Needed to make this a main post for the sake of visibility, but in general, I think reset the clock did a lot more damage than help, because of the fact that people believe that the only reason you could ever be against a certain thing, is because you’re engaging in it yourself, when we know for a fact that isn’t the case.
To be specific, it is very much possible to be against loli/shota porn and not be an IRL predator. People like Ableist forget that, while I’m not against it existing per se, I understand why certain places would ban it altogether, and I would actually like for Ableist or anyone else to actually post the specific places where “governments ban loli/shota porn and waste police resources” where people have actually been arrested for the sole possession of that fictional content, because as much as you say that, I’ve never seen it. Unless that’s like a European thing, I’ve generally never heard of that before.
I just don’t get why some people don’t understand why the average person thinks that someone who jerks off to loli/shota porn isn’t right in the head.
The Brenton Tarrant video looks like nothing. Like a Doom Game . You think it would be gorier, and maybe it was IRL.
That was less for gore more because of the guy himself. Everything from the way he decorated his gun to saying 'subscribe to pewdiepie' before going on to gun down people made watching it feel...dirty like I was easily playing into his hands giving him views.
A manuscript had enough distance to not give me that feeling.
All the copies I've seen of it are potato so that might have had something to do with it.