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Derpibooru

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Derpibooru
Derpibooru logo
Type of site
My Little Pony fan art repository
URLderpibooru.org
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 2012; 13 years ago (2012-06)
Current statusActive

Derpibooru (a portmanteau of Derpy Hooves and the suffix -booru, a reborrowing from Japanese bōru, meaning "board") is an imageboard fan site dedicated to hosting and archiving visual fan art created by the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom. Launched in June 2012, it is the largest and most popular My Little Pony imageboard.[1][2] As of November 2025, Derpibooru hosts over 3.2 million images (excluding deleted and duplicate images), 520,000 registered users, and 11 million comments.[‡ 1]

Similar to established imageboards like 4chan, Derpibooru has a minimalist interface with limited social features. The site allows users to post and comment anonymously and upload My Little Pony fan art previously published on other platforms.[3] Derpibooru uses a user-driven tagging system characteristic of folksonomies, which allows for categorization and content searching;[2][3] it uses a content rating system of four categories: safe, suggestive, questionable, and explicit.[3]

Derpibooru uses software called Philomena (named after Princess Celestia's pet phoenix in the episode "A Bird in the Hoof"), which is licensed under the AGPL and written in Elixir, TypeScript, CSS, Rust, and JavaScript.[‡ 2][‡ 3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Alter, Rebecca (June 23, 2020). "The Largest My Little Pony Fan Site Bans Your Horse-Crap Racist Fan Art". Vulture. Retrieved September 27, 2025.
  2. ^ a b Tiffany, Kaitlyn (June 23, 2020). "'My Little Pony' Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 27, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Bajor, Jan (2017). "Erotyka i pornografia w fandomie internetowym - przypadek społeczności My Little Pony" [Eroticism and Pornography in Internet Fandom - The Case of the My Little Pony Community] (PDF). Media i Społeczeństwo (in Polish). 7 (1): 257–274.

Primary sources

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

  1. ^ "Statistics - Derpibooru". Derpibooru. Archived from the original on October 8, 2025. Retrieved October 8, 2025.
  2. ^ "derpibooru/philomena", GitHub, Derpibooru, October 4, 2025, retrieved October 9, 2025
  3. ^ "philomena-dev/philomena", GitHub, philomena-dev, September 25, 2025, retrieved October 9, 2025
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