>>57000557Yeah that's the thing, he's definitely in that "late teen/possibly early 20s" age limbo that really shouldn't matter for this "issue" in the first place. But literal children have trouble relating to people any older than them so they try to "claim" characters like that so that "lame adults" don't "ruin" them, I think. And accusing someone of being a pedo is effective. There was even some lying faggot who edited Arven's bulbapedia article so it would say that he's a teenager and posted a screenshot of it as "proof" that he's underage to "btfo" someone and call them a pedo. Those moralfagging retards really think that calling someone a pedo is the ultimate "I win" strategy. Fuck those faggots.
Also it's hard to defend shit when those kids have literal discords full of schizo buttbuddies who will mass report and dogpile anyone they want to accuse of being a pedo. It's like a moralfag wannabe mafia run by mentally ill teenagers. It's fucking miserable.
This kind of shit is even going so far that tons of Japanese artists preemptively check accounts of people who interact with them (like their art etc) and block users if they seem to be non-Asian because they want to avoid harassment. It's a common enough occurrence that they have to worry about it.
>>57000610I'm only like a tertiary spectator vaguely connected to friends of friends of the people who are involved, but it's true. It's fucking madness. Pure mental illness running rampant.
>>57000696Yeah, the worst thing about all this is the gigantic fucking rift it causes between Western and Japanese fandoms, as I mentioned above. If I could just ignore all the retarded drama then it wouldn't even bother me, but the fact that these "people" have made it difficult to interact with Japanese artists (unless your account looks convincingly Japanese) is fucking infuriating and saddening. Nips are already very gatekeep-y about the stuff, but it's getting even worse.
Sorry for derailing a bit. Fuck moralfags.
