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Corporate Memphis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

though I've also heard it called Alegria, and I'm not sure the exact difference.

edit: Alegria was Facebook's style specifically, Linus Boman has a great video which briefly discussed its place in history of clip art:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfLlpxE6AYM

Wow! This is exactly what I was talking about. Didn't know it had a name!

Any article that features art in the style of that header image? Why exactly? That seems like an unnecessarily uncompromising attitude, no? I get that we all have our own heuristics and signals we rely on, but maybe the author here just didn't think through what image to use very deeply at all and just threw something on there last second before clicking to publish? Dismissing the entire post out of hand just based on that seems a bit rash.

It's definitely irrational on my part, but as you said, it's one of the heuristics I base spending my time on. If a friend or someone I respect tells me otherwise, I'll read it though.

I opened the article after I read you comment, and agree - something about that style is off-putting.

That style has a name, and you’re not alone in disliking it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis