Clop (erotic fan art)

[[File:MLP clop fanart of a pony version of Wikipedia.png|thumb|upright=1.2|A [[ponified]] version of [[Wikipe-tan]], the unofficial mascot of [[Wikipedia]], in a [[softcore pornography|softcore]] sexually suggestive pose]]

[[File:MLP clop fanart of a pony version of Wikipedia.png|thumb|upright=1.2|A [[ponified]] version of [[Wikipe-tan]], the unofficial mascot of [[Wikipedia]], in a [[softcore pornography|softcore]] sexually suggestive pose]]

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'''Clop''' (also referred to as '''pony porn'''{{cite journal |last=Hautakangas |first=Mikko |title=It's OK to be joyful? My Little Pony and Brony masculinity |journal=Journal of Popular Television |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=111–118 |year=2015 |doi=10.1386/jptv.3.1.111_1 |publisher=Intellect}}) is [[erotic art|erotic]] and [[pornography|pornographic]] [[fan art]], [[fan fiction]], [[fan film]]s, [[fan game]]s, and other [[fan labor]] based on ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', ''[[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls]]'', and subsequent generations of the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' franchise. The term ''clop'' derives from the [[onomatopoeia]] for a hoofbeat and is a pun on ''fap'', an [[Internet slang|Internet slang]] term for [[masturbation]]. Related terms include ''clopfic''—a [[portmanteau]] of ''clop'' and ''fanfic'', for [[erotic fiction|erotic]] [[My Little Pony fan fiction|''My Little Pony'' fan fiction]]—and ''clopping'' for the act of masturbating to clop.

'''Clop''' (also referred to as '''doctos'''{{cite journal |last=Hautakangas |first=Mikko |title=It's OK to be joyful? My Little Pony and Brony masculinity |journal=Journal of Popular Television |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=111–118 |year=2015 |doi=10.1386/jptv.3.1.111_1 |publisher=Intellect}}) is [[erotic art|erotic]] and [[pornography|pornographic]] [[fan art]], [[fan fiction]], [[fan film]]s, [[fan game]]s, and other [[fan labor]] based on ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', ''[[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls]]'', and subsequent generations of the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' franchise. The term ''clop'' derives from the [[onomatopoeia]] for a hoofbeat and is a pun on ''fap'', an [[Internet slang|Internet slang]] term for [[masturbation]]. Related terms include ''clopfic''—a [[portmanteau]] of ''clop'' and ''fanfic'', for [[erotic fiction|erotic]] [[My Little Pony fan fiction|''My Little Pony'' fan fiction]]—and ''clopping'' for the act of masturbating to clop.

The [[brony fandom]] (the adult fandom of ''Friendship Is Magic'' that emerged on the Internet in the early 2010s) gave rise to clop [[Art of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|alongside its other forms of fan labor]]. Variously described as a subset of the brony and [[furry fandom]]s, clop has grown into one of the largest bodies of erotic fan content associated with any single media franchise. It spans visual art distributed on [[imageboard]]s, fan fiction published on [[Fimfiction]], and other fan content, including those [[generative artificial intelligence|generated using artificial intelligence]] tools. [[List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters|Characters from ''Friendship Is Magic'']] are among the most frequently tagged on the furry imageboard [[e621 (website)|e621]], and the ''My Little Pony'' imageboard [[Derpibooru]] hosts hundreds of thousands of explicit images.

The [[brony fandom]] (the adult fandom of ''Friendship Is Magic'' that emerged on the Internet in the early 2010s) gave rise to clop [[Art of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom|alongside its other forms of fan labor]]. Variously described as a subset of the brony and [[furry fandom]]s, clop has grown into one of the largest bodies of erotic fan content associated with any single media franchise. It spans visual art distributed on [[imageboard]]s, fan fiction published on [[Fimfiction]], and other fan content, including those [[generative artificial intelligence|generated using artificial intelligence]] tools. [[List of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic characters|Characters from ''Friendship Is Magic'']] are among the most frequently tagged on the furry imageboard [[e621 (website)|e621]], and the ''My Little Pony'' imageboard [[Derpibooru]] hosts hundreds of thousands of explicit images.