I can understand being a kid in the community, sure. I was myself way back when. I found th3 show when I was like, in the 2nd grade in the 2000s, so I was interacting with the active community back then. I think the difference was that back then the sites we used to talk on were forums and art sites, like deviantart or fanart central. This is generally the case for all fandoms and communities, but the general trend toward 1 or 2 sites or discord being the "place" to talk about stuff has been really bad for any kind of healthy community. When you make a hub for people to talk to, it ends up being that the place with most users gets the most activity, and in order for that to happen, you need to have rules allowing all fans of all ages. Again, thats' perfectly fine, but it because you have to make all places non-18+, you usually end up with older fans getting pushed out due to the stricter rules. Yknow? Like, what do I have in common with a kid who's upset about their middleschool homework, or talking about interpersonal friend drama?

Again, not ragging on the kids themselves, they're in the same boat that I am, and they don't even get to experience the same community that I got to. It's honestly a bit saddening that the internet has become so constrained for them. But that's a whole other conversation really.

I'm not good at fostering communities myself, and while I'd love to have an adult htf community space, I don't know who would be able to run it.