@Blissey1
Not many at all. Really. Even if it was more common, something like this would fit “human on pony action” far more than interspecies.
@Background Pony #2C20
Braeburn x Double Diamond is at least intuitive (and doesn’t tend to stir shit up). People were calling Double Diamond the new Braeburn after the S5 premier aired, IIRC.
@Background Pony #2C20
Well, Soarinjack and Exedrus have made some pretty good points… 4 out of 1260 Flashlight images being tagged interspecies, for one.
This is still the official spoiler image? So uh… we’re planning to replace this with a real spoiler image that actually fits the interspecies tag… right?
@Background Pony #2C20
What are you not getting about the “circumnavigating the filters”? That’s the issue. We can’t tell people to just filter it if there is a chance of them seeing it regardless of responsible filter use. Ducks will never let us hear the end of it!
You know one thing that I find interesting and probably sad about some of the most extreme Flash haters is that they tend to behave exactly like a parody of themselves. I know Flash is a overall poorly constructed character. But c’mon! This is just childish by now.
@Soarinjack
Even if Flash is such a polarizing character, I highly doubt this image is going to spark up that much drama in the long run. Unless I am severely overestimating the sanity of the human race, of course.
@MethidMan
I was more so poking fun at how a lot of feminists have extreme actions towards the miniscule things that they have literally no reason to be upset about. Like oh no that man has his legs at a slightly wider angle than usual, he’s showing off his masculinity and clearly must hate women.
@zippysqrl
While I certainly have very little respect for feminists for their extreme actions, their reasons for being upset are based on real-world societal issues in a world they have to live in and share with others.
Flash Sentry on the other hand is just a cartoon character in a show made for little girls. The fact people are upset over a character who doesn’t even exist is another kind of problem here.
@Background Pony #2C20
It’s not about being “traumatizing” or anything quite as dramatic as that.
Flash Sentry is a…let’s call it polarizing character. Primarily because of his connection with Equestria Girls. As such he is a prime lightning rod for drama, pointless anti/pro whining, vapid shipping wars and other types of “spirited debates”, something most fans desperately want to avoid.
Pretty much anywahere, the typical response is; don’t like, don’t watch/read/play. On Derpi, we have an even better option; don’t like, filter it and stop whining about it! Using one of the most polarizing ships of the fandom as the icon of an unrelated tag is kinda circumventing the point of the filters.
Most people who actively search for “interspecies” want to see the images tagged as such. The entire point of tags are to make images easier to searh and filter, nothing more.
If they actually are bothered by it, 1. they’d hide it not spoiler it
This, right here.
I don’t see any reason people would want to even know the images are there if they hate it so much, unless of course they want to know about them so they can go be ducks in the comments
@Background Pony #FA12
I really don’t understand how seeing this image could really be a big deal for anybody. I’m new to this fandom, so I might not understand, but does Flash really traumatize people that much? It can’t be any more traumatizing than what one might encounter by searching up “interspecies”, can it?
@Background Pony #2C20
If that’s the case, why even gave filters in the first place? Don’t like it? That just plain sucks!
Did you see a Grotesque, Grimdark, Cupcakes image? It’s a small picture! Get over it! … It’s just; filters are there for a reason. It’s why I love Derpibooru. If some … uncouth individual is making a fuzz about… I don’t know… Appledash, Dislestia, Gamer Luna, Socks, Explicit [images], memes, I can tell, them to just f||*yay*||ing filter it. Now? Not so much…