>>7454 I don´t know why you have to be so paranoid about things, Bridgefag. I understand that the impact that has been left from Derpi was quite a lot yet I have serious doubts that the fanbase (or Derpi itself) wants to implode yearly because of events like these.
And you don´t have to envision too much because EQD has already posted like two articles related to it:
>Don't see CNN or most leftist publications focusing on that aspect. eeerm, Bridgefag? It has already happened (though surprisingly enough, if you remove the tendentious headline and it´s bias. I despise Twitter and mainstream social media for encouraging headlines of this kind and check who makes the best clickbait for gaining attention), I thought that the article would much worse and partial. At least, it has the dignity to not stereotype and make absurd generalizations about the fanbase in general:
<Though the memo was quick to state that there was no indication that brony culture played a role in the attack, the gunman posted about his love of a tawny pony named Applejack, one of the main characters of the franchise, less than an hour before the rampage.
well, at least they admit that. Because we have seen this absolute garbage of correlations coming from the press that violent video games lead to actual violence and killings IRL and then, journalists publish the tastes of the killer so they blame the products that said person used to consume in the past, implying that the consumption of those products lead to a sudden transformation in the mind of a person (this was even more dominant in the 90s and the 2000s)
This common (and pitiful) practice a constant curse for video games (for example: GTA, Doom, COD, Street Fighter or in Spain, an assassination of an entire family happened with a katana, and journalists associated it Final Fantasy 8) but it has also happened with music (especially when it comes to metal or when they cannot separate the artist from the music). If it hasn´t worked with video games (and there are many psychological studies that have proven that the correlation is fake), good luck at attempting to make it work for a series like MLP. You would have to ban basically like 95% of all the franchises intended for large consumption (including the ones meant for kids and toddlers for displaying violence) if they turned out to be right....but I guess that everything that sounds juicy for journalists works more than enough in order to gain more clicks and audience (idolizing the killer and creating a "fanbase" related to him because of constant attention and deeper interest that is delivered in public, creating fans that might potentially repeat his actions)
