@Ferrotter  
This rule should exclude commissions, though.

@ShimmeringStallion
 
I misread it, but “humanized” is in my filters, too.
 
…I have a lot of filters.

@Aksel  
“Humanized”, not “Humanoid”.
 
And before you say they’re the same thing, they’re not: One’s just a human-version of a character.

@Creshosk  
I would propose when there’s fan art of them by 2 artists (besides the originator), and have been tagged with their name, that they not be considered OCs any more. At that point they’re clearly known within the fandom, have a character/identity, and are not known to just to one person. And more importantly, artists (plural) besides the creator care about the character enough to create content of them.
 
I’m not committed to the number 2 though, just the fact that Nyx/Fluffle Puff/Tracy Cage/etc. aren’t the same thing as ponysonas and other actual OCs. The number 2 is just a round number cutoff that sets a non-arbitrary, but non-prohibitive bar. A case could be made for numbers higher than 2, they just strike me as arbitrary. Two (3, counting the originator, though some like Nyx were originated in stories rather than art, and may only have 2 artists at first) establishes that it’s not just one obsessed fan. Anything other than 2, you have to ask, why not one more or one less; there’s nothing unique about numbers besides 0, 1, and 2.

@Ferrotter
 
At what point does a character become able to be in the Fluffle Puff/Nyx Group rather than the Static Cling/Ferrotter group? Would they need to be known by a certain number of people in the fandom in general? Or be known on Derpibooru? Would they need a certain number of pictures of the pony on Derpibooru before they could be considered for acceptable humanization?

Humanoid plus OC equals anthro, which is in my filters. So there.

@Prof.NightJack  
Oh, okay then. I was trying to state it in shorthand rather than type out what I eventually typed out. But if it didn’t work that way, then I’m glad I typed out the whole thing.

@Ferrotter  
I’m sorry, but I take every opportunity to use a Twilight reaction image as a godsend.  

I came close to marking some pics “Not Pony Related” simply because I didn’t recognize the OCs they was based on. only after browsing the oc:[charactername] tag did I realize they’ve existed as “legit” OCs for a while. it’s even worse when there’s no oc:[charactername] tag (an exception being one artist who clearly drew said unnamed OC as a pony first, as evident by the fact the he only drew 3 pics that are on Derpibooru)

@Ferrotter  
I didn’t miss the point, I was pointing out how you stated it made it come off a little odd and mixed up.

@Prof.NightJack  
No, you missed the point entirely. I don’t have to draw and caption a picture of Nyx or Fluffle Puff for you to know exactly who I’m talking about. When I say Nyx, you know I mean a black alicorn foal with a purple mane and tail and aqua eyes. You know from me merely saying Nyx that I refer to a reincarnation of Nightmare Moon, Twilight Sparkle’s adopted daughter, etc. When I say Fluffle Puff, you know I mean a fluffy, pink earth pony who communicates in sighs and raspberries, warps reality about as much as Pinkie Pie or Discord, and is in love with Queen Chrysalis. I don’t need to explain either to any fan who’s been in the fandom more than a week. If I draw either, anyone who’s been in the fandom more than a week will recognize them.
 
If you’ve watched some episodes of the show, you would probably recognize Derpy or Lyra. However, if you watched the show but were not active in the fandom or as a collector of toys, you would not know that Derpy is the mailpony or the mother of Dinky; or that Lyra is obsessed with humans and hands, and probably not that she’s Bon Bon’s lesbian wife. You would not even know that Derpy is named Derpy or that Lyra is named Lyra. BUT … If you were in the fandom more than a week, you would know that Derpy is the clumsy but loveable mailmare of Equestria, and the mother of Dinky; and you would know that Lyra is Bon Bon’s human-obsessed wife.
 
When I say “Humanized Nyx” or “Humanized Derpy” or “Humanized Fluffle Puff” or “Humanized Rainbow Dash” or “Humanized Lyra,” you also know exactly what I mean by that. Maybe not the specific artistic details, but you know completely well who the character is.
 
Now in contrast, if I say “Humanized Static Cling,” what am I describing? If I even say “Static Cling,” what am I describing? An aqua pegasus mare with a pair of socks on a lightning bolt cutie mark? Or a red earth pony blank flank colt? Or a purple unicorn filly with a teddy bear and security blanket cutie mark? Or a kind of demonic sheep monster from the Everfree Forest that hunts ponies with zaps from its heavily charged wool? What if I drew a ponified Ferrotter? Would you recognize it? What if I then humanized it? Would you recognize humanized Ferrotter?
 
See the difference? Fluffle Puff and Nyx are not remotely the same thing as Static Cling or ponified Ferrotter. Static Cling and ponified Ferrotter would be OC ponies. Fluffle Puff and Nyx are OCs if you want to be pedantic about it, but they have NOTHING in common with an OC like Static Cling or someone’s personal ponysona. They have more in common with Lyra and Bon Bon than they do with Static Cling or Ferrotter The Pony. Fluffle Puff, Nyx, Ticket, Tracy Cage, etc. are fan-made characters. They’re not even really OCs any more. The O stands for “original.” There’s fan art of them. If I drew Tracy Cage, that’s not an original character. That’s me copying someone else’s character. Really, me copying someone else’s interpretation of yet someone else’s OC. Nothing original about it any more.
 
If I humanized a well-known pony character, it’s a humanized pony character. It doesn’t matter for horseapples if it’s Lyra or it’s Fluffle Puff. It’s a humanization of a well-known pony character. Provided I did a good job of invoking the character in my humanization, most fans will know what it is. If I humanized Static Cling, considering there isn’t even an original picture of Static Cling the pony (or sheep monster) yet, nobody would know what the clop it was. If I humanized Ferrotter, I’m not humanizing a pony character either. More fans would probably recognize humanized Fluffle Puff than humanized Strawberry Lime, who’s an actual background pony. Humanized Fluffle Puff is still a pony because, DUH!, Fluffle Puff is a pony!
 
If you humanize Nyx or Fluffle Puff, you still have a (humanized) pony character. If you humanized ponified Ferrotter, you have humanized Ferrotter; there’s nothing pony about it. If you humanized Static Cling, you have humanized Static Cling. Even if I decide now that Static won’t be a sheep monster but an actual pony, you have nothing pony left when Static is humanized. There’s no collective backstory to say, “This is the humanized form of a pony character.”
 
Now do you see the difference?

“Loophole” plus “exploitation” equals “enjoy your ban.”

@Ferrotter  
Also  
>take away “because it’s a pony” by humanizing the the latter one  
Once again the latter is a real background pony, so humanizing her still counts.

@Ferrotter  
Umm your second thing is a little confusing…
 
Nyx is an OC, Lyra is a background pony  
>the former because it’s a humanization of a MLP character  
The former would be Nyx, and as I said an OC.  
>the latter because it’s a pony  
But you just said both humanized…

aw shit people getting mad in here.
 
SERIOUS FUCKING TOPIC, YOU GUYS

This is why the whole “OC” business as it has been handled is, in a nutshell, a steaming pile of horseapples. The only difference between Fluffle Puff and a background pony is that Fluffle Puff hasn’t actually appeared in the show. Same for Nyx, Ticket, Tracy Cage, and many more. Many of them have more development and their own consistent canon than any of the actual background ponies. They might as well be canon characters.
 
Humanized Nyx or humanized Lyra are the same god-damned kind of thing. A personal OC/ponification is something completely different. Both belong: the former because it’s a humanization of a MLP character; the latter because it’s a pony. However, take away “because it’s a pony” by humanizing the the latter one and… See the difference?

Yeah, actually, I’ve always wondered where the line is drawn between “humanized OC” and just “drawing of a person that has nothing to do with MLP.”

@Liggliluff  
This has been here forever: >>436197

Yes… I’ve seen humanised OCs which might as well be a non-pony character.  
If that is what this is about…

Pony exploitable plus words equals OP is a shitlord.

Humanoids work better… Preferably drawn in Illustrator, too. :j

Loophole suggests that there’s something to gain from doing that.

@Prof.NightJack  
*tell who the

As long as you make it so we can tell how the OC pony is, if not then bye-bye.