FWIW I think it's fair to bring up whenever. She should be called out for this shit, it's vile. People were just suspicious because it's one of the first things you mentioned was Mike Z and because your account has barely any posts.
Yeah that's understandable.
Outside of the timing thing, I honestly do think there needs to be a thread on anime, the sexualization of minors and the H-industry/it's crossovers with some parts of the cosplay community because this is VERY widespread and gross.
I agree with you on that, but after making this thread I don't think I have the patience or mental fortitude to argue about it with people that don't seem to grasp why it's wrong lol.
If I may offer my two cents, I would have personally framed the topic in a different way. I think that there is a discussion to have here regarding the sexualization of minors in Japanese media, but when you focus it too much on Ayumi, it kinda dilutes that, specially given how recent all this is.
One way you could do this discussion is to frame it in terms of the problematic situation regarding how minor are portraited, and bring up how Ayumi is a case where this behavior is normalized and tricky, since it's something that is exposed to many people due to her base. That way, you assert the focus of the thread is on the underlining issue, and frame it in a context people can understand and engage.
And I hear you, I definitely could've framed this all way better. Guess I'm just not the person for the job, I just wanted to continue where we all left off in the other thread so as to not take away from that thread. But I also feel it would've been disingenuous to act like I'm NOT aware of the Mike Z accusations if that makes sense.