Clop iserotic orpornographicfan art,fan fiction,fan films,fan games, and otherfan labor based onMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, and further generations of theMy Little Pony franchise.
The termclop, derived from ahoofbeat, also meansmasturbation in this context. An internal study within the fandom suggests that about 19% ofbronies (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 theMy Little Pony fan community as a whole.
Clop is both anonomatopoeia and apun orwordplay on the slang wordfap, itself an onomatopoeia as well.[1][2]Clop is also used as a verb, meaningto masturbate. Related terms includeclopfic (aportmanteau ofclop andfan fic) forerotic andslash fiction centered aroundMy Little Pony characters, andclopper for a person who enjoys this type of material.[3][4]
Clop is considered to be either a subset ofbrony fandom,furry fandom, or both.[5][6] Compared to other types of fan art, clop features homosexualships more prominently.[7] The topic has received scholarly attention.[8][9][10][11][12] Clopping (masturbating to clop) is frowned upon by someMy Little Pony fans.[5] However, in 2015,The Guardian reported that the/mlp/ brony community (theMy Little Pony board of4chan) sawnot clopping as a form of heresy, and viewed having sex with a real person negatively.[13] In July 2015, the most popular character in clop onPornhub wasRainbow Dash, followed byRarity andPinkie Pie.[14] Justin Mullis wrote that "the amount of [clop] continues to grow at an astounding rate".[15]
By 2013, theimageboard rule34.paheal.net hosted 53,731 sexually explicit images taggedMy Little Pony; 49,419 of them featured characters fromFriendship Is Magic.[3] By 2015, the website hosted 64,889 sexually explicit images taggedMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic,[15] and by 2017, it hosted over 95,401.[3]
On thefurry imageboarde621, over 82,469 images were taggedMy Little Pony by 2015;[15] by 2017, the number of such images had nearly doubled to 147,037.[3] TheMane Six have been among the most frequently tagged characters on e621.[15][16] Since 2011,Twilight Sparkle has been the most frequently tagged character, reaching 33,792 tagged images by March 2023.[17][better source needed] As of September 2025[update], Twilight Sparkle is the most frequently tagged character on e621 with over 38,000 images;Judy Hopps fromZootopia has the second most tags with over 37,500 images.[16]Fluttershy andRainbow Dash are the third and fourth most tagged characters, respectively.[16]
As of September 2025[update], theMy Little Pony imageboardDerpibooru hosts over 500,000 images tagged as "explicit".[18]
An example of clop is theAdobe Flashpoint-and-click adventure gameBanned from Equestria (Daily) by Pokehidden.[19] In recent years, the use of technology andartificial intelligence in clop has become popular within the brony fandom, such as using15.ai for AI voice acting (e.g. in the explicit music video seriesPony Zone).[20][21]
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 byPornhub revealed that most cloppers weremillennials then between 18 and 24 years old, and men were 37% more likely to search for clop than women.[14][22] In 2022,MEL magazine reported that male bronies who enjoyed clop represented "not a tiny minority," referencing aTwitter poll in which nearly half of brony respondents reported interest in clop.[23]
On Pornhub, clop was watched the most inEastern Europe, withBelarus,Russia,Ukraine, and theCzech Republic being the top four consumers as of the survey date.Puerto Rico was fifth.[14]
Aclopfic is clopfan fiction.[24][25] OnFimFiction.net, the central fandom repository forMy Little Pony fan fiction, erotic stories are managed through a comprehensive content rating system: explicit sexual content is labeled with the "sex" tag.[26] 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 offutanari characters—female characters that possess male genitalia (often through magical means).[25]
The range of erotic content in these stories varies widely, from mild romantic encounters to explicit material featuringBDSM, non-consensual scenarios, and various fetishes.[25]
Gianna Decarlo, a journalist forThe Baltimore Sun, condemned clop as one of the problems of theMy Little Pony fandom, calling the erotic art an "unstoppable force of sexual deviancy" from which "not even a simpleGoogle search is safe."[27] EJ Dickson ofThe 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.[28]
On a discussion on clop inEquestria 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 assapient beings with human-like qualities rather than as animals.[29] One user noted:
"Being attracted toRainbow 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.'"[29]
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.[29]
In 2024, Helina Hartman ofRutgers University examined how theMane Six are transformed and reinterpreted within the clop community. Hartman found that the original character designs ofTwilight Sparkle,Applejack,Rainbow Dash,Pinkie Pie,Rarity, andFluttershy—which were created to embody positive feminine values and friendship—were systematically altered through processes ofsexualization andmasculinization. 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.[30]
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