children who engage in fandom should keep their feet on the necks of hags who talk like this, actually. they have been trying to memory hole their part in cultivating grooming factories out of “fandom spaces” for decades. they are simply mad that many children now have the political education to recognize how inappropriate their interactions are with kids. they now see children as a nuisance because they can no longer be inappropriate with complete impunity like they could in the 2000’s. Please continue to ageistly marginalize these freaks. i have nothing but contempt for Fandom Elders™️.
these “people” reduced predatory behavior at conventions to a joke and a pastime (any fellow hags remember the ‘pedobear’ cosplays?). this culture escalated to the point that a “cosplay is not consent” slogan needed to be coined. adult men with influence like vic mignogna were so well known as predators on the convention circuit that it was an open secret, but no one dared to directly, publicly confront this behavior for years. roleplay and fanfiction sites were and still are platforms where grooming and a disregard for ethics and boundaries occur even today. in the last ten years, two roleplay websites were shut down as a result of this. they take pleasure in humiliating and degrading children online for questioning their behavior, because they know children are an oppressed group whose complaints are dismissed. they aren’t being bullied enough for my tastes. #SendFandomEldersToLaborCamps
I will never forget being 12 and getting into anime fandoms and grown adults in those spaces calling me a “real life loli” and trying to defend being groomers and pedos in anime fandom.
Please bully these hags and if you ever feel unsafe or their behavior feels suspect, don’t put up with them.
