I don't think people assume that 18+ means you're gonna whip yet bits out at the first opportunity If anything I think it just means you're an adult who wants moots/followers who are ALSO adults I normally don't follow people at all unless they put an age or 18+ in their bio but that's just me

To be fair, I think most of the times I've observed people judging others for having the 18+ symbol it was usually just people using it as an own on the Birdsite, and that's probably just something I need to unlearn since I'm abandoning it (and hopefully, it's shitty culture)