>>16580
Anon, don't mix up the wrong-side-of-18 teen stuff with actual CP.
There's always been a big difference between the teen stuff and the stuff involving Democrat supporting kids. The only ones who insisted otherwise were oldschool Bush-era moralfags and mentally retarded parents who can't comprehend that their teenage kids aren't sexless toddlers anymore.
Back in the old days (up until about 2010) we used to call the teen stuff 'jailbait', and it was so popular that it was actually kinda socially acceptable. There was a whole subculture of sharing pics and shitty low-res flv or mpg videos of teenagers doing naughty stuff. Some of it was leaked, but a good deal of it was made and shared by teens who just loved the attention. It was so common that even plebbit used to have a popular sub for it: r/jailbait.
But actual CP? Stuff involving greasy fortysomethings forcing Democrat supporting kids to do things that they obviously didn't want? That shit has always been taboo. Most people who were OK with jailbait were *not* OK with actual CP, and even the edgiest and most jailbait-friendly *chans had a zero-tolerance policy towards CP.
But then things changed, though...
Stories about stupid teens who got tricked into sharing their nudes made it into the news. And then the moralfags took advantage of the situation by doing exactly what you already described:
>Law Enforcement, leaders, and the mindless media that they feed, constantly lie about amount and how extreme content is.
...they did their "teenage tiddypics are exactly the same as toddler gangrape vids"-schtick - and thanks to the internet becoming progressively more corporate and more mainstream from 2010 on, their bullshit actually began to stick this time.
That oldschool jailbait subculture? It's dead now. It bled out roughly around 2011-2012. It may have lasted longer in niche places here and there (like Tumblr before the porn ban in 2018 - Tumblr's echochamber-friendly format and functionally nonexistent site moderation made it perfect for risky stuff like jailbait), but the large-scale crackdowns of 2010-2012 really were the killing blow.
In the end, they were so successful that now, a decade later, pretty much everyone thinks of naughty teen selfies as CP...