Yo is it okay if I ask a genuine question here, do people genuinely find it like, predatory or disturbing for those over 18 to have crushes on anthro characters who are young, like Sonic or Shadow or Klonoa, Crash, etc?
Genuinely want to know

After what happened earlier I've just been thinking a lot and reflecting. Obviously I am not sexually attracted to any fucking character lool it's always always just jokes bc my sense of humor is that way

But I guess I always thought it was different with Sonic because he's..

Ya know, a hedgehog?

Earlier I made fun of that little callout because it's over a fictional hedgehog but I don't mean that to come off like jerking it to child characters isn't weird, because I don't personally like stuff like that EITHER. It makes me VERY uncomfortable

The emphasis was on fictional hedgehog together, like it didn't really make sense to me why someone would react so strongly over a something like that?
I don't have a "horny thing" for the character, frankly I have a partner who fills that..uh.. void. For me. I don't need that..

I also feel like the sonic ages are really..flimsy? Idk I grew up with sonic, have loved the character since I was 10 and am now 22, hes not child coded anymore like he may have been in the adventure era, hes existed for way longer than *I* have. I just think it's an odd gripe.

Characters like cream the rabbit I would totally understand but ig for Sonic I doubt anyone looks at his age and is like DUDE HELL YEA LETS GOO, like..most ppl don't even know his age bc he's not written that way anymore.
And where does that draw the line for the shipping stuff?

I see people say really crazy stuff like sonamy is p*dophilia and it's.. a really hard reach. I want to understand but I feel that the entire Sonic canon kind of falls apart when you think of them in human years like that? Idk.

I haven't felt well since earlier.

Anyway the reason I brought up my grooming/abuse story from when I was a teen wasn't to say I can't be guilty of something, but to get the point across that I understand the issue but as someone who was victimized, I don't see THIS particular situation as it is intended to help

Victims of pedophilia or children. I can safely say I have never found anyone's harmless crush on Sonic to be predatory, not when I was a kid and not now.
I think callouts like that are supposed to help people or protect kids.
But I didn't see any goodness in those actions.

To me it seemed like someone was scavenging through my tweets, hoping to find some incriminating things to begin a hate campaign, and because of that I quickly addressed it.
Judge me for jumping the gun but it is so damn triggering to my trauma to read tweets like this.

I can't tell people what to think or what to find tolerable, but I hope people focus on actual predators and real predatory behavior to bring goodness to a community next time, not to tear down someone with followers because you dislike them.

Aaaaa I'm so sorry I keep rambling but I wanted to add a few things
I deleted all of the tweets because either the original tweet or other people's reply would eventually trace back to the other person and no matter what is said about me I felt really awful if they were harassed

I don't care if ppl quote me, screenshot me, because at the end of the day I said what I thought was right on my end but I can't bare the thought of whatever backlash they could receive bc it's likely super overwhelming.

I'll likely delete this thread soon just to declutter

One more thing but I also want to say I don't think it's fair to tweet out accusatory or defamatory statements toward someone with a following and then lash out in anger when they reply. I'm a person just like you, and if triggered my PTSD to read something like that.

If you don't want me to see it or reply, don't quote tweet me or @ me. You can't provoke or trigger someone and then be surprised when they reply. I'm allowed a voice too. Especially in such a defamatory situation.