BTW, might as well make some censorship related rants.

1:

Most people do a terrible job at defending “problematic” stuff they like, in a way that somewhat still aligns with the opposition.

Particularly the “yes, but” part.

Specially when someone else goes “I LOOOOOOVE Made in Abyss but the icky stuff should go” and someone’s response is “yes that’s bad but” as opposed to “it’s not an immoral thing plus the creator wants it that way, maybe it’s not for you”.

Even with Berserk, this happens at time.

Because I was also thinking of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley and how some people even label it as “shock value” when the “shocking” elements are there because the creator wants it and not just to shock people.

Specially since there’s audiences for that stuff, so the goal of such artworks isn’t really “trigger the normies” as people think it is.

There are people whose standards are essentially “anything edgier than Bluey is the devil”, they got no maturity to handle serioues art to begin with.

You do not want people like these as fans of things you like, if the attitude if “I’m a fan but this has to go” makes someone go “I guess you’re right” and ruin something interesting because of these unevolved cavemen.

Also shout outs to guys on /a/ who call others “ironic weebs” and still have a mindset of “I gotta be constantly aware that the stuff I like is gross and hide my power level”.

2:

There are cases where it seems silly to complain about censorship but even then, making fun of people complaining can still set a precedent for how anti-censorship people can be mocked.

An example being Elmer Fudd and how some later Looney Tunes stuff replaced his shotgun with a scythe.

Because the mere idea of the character is that he’s a hunter and who would actually see the basic idea, in a cartoon series about slapstick violence, as some sort of pro gun propaganda anyway?

There’s a reason why this character still had a shotgun for so long, while the actual offensive caricatures are what set up the warning screens like “attention, this cartoon is a product of its time and that’s why some characters look this way”.

If it’s silly to complain that he has a scythe, it’s even sillier to complain he had a shotgun in the first place, anyway.

(Why do people even make guns a pro right/anti left thing to begin with when Karl Marx was pro gun and Reagan wanted to push gun control anyway? How can you fight against evil white cops if you can’t even let yourself use the most basic “click to delete” shit to begin with?).

But anyway, where were some of you during Skullgirls’ censorship?

Also shout out to people who supported remake culture: Really cool that Destroy All Humans has a “campy” warning thing for its content even though it still cut shit to begin with.

3:

Lot of people don’t want to admit that a specific kind of “4chan weeb” nerd was there first to complain about censorship.

You can say what you want about Anita or the rightwing grifters etc but note how the “Christian Conservates” narrative started at least during Pixiv fanbox being hit by payment processors and none of that was around, let’s say, a Dead or Alive game not being sold to the West and someone like Jimquisition mocking people for it, even mocking some exec during a quotation in that video.

Feels like people want to memoryhole shit that we could otherwise learn from because it probably never left.

4:

Furries shoot themselves in the foot when they criticize a certain other fetish.

Partially because the same people genuinely disgusted at that fetish would feel the same about furry stuff.

Because even within furry artworks, let’s say there’s a spectrum about how realistic an anthro character can look to real animals and how many furries are like “no it has to look like a realistic dog, have realistic animal parts and even drawn pissing in a fire hydrant with a raised leg”.

Between that and liking a stylized character like Carmelita Fox, it’s no different from the likes of Shadman going “no dude I gotta draw Keemstar’s daughter lmao” and someone just prefering a stylized character like Roll from Megaman.

I might as well bring up how SomethingAwful goons picked both furries and weebs as targets, but now due to troll’s remorse, they decided that furries are no longer cringe if they pretend they’re some brave inherent LGBT movement (Otherwise, the narrative would be “these racist nerds would rather fuck a dog than admit a black woman can be beautiful”).

(And with weebs, the narrative shifts from “yuri is inherently trans and male weebs don’t get that” and “guys we gotta talk about Junko Furuta and how mysognist Japan is”).

You can be a weeb without liking that fetish, but people seem to forget it always had a place in anime/manga history.

Even some popular anime/manga artists like it, from Miyazaki being “the father” of it, to Toriyama once drawing fanart of To Love-Ru, to even Miura drawing a manifesto defending the fetish and even writing how it could combat actual abuse cases.

(There was an image someone made comparing the statistics of Japan’s abuse cases vs the UK, which bans that kind of art).

And like I once said: A lot of weebs in the 2000’s were old enough to simply say “this stuff is icky” but didn’t.

Nobody said anything about the Ken social link in Persona 3 Portable when it came out.

This sentiment people have is clearly recent and due to a “what would the normies think of me” mindset.

Only people in 2000’s saying it was gross were already goons doing “2 NUKES NOT ENOUGH” jokes, anyway.

The same zoomers that go “this is some diddy ahh blud shi” (They can’t even use basic swear words) would probably go after your stuff as well.

5:

Genuinely wonder if some people refuse to say parents are doing a terrible job raising their kids, because they think any argument in the vein of “most people are dumb” is bad.

Because you’d think with how everyone loves George Carlin, they’d come to conclusions that there are problems with society in general.

But I guess when one worries too much about approval from “the normal ones”, they can’t say something about a specific flaw or attitude in the masses.

The mere concept of parents not monitoring their kids’ use of technology is part of why (Or at least a bullshit excuse) these shitty laws exist now.