@Background Pony #F2FF  
I agree about Cadence. She’s very sinilar, but it wasnt intentional. But she isnt a RD recolour in the end either. But its just the fact it deserved a downvote despite the quality and content rule of the site.

@JustTheBast  
cause people get pissy sometimes when i downvote an image that the masses like and it’s funny. and also I guess as a way to prove those people wrong who are like “how could anyone dislike this image?” or some other mass encompassing statement like the whole world would like said image, but i don’t, and explaining it would just confuse me.  
i guess it’s more as a silent strike against stupid people?  
honestlly most of the time i just do it as people can be shiiiiiiit with tags so i fix them nd then downvote if it’s something i dislike/would filter if I didn’t like it sometimes  
and of course upvote and fave things I like, so I downvote things i dislike, and don’t vote at all for things I don’t care about, simple logic.

@Background Pony #6247  
If you really don’t like something, you absolutely should register that, the same way you would show your like of something else (you do upvote the things that you like, right?). But, if it “feels good”, how sure can you be that you’re actually expressing your taste and not doing it for the rewarding feeling of being the freethinker who’s different from the masses?
 
 
@Background Human  
While this is an admirable sentiment, if it’s taken in the spirit it was intended, too many take it as “Fight for what you believe, no matter how thoroughly disproven it is or how many you have to hurt for it.” Unless you have ironclad proof of your position and the opposing view is based on nothing but emotional appeals and hot air, you must always consider the possibility that the reason why everyone thinks you’re wrong might simply be that you’re wrong.
 
But taken as it was meant, those are words to live by. Truth and reality are not subject to popular appeal and votes. Even if everybody else decides that 1+1 is 5, it doesn’t change reality, and reality will vindicate you, if you remain steadfast in claiming that it’s 2 instead.
 
Of course, the press will report this “controversy” as a matter of “he said, she said” without ever investing even a moment into investigating whether one side is based on facts and the other on made-up bullshit, because that would apparently be “bias”. And as always there will be people who believe that where there are two opposing sides, the truth must be in the middle and therefore 1+1 is 3.5.

@SJArt117  
Or maybe Cadance in a regular-sized pony body.

I am quite often ‘that one guy’.  
Feels good! Take that, things everyone likes except me! No perfect score for you!

@SJArt117  
Regardless of the different details, the OC still looks primarily like a Dash recolor.

@Background Pony #F2FF  
Since when did RD wear a black ponytail though, and have curled eyelashes? The manestyles are similar, but the original has a ‘curvy’ mane which curls and is shaggy. It just winds me up that even though the quality is pretty much the same, people downvote because of an OC. XD

@JustTheBast  
It’s not a bot. I’ve often come across images without any downvotes.
 
@Background Human  
I must say, I like the cut of that guy’s jib.

Yeah, I commented on this as well.
 

 
There is simply no such thing as “universal appeal”, and that’s fine. Although, honestly, I think that there’s a bot script out there that simply downvotes anything that is uploaded to derpibooru automatically.
 
 
@Background Human  
Note, though, that he doesn’t say, “Be that asshole who always has to go against what everyone else thinks, just for the sake of being contrary.” People always seem to get these two concepts confused.

Some people just want to watch the world burn ¯*(ツ)*/¯

I was tempted to be this guy once.  
Only to screw everyone over.
 
I did.

@SJArt117  
The first one looks like a recolor of the second, not vice versa.

Been that guy, i hate that excessive blush allover the human body.

Guilty.

Original -1 Recolour -0
 
A blatant recolour edit gets no downvotes and more than three times as many upvotes as the original piece. Crazy stuff. XD

Pinkie ain’t having that shit.  

That’s fyaying metal as fyay, dude!

It’s so true, and yet no one really cares. X3

Shouldn’t be afraid to be that guy.

Been that guy before.

Not this shit again…  
WHO CARES!!