A popular cosplayer was arrested on Sunday after she allegedly threatened to blow up a rival stall at an anime convention in Texas while they were arguing about gamer supplements online.

Kendra Noel Manning, a 25-year-old cosplayer better known as “kit noel” online, was charged with making a terroristic threat to impair public service — a third-degree felony that could see her exchange her whimsical cosplay outfits for an orange prison jumpsuit for the next decade if convicted. 4

Manning allegedly commented on another influencer’s Instagram that she would be “planting a bomb in their booth today” at the San Japan Anime + Gaming Convention in response to another comment she saw slamming Gamer Supps, an energy drink marketed almost exclusively to streamers.

An attendee of the convent

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