Background Pony #0299
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It's hard to say now, but it was either began as a tag to mark very unoriginal OCs which later got used sincerely by some users thinking it would ward off theft of their character designs, or it was always the latter and I don't think anyone's every taken it seriously. Either way, there's a lot of overlap between it and the more clear parody tag "[donut steel":](/tags/donut+steel).
It's hard to say now, but it was either began as a tag to mark very unoriginal OCs which later got used sincerely by some users thinking it would ward off theft of their character designs, or it was always the latter and I don't think anyone's ever