Equestria Daily reported on the Anderson dramaseen on Round Stable, MLP Forums, /mlp/ (Horse-News), and so forth, and the news has spread around the fandom that writer Ted Anderson has since been fired as of yesterday.

What I have below are concrete thoughts on the drama and Anderson's dismissal. They were on here and EQD combined and tidied.

Anderson doesn't deserve any sympathy for what he did, and he completely deserves to be fired.

David McGuire is a bit more obscure (in my perspective), but he has a history of hating bronies as a people himself, as noted by Horse-News and @@Wind Chaser in his blog.

Dragon Dicks/Cuteosphere is much, much worse. She's supposedly older than I am, and she's known to hate male bronies simply because they dared to like the show, advocate misandry, promote the fraudulent "Down with Molestia" charity that PinkiePony operated, and profit off anti-man hate art. "I hate all boys" in Fluttershy's voice is possibly her most famous because it resulted in the caption art responding to her sexist trash. But she's done others like "Literally anything before bros" — obvious brony-bashing — printed on a T-shirt (the same shirt Anderson wore in his now infamous picture) and "Boys are scum."

If he cried ignorance on the whole thing and plugged them in because he liked the style, then maybe IDW would've let it slide. (Doubt the fandom would because he admitted to plugging them in freely in his Tumblr.) But Ted Anderson admitted at least twice to not only agreeing with DD's misandry, but also supporting her and David McGuire's vile opinions.

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Then to make it worse, the new one found on EQD:

What he said in the first two screenshots are some of the dumbest comments I ever read because it's just as possible to be sexist towards men. But to make things worse, he then pulls the idiotic analogy of how it's not racist for blacks to mock whites for their way to drive. That's just as dumb because it's just as possible for blacks to be racist to whites as a way to support DD's so-called "satire." Ted, "satire" doesn't make it funny, and dressing it as such only weakens your argument further. Thankfully, I never feuded with DD, but I've seen them from the sidelines; her attitude is everything but satirical.

By including those cameos, gloating about them, and openly siding with their bigotry, to quote @@ghostfacekiller39, he flipped off every single brony who bought his comics, read them, and praised them. On top of that, he mocked every parent (brony or non-) who bought IDW's FIM comics so they can read them with their kids. Through these three screenshots, he admitted to hating the brony fandom and manipulating everyone here to make a living, and it's morally criminal to use others. On top of that, per what @@Nuke87654 posted here, there's the possibility that Anderson signed a contract preventing him from utilizing third-party material as inclusion or inspiration for his work. If this is true, then he not just violated it, but blatantly disregarded it for the sake of inserting some of his unneeded politics into a professional product.

His antifeminist, misandrist garbage goes against everything FIM, Faust, and Bonnie Zacherle stood for. Sexism is a form of bigotry, and DD and McGuire shamelessly represent sexism towards men. The last screenshot openly implies how much he'll tolerate racism towards whites, a backwards mentality that should alarm everyone! There should be no tolerance to bigotry, period, because it affects EVERYBODY even when they're not firsthand. Bigotry has no place in society. There was plenty of drama because people in and out of the fandom were rightfully offended by the implications of those two background cameos and Ted Anderson's support of two well-known bigots, and it was right to call him out and threaten to boycott against IDW.

You screw with your consumers (and deliberately disobey a contract you signed with your employer, if confirmed), you're going to lose your job. It's that simple.