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Boku no Pico: How Queer Abuse Became a Meme
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Serge & Neptune unpack the phenomenon of Boku no Pico and the moral panic surrounding it in an attempt to understand why it became such a prominent meme in the anime sphere, and how the culture built around it trivialized queer abuse.
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