BlackHeart Biohazards

4499: I get where you’re coming from but minor coding is just… not a real thing. Other types of “X coding” you hear people talk about are real things. Queer coding? Absolutely is a real thing. The term is constantly misused by deluded fans who want to force their headcanons as canon and often enters the pitfall of just straight up stereotyping, but before that, queercoding has been and still is a real tool people have used to sneak queerness past conservative corporate censors. “Minor coding”, however? Not a real thing, at all. Shouldn’t even be a real necessary thing in the first place– minors aren’t a historically oppressed or marginalized group whose representation gets pushed out by corporate conservative censors. A character either is a minor, or isn’t. Just about ALL of the traits you may have seen attributed to “minor coding” are traits that many adults can and do have too such as being short, still living with their parents, not drinking alcohol, being a flat-chested woman, and yes even “childlike” appearances and “childlike” behaviors. The claims that any of these things make a character “minor coded” are rooted in sexism, racism, classism, and/or ableism, and I dare you to name me any other “X makes a character minor-coded” claim that isn’t rooted in some form of chauvinism. East Asian women are constantly stereotyped as “looking childlike”. Neurodivergent people constantly have their behaviors deemed as “childlike behaviors”. It’s common in a lot of Eastern cultures for a child to not move out and instead stay with their aging parents to be able to help take care of them, and some people may not be able to move out anyways due to a disability, not being emotionally ready, or being financially dependent.TLDR: “Minor-coding” is just some stupid fake thing made up by TikTok-brained Twitter Minor hiveminds who want to police what characters people can’t make lewd art of because they think they’re oppressed by people drawing BakuDeku porn. And all that their “X is minor coded because Y” claims do is unwittingly infantilize women, POC, neurodivergent and disabled/handicapped people, and possibly more.