After a clip of an adult fan asking a My Little Pony voice actor about dark fan lore while children waited in line, Broderick sums up how companies treat their most intense fans.
Like they want to sell them toys. So they can't be like, no, sir. You cannot be in line with these children to ask your Q ⁇ A questions.
That guy would get tackled by an air marshal. Like he so is clearly the guy who's going to do this. But yeah, it's like they want these people's money. They don't mind their internet fandom, but they don't want them in a room with the original intended audience for this, who are children.
I mean, that's like, I would say almost like the core attention of the 21st century, which is like, we want your deranged fandom, and we want to sell products to you via that fandom. And we have no desire to deal with the psychological and emotional wreckage that comes from that level of worship.
I don't know who to hold culpable in that scenario.
I agree. I don't think it's like how. Dare you, my little pony creators, but it's like nobody, everyone was kind of summoning this thing with the spell and not thinking through the second and third order implications. I sometimes think about it, it's like such a corny, like boomer reference. But a…
PJ, what you're describing is something I think about constantly because in the 2010s, it was, I need to be really careful. I might attract like a goon-brained army of like neo-Nazis who love my cartoon pony show. We haven't gotten to the Nazi thing yet, but there's a Nazi thing coming, obviously.…