"It's fictional content!" "No real children are being harmed!" Contrary to popular belief, artists don't conjure images from a void in their imagination. It's actually impossible to think up a totally original, unique idea that isn't derived from something that already exists. What reference material do you think loli artists use for anatomy, pose, proportions etc? Just because anime or cartoons are stylized doesn't mean that they're entirely detached from real human anatomy. The reason why predators keep getting caught with this stuff is because these drawings are depicting child anatomy in a manner that pedophiles find arousing. The other people looking at it aren't necessarily going to molest a real child, but they still have a pedophilic attraction. What I find fascinating is how many l*licons are willing to condemn Shadman for drawing explicit art of real children or child actresses, while tolerating drawings that "are not based on real children". Bro, they all are. The only difference is the extent to which it looks like a specific child. If it looks like one kid it's not okay, but if the drawing is based on pictures of 10 kids it's fine? How does this work? Do you think someone like Chibireviews is evaluating what material the artist use as reference when drawing the pictures in his special folder? If all you have is the final product, you really can't, unless you're already familiar with the source material. For all he knows, the artist might've used CSAM as reference. You think the artist is going to say that publicly? It could also be CSAM passed through an AI filter. As AI models get better that's only going to become less noticeable and more likely to happen. Vaush already had a bunch of AI images in his tax folder that he didn't notice were AI.
