The 19-year-old accused of shooting and killing eight people inside and around the FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, was reportedly a part of the adult following of My Little Pony.
IIRC the whole brony trend started on 4chan. Someone wrote an article about the show being "an admission of defeat" for the animation industry. People on 4chan's /co/ (comics and cartoons) board criticized the article. Some people watched the show and decided it was good, and posted about it, and then it gained a fanbase of teen and adult men who were not the target audience. The problem, of course, being that it picked up this fanbase on 4chan. So it started with a fanbase with a lot of diet nazis. This of course isn't an indictment of every brony since it obviously spread to places that aren't 4chan with varying levels of assimilation. There's a lot of shared spaces with the furry fandom, for example (the only example I'm familiar with), which is largely left-leaning and notably isn't allowed on 4chan, but largely furries and bronies keep somewhat separate in those spaces. I'd be comfortable saying that most furries consider bronies to be kind of weird.
IIRC the whole brony trend started on 4chan. Someone wrote an article about the show being "an admission of defeat" for the animation industry. People on 4chan's /co/ (comics and cartoons) board criticized the article. Some people watched the show and decided it was good, and posted about it, and then it gained a fanbase of teen and adult men who were not the target audience. The problem, of course, being that it picked up this fanbase on 4chan. So it started with a fanbase with a lot of diet nazis. This of course isn't an indictment of every brony since it obviously spread to places that aren't 4chan with varying levels of assimilation. There's a lot of shared spaces with the furry fandom, for example (the only example I'm familiar with), which is largely left-leaning and notably isn't allowed on 4chan, but largely furries and bronies keep somewhat separate in those spaces. I'd be comfortable saying that most furries consider bronies to be kind of weird.