everytime i see people get uppity about calling benchtrio kids/minors im just like. but they are? like. almost 18 isnt 18, and 18 year olds are still very fucking young and only adults by legality. sure some people need to tone it down with constantly calling them kids/minors but its not. infantilizing to acknowledge that theyre children hello?? do you guys think theyre adults or something?? many definitions of child are just. anyone under 18. under 18 is the definite description for minor. if someone told me im not a child because im 16 id fucking run because like HELL am i gonna stick around anyone whose going to say because ill be 18 soon i cant be called a minor/child??

what is it with this fandom and being weird about ages?? sure sometimes pointing out how young certain people are can take away agency, but. some of the people in this fandom will take it as a cardinal sin to acknowledge that benchtrio (and purpled, and whatever other minors are ccs) are minors, children, teenagers, kids, whatever. and its just not. like ngl as a 16yr old id be wayyyy more uncomfortable around someone who refuses to call kids kids because its "infantilizing" than id be around someone who happens to call them minors a bit too much. believe it or not, denying that people under 18 (even if theyre months away from being 18) are still minors and therefore children and denying that this should have an effect on how their referred to or perceived is actually the creepier way of going about interacting with content of them, and people should be more careful with how they word their posts/comments about various ccs ages (not even just the minors honestly).

maybe its just me but i dont think we fight infantilization by acting as if its weird to call the benchtrio kids, they literally do so themselves. hell, their stories have a lot of themes connected to the loss of childhood and being forced to "grow up" and act mature when the adults around you refuse to take into account how young you are. ranboo literally points out that theyre kids and how others around them havent taken that into account when putting them through these traumatizing situations.

sure, after theyve all turned 18, i can understand wanting people to chill with calling them kids, but they arent 18 yet, and thats still important to acknowledge. dont be weird about them, refusing to acknowledge how young they are and insisting that doing so should be stopped is exactly how creeps can crawl in and be undetected because they fit right in with the other people insisting age doesnt matter when talking about them. they started young, have had the majority of their content so far be made while theyre still young, quite a few of their boundaries have to deal with them being uncomfortable with being perceived as more mature than they are (ranboos simping boundaries being somewhat based in how hes a minor for example because i know full well weve all seen how people who dont know hes a minor act about him). just, let them be kids, let them be referred to as kids, dont treat them as if theyre already 18 before theyve actually turned 18, please