Just to clear sum things up, Candy Doll was a Japanese child modelling studio featuring Western girls with an emphasis on cute/kawaii-ness. While the fanbase was mostly pedobears for obvious reasons, it wasn't a CP site - in fact it was fairly innocent as far as child modelling material goes. They even did fun idol-like stuff like this:
https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35381463
https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35381417

Rather than being some kind of conflation attempt by pedophiles in modern times to push 3D pedo acceptance on imageboards (which does happen - especially by faganon, the eternally hostile retard who always makes butt tons of pedo threads and pedo polls whenever he shows up here ), Candy Doll genuinely was quite popular on 4chan during the late 2000s and early 2010s - including on the likes of /a/ and /jp/, where I first encountered it