLP characters in it. And even worse a game that’s been dead for 8 months is also being discussed. Them’s Fightin’ Herds is literally a game born out of a fan project where the developers are called Mane6. We’d rather accept a random show that just happens to feature horses as MLP content than a game dedicated to pony fans. Do we really even care about MLP? Do people reject G5 so much they’re desperate for anything just because horses are involved? Is Bojack Horseman related to MLP now too?

No.

But Bob’s Burgers might be …

I regret opening this thread.

@Just Wayne
Agreed. A line’s gotta be drawn somewhere. I feel like the hype for Wild Manes won’t last, and then all we’ve done is set a precedent for anything horsey to be posted to Derpi. Maybe a better analogy here would be furry horse OCs, which are removed from the site.