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What does that say that's gross?

It doesn't need to be gross to dislike the weird baby talk "uwu" stuff. Although seeing it in much more technical contexts will make me laugh - https://github.com/mpaland/printf/issues/15 - "Scawy big no functionality at all UwU #15"

Wow, that person seems to do this in all of the issues they file. They're also really good at filing issues despite the baby talk. All of their issues are well-researched and immediately actionable with a surprising amount of debugging completed before the initial submission.

Devs tend to have a penchant for the absurd. The details may change along with the zeitgeist, but the personality quirk itself seems to be ubiquitous across the decades.

>Devs tend to have a penchant for the absurd.

Ok this is just a stereotype that's not true.

:: notes reply comes from a commenter with a name that sounds like a fursona ::

...you're messing with me, aren't you. :D

not really sure what you mean, can you elaborate on why you would say that?

FWIW, I've met more normies in my 10years of software development than absurd people. Absurd people are just memorable, it's a bias.

If you're actually curious, this username was stolen from an absurd Atlanta based rapper named blunt fang and I get more weed culture association than furry association with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDal4GCyEJA

I don't agree with their framing but xxxxFang is a common naming scheme of wolf furries.

"uwu" and "owo" are emoticons people started vocalizing ironically, not baby talk.

I'm learning about some of my personal biases through this, apparently. I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.

In my experience, any activity or community enjoyed by humans has a subgroup for “that thing, but also with sex”. It’s more of a reflection of what it means to be human than anything to do with the means of that expression.

> I just assume furries/fursonas/furry fandom/whatever it's called is about sex.

Nope! :3

https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/furry-fandom/is-furry-a-sex-thin...

It's a common misconception. We're more about community than anything.

(That's not saying that sex doesn't happen between adults, but that's not what it's about, for everyone.)

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