Here's my ｄｅｃｏｍｐｒｅｓｓｅｄ version of the tweet below. It's a page-and-a-half thesis on why everybody should be standing up to (politely) oppose Mr. Beesman, right now, before this becomes a years-long battle of bullshit.



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In case my "Strike Witch loli ass-shots, brought to you by Funimation.com/Bardock" shitposts weren't 1000% clear in their intention, I've here to bring attention to one of two possibilities:



1. This pair of Dragonball-spawned jabronies are categorical hypocrites in their hard-line moral stance against the way of the loli

2. They didn't have an actual moral stance to begin with, and are just trying to level up their Ragefame-meter in the Shitcunt Harasser MMO they see social media as



There's no point in speculating which of these are more applicable to either of them. Because intentional or not, there is a wonderful (almost genius) tactical advantage in attacking individuals and not institutions/corporations. You might know where I'm going with this, but I'll spell it out really clear here:



It's a way to moralize against loli without getting most lolicons mad at you.



Imagine a large-scale twitter campaign 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭'𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵, broadcasting the demand that they remove such-and-such objectionable series. If a figure with legit power and influence put their reputation behind that, there would be a backlash. A wrathful backlash would lash-back so brash their lashes and bashes would bash in their backs and wrathfully crash.



This is what we call "Gamergate". Where the simple fact that most writer's rooms are filled with beanie hats, skinny jeans and economic illiteracy represents rich soil for the conspiratorial mindset of the average shit-lord shut-in. We live in a world where a claw-handed woman in World War 2 and LSB (lesbian space rocks) aren't just stupid pandering / people expressing their sexuality, they're "attacks" on the average gamer / CN viewer; "propaganda" leveled against them; a "disgrace" to what they believe in. These people feel threatened, and will endlessly nag and poke anyone who they see as embodying that threat.



The loli-fapper lifestyle, comparatively, isn't under threat at all. It's a niche, and I don't think most fans want it to ever become mainstream. Speaking as someone not particularly into DFC (delicious flat chest) specifically but very much into *many* other Gelbooru tags, I DEEPLY appreciate my parents and their book club friends not knowing 80% of the terminology I fill my porn folder with.



NOBODY FEELS THREATENED WHEN AN UPPER-MID LEVEL ANITUBER LIKE @DIGIBRAH IS TARGETED, IS MY POINT. If it was an attack on Crunchyroll, or Funimation, or god forbid the actual studios making the Strike Witches franchise, that would be an attack *on your shit*. But Digibronev isn't you, he doesn't make your loli porn, and he's more than able to defend himself. So other than him and his editor wasting a few days on vlogs and tweets, no harm done, right?



...right?



Maybe. I can't say anything conclusive here, but I don't like the smell of the kind of precedent being set here. The die has been cast: openly defend perky anime asses too small, and enjoy your full-frontal assault of pedophilia accusations, attempted job lynching, and actual threats to spuriously call the police on you.



And yet, despite the "die" being "cast", uh... the die only seems to have been thrown at Digi (for now). Yeah uh, you know ALL those other WAY more popular and influential western anime fandom e-celebrities who are just as much if not more into OMDFC (optimally molestable delicious flat chest)? Don't mind them. They have too many subs to go up against. Oh and those corporations I make money from that broadcast mother fucking Eromanga goddamn Sensei? Don't mind them either, I like going to their panels. OH and the fact that my fanbase is mostly anime fans and therefore some decent percentage of them are inevitably using my Funimation sponsorship to fap to Strike Witches? Let's not think about them, either. I don't want to risk losing my own base in a drama tornado.



They're not willing to start a ruckus that they have any chance of seriously losing. But they WILL pick off targets they view as weak enough, one by one. Could people like this chip-chip-chip their way down the slippery slope far enough until we hit some sort of Gamergate-level open warfare? I very much think so, as the mainstream side of anime culture grows mainstreamier every year. Did you know back in the 30's, Hollywood movies actually had legit-ass sex and violence and lesbians, and only got censored and sterilized when they became popular enough to spread outside of amoral cities and into Bible-thumping middle America? I can see very much the same thing happening, as bigger and bigger celebrities start RT'ing anime memes.



I think that the early precedents we're setting now could have a huge ripple-effect influence on the future. For full clarity: I do NOT want a widespread Loli-gate to ever happen, if for no other reason than because it will spawn a generation of dumb-shit loli defenders who take it too far and attack people just for not enjoying PVCC (perfectly vertical, curveless chest) enough.

What I DO want, what I wish would happen RIGHT now, in the summer of 2018: is that any wannabe Televangelist who abuses their influence to moralize and kinkshame people be completely delegitimized and shunned in the public opinion.

In my opinion, Bardock should be getting a gentle but biting condemnation from EVERY popular western anime-fandom personality that values free speech (and has their head out of their ass on what actual pedophilia is).



If I had to guess, I'd estimate 3% of people in this community like or love loli, 15% of people don't particularly mind it, and another 60% don't like or understand it but don't think it warrants shame and ridicule. If these groups could recognize the potential threat right now, instead of 5 years from now when it's become clear and obvious, we could save a lot of headache and maintain a lot of dignity for everyone.

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