@patec
Urgh. Yes, you’re right, lying and laying are not the same thing.
There also isn’t a single image tagged “laying down” that is actually of a pony/etc
laying an object down rather than a pony lying down. I asked for examples of such images and no one could provide any, because there
aren’t any. There aren’t any because no one describes or searches for images that way, and even if they did there’s no way to tell whether a character would be laying down the object or
picking it up unless it was animated.
There are, however, at the current moment, 104 images depicting a character
lying down that are tagged “laying down”, because
the overwhelming bulk of the English speaking population does not recognize or care to recognize the grammatical difference between “lie” and “lay”.
Now again, are we going to do something about it or just continue ignoring the problem entirely?