No, you didn't read that incorrectly. We have some horrible news coming out of the Indianapolis Shooting that went down the other day. Apparently the former employee and gunman was a fan of Friendship is Magic, and more specifically Applejack, who was the focus of his final message on his pony focused Facebook page an hour before the shooting.
This was a quote released by the Wallstreet Journal, who were given access directly from an internal Facebook memo from two accounts they deleted relating to the suspect:
"I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her. If there's no afterlife and she isn't real then my life never mattered anyway."
Facebook and The Wallstreet Journal couldn't find any actual motive behind the attack from either of the pages; just ponies. This is still all under heavy investigation, but for now, be prepared for some potential blowback once the news starts breaking out into the wider internet. The Wallstreet Journal did bring up the "far-right" side of the fandom that caused a stir last year, though they could not find any correlation between the two.
