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I'd say that it was happening before the 'rona because as early as maybe 2018 I saw some degree of "um she's an actual child you creeps!!1" but it feels like its much more intense now. I feel they kept moving the goalposts because a lot of the same people who would complain about it in the first place are/were also minors and didn't like seeing someone their age sexualized by adults. It used to be "stop lusting over 14 year olds," but then I sometimes saw "barely legal" thrown around as a way to still shit on people for liking characters that were 18 but still le heckin' wholesome blorbo and therefore shouldn't be sexualized ever. And don't even get me started on "minor-coded" shitters, but those are relatively recent. And like I mentioned before they hate fanart of "aged up" characters for some fucking reason I can't understand because somehow it doesn't count and they still think its creepy. Nothing makes me want to learn Japanese more than the idea that I wouldn't have to interact with English-speaking fans anymore. At least it seems like Japanese fans are generally so much more relaxed about inane shit like this because they know it isn't real and doesn't matter.