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Anime avatar, uwu - und completely insane networking projects. Glad to know hacker culture is alive and well xD

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> uwu

Debatable part of hacker culture. I'd say it's more a part of postmodern culture.

anime avatars and uwu are as much a part of hacker culture as burritos are

out of touch with new gen

nope.

fair enough

FWIW the Linux users group at my university (in North Carolina) is predominantly anime people

anime has been a part of hacker culture since a while now

I dare say it's a part of the hacker culture for as long as both coexist

Ghost in the fucking she’ll yo

There’s definitely a strong correlation among certain segments of hacker culture.

There’s a lot of furries too.

Might be confirmation bias, we see the people that stick out, but to say there isn’t a large cohort that strongly identifies with anime is just wrong.

>There’s a lot of furries too.

Wrong part of the internet.

Nope. Internet infrastructure almost runs on furries nowadays.

Furries run them tubes

owo.

Between O'Reilly's programming books and FOSS mascots, this outcome should be entirely unsurprising.

One of the oldest MUDs was furries based. Go figure.

Old hacker culture, no, current hacker culture, yes. Anime themed ricing of Linux distros is extremely common, there are probably more anime profile pictures than not in some communities I hang out in

I guess I don't consider "ricing" your Linux distro as hacker culture. The people I knew from college CS courses who did that almost entirely spent more time tweaking themes than hacking(based on their success in the CS program). I see far more anime avatars associated with anti-social Twitter trolls rather than actual hackers.

uwu is rather new, but anime, not so much. SDF pubnix started around anime, but has had a strong hacker culture in it since then (1987).

Burritos definitely seem to be a critical part of hacker culture to me.

Speaking of, a burrito sounds great right now, so thanks for the reminder to go grab some dinner :)

Burritos must be a regional thing then. At all my CCC interactions burritos never stood out to me.

The Fixedsys-esque font in conjunction with the Anime aesthetic seems to tilt more towards vaporwave IMO.

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