Its literally none of those things apart from being digital.
How do you know & by what objective legal standard would you prove it? What's your objective standard for literal?
The images you argue about are literally fake! If you're going to say a real face is in a work we know is fake & claim that exercise of imagination as legally relevant fact, then everyone else should get to do the same.
The fact that you have to dance around including the word “imagination” for your scenario to be even remotely equivalent gives away how weak your argument is.
Because I'm honestly acknowledging the imagination you're not.
You claim a "real" face that objectively isn't: it's a fictitious illustration of a face. This requires imagination/suspension of disbelief.
Oh, so now it’s about legality and not “vacuous bullshit” or making a “stand against vapid irrationality?”
It's all of them.
Your claim of child sexual abuse material would at the very least involve an actual sexual abuse in its production: that's the essential element of the crime. It doesn't apply here. Doctored photos have existed long before. So have skillful compositions that don't qualify as violations.
You're going beyond the actual charges mentioned in the story of violating a law specifically created for this situation by departing into unrelated claims of child sexual abuse material. You're making the incredible claims here lacking justification.
any of those girls think this is sensationalism
Nice appeal to pity fallacy. It's irrelevant: they're not legal scholars. Our laws at the very least have some rational standards not to abandon substantive facts.
addressed your counterexample
not conclusively