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by upmostly 2 hours ago
I suggest you change the demo.

1. Boys see girl 2. Boys fight over girl

Creator could have chosen literally anything else to represent their product but instead went with an animation of boy emojis fighting over a girl emoji.

2 comments

yeah... AI doesnt seem to make us more creative
Ironically I don't think AI is this tone deaf.
You could've commented literally anything else instead of this but instead went with a zero-content apparent criticism of the web page.
> zero-content

Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.

But not why.
The topic of the demo is just ..odd: it's negative in its nature, difficult to understand (is there a message or a joke in there?), the animation isn't aesthetically pleasing either.
You just need to be older than 12 to understand what is problematic about the demo. Just pointing it out was sufficient.
Reproducing cringy sexist bullshit is a choice deserving of criticism.
No-one's mentioned that anything's sexist, or how. You're filling in the blanks to create content where there wasn't any.
That's how conversation works. Things can be implied when it's obvious.

And if it's not, the onus is on you to ask why.

The fact that EVERYBODY here sees it but you, tells you that perhaps you should take a step back and try to understand... it might be YOU who don't get it at all...
The fact that people in the tech-world don't realize that they are embodying deeply ingrained sexist / toxic behavior is the reason why women aren't more present, and why people like Musk or other sociopaths have been celebrated by this community, while the rest of the world hate them...