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While I believe this is a clbuttic in the making, I have to wonder about the professional appropriateness of such a thing, especially in $CURRENT_YEAR.

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Exactly. These butts are highly problematic. They promote an unhealthy and unattainable butt image. We need more butt diversity, more real butts - thicc butts, old butts, slagging butts.

How it will play out in reality is, a female presenter who presents a slide with a butt in it will be considered to be indulging in "lol so random XD" humor and given a pass, but if a male presenter used a similar slide it would be a CoC violation, the punishment for which is a summary ban from all open source conferences forever.

This seems like the sort of thing that will get used in many small teams' internal communications, and occasionally cause awkward situations when someone outside the team gets wind of them.

They're definitely not appropriate for all workplaces, but for small, more informal teams, this sort of thing can help build a culture and encourage teamwork.

It really depends on the company and unit culture.

It sounds like a recipe for selective enforcement. You may think you have a team culture that can be chill about this sort of thing, but it only takes one complaint to HR -- or to Twitter -- to retroactively turn your cartoon butt into a symptom of a hostile work environment.

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