“There’s a guy on YouTube who’s blaming the brony community for traumatizing gen-z.” I watched that video. A couple notable things I remember were him saying “plushies with holes in areas that implied bad things” (“bad things” meaning sex) and him saying something about how, since children got traumatised by dark or sexual MLP:FIM stuff, then the people who made that stuff knew that they were going to traumatise children (or at least should have known). He also said something about “fluffies” (MLP:FIM-like ponies who often experience horrific things), calling it vile and warning people not to go there. To me it kind of felt like he was treating his audience like children, despite the description of the video explicitly saying that the video was not for children. (For the record, that stuff definitely did not traumatise 13 year old me. I was seeking that stuff out.)
To me it kind of felt like he was treating his audience like children, despite the description of the video explicitly saying that the video was not for children.
Patronizing. He was being patronizing.
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