I think that pedophilia should never be tolerated in any case, but especially not in this community. I've always come to like this community because we pride ourselves on being kind to others. I've always just thought this pedophilia rumour about this community is just a misrepresentation of us and none of this actually happen in this fandom. Now knowing it clearly does within this community, we need to end this once and for all. We can't keep them in and let them act all friendly like us and suddenly something like this happens. This isn't us, it's a common misconception of us. I haven't interacted with the community for very long, but I know we're better than this from what I've seen these past two months. Like everyone here, I hope this ends soon.

This incedent has truly sickened me.

I hope that ToonKriticY2K gets arrested and when (if) he ever gets out, he should be banned from the internet.

I'm praying he goes to jail for a LOOOOOONG TIME...

and he's also got rape aligations as well as the confirmed pedophillia and grooming.

I'd never think that people are pedos in our fandom but now I know that this one brony has been found out and I hope he gets discraced IRL.

OK, so my opinion, then going to leave this so I don't have to switch my avatar back to the tearful one again.

I am fairly new to the community, but given the target demographic is preteen girls, it is inevitable that the community will attract SOME lowlives. I just hope that they can be swiftly outed, not just paedos or even wannabe paedos, but anyone who will not treat fellow bronies/pegasisters with respect, especially if they are in or would like to be in a relationship with them.

In addition to this latest outrage, we have had reports of people's drinks being spiked at after-event parties, of former lovers (of Toon, but not JUST of Toon) feeling they couldn't speak of the psychological abuse they had suffered, of a wide range of inappropriate behaviour being tolerated. Surely we can be better than this? I can accept that, if we really wish to respect the message the show has given us, we should be about helping less savoury individuals become better people not punishment, but equally so, we cannot do that by turning a blind eye. At the very least, there must be acknowledgement, remorse and remediation, not scenes like we saw in that call where self-justification and excuse-seeking were substituted.

The timeline for Toon's fall says it all - had he been admonished much earlier when his actions were directed at more age-appropriate victims, he may well have not as fallen so low, nor would he now be helping the FBI with their enquiries. It is not possible to be a good friend to someone like Toon by enabling his actions, as we can now see that just leads to situations like this.

(this is just my feeling on the matter; I don't insist everyone feel as I do, but I do hope this strikes a chord with those as shocked as I am by this news)

In sincerity, Cyphr.

What bugs me is we have found out other people in the analysis community knew about this long before Josh and them did. Josh is a good chap, and he's in my Discord server and I honestly think he wanted to do the right thing.

However the people  that knew about this before and tried to brush it under the rug? Shame on them. There is a clear problem in the analysis community as this isn't the first incident.

This disgusts me. I can't even begin to imagine what the victims had to deal with. It's one of the most sickening crimes I can think of. He needs to pay for what he did. I don't care who he is. Brony, or not.

I think it's unfair to say that this fandom has a 'pedophile problem', though. The fact that the vast majority of us condemn his actions says enough for me.

Buy yeah, he needs to be locked up for what he did, I agree 100%. Pedophilia is pedophilia, no matter who, no matter what.

Do we need to be more aware about people like this in our fandom? Absolutely. Any steps we could take to prevent future incidents like this NEED to be taken. But saying that this fandom is 'full of pedophiles' is a bit of an exaggeration.

Yeah it is pretty sick that they just slide it under the rug and go "eh what cna you do" 
It gives us as a fandom a bad name. it disugest enough how foalcon is allowed on Fimfiction too.

I'm leaving the fandom because of all this.