Nazi Ponies

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Published September 8, 2026

Nazi Ponies is a fan-art trend that dresses characters from Hasbro's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in swastikas, armbands, and other Third Reich iconography. The earliest edits appeared on DeviantArt in mid-2011 and reached the MLP image board Derpibooru in January 2012, later spawning an original character named Aryanne who became the fandom's flagship Nazi-themed pony OC.

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Overview

The format spans a range of styles, from crude exploitable macros of Rainbow Dash giving a Nazi salute in front of a Nazi flag to careful scene edits that stitch armbands and Hitler mustaches onto characters pulled straight from the show13. The tone runs from ironic /pol/ crossover shitposts to sincere fan art produced by a small pocket of the FiM fandom.

A recurring original character to come out of the trend is Aryanne, a snow-white earth pony with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a cutie mark made of a red heart holding a pink swastika. She is treated as a pony stand-in for Nazi Germany and is broadly seen as a direct product of 4chan's /pol/ board bleeding into the /mlp/ board's OC ecosystem3.

Origin & Background

Platform
DeviantArt / Derpibooru (viral spread)
Creator
wolfjedisamuel
Date
2011

The earliest known Nazi FiM art surfaced in early 2011 as an exploitable image of Rainbow Dash giving a Nazi salute superimposed on a Nazi flag1. Artist wolfjedisamuel uploaded a related piece to their DeviantArt gallery on June 10, 20117, and that same image was reposted to Derpibooru on January 6, 2012 with the tag 'Nazi' attached, making it the first upload on the site to carry that tag1.

How It Spread

The first direct edit of an actual show scene arrived on Derpibooru on July 4, 2012 and featured Pinkie Pie sporting a Nazi armband and Hitler mustache while being carried by other ponies1. About seven weeks later, on August 26, 2012, YouTuber dunsparcedisco posted a compilation video titled 'My Little Pony: Nazism is Magic' that pulled together dozens of examples of the trend2.

The material jumped to blog platforms in March 2013 when the Tumblr blog Nazi Ponies started posting curated examples5, with parallel communities springing up on the European social network VK6 and a linked Twitter account. On August 22, 2013, YouTuber GeRaiDah uploaded a YouTube Poop titled 'Button is a Satanic Nazi' that used the concept for a shock gag4. Aryanne emerged from this same window as the fandom's flagship Nazi pony OC and is still the character most closely tied to the trend.

How to Use This Meme

Creators typically pick an existing pony and edit a swastika armband or Hitler mustache onto them, build exploitable salute macros in the style of the early Rainbow Dash images1, or draw new characters using the Aryanne visual template of white coat, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a swastika-inside-heart cutie mark3.

Frequently Asked Questions

Nazi Ponies

2011fan artdeclining

Published September 8, 2026

Nazi Ponies is a fan-art trend that dresses characters from Hasbro's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic in swastikas, armbands, and other Third Reich iconography. The earliest edits appeared on DeviantArt in mid-2011 and reached the MLP image board Derpibooru in January 2012, later spawning an original character named Aryanne who became the fandom's flagship Nazi-themed pony OC.

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Overview

The format spans a range of styles, from crude exploitable macros of Rainbow Dash giving a Nazi salute in front of a Nazi flag to careful scene edits that stitch armbands and Hitler mustaches onto characters pulled straight from the show13. The tone runs from ironic /pol/ crossover shitposts to sincere fan art produced by a small pocket of the FiM fandom.

A recurring original character to come out of the trend is Aryanne, a snow-white earth pony with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a cutie mark made of a red heart holding a pink swastika. She is treated as a pony stand-in for Nazi Germany and is broadly seen as a direct product of 4chan's /pol/ board bleeding into the /mlp/ board's OC ecosystem3.

Origin & Background

Platform
DeviantArt / Derpibooru (viral spread)
Creator
wolfjedisamuel
Date
2011

The earliest known Nazi FiM art surfaced in early 2011 as an exploitable image of Rainbow Dash giving a Nazi salute superimposed on a Nazi flag1. Artist wolfjedisamuel uploaded a related piece to their DeviantArt gallery on June 10, 20117, and that same image was reposted to Derpibooru on January 6, 2012 with the tag 'Nazi' attached, making it the first upload on the site to carry that tag1.

How It Spread

The first direct edit of an actual show scene arrived on Derpibooru on July 4, 2012 and featured Pinkie Pie sporting a Nazi armband and Hitler mustache while being carried by other ponies1. About seven weeks later, on August 26, 2012, YouTuber dunsparcedisco posted a compilation video titled 'My Little Pony: Nazism is Magic' that pulled together dozens of examples of the trend2.

The material jumped to blog platforms in March 2013 when the Tumblr blog Nazi Ponies started posting curated examples5, with parallel communities springing up on the European social network VK6 and a linked Twitter account. On August 22, 2013, YouTuber GeRaiDah uploaded a YouTube Poop titled 'Button is a Satanic Nazi' that used the concept for a shock gag4. Aryanne emerged from this same window as the fandom's flagship Nazi pony OC and is still the character most closely tied to the trend.

How to Use This Meme

Creators typically pick an existing pony and edit a swastika armband or Hitler mustache onto them, build exploitable salute macros in the style of the early Rainbow Dash images1, or draw new characters using the Aryanne visual template of white coat, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a swastika-inside-heart cutie mark3.

Frequently Asked Questions