> Put yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to send these articles to their manager to support an idea/project of theirs. That is, frankly, your problem a

> Put yourself in the shoes of someone who wants to send these articles to their manager to support an idea/project of theirs. That is, frankly, your problem and not the author's. The author has already taken the time to distill their knowledge into text, put it online, and allowed you free access to it. > It absolutely detracts from the professionalism of the post. From the author's perspective that may be a feature not a bug. Maybe they don't want to come across as professional. It's their writing and their little corner of the Internet. They can create as they please. > You need to signal to me that I need to take these words seriously No, they need do no such thing. If you want to extract value from what they've already taken the time to create and share, it's up to you to figure out how. You're a grown-up. If you can't figure out whether text is enriching and useful to you or not without it being presented with just the right imagery, color, and font, that's on you. > and when you mix in your otherworldly passions, I can’t take them seriously, it’s too unfamiliar to me. This is a good sentence. Here you are correctly articulating that it is you who is having trouble assimilating the content they've shared. That's your choice. They have the freedom to put it out there and you have the freedom to ignore it if it's not to your taste. Everyone can do what they choose and everyone wins, for their own personal definition of "win". > Aside from that, what it is about the anime and furry culture that pushes its participants to include it in everything? Every once in a while, I see a post on the cringe subreddit of some young man who has peppered anime and fursonas all throughout a school presentation. What is driving the need to include this in everything? It's an important part of their identity and one that has fairly broad negative connotations. They rationally want to normalize it so that they can be their best fully-actualized self without having to deal with shame or criticism like your comment here.