It's funnier when they try to use the "if it looks like a child" card whenever someone tells them lolis aren't real people. Like that fucking DuncanCantDie guy. Again it's always funny how ignored shotas are. I literally can't find a video that goes into a deep dive about them. The only thing it nets me is vtubers clips joking about them being shotacons.
I remember seeing a clip of loli vtuber Pikamee talking about her lolicon fetish. She's the one who became Henya and has talked about her sexual fantasy of grooming 9 year old girls.
She mentioned going to Japan for loli hentai conventions to get her loli porn mags there. Made it sound like some kinda speakeasy.
Thing is even though the lolicons insist otherwise loli shit is actually controversial in Japan too. They ain't some lolicon safe haven like the weebs wish. Getting outed as a lolicon over there can cost you your job family and friends.
Though I think it's less they see it as pedophilia and more they see it as not maintaining a clean public image. Japan has this big cultural thing about your private life and public life having strict five foot thick walls and multiple security check doors between them.
Japan is kinda like the farms in that regard. You take one step outside of public social expectations and you're pretty much an offline lolcow to the country of KiwiBros.
Though if you consider moving there don't get your hopes up. So long as you do it right Japan is accepting to things as "one of the good ones." Troons for example can be very publicly accepted and drag queens can even be beloved members of the neighborhood so long as those troons and drag queens follow strict social guidelines of how they're supposed to behave. It's not the actual troon shit that Japan hates it's troons acting outside the expectations for how troons gotta act in their eyes.
It's kinda fucked but hey at least they're honest about wanting troons in their lanes even if it means acknowledging they exist when they're in that lane. Certainly better than what we got where the public media says ya gotta accept the troon no matter what a freak it is.
But then there's the other side. If the troon is meeting all the social presentation requirements and you don't accept the troon, YOU'RE the one not meeting the right social expectations.
EDIT: Typo correction.