I hate how parts of the anime community have started normalizing and defending pedophilic content.
Just to be clear, I’m criticizing the behavior not attacking people personally.
Lately, I’ve seen people openly defend lolicon content and act like anyone uncomfortable with it is the weird one. On an anime subreddit, someone literally said “As a lolicon…” and when I called it weird, I got downvoted for it. Somehow, criticizing that kind of content became the unpopular opinion.
What bothers me even more is how some anime subreddits constantly sexualize characters who are clearly little kids. Not even teenagers, actual child characters. And in many cases, the authors themselves never even intended for those characters to be viewed that way, yet parts of the fandom still turn them into sexual jokes or “fan content.”
If it were just one or two posts, I could ignore it. But when serious discussion subreddits start getting flooded with that stuff instead of actual discussion, it becomes annoying and uncomfortable to scroll through.
People always respond with “it’s fictional,” but being fictional doesn’t mean people can’t criticize it or feel uncomfortable with how normalized it has become.