The term "pedophile" has been so mercilessly beaten to death that it's becoming another chronically online allegation to scroll past and ignore. I remember a time in which it was primarily used for actual child predators with victims. That meaning still wasn't correct, but at least we had some kind of consensus on the meaning. Now, people sling pedo allegations on people in their early to mid 20s dating anyone under 21 or on people who draw suggestive artwork of fictional characters or on people who write ship dynamics that the accuser personally dislikes.
It has gotten to the point that I scroll past any "pedo" accusations I see online because more often than not, they don't actually mean "an adult who sexually victimizes children." It's far more likely that they mean "This person is 22 dating an 18 year old" or "This person drew cartoons I don't like" or "This person wrote a story that portrays CSA without glorifying it, but I'm media-illiterate and think any portrayal is glorification and that's the author's fault" or, also entirely too common, "This person consensually practices kink with other adults and I don't like it."
When you become The Boy Who Cried Pedo, people start ignoring actual cases of sexual predation on children because you throw the word onto anybody and everybody you personally dislike.
