>>537720156
The worst victim of stuff like this has been anime. It's something both foreign and familiar to them. They got into anime after "it appealed to them", but only did so or even properly became aware of it after it became seen as socially acceptable, so none of them truly have a passion for the medium and only think they like it. This means that when anime goes against their "sensibilities", they want to have their cake and eat it too.
It's a specific element that's "problematic", it's fans who are doing the sexualization and the creators totally don't support what these posers are against, or whatever other cope they need to satisfy their false morals without discarding this thing they think is cool. Which actually means those who decry the medium altogether are less cancerous, funnily enough. And they ignore obvious problems like underage girls on Tiktok because they're not interacting with those actual problems, so it doesn't really register. But pixels on a monitor that were given an arbitrary age? Pixels that "look like kids" (been seeing this one for nearly a decade and it still makes me do a double-take)? Those they see all the time, so it matters.
Point this out and you'll be told that it's possible to care about two issues at once or like something while criticizing it. Which is obviously true. Yet they curiously NEVER do anything about real life issues and not only is their faggotry not critique, the only anime stuff they like is mainstream trash or easily approachable. Almost like they're convincing themselves of this to not feel bad.
Despite all this, the worst part to me is how many late 20s and beyond do the exact same shit. We all love to think it's just the newborns because nobody wants to think anybody like themselves would be so retarded, but reality isn't so kind.
That's why characters like Ima terrify them: they can't claim moral superiority without also conveniently setting aside everything else that happens in this game.