| ▲ | dwb 2 hours ago |
| It doesn't strike me as definitely harmless. |
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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. |
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| ▲ | dwb an hour 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 6 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/ | |
| ▲ | 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 27 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 an hour 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. |
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| ▲ | 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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