Because the "sexualizing adults who used to be children is pedophilic!" brain-twister is a recent innovation, and that first run of fandoms you listed are all shows I remember from middle/high school. They aren't the fannish entry points for people who are currently tweens/teens. Those kids are coming in through Undertale -- and Steven Universe, Homestuck, Gravity Falls, Frozen, the latest run of Precure -- all fandoms where I feel like this kind of anti-logic has more of a foothold.
Honestly, I think 90% of it is young people who aren't comfortable with certain sexual things. Which would be fine on its own, everyone has a right to their squicks and their boundaries, but they feel the need to come up with an Internet Social Justice justification for why this is an Absolute Moral Wrong instead of, y'know, something they personally don't like.
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Because the "sexualizing adults who used to be children is pedophilic!" brain-twister is a recent innovation, and that first run of fandoms you listed are all shows I remember from middle/high school. They aren't the fannish entry points for people who are currently tweens/teens. Those kids are coming in through Undertale -- and Steven Universe, Homestuck, Gravity Falls, Frozen, the latest run of Precure -- all fandoms where I feel like this kind of anti-logic has more of a foothold.
Honestly, I think 90% of it is young people who aren't comfortable with certain sexual things. Which would be fine on its own, everyone has a right to their squicks and their boundaries, but they feel the need to come up with an Internet Social Justice justification for why this is an Absolute Moral Wrong instead of, y'know, something they personally don't like.