no, it's not a recent rule. it's been a rule in all the years i've been on this site. and while discussing underage fictional characters isn't an issue per se, it can lead to being a legal issue because this is a porn site and people discuss sex and at the end of the day people would absolutely start discussing those underage characters in sexual settings, because people don't know how to behave. that's why it's become common for guys who recently turned 18 to have their threads taken down. people were posting stuff from before they were legal and having a discussion of a sexual nature, or discussing the characters they play who aren't legal in a sexual manner. and the mods here, for quite some time, have had a shoot first ask questions later approach to those situations where they'd rather play it safe and not have posts sexually discussing underage people, even if fictional, so it all gets taken down immediately. threads like the noah schnapp, or the kit connor ones and even the avi angel one, were taken down because of that type of shit, posting stuff from when the guys were minors, or where they're playing underage characters, and because conversations often times lead to sex talk, especially if people are posting pics and gifs, the mods shut it down