These days? Mah boi, back in my day you'd very easily end up accidentally watching something horribly illegal just seconds before your computer is bricked by a Trojan.
the lawless years of the internet were beautiful, i experienced most of them when i was a child, and i turned out normal (that's a lie, of course, i'm unsure how watching happy tree friends or one man one jar at 12 years old fucked me up, but i'm sure it did, somehow)
Fake - Overwatch is first person so the brother wouldn’t immediately recognize the character being played if he was unfamiliar with the game and just entered the room
This actually happened to me with Jade from Beyond Good & Evil
Mine was loona from helluva boss. I wondered what the fuck this wolf thing that kept cropping up in random places was, then found the show and thought it was brilliant.
I enjoy it, but not nearly as much as helluva boss. It was too much like children's programming, where the solution/chekhov's gun/learning-through-song experience didn't feel like it naturally flowed.
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Examples: Ep.1 of helluva, where moxie debates shooting a family, then the show ends with him shooting the chica after being surprised, chased, captured, and had torture intimated before finally getting his demon dick out and acting like one, didn't feel overly contrived. Ep. whatever of hazbin, where maggie has a sing-dance-fight with the angel weapon wrapped feet and suddenly becomes all able to fight, it just felt cheesy. :::
I think the OP is talking about himself. Kinda fucks you up when your first look at a cartoon or video game character is porn and then you see the real thing.