@LukeAlmighty One more final note, there's forces on both the left and the right who see drawing porn of kids show as a grooming method and the infamous "google searches showing porn of kids show characters" craze that has existed for eons. They don't get that the artist is almost certainly, always fucking horny. To them it has an insidious aspect to it, and the boomer/normie worldview is that there is always a motivation behind any action.
In 2019, after the Tumblr porn ban and during the rise in puritanism in left wing circles, this article from a throwaway/anon caused a shitstorm in nerd communities. This post in particular also spawned a specific breed of "moralfag"/puriteen in art communities too:
https://medium.com/@brazyintheday/kids-tv-has-a-porn-problem-84592d9514fcIt talked about a real controversial issue which is also an open secret in the anime scene: that a lot of animators were porn artists. It also talked about the massive amounts of MLP porn. Naturally the conclusion of the article was the same as boomers: instead of taking a lax approach they should do what Nintendo and some creator of an obscure cartoon did and whip the DMCA out.
Which a lot of internet warriors related to as well given that many of them got exposed to porn via image searches and DeviantArt, and now Twitter.
My point is; there are a lot of people out there who believe that society rot is a result of pornography online. Anything, and everything is a tool in the toolbox to use to censor the internet and porn. The end result of this as well doesn't stop new porn from happening, but rather gives you a situation like with current year Twitter where artists just fuck off from the site because they won't get comments on FA/the fedi/itaku/inkbunny/similar sites from people telling them "stop drawing porn of this".
Which is also where banning porn will end up. They will go to underground sites, and the images will get leeched and posted to Discord/Twitter/Telegram. Kids will still run across them regardless, even if it just makes it harder. It doesn't stop kids in Muslim countries from finding it after all.
Shit like Steven Universe having LGBT themes as the showrunner was balls deep on porn spheres online just adds fuel.
It's a really fucking messy situation, and had there not been people online who think it's a good idea to drag kids into this, it would have just languished.
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