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Why does everything in the FOSS sphere have to be made overtly creepy by adding anime teenage schoolgirls?
every slightly popular thing gets their anime girls, nothing can escape
every major tech company has an anime mascot. Here's AMD's one: https://moeverse.xyz/wiki/Amada_Kokoro
And here's the one Microsoft made for Internet Explorer:
Clicking that image will take you to her Wikipedia article.
Wow! It's even got a backstory and all.
Doesn't make the product more appealing though. The only thing that does that for me is the Datasheets.
Speak for yourself, I'm installing IE6 right away
Let me introduce you to the concept of the Venn Diagram
Why are you showing me a circle
If you think this is restricted to FOSS, you are gravely mistaken https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-tan
I didn't say it was...
Yeah I was really disappointed when I tried Hyprland
Wait, there's actual text there?
All I see in Voyager is an empty text box.
It's an image.
The image before loading is shown a blank message first in comments
I do see an image on Voyager iOS
That’s what makes me dislike more and more the FOSS community because it seems none of the FOSS devs have seen a women in their life and have very sus kinks.
This is how marketing works in Asia. Major corps do it every bit as much. You have anime mascots or you don't sell to anyone under 40, from my understanding.
It's a meme, ya dunce. I don't think anyone is furiously jerking it to the Debian logo just because it has some poorly drawn animeys next to it.