Comment by qualeed 4 days ago
It's crazy (especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".
Out of interest, how many furries have you met? I've been to several fur meets, and have met approximately three furries who I would not want to know anymore for one reason or another
Admittedly just a handful. But I met them in entirely non-furry settings, for example as a user of a regular open source program I was a contributor to (which wasn't Rust based[1]).
None of them were very pervy at first, only after I got to know them.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vyelva/why_are_there_...
To be fair, that's the sort of place where I spend most of my free time.
they've seized the moment to move the anime cat girls off the Arch Linux desktop wallpapers and onto lore.kernel.org.
Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.
never forget the Ponies CV of an ML guy https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/03/my-little-pony-r...
Noted, I will now add anime girls to my website, so I'm not at risk of being misconstrued as "professional"
You'd think it's the opposite, look at Joseph Redmon's resume:
They may have done it for themselves on those imageboards, but you're the one doing it with this one now.
Why are a “generation of pervert kids” your cultural touchstone here?
> people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard"
Think you can thank the furries for that.
Every furry I've happened to come across was very pervy in some way, and so that what immediately comes to mind when I see furry-like pictures like the one shown in the article.
YMMV