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by Techonomicon 2529 days ago
Doesn't have to have been made with any malice to still be creepy.

Because yea, it's creepy.

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Or, to think of that another way, something doesn't have to be inherently creepy for someone to be creeped out by that thing. Sometimes disgust is a fact about the person who's disgusted, rather than a fact about the world.
Would it still have been creepy if it was called "Generative Portraits of Anime Girls" instead of "Waifu"? I bet people react just to the name.
Stop discrimination against creepy people!
Why don't you be more specific? If you get down to the guts of everything... It's all "creepy".
Many things appear "creepy" but that isn't any reason to think they're bad. In fact, creepiness can be good. Would you say a horror movie has done a good job if it failed to creep you out?

Are you sure that you aren't just using "creepy" to shut down non-traditional forms of private sexuality?