People jumping on the rule 34 train because it’s now hip on social media in the past recent years was a mistake. Now you got all these people who clearly weren’t there from the beginning (if they were they would have complained about Misty decades ago, but most of them probably aren’t even old enough to remember that), and probably only here to pad out their Patreon bucks, trying to moralize what people should and shouldn’t draw when prior it never mattered because no one cares about the fictional age of fictional characters that aren’t real. It’s the reason why even the worst of fetishes people tolerated and many didn’t try to shut them down (like guro), there was true freedom and few didn’t bat an eye and if you did, it was clear you were new.

What’s even worse is the hypocrisy of those that do try to moral push others. Many have already done so-called underage characters in the very recent past, likely even got paid to do it and only now backpedal when called out for their hypocrisy of how they denounce in order to save their hide. Other’s timelines will be full of gay relations of characters of questionable canonical age, and boy you would be shocked of how oh-so incredibly often this happens! Or all over their galleries there will be animals, anthropomorphics and furry galore. If aging up cartoon fictional women makes others pedophiles, then cartoonifying animals fucking surely puts someone as a Zoophile and into Bestiality, which many would argue is just as bad if not worse. They think they have a moral highground when they have none.

Glad many japanese art websites and japanese artists in general seem to be free of this stuff despite the fact they often draw more debauchery, it’s mainly western artists that do this shit and give a damn. The Tumblr purge really fucked things up even more, as now no longer contained on their shitty website a lot of these moral busybodies are just going to bring their dumbass crusades on over into other sites like Twitter and Newgrounds. Hopefully artists know to ignore and bully them for being idiots clearly outside of their league.