Seeing a lot of convenient stores with huge displays and even retail spaces filled with vape material.  Market must be huge.  Reminds me of mini head shops.

Teenage daughter wants to go to a Sci Fi convention.  Wants me to taker her.  I will watch sci fi all day long, in fact it is probably my favorite move and book genre.  On the DL of course.  Going to a sci fi event somehow pushes one over the edge of nerddome.  I am going to go, just gonna keep it quiet.  Here is the celebrity lineup.  Grown adults dressing like cartoons is a little off.

On this topic, the teenager is really into Japan cartoons which she adamantly calls Anime.  Let me tell you this is a weird world.  These kids are eating up these horrible cartoons.  Compulsively watching 24/7 if allowed.  I hate it.  I think it is stupid.  We have not forbidden it but we certainly limit the viewing.  We have to keep a close eye on the subject matter as well.  Not only are some of these really dark but the porn industry has moved in.  Rated R at the very least.  Wolf in Sheep's clothing.  There really is a force moving to influence our children and not for the best.  We have stumbled on a lot of disturbing material.  Mostly from deviant ART.  If you like crappy tasteless art this is the place for you.  They take the same style of anime and create porn situations and really graphic sex scenes.

Teenager is aware of this sites and genres and has stumbled across them.  She says she knows how to stay away from them and I believe that she does.  Just doesn't set well with me that the two can be associated in any way.  I hope she grows out of this FAST.

All that led us to a group called Bronies.  This is a group of mostly men from 18 to 35 that like my little pony.   Yes the cartoon from way back, it has made a resurgence recently and the kids love it. These bronies claim to be a fan of the show and troll chat rooms and conventions.  I will say that if you are a man 18-35 and you consider yourself a Bronie you are a pedophile.  You have no business in chat rooms talking to 11-12 year old girls about a freaking cartoon.  DIE looser.

Above is a typical bronie.  Want that chatting with you daughter?

When I first heard about bronies I be like WTF, today I am like WTF.

My apologies to any merchants that are trying to capitalize on this to make a buck.  But you can DIE too for perpetuating this crap.

Other Examples;

I am sure there are some bronies that a legit and do not have ill intentions toward children, but it is just weird and concerning.