PoliticsPoni
Written to the tune of Nena’s legendary ‘99 Luftballons’ (The original German version) and made to match its beats and phrasing as well as possible.
So all this recent animus got me in a writing mood and this is the result.
This follows the story the Derpibooru community finds itself in as I understand it starting with the posting of BLM artwork following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent downvote brigading up to the present day of grappling with censorship and odious Nazi ideology.
The ‘99 pony pictures’ in question flip around but may generally be interpreted in different ways to different people.
I fear the worst but I truly hope there can be some resolution reached before masses of artists really remove all their hard work from this site. Centralized websites for artistic works such as Derpibooru and Fimfiction are true treasures to the fandom in terms of being well maintained and active, many other fanbases do not have the luxury of such large sites dedicated exclusively to their fanworks. Let’s keep trying to make things better here.
May our love for ponies unite us.
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Do you have some time for me,
If so I’ll sing a song for you
‘bout 99 pony pictures
Uploaded to an imageboard.
Maybe you’re drawing ponies now
If so I’ll sing a song for you
‘bout 99 pony pictures
And what came from such creative works…
~
99 pony pictures
Posted after great injustice
Some thought them just too bothersome
So they grouped up to all downvote them
Pretend knights in a social war
Couldn’t just filter and ignore
Believed that they were fighting more
Than 99 pony pictures.
99 site commentators
Every one with sharpened tack wit
Each thought they were Socrates
Each of them spouts fallacies;
‘No Nazis!’ is what some beseech
Others say ‘It’s about free speech!’
No one is happy anymore
With 99 pony pictures.
~
99 artists take stands
Swearing off the now stained brand
Thought it was beyond repair
Delete their works without fanfare;
The admins all now in a bind
Have to walk a thinning line
Friendships crumble to the ground
‘cause 99 pony pictures.
‘cause 99 pony pictures
99 pony pictures
…99 long weeks of fights
Typed out battles long forgotten,
No more artists posting works
Just blank pages with ‘404’
Today I visit this old website
A place now in an endless dark night
There I find a gray mail mare
and think what magic was once there….
If so I’ll sing a song for you
‘bout 99 pony pictures
Uploaded to an imageboard.
Maybe you’re drawing ponies now
If so I’ll sing a song for you
‘bout 99 pony pictures
And what came from such creative works…
~
99 pony pictures
Posted after great injustice
Some thought them just too bothersome
So they grouped up to all downvote them
Pretend knights in a social war
Couldn’t just filter and ignore
Believed that they were fighting more
Than 99 pony pictures.
99 site commentators
Every one with sharpened tack wit
Each thought they were Socrates
Each of them spouts fallacies;
‘No Nazis!’ is what some beseech
Others say ‘It’s about free speech!’
No one is happy anymore
With 99 pony pictures.
~
99 artists take stands
Swearing off the now stained brand
Thought it was beyond repair
Delete their works without fanfare;
The admins all now in a bind
Have to walk a thinning line
Friendships crumble to the ground
‘cause 99 pony pictures.
‘cause 99 pony pictures
99 pony pictures
…99 long weeks of fights
Typed out battles long forgotten,
No more artists posting works
Just blank pages with ‘404’
Today I visit this old website
A place now in an endless dark night
There I find a gray mail mare
and think what magic was once there….
Written to the tune of Nena’s legendary ‘99 Luftballons’ (The original German version) and made to match its beats and phrasing as well as possible.
So all this recent animus got me in a writing mood and this is the result.
This follows the story the Derpibooru community finds itself in as I understand it starting with the posting of BLM artwork following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent downvote brigading up to the present day of grappling with censorship and odious Nazi ideology.
The ‘99 pony pictures’ in question flip around but may generally be interpreted in different ways to different people.
I fear the worst but I truly hope there can be some resolution reached before masses of artists really remove all their hard work from this site. Centralized websites for artistic works such as Derpibooru and Fimfiction are true treasures to the fandom in terms of being well maintained and active, many other fanbases do not have the luxury of such large sites dedicated exclusively to their fanworks. Let’s keep trying to make things better here.
May our love for ponies unite us.
/)
