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Look, we’ve all been there…
That stage of life when you’re a 30-year-old man and you can’t get over your My Little Pony obsession.
You all know what I mean… My Little Pony birthday parties, spending all day on My Little Pony fan websites, making My Little Pony fan art and uploading them online, wearing My Little Pony backpacks because they’re so cute!
Who among us has not gone through that phase?
Oh.
In fact, mental illness and arrested development aside, I don’t know of any men in their 30s who are obsessed with My Little Pony.
So far.
Well, well, it happened again
Revealed: DC pipe bomb suspect obsessed with My Little Pony: Reporthttps://t.co/yw2zFmcRBw
– Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) 9 December 2025
Yeah, and they’re trying to tell us that this person is MAGA?
I need a vacation!
NY Post These details add up to a very strange story:
Brian Cole Jr., 30, seemed obsessed with toys marketed to young girls – making art of plastic pony dolls, making remixes of songs about them, and writing fan fiction dedicated to them.
His actions are spread across various social media accounts linked to Cole’s email address and phone number.
Posting as iDeltaVelocity, Cole apparently uploaded 87 photos of My Little Pony fan art to a forum, showing various pony and unicorn characters. One is depicted with a bionic leg brace, and he prefers pink or purple ponies with long, multicolored manes.
In one post, a “Star Wars”-inspired pony says in a speech bubble: “I’m not ‘cute’, I’m deadly,” which Cole says is a line from the video game “Star Wars: The Old Republic.”
A Tumblr account focused on My Little Pony art, which used one of Cole’s usernames, commented on a drawing of a pony with an M60 machine gun, writing: “Eh… I’d give him an RPG. What can I say? Explosions are cool!” Referring to the rocket propelled grenade launcher.
One of the My Little Pony photos taken by an account associated with Cole. He appears to prefer ponies that are pink and purple with long, multicolored eggs.
A person who is part of the My Little Pony subculture is known as a “brony”. In 2017 the community was large enough to hold an annual convention and experts considered their followers loyal to their fans.
There were no noticeable sexual overtones in any of Cole’s posts examined by The Post. A fan fiction story apparently written by Cole depicts My Little Pony bringing together fantasy and horror.
“Applebloom’s eyes flew open as she sat up on her bed, panting heavily and sweat dripping from her red hair. […] She reportedly wrote, “The skeletons, the zombified ponies rising up from the ground, their rotting bodies, the rotten flesh slipping from their bones. She buried her face in her hooves, crying silently as the horrible images seared into her mind.”
A former high school classmate told The Washington Post that Cole carried a My Little Pony backpack and was teased for it.
Fact-checked truth by Grok:
FACT CHECKED: True – Yes, Brian Cole Jr. – the 30-year-old Virginia man arrested in December 2025 for planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on January 5, 2021 – was a devoted fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and fits the definition of a… pic.twitter.com/2nw7dcugGn
– PatriotGal480 (@PatriotGal480) 9 December 2025
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