I dunno that Disney automatically makes it creepier. Ariel was totally underaged. I think Sleeping Beauty might be the only one who's flat out declared to be eighteen (and her prince was the coolest, so there's that). They have a record of creepy and also subliminal messaging, is what I'm saying. Points for consistency, I guess?

Real life twelve year olds are just way more obvious about it than cartoon ones. This is probably how hentai gets away with existing.