The Final Solution: Cleansing the Fandom of Channer Scum

Two of the largest surviving fandom Web sites have decided to quietly make significant rule changes in order to prevent political opinions they disagree with and to kill off a long-lived, innocent OC pony. That's right, they've finally come for Aryanne, and they're doing their best to keep their holocaust on the DL. Don't want the normies who aren't paying attention from discovering their intentions and rising up to protest these authoritarian changes, right?

Sorry about that

First we have arguably the most popular brony imageboard and archival site, Derpibooru. I suppose it's possible that our dear reader isn't aware of the drama that's been happening non-stop now for over a month. I wish we had enough writers here still in the fandom to have covered this juicy story for you all. Maybe in a future article or series of articles. It would literally take 5 paragraphs just to summarize how much Derpibooru have fucked this entire situation up (BLM, ACAB, downvotes, shadow banning, shadow site throttling, force filters, discouragement bans, backstabbing of admins by admins, back and forth rule changes, lots of people calling lots of others Nazis, burning all pics of Aryanne, etc.).

"Your cult is so insane...that even direct enemies are forgetting their mutual hatred..."

But, the most important point that needs to be said now is that Derpibooru has finally (for the third or so time) come up with the final (or at least until they change it again) solution to cleanse the channer scum and their hateful ideologies from their site once and for all.

Site admin announces new rule change in buried forum post

The new rule

Yep, under these new rules all controversial content is banned. If you want to post a picture that is intended to incite an emotion of anger in your viewer, it's no bueno. If you want to post images that incite jealousy, love, regret, happiness, sadness — any other emotion — you are perfectly in the right. But if you want to drudge up the nasty emotion of anger, then, my friend, you had best take that somewhere else. There's a lot more to be said about these changes (such as the large outcry of people against it), but again, that's not the point of this particular write-up, either.

Over 54% of poll respondents want to maintain the rules as they were before the fiasco

The reason this article is being written, dear reader, is that Derpibooru doesn't want you to know they changed the rules. When asked why no site-wide announcement had been made about this very significant rule change, the head admin's response was simple: They don't want people not already involved in this debate to know this change was made thus "causing a bit of panic."

Concerned user asking why there is no site-wide announcement

Letting their users know of changes can "cause trouble" by "stirring people who don't understand or care"

In response to Derpibooru's imperious behavior, many in the fandom have stepped up to provide alternative imageboards that promise not to censor any legal content:

• Twibooru
• Rainbooru
• Ponybooru
• Poner Pics

For a good outline of the differences between these options (and some other alternative fandom imageboards), please see the Altboorus listing.

Former Derpibooru admin Joey (who RPs and admins as Blossomforth and uses the third person when talking about her) celebrates over the corpse of Aryanne as the Derpibooru servers burn to the ground

If it were just Derpibooru, all this drama would be bad enough. But, alas, it isn't. Fimfiction, that great bastion of the written word in our fandom, also appears to have caved under the pressure of social media. In response to a blog post being deleted by an overzealous moderator due to an Aryanne image and the popularity of a story that was part of a free speech art pack with all proceeds going to support horses in need called Marenheight 451, the administrator of Fimfiction — knighty — went to his personal blog to make an important announcement.

The full announcement from Fimfiction administrator knighty from his personal blog

tl;dr: Fimfiction is going to disable all ratings and comments from stories they deem to be intentionally or excessively controversial. This will prevent them from showing up in the featured section of the site (as the aforementioned story did). Additionally, Fimfiction will be banning all depictions of the swastika, including those on a certain white-colored pony's rump.

While these changes are not nearly as authoritarian as Derpibooru's (since no content essential to the site is necessarily being removed, even though blog posts apparently have been already), they still share a chilling similarity: The Fimfiction announcement was made on the personal blog of the site administrator in order to avoid "fanning the flames" of what they consider to be "minor changes." Once again, the majority of the site is unlikely to ever learn of these changes, and thus they seek to appease Twitter while at the same time not tipping off their community that anything's changing.

There aren't quite as many alternatives for Fimfiction yet. Some of the boorus listed above have expressed an interest in adding the capability to post stories, but none have yet released such a feature. All stories on Fimfiction are archived at FiMFetch, including those that were taken down either by the site or the authors.  So there's one option.