# Nazi Ponies 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. ## Origin 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 flag[1]. Artist wolfjedisamuel uploaded a related piece to their DeviantArt gallery on June 10, 2011[7], 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 tag[1]. - **Platform:** DeviantArt / Derpibooru (viral spread) - **Creator:** wolfjedisamuel - **Date:** 2011 ## 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 show[1][3]. 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 ecosystem[3]. ## 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 ponies[1]. 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 trend[2]. The material jumped to blog platforms in March 2013 when the Tumblr blog Nazi Ponies started posting curated examples[5], with parallel communities springing up on the European social network VK[6] 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 gag[4]. 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 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 images[1], or draw new characters using the Aryanne visual template of white coat, blonde hair, blue eyes, and a swastika-inside-heart cutie mark[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Nazi Ponies? Nazi Ponies is a fan-art trend that depicts My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters wearing swastikas, armbands, and other Nazi iconography, running from exploitable macros to full OCs like Aryanne[3]. ### Where did Nazi Ponies come from? The earliest images appeared on DeviantArt in mid-2011 via artist wolfjedisamuel[7] and were later reposted to the MLP art site Derpibooru in January 2012, marking the first entry tagged 'Nazi' on that site[1]. ### What does Nazi Ponies mean? The label groups together every crossover between the MLP fandom and Nazi-era imagery, from ironic /pol/ shitposts to sincere OC design, and it traces back to the early salute macros catalogued on Derpibooru[1]. ### How do you use Nazi Ponies? People commonly edit an armband or swastika onto an existing pony, remix the Rainbow Dash salute exploitable[1], or draw new characters using the Aryanne visual template of a white pony with blonde hair and a swastika cutie mark. ### Is Nazi Ponies still popular? The trend peaked between 2012 and 2014 with the dunsparcedisco compilation[2] and the Nazi Ponies Tumblr[5], and afterward it settled into a niche corner of the /mlp/ OC ecosystem rather than a widely shared meme. ## References 1. [https://derpibooru.org/tags/nazi]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tqHVGnjhw]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nazi-ponies]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99XFcF9rUQI]() 5. [https://naziponies.tumblr.com/]() 6. [https://vk.com/naziponi]() 7. [https://www.deviantart.com/wolfjedisamuel]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/nazi-ponies Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library