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It does look pretty unprofessional tbh
Iffor my part have the experience when there is a funny mascot or icon which is a traffic cone or a cat girl, then I know the people behind that are professionals. The quality is good and nobody bats and eye about the mascot.
who cares! 'Professionalism' has made the internet worse.
There is a place and time for both.
If my bank used it I would assume
1: They are compromised
2: They are cringe
If you're running a business, whether you need professionalism really depends on what you're doing.
Medical software? Anything aimed at governments as your customers? Billing? Be professional.
Literally a thing aimed at software engineers? Book publisher? Most types of online stores? You can be quirky
The things that need professionalism seem like things that could pay for the non-branded version, though?
Absolutely. I was just replying to the bit that professional is boring. It is, but sometimes it's necessary because it's what your target audience expects
Sure but on the other hand it's nice to have money in order not to starve.
The author thinks the same, hence why people can pay them 50 a month to get a non-anime version.
I approve of this business model. Make them pay extra for professionalism so it stops being the default. "You could be saving money if you just accepted cat girls" will haunt their dreams every night
That's a sentence.
But if people didn't care about professionalism, the author wouldn't be paid either.
you can have many money with no professionalism, they are not bound to one another
Correct, but the places where it is SUCK. So if they see them as bound together, they are also the places to abuse FOSS, so this is a perfect way to utilize their own shittiness to make them behave ethically.
I won't bemoan that, I just think it's weird people need to get rid of it in the first place.
Well. Companies, people about to pay for those companies for professional stuff...
"Professionalism" has destroyed the internet, we have tools like that to fight the enshitification that "Professionalism" created.
Fuck professionalism, I want to see parts of the soul of the people who built the internet
I personally expect professionalism from government websites. And when buying products and services from private companies, a professional looking (and well working) website is something I want to see. Makes it more credible for me.
If the technical parts company I'm contacting has a poorly functioning website with anime shit in it, I'm definitely not going to run that by my boss lol. Sometimes the cartoon things can be used to distinguish yourself from the competition of course but I wouldn't gamble on that in my field.
There's a time and place for everything.
Why does "professionalism" have to equal soulless? Go to Japan, tons of official sites and machines you interact with are full of whimsy and character, and they are known for being the breaurecrats. There is no reason that a funny image should be seen as "unprofessional".
Tbf, it can be a harder sell. For instance I'm recommending Delta Chat to my contacts over Arcane Chat even though Arcane has some extra features like Markdown support, because Arcane has a weird Chibi wizard girl mascot when you first open the app.
I don't need them assuming I'm into hentai or some shit just because of my choice of messenger, or just getting the ick and so they keep using FB messenger. Also, in fact I like anime but I've also always hated the Chibi artstyle, I like like, Trigun and Mazinger Z and stuff. Even then, anime is stereotypically too horny for me to want to associate with it without being able to explain how "yes most of them are, that's why I'm extremely picky and choose mostly space violence, but there is one good horny anime called Golden Boy." Also there's a difference between those who like anime and those who's entire personality is liking anime, the more web based things that have anime branding that I try to convince friends to use, the more I look like my whole personality is anime when in reality my whole personality is Privacy (and Piracy and kitties and hobbies and... but ykwim), and all that is before we throw in the furries, while they constantly insist it isn't sexual, nobody is believing that shit (I'm sure it isn't for some but c'mon there's too much furry porn out there, we know already, it's clearly sexual for a large contingent of people drawing furry futa.)
Tl;dr I get why some people wouldn't want overly sexualized or possibly divisive (in a sense, not like politically but that isn't the only context that word can be used in) cartoonery in logos and mascots, especially when it isn't also their thing or they don't want their mom asking weird questions about a meaningless logo.
Which makes it funny.
I agree
how so?
It doesn't carry the sort of seriousness and relation to the business/work that many associate with professionalism.
It's of course subjective but in most situations, I don't think catgirl anime stuff really fits.