Jabberwocky said:
They were small but they were there. Speaking personally, I feel like if a manip alters the eyes substantially from the source with authorial intent being to depict mind control, there's no real reason to take it down except for low quality.
Exactly. It's the reason why I added the heart eyes tag, if it didn't, then I wouldn't have added them in the first place. Plus, if you compare the manip to the original image, then you'll see that the former has been altered. Even if you can't see heart eyes, it still has a red glimmer within her pupil.