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You can be thankful for the work done and still think marcan acts weird and is off-putting with his "asahi" vtuber persona.

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We knew you could, but you might as well not. Even if you don't see the empathy angle, who benefits from alienating people who do amazing work for free?

Even if you restrict his work to technology, it might be a wash at best.

Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? I think I'd rather have Cloudflare be neutral than have a few Linux drivers for new MacBooks a couple of years sooner than otherwise.

> Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations?

Yikes, is this true? That would be wild - do you have sources?

I didn't follow the saga as closely as I should have, perhaps, given the gravity. But this* didn't take long to find, only shortly preceding the issue.

* https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137

But I don't see it as alienating. Marcan seems an intelligent person so he knows that his vtuber persona is weird. I suppose other people noticing and commenting on it is something he likes or even encourages. It's like... people who dye their hair green, or who wear thick golden chains or teeth grills. They want the attention.

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