Violence in games =/= pedo content.

Hell, the most weird, niche fetish porn game on itchio =/= pedo content.

I'd rather discuss what's broken in your mind to make you unable to see the distinction.

What, for real? XD

You are obviously not here to engage in good faith discussion. You have repeatedly misrepresented both my words and my intentions.

I don't know what axe you have to grind but it's clear you are just looking to rant about how uncomfortable you feel.

You're better off talking to a therapist about that than posting on the internet.

Goodbye and good luck.

Stand with us now to end child sexual exploitation everywhere.

It's safe.

Appreciated. I should have just looked the ecpat up tbh but the amount of creeps in this commrnts section really had me assume the worst.

Apologies for my initial assumption. Ecpat is a very worthy cause.

The anime somewhat cleans up some scenes that are in the very much more paedophilic manga where each release also features sexual nude drawings of the minor characters on the last page of each issue, or at least a lot of them.

Edit: Also I remember an interview with the author where he has a doll of the bunny character and sniffs her crotch repeatedly. It's considered a "joke" in the community, he's done this repeatedly. Nanachi I think? The nude drawing of her in one issue says "Nanachi won't let you sniff it. Has a mild scent" in their backpage character profile.

That might seem like a joke but it's kno- ahem

It would probably be for the best if pedophiles and child sexual abusers weren't considered the exact same by the general public considering one harms people and the other appears to be a mental disorder (or maybe just a sexuality), but that won't happen for a long time if ever.

you went on UnpopularOpinions and didn't expect to see people calling your opinion unpopular?

It's still fictional if they buy a 1:1 scale model of the character with an onahole shoved inside it.

the z80 is still being made, the ti 84 plus ce even has one in it and that was sold by the millions to highschool(er)s, most technologies do not end up being phased out entirely after their replacement is made.

what a bucket of cope.

The fact that you just told someone who likes coming of age romance stories that they "are allowed to like sexy children" is telling on yourself. It means you cannot look at teenagers who are in love without getting aroused.

Your comments all over these threads make it very obvious that you are a self-hating pedo trying desperately to convince everyone, including yourself, that you aren't one.

Most people don't look at teenagers holding hands or confessing that they're in love and think "wow look at those sexy teenagers".

You have a genuine problem.

Get help.

That might be true, their behavior in the comments was still offensive af. Hell I'd even agree that most anime are bad and oversexualising loli characters and I don't like it either.
Anyways I'd even say most anime fans would agree that lolis are rather bad but they still enjoy the medium. no reason to be a dick about it and accuse them of being on the same level as Epstein

AFAICT it works the opposite. Opinions here are expected to be unpopular, so if they are "popular" or you agree with them, (you think) they shouldn't belong to the sub, so you downvote.

Ooh, this is a spicy one, and definitely unpopular.

Is that thinking logically consistent? Yes. Is it pervasive? Yes. Is it sane?

Does putting a badger as my profile picture mean I want to fuck the badger? Oh god, is my manager a closet badger buggerer?!? Holy Jesus, does my elderly coworker wants to fuck her cat, and does the younger guy wants to fuck a Ferrari... What kind of twisted society do I inhabit?!?

Nope, definitely not sane.

Sorry but that kind of inference of "profile picture = thing I want to fuck" is definitely unpopular for a reason.

We are all comfortable with sexual liberation until a point we are not. The ideological framework underpinning this has gaps.

Plenty of it does, plenty doesn't. And I can't bring myself to see the issue when it's about high school characters with other high school characters where the appeal is from a culture where high school is often seen as a nostalgic great time that people just want to reexperience through media. And average teenagers are objectively horny as fuck.

The sexual harrassment that is often part of that that is also normalized is the far bigger issue. But that happens regardless of the supposed age of the characters.

You misunderstand- I do not think that your judgement means I can't like something. I think your judgement is ill-founded and dependent on assumptions that you have as a product of not relating or enjoying the things you're judging, and I'm passing judgment on it exactly in the way you're passing judgment on what I'm saying. Only I think my judgement is actually well founded, and I think that's reflected by the fact that no one but you disagreed with or disliked my comment, where many people have otherwise agreed with you.

You like sexy children in anime and I don’t, good for you

That's a transparently bad faith straw man, and you look like a moron for saying it as though its anything less than a transparently bad faith straw man

I'm ace. I don't generally find people sexually attractive lol. Not really a thing that happens for me.

(I'm ace, which personally I think makes it way funnier that he feels that's a biting criticism lol)

There are plenty of great animes without any of the aforementioned, don't think you need to quit it all together. Just avoid the obvious glorifying of sexual assault/harassment and child/teenager sexualization ones and call out people for supporting and normalizing those.

I didn't expect there to be such an open defence of pedophillia from so many people.

My apologies for expecting better from people. I now see the error of my optimism and have lowered my expectations again.

I don't think it unpopular, it's the most normie take ever.
Anime and Hentai are just another medium for every fetish that exists and there's some really weird stuff out there.
Personally I don't get those specific ones, but also don't see it as harming anyone, and also that it doesn't "activate" the same part of the brain.

You (GENERAL YOU) like sexy children in anime and I don’t, good for you (GENERAL YOU)

Hopefully this clarifies the situation.

It would be nice to not have to block all the people who post what look like drawings of children.

Oh wow that really does make this even funnier holy shit 😂

He's not making a causal argument that the media causes something to happen. Just that someone who creates media has a specific intent when they do it. They're not the same thing.

Yeah, AI is when everything goes into shit, because it's trained with pictures and videos of real children. That's fucked up.

Also it enable abusers to harass people online with deepfakes.

Want an actually hot take? There's nothing wrong about being a pedophile.

No one can choose to be or not to be a pedophile, it works same as other attractions in this regard. Most pedophiles do not abuse children in any capacity, being fully aware it's bad and harmful. So the OP's argument is not really essential to debate - merely being a pedophile doesn't mean anything anyway.

There are some issues posting sexually explicit drawings of underage characters in uncontrolled online environments (children should not face such forms of sexualization), but merely having an anime child avatar isn't it.

If you want to learn more about what pedophilia is & isn't, refer to Wikipedia and academic literature instead of panicking media landscape.

Fucking stupid. Swap pedophile with any other heinous crime, you wouldn't feel the same.

"There's nothing wrong about being a murderer/rapist".

At least manslaughter can have extenuating circumstances, the rest are abhorant and should be treated as such.

I'm quite certain you didn't read my comment first, and knee-jerked on the word "pedophile", which commonly only holds one association.

Pedophile is not the same as child molester, and people wrongfully equate these two words based on false media narrative that has nothing to do either with scientific consensus or basic reality.

Child abuse is a crime, and should be persecuted. Pedophilia is an inherent trait that may or may not result in child abuse. Pedophiles are people, and they are able to comprehend the horrors their actions may cause (look into anti-contact pedophiles) or, if not that, then the legal consequences of their actions. If a given pedophile crosses the line, they should land in jail. But we cannot preemptively persecute people who did nothing wrong and happened to be born with something they can control.

Defending your projection? Someone needs to search this person's hard drive.

On it, you'll find an assortment of scientific papers, academic books and various educational materials on my major, biology, as well as adjacent fields like medicine and psychology.

These things could make you smarter, if you could read. Too bad. Still, you can play World of Warcraft, I guess, if you don't read the quests.

People will have urges, we're still animals. It's when people act inappropriately on those urges that we have a problem.

I worked for a company that was releasing a game. They tuned it for different cultures. A little art touch up here, some wording there. Our publisher said we would literally not be allowed to release our game in Japan unless we changed the in-game first-time NPC to a young, big-breasted giggly girl for that region.

Exactly, as someone called out in this post: I really just like Osage-chan. I find her super relatable and fun.

That said its not ok to be weird and have "waifus" that are not age appropriate for you.

If you watch anime as an adult you have to grow up and recognize you are watching media targeted for kids and teenagers. You can't engage with it like you would if you were still that age.

If I were to watch Lucky Star as a teenager, I might have a crush on some of the characters. But as an adult I can recognize the best girl is their teacher Nanako. 🤟

I haven't watched anime in quite a while (with the exception of CP Edgerunners, which does have a character that is sexualized and appears as a child, because of mods I guess). I can't name any specific ones off the top of my head, and I do not want to search for them. You know they exist though. Saying "you need to point out specific ones" is trying to put it all on me. It's not like this is some small thing that has only been done a few times.

No, I'm calling this out.

We have a disagreement in another community to which you name call me and mock me having depression in response to that disagreement, and then you come here and essentially vaguepost calling me pedo adjacent because of my profile picture?

I like Osaka because she's relatable and gives me comfort as a character that speaks to who I am, not because I think she's attractive. I genuinely have no words to how low this is.

I genuinely can think of only three off the top of my head that are overtly problematic. I'm not arguing that they don't exist. We all know they exist. But people tend to talk like it's the majority. That every time there's a mismatch between mental age and physical appearance it's a perverted excuse to creep on kids.

And it's just not. It's always easy to find examples of the worst things a medium has to offer. What I'm asking is for people to show me the things that make them think it's the rule, not the exception. Because I could sit here and diatribe for hours about every instance I know of with a "old being in young body" trope but I know that just come off as making excuses. So I want to address your specific concerns.

EDIT: And it's kinda funny when you bring up Edgerunners, since that's a property managed by a Polish company with some insanely grotesque hypersexualized content that is deeply fucked up before even getting to the anime.

I don't know that I believe thats an honest reframing but frankly it doesn't matter. A 'general you' still implies it's true for me among others.

If its not true for me, maybe, just maybe, theres a way of relating to this you just don't understand, and not everyone who enjoys romantic coming of age stories is a horrible person who wants to fuck children. Just maybe.

I don't see anyone saying it's the rule. They're saying that it happens, and it's excused. You apparently agree with that, and that it shouldn't happen I assume too?

As for CP/Edgerunners, sure. I don't think hyper-sexualization is an issue, but fine. The show is anime though, made in Japan I believe. It uses tropes that are from anime, like the character that looks like a child, which aren't from any of the other Cyberpunk media. The whataboutism here is totally off topic. It doesn't excuse anything. It's purely just "but they do other things!" This topic is not about hyper-sexualization. It's about sexualizing child characters.

Psychopathy is an inherent trait that may or may not result in a serial killer.

Nah dawg, I think you're 100% wrong on this one.

Well that's a bad faith response if I've ever seen one. Just pretending anime isn't like 30 percent pedo shit?

There's still a ton of anime that don't have the usual turnoffs. Shows like ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept. and Mushi-Shi and Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. I have a whole list of them if anyone's interested

Aren't you the guy that defends pedophilia?

Your profile pic is a red flag regardless of how you try to frame it

What about AI deep fakes? Isn't real so it's fine?

Me liking a character from a series because she represents my experience growing up with undiagnosed inattentive ADHD: "wow, she's literally me, it feels nice feeling seen"

Random internet strangers: "Well you see, that's a red flag because clearly you must have an attraction to children and there can be no other reason why you like this character. I didn't make this weird at all!"