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Is it fair to say that most Bronies voted for Pedo Joe?
From the October 4th 2016 episode of The Greg Gutfeld Show...yeah, this is old now. But is it why bronies vote for pedo joe?
The teenager who shot killed eight people at a FedEx warehouse in Indianapolis wrote about My Little Pony in a Facebook post less than an hour before going on a shooting rampage and taking his own life.
“I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her,” Brandon Scott Hole, 19, posted at 10:19pm, The Wall Street Journal reported. The shooting started around 11pm on Thursday.
Applejack is the main character in the children’s cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic first broadcast in 2010.
Mr Hole had two Facebook accounts dedicated to the show that were removed by the social media giant following the shooting after requests from law enforcement, according to an internal memo acquired by The Wall Street Journal.
While law enforcement hoped that Mr Hole’s online activity would help shed light on his motive for the attack, the Facebook memo said the gunman’s accounts were mostly focused on the cartoon show.
So-called ‘Bronies’, a mix of ‘Bro’ and ‘ponies’, is a subculture of adult men fixated on the programme and “has displayed elements of far-right and white nationalist extremism,” the memo stated. But it also said Mr Hole’s posts showed no signs that this was part of his motivation for the rampage.
While the fan group is mostly made up of those who genuinely like the show, it has also drawn out paedophiles and white supremacists who share hate messages via fan art.
Assistant media-studies professor at the University of Georgia, Anne Gilbert, told The Atlantic in 2020: “This is a fan community that has prided itself on a permissiveness and pushing boundaries and cloaking themselves in irony and the idea that they can make the mainstream uncomfortable. That has been a source of pride.”
As the show came on air, many members of the subculture had links to the military.
The first ‘BronyCon,’ a gathering for fans of the show, was held in 2011 with 100 attendees. The convention ballooned to as many as 10,000 fans, but organisers ended the forum after holding the last event in 2019, arguing that interest was waning.
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