[sashimimono]

@CactusBlue: Cool, I realy like the reasons and as much I feel welcomed by the idea of moving to a new home, the same I feel strongly pushed away by the used images of oversexualizied stereotypical boobproviders, completely not cool. And no, this has nothing to do with peoples love to manga and stuff. Many women just feel that they as a single person, and as women in general, are reduced to the size of their bodyparts, if constantly shown stuff like this - even when it's not meant that way. Think twice, if that's the picture women get from your internet, is this their internet as well? I wonder, do I want to live where everyone judges women just by their bust size? And will your little sister want to live there? The current internet is stupid enough, make the new places better.

[FrontierProject]

I can personally say that this single image would preclude me from recommending this platform to 95% of my social circle.

[CactusBlue]

I understand much of the concerns for what you're saying here, and I do understand that there are obviously some people who might be turned off by the branding. That is okay; we don't need to reach out to everyone yet, we do not want to take on a branding that offends no one, but appears soulless (like Alegria art).

I do understand the issue for gender equality as well, and as we have a diverse group of individuals who are involved at various parts of the project (they are mostly weebs as well and have no issues with the branding), and I'll make sure that our future branding will have cute anime boys as well ^^

In the future, I'll provide an enterprise version with the anime branding disabled and replaceable by your custom branding. in the meanwhile, if you have suggestions on what parts might be sexualized and might be offensive, please let me know!

[sashimimono]

Don't get me wrong, I like manga and anime as well. And it's not about gender equality. It's that these type of images (unhealthy big breasts, trying to force their way out of way too tight clothes) give a unwelcoming impression to women.

Even if a lot of your friends tell you "I don't mind", believe me, deep inside they feel at least slighty uncomfortable. Women learn to pretend, because if you speak up, you'll be excluded. It's that simple.

Next time you need to choose an image for your project, ask yourself: "whats the message I want to get across" and "do I realy need boobs for it?"

And if the second answer is yes, you'd be better working on a page for lingerie ;)

[pests]

This comment gives me Harrison Bergeron vibes.

I do agree with the intent, but large breasted women do exist in the world as well. Some of them even like bursting out of their clothing.

Naomi Wu / SexyCyborg on YouTube, for example [0]

[iainctduncan]

Absolutely agree. I now actively dislike this company and product and I don't even know what it does. And I'm male.

Regardless of the sex, identity, or orientation of the poster, it's crass, sexist, juvenile, and unprofessional.

Frankly as someone who lived for a long time in a place where there is a serious homelessness and drug overdose problem, I wasn't too impressed with the use of homeless people as a repellant either.

[CactusBlue]

> I don't even know what it does

We build real-time extensible messaging platforms. I apologize that I haven't described it too much in this post; mostly meant it for my twitter audience who already have heard of it before, but I do understand that I've done a very bad job at describing what it does. I will make a post on it later.

> Regardless of the sex, identity, or orientation of the poster, it's crass, sexist, juvenile, and unprofessional.

We're not a project that take ourselves too seriously yet. The internet started off weird, and I think some weirdness is probably necessary. With that being said, we're currently using AI art in our publications because we don't have that much funds right now (we'll probably hire a designer at some point)

> Frankly as someone who lived for a long time in a place where there is a serious homelessness and drug overdose problem, I wasn't too impressed with the use of homeless people as a repellant either.

I used it as an opposition to "the public square of the internet" analogy used by X (formerly known as Twitter). The city I previously lived in had a decent amount of homelessness and drug problems (although probably not to the point of some US cities). If you have a better analogy, please let me know so I can make a better analogy!