Tumblr turns to McCarthyism as usual.

[shamanicshaymin]

Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Sailor Moon, Utena, Madoka, etc: *writes and draws smut featuring aged-up versions of characters who are canonically kids or teenagers in the show/games/etc.*
Fandom Police: ...
Undertale: *does the same thing*
Fandom Police: OMG DISGUSTING!!1!1! AGING THEM UP DOES NOTHING TO COVER THE FACT THAT YOU ARE A FUCKING PEDOPHILE!!11!11

Seriously. Grow the fuck up.

Comments

[traitortoheaven]

I've. Actually seen people flip their shit in Utena fandom, too. It's not as COMMON as it is in Undertale, but it does happen.

The double standard does make me cringe, either way. Do people just not get that they don't get to pick and choose what is or isn't acceptable? Either you're for aging up or against it, folks.

[mikogalatea]

... is it just me, or do fans tend to be way more up-in-arms about porn based on Western-created canons like Undertale and Steven Universe than they do about anime porn? The double standard is absurd either way, not to mention that being that hard against age-ups for that reason carries some weird implications.

[sarajayechan]

Just like the ATLA fandom, where 14-year-old Katara kissing 12-year-old Aang is "ewwww" but 16-year-old-Zuko fucking 14-year-old Katara is totally okay. Well, maybe not JUST like it, but similar. It still all boils down to concern trolling and whining.

[erinptah]

Are you seeing this from the same people...?

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.