Drawn/written CP of Fictional characters doesn't exist and you need to quit encouraging teenagers to trust random strangers online.
First of all, what is child pornography? Well, it's an outdated term that, in the broadest sense, means any picture/video of a real life child in sexually explicit act/pose/position.
Why is that term outdated? Because the term pornography means that the person depicted can consent— which children cannot, so the proper term to be used when calling something CP, should actually be CSEM. Child Sex Exploitation Material.
Now what is Child Sex Exploitation Material? It's child porn! It is the exploitation of a child who cannot consent to sexual activities into taking pictures/videos either by force or coercion, as no matter what, a child cannot willingly consent to those sex acts. Even if they were manipulated or drugged, no matter what they say, they COULD NEVER consent, and that is the sex exploitation part of the term.
CSEM is a correct term to refer to CP, and it requires an actual child to exploit and harm sexually.
Now let's look at fictional characters, more importantly, explicitly stated in canon or by the fanartist that they are under 18 fictional characters. Can they be exploited? No. They have no human rights, they have no feelings, actually, they can't consent to anything, regardless if it's fluff or sex, as they're unable to consent or even not consent. Because well, they can't speak, they can't think, everything they are is inside your head.
"I kin this character, so porn of them is porn of me, who's also a minor!"
That sounds like a personal problem that you should see therapy about. Porn of Fictional characters is gonna exist whether you like it or not. I literally saw a post on Instagram comparing the amount of Lisa Simpson (underage child) porn to Lisa Lisa (legal MILF) and the underage child had like 7k more images, on Rule34 alone. It's inevitable that if it exists, there will be porn of it, yes, even for character's who were made before you were even born.
"but it will be used to groom children!"
Groomers will use anything to groom, it can be porn, it can be fluff, it came be suggestive, it can be real or Fictional, but blaming the fiction for existing is directly taking blame off of the predator who grooms, take the groomer responsible first. And reminder, when Antis talk about "art being used to groom", they most likely mean that Jojo anime character who's 15 in canon but looks like he's 35. Why would a pedophile age up a character to look older, btw? Shouldn't they be the ones aging DOWN characters to make them look younger?
"Adults shove it in kids faces!"
No, they don't. Tumblr and Twitter are both 17+ on the app store, meant for mature teens and up. Sure you can be 13 and have an account legally, but that's because 13 is the minimum age for that website to get your consent to use your ad data (per COPPA's rules). The only major social media I'd say a 13 year old should be on nowadays is Instagram, there is where they apply heavy censorship to butts and boobs, and if they see a cock its on sight for them to delete that post. Tumblr still has NSFW fanfic (and still a decent amount of hentai tbh), and then Twitter just full on allows all NSFW. Fanfic and pictures, including real life adults. Almost all NSFW artists will put warnings and tags to help you protect yourself, so listen to them and protect yourself (and no that doesn't mean attacking them). If they forget to tag something, ask them to, if they don't, then oh well, they don't have to, and you also are not entitled to their art, they can block you just as much as you can block them.
"but it's gross! They're thinking of a fictional minor sexually!"
For one, let me just say that many artists will add the "all characters depicted as 18+"warning because while the character designs may not have changed much, they still don't want anyone thinking the characters are underage, that's for personal comfort and I understand that. Two, even when artists DO age up characters, Antis will still complain because "wahhhhhhh you were thinking of them sexually as a minor WAHHHH", when no, this is how the aging up process usually goes:
I really like this character, I'm gonna make an AU/timeline where they're a bit older because I'm older and I want to relate to them more (or hell, the aging up may even be canon, like with Jotaro), now that I've got my AU/timeline sorted out, I can add all my HCs and traits to the character to make them more in depth because the canon doesn't add as much as I want, oh well, now that's they're an adult they're probably gonna have sex, might as well write about it with my version of a character who has lots of time and effort put into making them unique and though they are the same character as the canon version, my version is my own personal interpretation and I feel comfortable sexualizing them now that they're a adult.
It's also valid to just go: I want to sex this character, but they're underage and I'm not comfortable with that, so I'm gonna age them up for my own comfort.
There are no kids online. It's literally, and I mean this legally speaking, not allowed. 13 and up. Teen and up. There are no "kids", those are teenagers. ThirTEEN. If you see someone who's under 13 online, (and the account isn't run by their parents), report it. That is actually doing the thing y'all love to preach about- protecting children.
It isn't the responsibility of random adults online to take care of children, that's just encouraging real predators and pedophiles to go "I'll take care of you :) I'm a good adult I'll show you how the internet works :) you can trust me, didn't you see the post saying adults should take care of teens online? I'm an adult and I want to take care of you :)". Which is fucking creepy, why are Antis ENCOURAGING teens to forget about stranger danger? I don't know about y'all but that's a pretty good policy, especially online where anyone can lie about anything.
Can drawn CSEM exist? Yes. If it's of a real child, and indistinguishable from a child who exists in the real world.
Do fictional characters fall under that? By all means no, but there are always exceptions: if they're drawn in such a way that they look like a real child who could plausibly exist (aka hyper realism), then I'd reccomend you report it. (If the art is sexual at least, hyper realism isn't inherently bad, it's only bad when you use that to sexualize characters in a way that makes them look like they're real kids.) In some places though, things like that are legal, so it's best to report it and then block, if you share that content (even censored) you yourself may also get into legal trouble should it be against the law.
So, TLDR: Fictional characters cannot be exploited for porn of themselves, and it's up to you to block (and possibly report it). Do not share the content with anyone, especially if you think it may be violating the law. Even downloading it can implicate you in the crime, and sharing it (no matter how censored or warned about) can definitely get you into legal trouble should the drawing be found in violation.
I'd also like to quickly mention the hypocrisy of Antis saying "fictional character porn is CP!" And then them sharing it to their friends and followers, yes I'm looking at you Instagram flop accounts, because sharing CP/CSEM is illegal and you most likely will be fined and possibly jailed for even owning it, and sharing it? Definite jail time. Aren't y'all Antis lucky most of it turns out to not be illegal at all? If it was illegal I could report you to the FBI after all.
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