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even for us youngsters thats still considered pretty weird and nobody normal is involved with it. unfortunately, it seems like it has a tendency to pollute technical circles since when i run across it it's usually there.

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It is the classical phenomenon of when most people of a distant group are normal, but a minority is peculiar, that you don't notice the normal ones because they are overshadowed by the minority. E.g. when in school, I always remember not wanting to get into trouble with older generations, but then wondering why the younger ones did so when I was older. It is probably the number of trouble-makers didn't change, just that while I was younger I didn't blend out all the normal ones who were my age, which I did when I was older.

I mean I know two pretty normal programmer current/past coworkers who use anima girls as their main avatar at work. Is it weird? Kind of. Are they otherwise pretty normal people? Yeah.

I'm friends with the both on steam and they are both very very very into gaming (like 4-5 hours a day at least) so I always thought it was related to that somehow.

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