"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
She is from a manga / anime called Spy × Family which has 8.3 on iMDb. The best spy on the planet pretends to be a family man for deep cover by adopting the girl (who can read minds, he doesn't know this) and quickly marries a woman (who is an assassin also looking for cover, he doesn't know this). They do their missions in-between roleplaying a perfect family.
I'm OK with that. I did find it distracting, because I knew the character (not very well, I thought the kid was the assassin) and the overall conceptual juxtaposition was... weird.
I read this comment and I thought you were upset that it was sexualized, but when I looked, it wasn't at all. It might have well been a cute kitten or puppy doing the pointing, hard to get wound up about.
> I must say the creepy anime young girl in the readme is somewhat off putting.
This statement is simply a variation of an ad hominem attack. It chastises the creator based on appearances that do not align with the niceties that the commenter deems appropriate.
Does github need a cartoonish cat with 5 octopus-like legs to be its logo? Of course not, but it makes it memorable and funny. And besides, anime is extremely mainstream these days.
Then you must be old. Even in western countries Spy x Family (which the character is from) has sold millions of copies, while most people read mangas online and won't be counted. In the country I am from I frequently see people wearing merch of it, mostly because Uniqlo has had a successful line of it. And that is just one manga/anime out of hundreds of popular ones.
Using anime characters is similar to boomer nerds referencing Marvel/DC comics , Star Wars etc.
I wouldn't have prepared information this way, but judging by the immense popularity of _why in his day, I'm forced to assume that many prefer to have the cartoons
This seems to really just be "oldman-yelling-at-clouds-syndrome"
I for one welcome anime girls in readmes and hope to see more of it in the future if only because it seems to bother some of the old hoagies in the world for some reason.
Python (the language) is named after "Monty Python's Flying Circus" simply because Guido was reading the scripts at the time:
> When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.
The cartoon is literally pointing at contextually relevant information, and it's far more pleasant to follow than yet another big red arrow. That said, I would have enjoyed my reading a bit more if the author utilized a more diverse cast of characters.
Old hoagie is more of a mindset. Anyone of any age can be an old hoagie if they like, all one has to do is practice getting upset when one sees anime girls, believe in the coming AI apocalypse and use Emacs.
I have found his lack of proper order, grammar, punctuation, etc... is what lost me out there. This style is fine for 3-4 steps tutorial. But if you have something this long, then you need a proper Table of Contents and make sure to make it a professional old-fashioned doc.
The lack of punctuation and capitalization is a weird zoomer style of writing in lowercase because "it's more chill." It is very common in people < 25 years old. They'll grow out of it.
Have you looked at various models on Hugging Face? There are so many anime characters headlining the readme's. I think it's an interesting cultural disconnect to observe in this thread, but at the end of the day, open source projects like this are not obligated to be anything in particular, and entirely subject to the author's tastes.
Personally, I find it distracting when some devs start to "spice up" their presentation with manga characters, furry characters, memes, or whatever stuff they enjoy.
Shit, I love Zelda - but I wouldn't want Link all over my presentations. It just looks...juvenile and unprofessional. Doesn't mater if you're a beginner or world leading researcher, just keep it simple and undistracting.
EDIT: That said, I'm probably not the intended audience for this piece.
What does the American right-wing have to do with this at all?
If anything I'd think its the opposite, there's a frequent stereotype about right-wing extremists having anime profile pictures.
And honestly, most of the right-wing people I know IRL are also into anime (though so are the left-wing people I know, so I don't think its really indicative of anything)
I was exaggerating. It's only an occasional thing and no I don't mean its teaming with total unsalvageable hardened nazis obviously. But its more frequent and more reactionary than I would like, or than is common in other internet spaces I frequent.
