 Some media have been critical of the adult @-@ oriented material created by fans . In some cases , these videos may appear in internet searches that children may perform while looking for online copies of the program or while searching for images of characters from the show , forcing parents to have to discuss pornography and sex with their children . One parody series , drawn by animator Max <unk> in the style of John Kricfalusi , places the characters in explicit adult situations and was described by the web site io9 as " disgusting ... and most certainly NSFW " . A segment on the The Howard Stern Show in July 2012 weighed on the pornographic aspect of the brony fandom , often referred to as " clop " . Slate 's Amanda Marcotte opined that the transformation of the pony characters into teenage girls for the My Little Pony : Equestria Girls feature film was a move to satisfy the adult fans who " have expressed a strong interest in seeing the Ponies in sexy , humanized forms " . In one case , several media outlets highlighted a letter written by a brony that claimed to be marrying Twilight Sparkle to a fan artist that drew the character in erotic situations to cease such work , as to highlight of the ridiculous nature of the fandom and Internet as a whole . The fandom acknowledges that such material is generated by a subset of the group , but considers it " an unavoidable part of any online fandom " , as described by TV Guide 's Sadie <unk> , and not worry about this facet . A study performed by graduate students from the University of Connecticut found that " a particularly extreme subset " of the brony fandom shows characteristics of hegemonic masculinity , where male members strive to keep their majority in the numbers by purposely excluding and alienating females . 
