> If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website It is a

> If you're going to force people to stare at a screen with nothing but your quirky anime girl OC for a few seconds every time they visit your website It is a damn sight better than the maliciously-compliant and deeply annoying GDPR 'we use cookies' banners, pop-ups, and dark patterns like having to uncheck thousands of 'partner' boxes. This is merely a response to AI companies abusing scraper bots and having a callous, selfish disregard for Internet and server bandwidth. It was on this very website where I saw it put quite succinctly—AI-scraping bots have essentially started mass DDOS attacks on all small servers. > immature Maturity is empathy, human connection, understanding, perspective, compassion, altruism, and more. Not some arbitrary 'this is a cartoon, therefore it is immature'. 25 years ago Microsoft, the professional software behemoth, decided to put a cartoon dog and paperclip with googly eyes in its operating system and office software. A major mobile OS has a cartoon robot in its logo. Cartoons are metaphors and windows into the artist's frame of mind. They are much more mature than your shallow portrayal of them.