@Background Pony #8FF7  
And most of it is 3 years ago.

Comment sections like these are one of the reasons why I long for a nuclear fallout…

@thps48  
I’m not much of a ‘shipper, but to each their own.  
Honestly, I’m neutral on FlashLight.

@Beau Skunky  
I enjoy any ship because they’re all relatively enjoyable. Them annoying unpleasant fans is a fun bonus. ;3

@Neoar2000  
Neither is every other ‘ship you like I’m sure.
 
Seriously, alot of your comments seem to be rather focused on this.  
People like you, make me want to support this ’ship out of spite. :P

>Flashlight
 
What is wrong with you?? EQG isn’t even CANON.
 
This is disgusting. REEEEEEEEEEEEE

@Background Pony #7D02  
yes love twilight and flash

no love twilight and Flash

Shiny to the rescue!

@Shining☬Armor
 
If it’s any consolation, you’ve made your little sister happy.

Oh, woe! This is all my fault! I should have stopped their bumping against each other when I had a chance! Now they’ll be bumping all throughout the night!

DAMMIT SHINING!

@Axi  
It’s possible, but clearly not always the case.  
A perfect example is the “mouthpiece” tag.  
Many of those are well-drawn, with artwork clearly worthy of upvotes.  
However, with the controversial text on most of them, the artwork quality is ignored, and they are downvoted based on subject matter alone.
 
There are other examples, but I hesitate to bring them up on a “safe” image.

@Axi I seem to notice that with a lot of dm29 and Cartuneslover’s pictures is there is this ‘oddness’ to their work where it’s kinda uncanny valley in a way. It’s really “show-accurate-but-not-quite-actually”

@Ridley Wolf  
Or maybe they don’t like the art?

@Justice4243  
That fits with the thirty-eight downvotes this currently has.
 
Isn’t it interesting how people will downvote a perfectly good piece of art simply because they don’t like the subject matter?
 
I’m sure we’ve all done it.

@Ridley Wolf
 
There’s also the people who just dislike the meme, regardless of how it’s used.
 
dm29 Flashlight picks seems to average around 25 downvotes, doing loving things tend to get a handful (around 3 or 4) so it’s possibly some of the downvotes are people upset from the “misuse”.

@Ridley Wolf  
Something about falling down the rabbit hole springs to mind. You know what i mean right?

I can’t help but wonder how many of the downvotes came from people who dislike the “misuse” of the meme, how many came from people who dislike ships that aren’t their “OTP,” and how many of them came from generic Flash Sentry hate.

@ClockSpiral  
Is it Fall ’14 yet? No? Then eat a lemon. :I

GET DEVELOPED ALREADY YOU WASTE OF ANIMATION!

“Stop using our memes in ways we didn’t intend!” See how whiny that sounds?
 
@Tythen  
That is not “good work” dude. Not at all.

Lusqueak is superiourest lunaship and you knows it bucko!
 
Also I think it’s not just him but that he represents the lowest point in the series, ie, it’s that he’s also a visual representation ‘of-that-thing-which-we-don’t-name’  
so with that in mind, Flashlight becomes ‘more than just a ship’

@Justice4243  
Yeah, besides, if people can like every other pairing, out of all the insane ones, (Discord X anybody) out of all the randomly-chosen ones from the Wheel of shipping, all the fan-service-y ones involving Twilight making out with all of her best friends, all the weird mismatched age ones, ^{(PipsqueakXLuna, Mr. Chris Hanson wants a word with you)} of all the “you might be a redneck” incest ones, and such. If people can like all of those, then why can’t others like DM enjoy “FlashLight?”
 
Out of all the insane pairings out there, that’s ironically the only one that’s a major taboo in this fandom, and it’s even semi-canon.  
(If alternate-universe human Twilight still shows interest in him in “Rainbow Rocks.”)