I blame rtxn@lemmy.world’s comment for giving me this idea.

This promotes pedophilia.
Idk why so many grown nerds insist on sexualizing little girls.
Edit: wow turns out this instance is full of pedophiles. Gross.
I’ve seen this image pop up now and then for like 10+ years as a meme in the Linux community and never not once did I think this.
Obviously if that’s a confirmed intention behind it, then it’s not okay, but I think you’re overthinking it, it’s just how anime designs are, the characters often look agelessly young.
These look like pretty average anime characters to me and don’t strike me as implying something problematic in the slightest.
Idk I’m an outside observer to weeb shit, but that’s how I always interpreted it at least.
You can have a romance without sexualizing shit, it’s not all about sex.
If you’re an adult, and you’re interested in children’s romance thats the same issue. In fact, all content directed towards older audences featuring this kind of stuff, is directed to, and made by pedos.
That is not ok either. Children adult sexual or romantic relationships are not ok because of the power dynamic. Both of legal rights and emotional and mental maturities.
The girls in the picture appear to be minors though? I never suggested an age difference??? Wtf…
The perspective of the image is voyeuristic. The person criticing the trend is talking about that issue.
Weird how none of these arguments show up on images of hetero teen romance.
This isn’t even an image of lesbian teen romance tbh. Its penned for the viewers interest instead of candid scene of two kids in love
I thought we just had a pride month, how many are there now??
Debian is out of date. That’s it. That’s the entire joke. It’s basically this without beating on the rotting horse corpse of IE. (And this, like the IE meme, is funnier the longer it’s been since June).

Hah. That’s pretty clever



