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anime avatars and uwu are as much a part of hacker culture as burritos are
by oh_sigh 5y ago
anime avatars and uwu are as much a part of hacker culture as burritos are
- bobobob420 5y agoout of touch with new gen
- oh_sigh 5y agonope.
- weakfish 5y agoFWIW the Linux users group at my university (in North Carolina) is predominantly anime people
- bobobob420 5y agofair enough
- bobthebuilders 5y agoanime has been a part of hacker culture since a while now
- dijit 5y agoThere’s definitely a strong correlation among certain segments of hacker culture. There’s a lot of furries too. Might be confirmation bias, we see the people that stick out, but to say there isn’t a large cohort that strongly identifies with anime is just wrong.
- maccolgan 5y ago>There’s a lot of furries too. Wrong part of the internet.
- detaro 5y agoNope. Internet infrastructure almost runs on furries nowadays.
- bozhark 5y agoFurries run them tubes
- xg15 5y agoowo.
- yellowapple 5y agoBetween O'Reilly's programming books and FOSS mascots, this outcome should be entirely unsurprising.
- anthk 5y agoOne of the oldest MUDs was furries based. Go figure.
- mhh__ 5y agoOld hacker culture, no, current hacker culture, yes. Anime themed ricing of Linux distros is extremely common, there are probably more anime profile pictures than not in some communities I hang out in
- oh_sigh 5y agoI guess I don't consider "ricing" your Linux distro as hacker culture. The people I knew from college CS courses who did that almost entirely spent more time tweaking themes than hacking(based on their success in the CS program). I see far more anime avatars associated with anti-social Twitter trolls rather than actual hackers.
- tcmart14 5y agouwu is rather new, but anime, not so much. SDF pubnix started around anime, but has had a strong hacker culture in it since then (1987).
- yellowapple 5y agoBurritos definitely seem to be a critical part of hacker culture to me. Speaking of, a burrito sounds great right now, so thanks for the reminder to go grab some dinner :)
- freemint 5y agoBurritos must be a regional thing then. At all my CCC interactions burritos never stood out to me.