>>82302866 (OP)
1. because easy times create weak men. both men and women are taking longer to grow up, so you get a mix of 16-18 year olds objectively being too young to understand sex or autonomy, and 20-30 year olds who are still attracted to children (because they are still mentally children). Even without any moral judgments about this shit in general, people should still be aware of laws and if they break those laws they should face the consequences.
2. Most of this meme is specific to e-famous influencers who get caught chatting with underage girls, and a handful of powerful elites who traffic them. In both of these cases you're talking about the effect of social status being less regulated in the western world. Instead of simply hanging a pedo, people go through goofy long legal processes which let them keep being pedos.