I always found it funny as well, especially considering that in most states the age of consent is 16, just like in most of the world. Funny still is that it is in the states with the most fucked up cities like California or New York that have a legal age of consent of 18 or 17. The zealousness around this legal boundary is certainly very strange when even within USA it is the minority opinion.
Law is the law and it should be respected, of course, but it does make you wonder: would those same spastics be just as outraged if overnight the age of consent was lowered to 16? Or would they be fine with fucking a 16 year old then? I don't live in USA so I always found that to be weird.
Personally I believe in America it stims from the fact that the religious right can't normally criminalize premaritial sex and every other sex act considered haram under the bible, so they go all in on this since it's the sole premaritial sex they can still criminalize, since if you ever notice, all of these laws explicitly do not apply to legally married couples, and it corresponds to the most egregious prosecutions being in the bible belt, as when most of the laws were passed in the 1980s during the raise of the religious right with Reagan, the records of legislative debates at the at the time shows it was to punish boys and men for causing out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and not any concern about pedophilia, especially as all these laws had explicit marriage exemptions written into them.
With Georgia law, this religous slant was made clear by the fact minors having vaginal premarital sex with each other was only a misdemeanor, but oral sex between minors carried a 10 year mandatory minimum prison on the older party, since we all know jeebuz disapproves of anything but vaginal sex in the missionary position for the purpose of procreation, also it was specifically engineered to target gays and lesbians.
And before you point out marriage age is 18, only in the past 5 years has there been a movement to make marriage age a hard 18 due to a raise in cases of pedos marrying girls they groomed to get out of prosecution, piror to this the age to legally marry was lower than the age of consent in a majority of states.
Now these twitter idiots are, like other posters said, are using the sHeS a MiNoR yOu SiCkFuCk card to attack and smear anyone as it's impossible to defend against, as unlike the #metoo rape accuations where you can drop receipts that everything was consensual, the fact they're a MiNoR nullifies any defense, even if you prove they were persuing you first, and were outright lying about being 18.
I'm still waiting to see a 20 year old girl from Mississippi trying to pull the MiNoR card on some eCeleb based on the fact in Mississippi is the last state with the age of majority at 21, and you all know damn well it's going to fucking stick as twitter is branding people dating 18 and 19 year olds as pedophiles if the age gap is bigger than 5 years.