Its the biggest, almost only, English anime site. With contracts with the Japanese companies to do simultaneous subs for releasing episodes instantly as their air in Japan and having a legal backlog of basically everything.
But, it got its start as any other pirated anime site for people to upload their own subbed episodes to. Pretty bad quality, but they clearly had decent infrastructure because even then they had everything, which is what allowed them to grow and go legit some years later.
But at that time, they basically let you have a social media profile with your account that was literally just Myspace (this was pre-Facebook going big). So you had a lot of young, antisocial weebs all gathered in one place on a social media just for them. I know, I was there. And, much like discord is now, it was filled with grooming, sexual stuff, and all kinds of degeneracy.
As the other guy said, most of them are too normie to actually know a thing about it to know the word "loli", but they are absolutely anti-anime as a whole because they think its all pedostuff. A full baby with the bathwater situation, and the reason why so many of us oppose trusting these bills wholesale.
Most of the crusader level ones are either Leftist or just make that their only political belief, screaming about it.
My point, as illustrated in my first response to him, isn't that I believe there is no difference. Its that the difference is meaningless to the people who push these kinds of laws, and that they and the law will err on the side of "its all bad."
I know the difference between a small chested woman and a child, but for some reason Australia said there wasn't one. You can tell something like Uzaki is clearly just a short college girl, but we had a mass kerfluffle that she was clearly a loli.
Also, I'd wager topless natives are not as common as they once were in those magazines and those specific magazines are for sure no longer allowed in schools because of the same issue I'm talking about. People changed the culture by expanding what they found offensive, and now we do not have nuance. Its all evil and bad to them.
consume loli
Consume it how? This may seem pedantic but its a very important question.
Consume actual pornographic images of girls drawn to look young? Consume content with loli characters in it that isn't meant to be pornographic in any way? Consume anime at all?
Because the big deceit here is that most of the people here arguing in favor of banning are only looking at that first category (the one of obvious pedos) while the people actually writing the laws and screaming the loudest about this make no distinction between the first and the second/third.
Something dumb and milquetoast like Ichigo Mashimaro is filled with loli characters, but has no sexual elements in the slightest. The only difference between it and a Western cartoon centered around little girls is one is anime, which means its now loli specifically and thereby in the same category as hardcore pornography for people discussing this.
These little minute details are meaningless squabbling when its just a conversation, but once you enter the realm of legally binding they become the difference between a dude with weird hobbies and a felony sex offender.
no one's jerking off to it.
Lol, lmao even.
So we can have 13 year old prepubsecent boys be fulled naked on screen, as long as everyone pinky promises to never ever jerk off to it?
Got it, I see we are working with a very well defined and strict set of principles that will work very well when turned into laws that define our land.
Unfortunately for this line of thinking, a lot of the internet's anti-loli crusaders have been busted for either consuming it themselves or being involved in worse sexual degeneracy. Dr. Pizza was just the most famous one, but it happens a lot. Which means, by their own logic, they are either massive hypocrites or actual pedos.
It doesn't mean anyone against it is a secret pedo, the same way all anti-gay people aren't secretly gay because a few big names got caught fucking dudes, but there is a trend of the loudest names being duplicitous on this front.
Any anime girl that isn't drawn with visible aging marks like wrinkles or the like is loli. That's half the problem.
The same way Americans call lusting after a 17 year old girl pedophilia, the definition stopped making sense when they realized you could just say the magic word and everyone would jump on your side.
She was 16 when introduced in the first chapter, and the first panty joke involves Goku pulling off her underwear while she is asleep to feel for her balls, followed by her flashing Roshi the next day her nude lower half with the full ass on display for the audience.
The very first page of the original Dragon Ball manga had Goku's dick front and center as he fished naked. He was 13 at the time.
To act like this wouldn't be called pedo shit and rev up a huge controversy if it was released today is equally insane. That's more than most actual loli focused anime get away with.
Crunchyroll's Myspace ripoff was probably responsible for more underaged kids getting groomed and probably raped than all their shows combined, including the overtly sexual lolishits.
But they've very successfully buried that little piece of their history from most people knowing it existed.
An outlet for people to consume that let's them opt out of the propaganda wing of the Woke Elite that they are using to engineer social change?
Yep, this is totally about protecting children. Not at all just a random cause to let them finally ban Japanese media entirely under "think of the children" moralization.
The problem is, everything you listed after the first is already not only illegal, but so heavily illegal they will send in Swat teams to arrest you for it even if there is no imminent danger to be found.
I'd go so far as to say the amount of detail you went into regarding the same handful of crimes with minor differences shows this isn't nearly as much about justice or protecting innocents, as it is bloodthirst and having a free target to let it out on.
I don't even disagree with you in doing so, but its that exact reaction that The Powers That Be are banking on. You being blinded by indignant rage and righteous anger on a free target that you cut down every law in the land to get the devil. Because those Elites aren't going to be beholden to these laws, Podesta will never get arrested for having wierd child-porn esque art all over. And yet they rape more kids in a single lifetime than a state's worth of common child predators.
DTRH is a true gem of a series, some of his older works are downright the definitive way of learning about an obscure topic.
I wish he still did more of it, instead of treating it as secondary to being a wierd furry/yaoi vtuber.
For the record, KIA2 on reddit never got banned. Its still there. Its basically dead and a shadow of itself but its there.
This place got its kickstart when the "secret rule" and other reddit nonsense was in full force and T_D kindly offered us one of the original founding spots on the site to escape it. Which is why we have a unique name instead of "scored/kia2."
King of the Monsters, and somewhat vs Kong, are both great movies but she is one of the worst parts in them both. The human elements to monster movies are already bad, but adding in an annoying vaguely brown teenager who is just better than everyone is mind boggling.
Millie Brown isn't great in this.
She isn't great in anything. But one of the final curses Tumblr put on us was making Stranger Things some sort of cultural icon that you cannot criticize and making her a "big thing" that Hollywood tripped over themselves to shove everywhere.
They literally made her a main character in a fucking Godzilla movie that had 4 monsters fighting for screentime, but made sure to show her winning the fight for him.
Its worse than racist, because you can be a proud racist and a lot of people will cheer for you. The pendulum can swing back on that and make it normal.
No one will be open or proud pedos, its against our very instincts. We will always hate them, and even those who are proud of being one only do so because it makes them feel evil and edgy.
keep accusations for things restricted to those who actually qualify for those things
People are using pedo, the attraction to prepubescence, to apply to teenagers all the way to young adult women. Its not meant to have a qualification, its just meant to be an I Win Button to destroy someone. There are 90 good reasons why you shouldn't legally or morally be attracted to teenagers, but that's too complicated so its easier to say "pedo" to evoke images of children instead of 5'6 girls with mostly developed bodies.
A retarded giga-nigga on this very forum has been arguing with me for like 10 days now that because Trump knew Epstein, they are both baby raping monsters. And he is sure to say "BABY RAPER" over and over.
When Epstein's youngest known victim is 11. Still bad, still evil, still should be given no difference in treatment. But the argument is coming from a place of pure emotion, and is attempting to use the same emotional argument that worked on them. And cannot understand why it isn't working, so clearly you must be evil too!
The problem with this argument is that it always falls back onto the legal weasel word "obscenity." Which is entirely subjective and varies massively from person to person. The current bill included, cites the obscenity laws within it.
And those are by design meant to be "what would a random person consider not art?" Except oops, a Piss Christ or abortion "exhibit" wouldn't be considered art by normal people but that's given exceptions because The Degenerate Elites like it and not the things those filthy nerds enjoy.
So at the end of the day, the law always just becomes "I think its gross, and think you are gross for liking it." They act like they have some moral highground, but they cannot actually defend their position without falling back on the line that was already a cliche meme back then:
why are you defending pedos? are you a pedo?
You have to say the whole thing whenever you move the piece.
I demand the White King be renamed after Settra, the King of Kings, and we follow up with the loss of pieces if you mess it up:
Settra the Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds
Its like you people don't even think past your own noses. No its not crucial, but its beneficial even if the most pathetic of our society get lost in it.