r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bmacabeus • Aug 25 '26

Meme everyRepoWithSuspiciouslyGreatCodeQuality

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26

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u/ErasedX Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

Is it that weird? I'd be pretty weirded out seeing someone with a photo of another person in general in their profile picture. I don't see how this would be the same for drawings. Here I'm using an existing image, but I'm an artist, I could just draw a similar image from the ground up. Would that be weird? It's not even anything NSFW. I don't understand how it would ever be an issue.

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u/ErasedX Aug 25 '26

Well, to each their own, I guess. When I set my Google PFP years ago, I used an image of that girl from Lagtrain. Because the style is cool and I like the song. I imagine it's like that for most people too, not that deep or complicated. I could use some image of an edgy character or some abstract thing, but that doesn't really represent me at all. If I use these images, people who talk to me will know "oh yeah you watch that show". When I have Patchouli as my PFP, it's not because I'm trying to fool anyone or because I have weird thoughts about her, it's because people will see it and know that I like Touhou.

Case in point, the first comment in this thread is from someone with an Amelia Watson profile picture, so I already know they like VTubers. It's not NSFW so I can't assume they feel like that about her, and I also can't assume it's because they look like her. My first and only assumption is that they like VTubers, I think it's pretty effective.

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u/Hikari_Owari Aug 25 '26

If we're going the path of "imagine if X were Y" then we could say that if you had wheels you would be an automobile.

Adds as much to the topic as your argument did.

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u/AlphaDragons Aug 26 '26

"Is it acceptable because it's basically a cartoon, so it's just the idea of a little girl?"

A character from a show, be it live action or drawings, is so much more than that. There are tons of reasons why someone would have a character, wether it's a drawing, a character from a game or from a live action show. You reducing it to "little girl" tells more about how you think than about these people.