Clop (erotic fan art)

Clop (also referred to as My Little Pony pornography, or pony porn for short) is erotic and pornographic fan art, fan fiction, fan films, fan games, 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 term for masturbation. Related terms include clopfic—a portmanteau of clop and fanfic, for erotic 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 alongside its other forms of fan works. Variously described as a subset of the brony and furry fandoms, 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 imageboards, fan fiction published on Fimfiction, and other fan content, including those generated using artificial intelligence tools. Characters from Friendship Is Magic are among the most frequently tagged on the furry imageboard e621, and the My Little Pony imageboard Derpibooru hosts hundreds of thousands of explicit images.

A source of controversy both within and outside the My Little Pony fandom, clop has been criticized by bronies and outsiders alike for sexualizing children's media; in response, bronies have taken measures to tag such works as explicit on search engines and fan sites. Fans of clop consistently distinguish it from zoophilia, as their interest is directed at fictional characters perceived as sapient beings with human-like qualities, rather than at real animals. Though internal fandom surveys in 2013 suggested that only a minority of bronies have engaged in clopping, surveys in recent years have found that consumption of clop has become more widespread and accepted, with a majority of respondents in recent polls reporting that they consider explicit pony content to be a valid form of self-expression.