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I know its not really related but I've noticed something that is making me feel out of touch. Lately there seems to be this increasing merge of tech with weeaboo culture. I may not have the term exactly right but I am talking about the anime girl in the OP's blog post. Its not everywhere but I've started to notice, so it is increasing. Did I miss something? Is this replacing meme's in tech speeches? (I was never fond of that either so I guess I'm a curmudgeon or perhaps my ADHD brain just finds it too distracting)

The post looks informative I hope to learn something from it later tonight. Thx

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its not really related

It's also very much offtopic since it generates repetitive thread-gobbling tangents, like this one is threatening to. Mentioned in the site docs a couple of different ways:

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umm I really didn't expect that much reaction. It was a legitimate question not a complaint or provocation. I really have no idea where this theming its coming from and what if anything I missed. It was genuine curiosity but off the main topic. My mistake.

I'm starting to understand that there is a much deeper social conflict going on with whatever is happening on this topic, so I got my answer and I"m just going to move on.

I'd say it's nothing more than a generational shift in popular culture... brace yourself for future anime memes.

I'm still waiting for furry artwork to become culturally acceptable in technical lectures. I briefly snuck a cute Lucario/Zeraora drawing into a presentation on my college final, and the critical reception has been promising, so far.

It isn't new. In fact, in Tokyo, Japan, Akihabara "electric town" is both the tech mecca and the anime/manga/otaku mecca. Same for Den-Den in Osaka. In the west, the weeaboo movement has always run alongside tech. I guess nerds/geeks and otakus are of the same kind. It does not mean that all tech guys are weebs and all weebs are into tech, but there is definitely some correlation.

Why? I don't know. Video games may be a common denominator. Also, Japan was really big into tech in the 90s, and they still are to a lesser extent.

It has. I find it infantile and reflective of general millennial peter pan syndrome sensibilities, personally. (i'm a millennial fwiw) But clearly I'm in the minority.

I mean wtf is this. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/04/17/kubernetes-v1-30-relea...

Millennial too. Not to shift blame, but from observation it seems to be more of a gen z thing.

Anime/waifu shit, furries and all becoming commonly accepted as of late? 10-15 years ago you'd be exiled. Now it seems like it's whatever

Not sure why people are beating around the bush; The overwhelming majority of them are degenerates. Either they will sport some variation of the pedophile flag ("trans") or outright defend it in chat.

It has become so bad that moderators will not ban these people even if they explicitly try to justify molesting children. Some of them are moderators themselves. And even have calls to genocide in their bio. This is most prevalent in the ArchLinux community. Specifically, their Telegram channels.

It's because a lot of the users of gen ai are generating anime waifus. Better gen ai = better waifus. It also helps that devs and programmers are a group that is already likelier to be into anime. Generative AI's killer app is the AI girlfriend / boyfriend.

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