>>92291278Well yeah everyone knows people on Twitter are retarded, but not everyone who is attracted to anime kids also would be to real kids. That's just silly. The inverse certainly isn't true (not everyone attracted to real kids would be attracted to lolicon hentai) and it's not true for other pedo and pedo-adjacent fetishes either, like ddlg. Heck, even in Japan the distinction exists, though its blurrier because Japanese people don't give nearly as much of a shit. But since the early days of aerisdies and other English hentai communities the words loli/lolicon in English have always had a stronger distinction, because in English there were already terms to describe other meanings of the word. It's not all that different from how the word anime isn't quite the same.
Lonewords are not quite the same as the word they originate from. Heck, lolicon gained quite a lot of connotation itself that is completely unrelated to the novel of its etymological origin.
Slang terms will never have exact definitions, but Japanese native speakers have acknowledged the difference in connotation here before and as a result I believe it's even documented on the Pixiv dictionary somewhere.