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None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles.

"Andy, lol."

It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999.

Stop applying the future on to past antics.

If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.

> If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.

No, that would be fucking weird too, dude.

To you perhaps. I would still find it lol worthy. What makes it "weird" to you?

It's ASCII art, non threatening, and compared to the degraded stuff you can find online is none of that.

What about anthropomorphic animals is that weird to you because I find that idealisation more creepy than a half topless naked woman.

What's weird is how we're taught that the human body is uniquely something to be ashamed of.