Gerard Way watching the towers fall on 9/11 is the reason why he started MCR → Stephanie Mayer has gone on record saying the MCR heavily inspired the Twilight series → Twilight becomes extremely popular → EL James writes fanfiction about it → This fanfiction gets published into the book 50 shades of grey → made into a movie starring Dakota Johnson → Dakota Johnson goes on the Ellen show and talks about how Ellen was rude to her → This was the catalyst for the flood of allegations against Ellen being abusive.