No frelling way you'll get rid of it (https://xkcd.com/1782/ https://xkcd.com/1782/). For the last 10 years, been working on open source software for a living.

No frelling way you'll get rid of it (https://xkcd.com/1782/ https://xkcd.com/1782/). For the last 10 years, been working on open source software for a living. Been an IRC user for equally long; `mutt` for the last five years. Thank goodness I do that. Nothing comes close to its effectiveness. Lack of images on IRC is a feature; not a bug, dammit. It keeps me productive and removes utterly distracting crap. I'd be loathe to see IRC showing images and animated poop emojis (although the unicode 'pile-of-poo' renders just alright on my command-line IRC client, `irssi`). I can handle video chat and in-person communication equally fine. But I prefer the clarity and vigor of the text-only approach. "Clear writing is a sign of clear thinking."