According to BoundingIntoComics:
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently triggered YouTube personality Jeremy Hambly aka The Quartering after he shared pretty basic Christian teachings on moderation and discipline in regards to video games.
Walsh tweeted back in March 8, 2018, “Video games are a sacred cow because our country is filled with adults who are obsessed with them. That’s why we all pretend, insanely, that there’s nothing wrong with or disturbing about a child spending all day killing people in a virtual world.”
Back in October Walsh also was asked in an All Access Q&A session what his thoughts on anime were.
He answered, “I think it’s all satanic. I have no argument for why it is satanic, it just seems that way to me. All anime to me seems weird. Just bizarre. Creepy. And, in general, I don’t think that adults whether it’s anime or any other kind of cartoon. With rare exception adults should not be watching cartoons in general, I would say.”
Walsh would later make it clear he was making an off the cuff joke about anime while satirizing Media Matters and the other outlets who ran his remarks as serious.
He noted, “These are all things that you might say if you believe that I was not being totally serious when I declared all animation made in Japan satanic. But, again, I am serious. If I was joking I would laugh. Deadpan humor has never been my thing, as you well know.”
“And that is why in the end, with all that said, anime is still cancelled. And cast back down into the fiery hell flames from whence it came,” he deadpanned.
Hambly took issue with Walsh’s opinions writing on Twitter, “The right’s weird obsession with disavowing video games, anime, & social media is why they will never appeal to most of Gen Z. The base is literally dying off and most of the voices in the community are actively refusing recruits.”
He then made it clear he was discussing Walsh writing, “Matt’s not the only guy saying it, there was some other moron who tweeted ‘anime is for pedophiles’ or something the other day.”
