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by herpessimplex10 232 days ago
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> an anime cat-girl

> an animated cock and balls

You don't see a difference between these things?

While it's a bit of an extreme comparison, they're both weird, unprofessional imagery associated with things you wouldn't wan to associate with a software project.
I guess I'm not seeing the special category that an anime cat girl sits in. Is there some kind of sex implication I'm just not aware of? Linux has a penguin, FreeBSD has a devil(!), OpenBSD has a blowfish, Go has the weird Gopher thing, Gnome has a foot...

Wikipedia suggests that there's an association with queer and trans youth, is that what's meant to make the cock-and-balls comparison work? But it also says it has a history back to 17th century Japan...

If it were just the imagery I don't think this would be such a huge flashpoint relative to something like tux or octocat (the github mascot).
Because it's really about the type of people (they think) watch anime, and their inability to separate this preconception from reality.
If those 2 are in any way close in your mind... maybe think about why a cartoon character and explicit sexual image seem related? There's nothing weird about an anime cat girl for me, but also I don't see any relation to anything sexualised in it.
Mister simplex, having a preference for small internet to crumble under the shit LLM companies are piling upon it to being exposed once in a while to an inoffensive image of an anime character would make for a very worrisome direction of my priorities if I were you.
I don't, actually. Why is it weird?