gonna bounce off you op, a big problem is that these people have actually never read a piece of literature exploring a dark subject that WASN’T a smut fic or w/e so they genuinely don’t know what the difference looks like, which is bad, which is the exact brand of bad we’re trying to describe here, it’s REALLY NOT GOOD for someone’s perception of a dark subject to be built around consuming it through a lens of sexual gratification, it’s all going right over their heads and it goes right over the heads of young people who’s introduction to said dark subjects ends up being consuming them through a lens of sexual gratification, and becuase of that they grow up with a stunted understanding of when a dark topic is being handled appropriately and when it’s not, like, how can people refuse to understand the danger of that? What isn’t clicking?