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uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

  ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
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Aw, but what have you against kawaii?

For me, it's a personal preference and in my opinion, it's less professional.

People always seem surprised when someone in CS or SWE doesn't care for anime or cutesy pictorial graphics of girls.

It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman. In a lobsters thread about Anubis, a community member of 12 years got themselves permanently banned because they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer and refused to apologise when given an opportunity by moderators. Telling on themselves, perhaps? It's funny, in a bizarre way, that this is a hill people will die on.

> ...they were frothing at the mouth with accusations of pedophilia against the developer...

I think I remember that thread. IIRC, it went something very, very roughly like this:

  Future banned user: It weirds me out a bit how young the mascot looks. I've never been comfortable with cutesy, underage-looking mascots.
  
  The dogpile: How dare you insinuate that the dev a pedophile? Don't you know how anti-trans that dogwhistle is?

and the conversation degraded from there.

I'll also note that you chipped in with

> It's mostly surprising how many grown adult men go into a blind rage when confronted with a picture of a cartoon woman.

when -AFAICT- noone in this subthread expressed anything more heated than "dislike of kawaii". But perhaps you were speaking more generally, and weren't inspired by any conversation that happened in this subthread.

It also serves as a sort of "chud defense", in a way.

I like it.

If anything, its the opposite, going by the number of users with anime girl pfps on Twitter and other social media posting slurs and bigotry.

It's moreso only a loose indicator the user is between the ages of 14-30, if anything.

For some reason it's always underage girls.

How do you determine whether a drawing is "underage"?

Places that want to use Anubis but find the logo not professional enough are free to pay the author, IIRC it was major "professional support" benefit :D

If you don't want the anime girl pay for the support, otherwise you get the anime jackal. Seems like a fair deal to me.

everyone knows that penguins are much more professional

its the only weakness of the corpo-capitalist gestalt!

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