It's fine to dislike things! In this case, while I am riffing on Xe's design, because of how I wrote the article the people involved are, you know, actual other

It's fine to dislike things! In this case, while I am riffing on Xe's design, because of how I wrote the article the people involved are, you know, actual other people, so it was genuinely useful to have an immediately visible shorthand for who was talking and what I thought their sentiment was. Using IRL photos for that would be for one impractical; for another, it's easier to make sentiments stand out on cartoons. (Not that SD was very good at this here.)