Note that you don't think its awesome. The best case scenario for someone normal is for them to be totally neutral. To think "its fine." The worst case is they think less of you and anything associated.
That is not a worthwhile risk - and thats the thing I am super confused more people don't have an intuitive sense of.
I want to highlight a comment someone made elsewhere in the thread.
> I recently wrote a technical post on my blog where I thought it would be kind of funny to add some genAI of me doing stuff, some people told me they stopped reading immediately once they saw those images… it’s making me reconsider honestly :-/
It was one of the many here that got flagged. Boy howdy this got spicy. But this is the situation I am talking about. Some might think its fine, but a lot of people won't so its usually not worth it unless you want to narrow your audience.
That is not a worthwhile risk - and thats the thing I am super confused more people don't have an intuitive sense of.