Alright may as well talk about it, the recent Archcast brought this to light but everything from trans pushes to how people apply social media to the real world this is something that's been on my mind a lot.
We should have in our heads a clear distinction between what is fiction and what is reality. Reality is the empirical, from our senses, experience and anaylsis of the environment. Fiction is the opposite, it be based on aspects of reality but isn't required and should have little to no consequences on reality.
We've always had issues with the two with superstitions and mysticism but usually they were either because of lack of knowledge or to remember real world dangers (a tale of a monster attacking if you build there is a warning tsunamis hit this area)
But now it's gone nuts. We have a media encouraging delusions on sex, right and left saying drawings are immoral yet the left say that teaching kids about sex positions is fine and that a woman can beat up a man twice her size.
If I were to pin point when the acceleration pedal was pushed down on this, I'd say it's when normies hit the Internet. They were used to every communication being with an actual person that when they got on the Internet, they didn't understand the etiquette that you can be whatever you want here. They have never caught onto that distinction and it's why we see so many pushes to remove anonymity.
Then there's the lolicon 'debate', it's more a canary in the coal mine for us all than a hill not to die on. Look at everything that happened to it first, payment processors refusing service, refusal to allow content despite meeting tos, criminalisation in some countries of a drawing. This started with fictional content but has bled so easily into speech laws, the fictional was the thin edge of the wedge to then target the real.
I'll stop here to not go too long tldr; The West at large has lost a lot of it's ability to tell fiction from reality and it's led to the mass adoptions of delusions along with using fictional content to target the real world
I'd be careful trying to go with that definition because they tried to call Uzaki-Chan a loli despite she's in college with MASSIVE tits. At least if we differentiate by going "this is a drawing" we can they just go "ensure it's tagged appropriately and they display it on the appropriate place" depending on how adult it is.
Thanks to the lefts trans and let's be honest pedo push, I've seen way more (and too many) REAL children in adult situations, not CP (thank god) but children in strip clubs, around sex toys and encouraged to copy sexual dance moves.
I have not encountered sexual loli content without warnings, like it was just pushed on me. They actually self register themselves and so it isn't an issue as most of the time what people get outraged by on twitter is a drawing of a short woman (a shortstack) that has big tits that they claim is a child.
At least with the drawing distinction we can just make that a content categorisation issue and then you can report if they fail to tag it appropriately. Doing more WILL flood law enforcement to the point real pedos get away and looking at the west currently, they do, A LOT.