| First time here? Just teasing - but there's a pretty large overlap of skilled FOSS developers and anime afficionatos (and also LGBT). It's a pretty common joke that if an exploit drops with an anime girl on the video / account - you know it's about to get bad. Looking at the blog, this is a common theme with them: every article starts with a shot from some anime. Their GH PFP matches: https://github.com/16bit-ykiko Hard to say why - maybe that's what they're watching when they made the article or did the work or something? Maybe they just like it. Maybe they're degens. People can be enigmatic sometimes. Well... okay, they're a C++ developer, they're definitely a degen. Anyway, the first few times may catch you off guard, and sometimes it goes too far, but you learn to tune it out pretty fast. It's harmless and I'm glad they're enjoying themselves. |
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| ▲ | Joker_vD 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Let's put it this way, politely: it's in the eye of beholder. Most people don't find a random picture of an anime teenager to be harmful or have sinister implications. | | |
| ▲ | dwb 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I wouldn’t put money on it being outright sinister or harmful, and it’s definitely fine to be into anime with characters like this. But I do find it odd to be into pictures like this enough that you add them to unrelated blog posts. | | |
| ▲ | Joker_vD 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It's literally just an arbitrary Attention-Grabbing Picture in the header; because there is really no good attention-grabbing header picture for a C++ language server. A (likely AI-generated nowadays) screenshot of VS Code just doesn't quite cut it — so non-corporate people just put some moderately interest-piquing picture, generally of things they themselves find "nice" to look at. Sometimes it's some silly meme/image macro, sometimes it's a random screenshot from an anime. Like, here's a random example: [0]. An article is about "a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly" — and it opens with a photo of "a sea lion sleeping peacefully on a rocky beach while other sea lions lounge in the background near the water". Why? Because the author thought it would be nice to put there, that's why! No deeper meaning, unless you want to do psychoanalysis over the Internet. [0] https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/dancing-mad-sandboxing/ | | |
| ▲ | xena 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Half the reason you put an attention grabbing picture there is that you get algorithmically deboosted for not having one. Don't blame the players, blame the game. |
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| ▲ | omoikane an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I remember a template for technical design documents that had a placeholder to insert a header image. Any image, could be totally unrelated to the document content. The template explains that it's a sort of mnemonic to identify the document, since everyone is expected to use the same template, and all walls of text roughly look similar to each other from a distance. So with some header image, reader might be able to recall "it's that Clice post with Yami on top" or "it's that other Clice post with Kessoku Band". | | |
| ▲ | hollerith 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | That doesn't explain why anime aficionados (and furries) have such images in their posts vastly more often than for example people into marijuana or craft beers or motorcycle racing. |
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| ▲ | ulimn an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wait until you see magazine ads or such showing girls. The atrocity...! | | |
| ▲ | dwb an hour ago | parent [-] | | As I said, it’s about the context. There’s plenty of contexts where I wouldn’t bat an eyelid. |
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| ▲ | Tadpole9181 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Okay then, so don't read it? Do you have evidence this person did... whatever it is you think they did purely on the basis of theming their profile with girls from massively popular anime [0]? From your profile description and that other comment, I would have assumed you were an ally. If so, I wouldn't have expected quite as much morality policing / thought crime tone. My perspective is that it's a little odd, but as long as they aren't hurting someone I really don't care what sparks joy in their lives. Life is hard enough. And if they are hurting someone, that's what the law is for. [0]: Their PFP comes from a manga / show that's sold over 10 million copies, apparently. | | |
| ▲ | dwb an hour ago | parent [-] | | You’re making my comment out to be rather more than it was. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with enjoying manga/anime with characters like this, but that’s not what the context of the post is. But sure, ultimately they can do what they want with imagery like this. |
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