@Background Pony #F272  
Ah, thanks~

@Pickleless  
Featured is voted on by the staff, but Trending is algorithmic.

RIP Apogee racial purity. Generations ago Celesia would order to shave her mane and put a tattoo on her forehead.

@Pickleless  
If this was selected as the featured image I could die happy.

I think the best thing about this being SFW and all the attention it’s getting is depending if the most popular picture thing is runned by a bot, there’s a high chance of it getting displayed on the front page as a popular image.

Oh yes

@Alex Ander  
“adventure in the comments”, the tag’s been on this image for a while now

@Calena  
You’re still allowed to draw your own interpretation if you want. 🙂

To this day I find the zebra=black thing hilarious. Mostly because it implies ponies are mind-bogglingly racist, and that’s awesome(I mean, this is a race that nuked itself into nuclear winter and blamed flying ghost-monsters).

@Nightweaver20xx  
You made it look even more terrible.
 
@Entrinity  
Thanks.

Nevertheless I hope this gets a loood follow up

@Nightweaver20xx  
3. Her neck rings can literally be attributed to an African cultural tradition.
 
I’m from South Africa. I can sincerely say that whoever is offended by this should go and ask real Africans if that offends them. Can promise that 9/10 will say no.

Is there a tag for people taking things too seriously in the comments?

@Nightweaver20xx  
As a black person, I am not from Africa.  
Sapphire shores is voiced by a black woman.
 
I’m not trying to critiquing or counter what you said, just putting this out there. It is a bit annoying that black people and zebras in the show have been made out to be correlated. I just want to point out that your points shouldn’t be used as some kind of justification. All black people aren’t African, and from experience Africans do not consider all black people as them either. Same way how Australians are not brits and don’t consider themselves the same.

@Derpy Whooves  
Then you have some really high hopes for this community’s self-control.
 
 
I’m sorry but it’s true
 
i’ll go unsub an try to sleep now

@Nightweaver20xx  
Forums, please. We don’t need every random image on the site with a zebra on it to suddenly become a debate about voice actors and assumptions about race.
 
[edit] Like this.

@Nightweaver20xx  
That then assumes ponies are white. Yet we’ve seen Asian and Egyptian inspired ponyos as well making that theory questionable at best.

@Calena  
I don’t want to play devil’s advocate, but there is evidence supporting our tendency toward doing this:  

My friends were literally sending me that thing (you know!?) about two days ago, I was going to draw it but then this shows up. Lol!

@DocMadfox  
Yeah, me too, I don’t like the fact that black people are usually ponified as zebras.

@Background Pony #8533  
Still don’t see zeebs as black dudes. Unless they’re in dreads or cornrows. Because I’ve never seen anyone other than a black person make those styles look good.
 
Edit: Also her dad’s a dick anyway so I’m good with this.

@Heterodyne  

I’m just waiting to see how far people take this, edit wise. I’ll be disappointed if we don’t at least make it to five hippogriff surrounding Ocellus, or something like that.

@Background Pony #DDD6  

 
You accidentally went anon to reply to the people who were talking to you, right?
 
Either way, settle down. Nobody’s talking about you personally.