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In the years following the 2013 debut of Adult Swim’s cartoon phenomenon “Rick and Morty,” its star and co-creator Justin Roiland became a titan of the animation and video game industry and a rock star of youth counterculture. His artistic style and caricatures became ubiquitous in cannabis culture, and his career expanded into producing other animated series, creating NFTs and leading a virtual reality gaming studio. In 2017, a “Rick and Morty” collaboration with McDonald’s led to such a viral frenzy that police had to be called to at least two locations.

But as he partied with Los Angeles’ superstars and traveled the country for conventions, he also found he could use his fame to strike up conversations and develop relationships with young fans, including some who were underage. This is according to interviews with 11 women and nonbinary people who shared thousands of messages with Roiland from 2013 to 2022 — with nine of the people saying he turned the exchanges sexual. Of those nine people, three said they were 16 when they started talking to Roiland. To corroborate their stories, the 11 women and nonbinary people also shared pictures, videos, social media posts, emails, and plane ticket and Uber receipts with NBC News.

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[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah. It's kind of gross, but whole genres of porn are barely legal 18-20 year olds. Sounds like that's what he's into. And he went about it in a very creepy way unlike Leonardo DiCaprio that uses the prestige of the model and hollywood industry.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds like he is into 16 years olds to me.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it sounds like he waited until they are 18.

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago
[-] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] lud@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

That doesn't make it much better...

[-] ThePac@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Well it makes it legal. So that's empirically better.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well obviously it's better legally. It's pretty terrible from a moral standpoint though.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Legal is significantly better than illegal

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Did you read what I wrote below?

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No I read what you wrote above.

Having read the below now, I do agree with this

Well obviously it’s better legally. It’s pretty terrible from a moral standpoint though.

[-] CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Fucking an adult, and a teenager are not the same thing.

[-] RedBaronHarkonnen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Fucking a 18 year old that is pretending to be 15 is creepy, not criminal.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If they are 18 or 19 it is the same thing.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

What mentality do you think someone who only chases 18 year old girls has? If the age of consent was lower, they'd go lower.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

But it's not lower and he didn't go lower. I think he's a creep. Just not sure he's technically a pedophile or doing anything super illegal based on the article. And being into 18 year olds isn't that out there. Just look at porn, strip clubs, the model industry, film industry etc... Also, not sure if he only chases 18 year olds. That was just the topic of the article about the 18/early 20s.

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