User blog comment:JoxFox2109/PG Proposal: Dipper Pines/@comment-39032584-20200203035718/@comment-29414935-20200203115347

That was a good explaination right here!

I remember one scene that was scrapped, and would have it been official, Dipper clearly wouldn't qualify. Because in that scrapped scene he mercilessly snapped the neck of Dippy Fresh and killed him.