Clop (erotic fan art)

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Clop
Years active2010–present
LocationWorldwide
Influences My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Clop is erotic or pornographic fan art, fan fiction, fan films, fan games, and other fan labor based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , My Little Pony: Equestria Girls , and further generations of the My Little Pony franchise.

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The term clop, derived from a hoofbeat, also means "masturbation" in this context. Clop content emerged on the web around 2010. A study[ which? ] suggests that about 19% of bronies (My Little Pony fans) have engaged in "clopping." Critics who view it as a problematic aspect of the fandom fear that it might taint the reputation of the My Little Pony fan community as a whole.

Etymology

Clop is both an onomatopoeia and a pun or wordplay on the slang word fap , itself an onomatopoeia as well. [1] [2] Clop is also used as a verb, meaning 'masturbate'. Related terms include clop-fic for erotic and slash fiction centered around My Little Pony characters, and clopper for a person who enjoys this type of material. [3] [4]

History

Clop is considered to be either a subset of brony fandom, furry fandom, or both. [5] [6] Compared to other types of fan art, clop features homosexual ships more prominently. [7] The topic has received scholarly attention. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Clopping (masturbating to clop) is frowned upon by some My Little Pony fans. [5] However, in 2015, The Guardian reported that the 4chan brony community saw not clopping as a form of heresy, and viewed having sex with a real person negatively. [13] As of July 2015, the most popular character in clop on Pornhub was Rainbow Dash, followed by Rarity and Pinkie Pie. [14]

In 2013, the hosting website rule34.paheal.net hosted 53,731 sexually explicit images tagged My Little Pony; 49,419 of them featured characters from Friendship Is Magic. As of January 2017, there were over 95,401 sexually explicit images on rule34.paheal.net. On the imageboard e621, there were over 147,037 images tagged "My Little Pony". [3]

An example of clop is the Adobe Flash point-and-click adventure game Banned from Equestria (Daily) by Pokehidden. [15] In recent years, the use of technology and artificial intelligence in clop has become popular, such as using 15.ai for AI voice acting (e.g. in the explicit music video series Pony Zone) [16] [17] and AI art generators like PurpleSmart.ai. [18] [ better source needed ]

A 2022 Twitter poll of bronies found that 50% of its respondents enjoyed clop. [19]

Demographics and geography

According to internal studies undertaken by the brony fandom, 19.05% of bronies have engaged in clopping, but it is assumed that the percentage is larger. [5] A 2015 survey by Pornhub revealed that most cloppers were millennials between 18 and 24 years old, and men were 37% more likely to search for clop than women. [14] [20]

On Pornhub, clop was watched the most in Eastern Europe, with Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic being the top four consumers as of the survey date. Puerto Rico was fifth. [14]

Clopfics

A clopfic is clop fanfiction. [21] On FimFiction.net, the central fandom repository for My Little Pony fanfiction, erotic stories are managed through a comprehensive content rating system: explicit sexual content is labeled with the "sex" tag. [22] The Clopfics group on FimFiction.net is the largest community on the site. The site also hosts several specialized erotic subgenres, such as Futaquestria, which features stories of futanari characters—female characters that possess male genitalia (often through magical means). [21]

The range of erotic content in these stories varies widely, from mild romantic encounters to explicit material featuring BDSM, non-consensual scenarios, and various fetishes. Despite this diversity, discussions within the Clopfics community generally maintain a respectful tone with minimal use of vulgar language typically associated with hardcore pornography. [21]

Reception

Gianna Decarlo, a journalist for The Baltimore Sun , condemned clop as one of the problems of the My Little Pony fandom, calling the erotic art an "unstoppable force of sexual deviancy" from which "not even a simple Google search is safe." [23] EJ Dickson of The Daily Dot wrote that clop enthusiasts were "black sheep in the community" of bronies, most of whom fear that cloppers will give the entire fandom a bad name. [24]

On a discussion on clop in Equestria Forums, an online brony forum, users argued that cloppers are not attracted to real-life horses but rather to "humanized ponies", emphasizing that the characters are perceived as sapient beings with human-like qualities rather than as animals. [25] One user noted:

"Being attracted to Rainbow Dash is a lot different than being attracted to a fucking horse. I’m sure very few people are looking at mlp porn thinking 'oh my god oh my god oh my god i want to put my dick inside a horsssee' it’s more like 'oh my god Dashie you're so fucking sexy I am willing to look past the fact that you’re a horse.'" [25]

Another user from the same discussion supported this perspective, noting that characters like Rainbow Dash "are perceived as people at a mental level" and possess humanized features that differentiate them from actual animals. [25]

In 2024, Helina Hartman of Rutgers University examined how the Mane Six are transformed and reinterpreted within the clop community. Hartman found that the original character designs of Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy —which were created to embody positive feminine values and friendship—were systematically altered through processes of sexualization and masculinization. Hartman observed that the Mane Six's individual personalities and character traits, originally designed to represent elements of friendship, become secondary to their transformation into objects of sexual desire or symbols of masculine conquest. Hartman wrote that this reinterpretation strips away the characters' original feminist messaging and educational value and replaces their roles as positive role models for young girls with versions that reinforce traditional masculine dominance and heterosexual validation, which inverts the show's core themes of friendship and empowerment. [26]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Notopoulos, Katie (November 21, 2013). "The Terrifyingly Violent New Genre Of "My Little Pony Fan" Art". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Mullis, J. (2017). Boyle, Jan; Wan-chuan, Kao (eds.). "'All the Pretty Little Ponies': Bronies, Desire, and Cuteness" (PDF). The Retrovision of Cuteness. Goleta: Punctum Books: 88. ISBN   978-1-947447-28-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
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  8. ↑ Silverstein, Andrew. "My Little Brony: Connecting Gender Blurring and Discursive Formations" (PDF). Colloquy. 9 (Fall 2013): 98–117. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-12. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
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  12. ↑ Bailey, John; Harvey, Brenna (April 2017). "'That pony is real sexy': My Little Pony fans, sexual abjection, and the politics of masculinity online". Men and Masculinities . 20 (1): 27–48. doi:10.1177/1097184X15613831. S2CID   147019683.
  13. ↑ Gabbatt, Adam (12 March 2015). "What a masculinity conference taught me about the state of men". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 9 February 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  14. 1 2 3 Fellizar, Kristine (24 July 2015). "Millennials Are Masturbating To 'My Little Pony' Porn, Says New Survey, And Rainbow Dash Is The Fan Favorite". Bustle . Bustle Digital Group. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  15. ↑ "Banned from Equestria (Daily)". IGDB . Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  16. ↑ "More Pony Music! We Shine Brighter Together!". Equestria Daily .
  17. ↑ Abisola, Shojobi (January 3, 2025). "The MIT Project That Paved Way For Modern Voice AI". Independent . Archived from the original on February 27, 2025. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
  18. ↑ "AI and The Future of Fandom Art - How Is This Going to Play Out and How do You Generate a Pony?". Equestria Daily .
  19. ↑ Kim, Eddie (24 January 2022). "Are Bronies Operatives of the Manosphere in Ponies' Clothing?". Mel Magazine. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
  20. ↑ Sophie Kleeman (July 23, 2015). "Why Millennials Are Masturbating to "My Little Pony" Porn". Mic. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  21. 1 2 3 Bajor, Jan (June 2015). Między bajką a perwersją – pornografia i erotyka fanowska w środowisku internetowym na przykładzie fandomu My Little Pony: Przyjaźń to Magia[Between fairy tale and perversion - fan pornography and erotica in the internet environment using the example of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom]. Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology (Master's thesis) (in Polish). Warsaw: University of Warsaw.
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  25. 1 2 3 Ellis, Bill (2015). "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet". Journal of American Folklore. 128 (509). American Folklore Society: 298–314. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.128.509.0298.
  26. ↑ Hartman, Helina (2024). "From Ponies to Men: The Hypermasculinization of My Little Pony". Dialogues. 19. Rutgers University: 126–140.
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