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How is this image safe and not suggestive?

@Blissful690
It’s just a character not liking that you’re looking at them, and with a slight blush likely due to embarrassment (possibly she’s upset at stalking); there’s simply not much to the pose to put things in Suggestive for a pony, where a butt being fully out of a skirt is completely normal.

>>3028121 would be safe rather than suggestive, right? There’s a chart ranking the characters by breast size, but it’s not like there are any pictures of breasts—it’s just the characters’ floating heads arranged on a line graph from “flat” to “F cup”.

@radpanic
Yes.

I’m a little unclear on the current standards for inflation and weight gain fetish pictures. Would >>3050068 be safe, since it’s played for laughs and not sexualized inside the picture, or suggestive or questionable because of the size?

@radpanic
Size alone doesn’t really trigger Suggestive/Questionable (a simply large sphere with hooves and a face is Safe…and has to be due to Pony Life literally having that multiple times), but when there’s got big rolls and scrunchy areas, that can push things. I would think this is just barely Questionable

Ratings check:
>>3053440 (deleted)

Semi-grimdark currently. Seems more inline with Grotesque, though I’m wondering if it couldn’t be considered Safe as it doesn’t seem too different than the dissectibles figures.

Safe or suggestive?
>>3053832
I tagged it suggestive because that’s what similar images usually go with, but I don’t see this as anything sexual as far as Derpi is concerned. All there really is is a “sexy” outfit (and a relatively modest one at that) and what I think is a bed.

@Background Pony #B065
Semi-grimdark can operate as if it were semi-grotesque as well, so it’s between that and Safe, and just needs a fair bit of review.

@Background Pony #4869
Safe vs. Suggestive here is just about how much of the butt is showing on the side there. It’d be easy if we saw her from behind, but with this angle, it’s borderline.

I’m sorry, but how is this safe? It’s not very family friendly, is it? I mean, what kind of family friendly show would you expect to see something like that?

@Blissful690
There’s this show called “My Little Pony”…

Maybe by 80s standards, but what about modern standards?

@Blissful690
I’m not a moderator, so I hope it’s okay for me to weigh in on this…

For modern cartoons, Friendship Is Magic itself made references to R-rated media that were definitely meant to fly over the kids’ heads and amuse their parents:

The general rule seems to be that if something requires outside knowledge to become dirty or adult, then it’s still okay to include in children’s media as a bonus for parents watching.

And I’d say the pole dancing in your linked pic falls into that category. The pony isn’t posing provocatively, and she isn’t drawn with any naughty bits to show off. All she’s doing is spinning around a pole, and twirling in place a bit. It requires outside knowledge (namely the fact that strippers typically pole-dance) to make anything about it seem dirty. So I think that’s why it’s considered “safe”.

@Blissful690
While it’s possible that things in the 80s were generally more lenient on this specific case, we are not concerned with specifically maintaining an exclusively “modern” standard, but rather a general one that would not be putting children’s cartoons from certain time periods above Safe. There is incredible variation when it comes to what a given network allows in a show at a given rating, and in general, we are not interested in playing the “well The Hub would’ve not allowed FiM to do that, so it should be above Safe, despite being in official MLP media” game, where everyone’s a loser either from show media being filtered by the Default filter or having to spoiler perfectly normal Saturday morning cartoons as clips in comments for Rule 7.
The Safe rating in general covers anything most TV-Y7 cartoons could get away with, with especially erring on the side of allowance for things MLP media has done, and with a few extra things those couldn’t get away with (swearing and drugs mostly).

@radpanic
Correct, though I would say instead of focusing on references to R-rated material (while I’ve seen people question referencing adult media being safe for kids, it’s a pretty weak thing), it’s better to look to actual visual gags with characters interacting, with implications that would mostly fly over most kids’ heads:

>>3053881 pube peek questionable or suggestive?

@Brokedownandmadeone
Suggestive.

I think quite a few of these could be safe, but I’m not confident about some of them.

@Background Pony #4230
Rerated what I’m pretty sure are Safe among that, less than half.

>>3059424 (Grotesque)
Does this also include explicit? Also not sure if there’s another tag(s) to describe the “play” involved.

@Brokedownandmadeone
Sensual interaction with bodily waste is only Questionable, not Explicit.

Is >>3059702 in fact a “featureless crotch”? It’s…in between. Rating currently stands at “suggestive” but could be “explicit”, depending.

@Background Pony #4230
Looks similar to pretty extreme cameltoe, so I’m thinking Questionable is a minimum here.

Is there anything I’m not seeing about >>3061956? It was uploaded as questionable, changed to safe, then changed back to suggestive by the uploader.

@Background Pony #4230
They must’ve been trying to play it safe on bunny suits.

Rating check: was safe changed to semi-grimdark. I’m not too sure about that, a character sitting in one spot until they become a skeleton for the punchline is a pretty well-worn joke in children’s media.