This is Emma the Unicorn! Her design is based off of Emacs. She’s featured in thumbnails on LibrePheonix’s Youtube Channel for his Doom Emacs videos.
This is plainly just someone having some fun with whom I have zero aesthetic overlap. So it’s quite intellectually interesting to me to try to understand why I find it so intensely irritating. Perhaps at core I’m just tired of infantilization.
Likewise I’m annoyed with the whole glasses some how being either a new sex symbol, innocence, or technical prowess of which there is zero correlation.
Some people wear glasses but most do not. I have no problem with advertising showing glasses if it isn’t some obvious targeting or biases in play. In this case it appears to be the nerdy but sexy trope but maybe I’m wrong.
Some people wear glasses but most do not.
Interesting - at least 90% of people I’ve ever known in real life wear glasses. In fact at the moment I’m the only one who doesn’t and I should probably get some eventually.
Maybe the human race is just getting worse at seeing and we’re coping by trying to make the workaround seem cool and attractive.
I wear contacts. My grandparents (greatest generation) and their parents did not wear glasses till they were much older.
Look I wouldn’t have a problem with cartoons with glasses and I’m sure given the downvotes I pissed people off but it is fucking marketing just like in the 80s we had everyone He-Man steroid trope we now have this big big fucking black rimmed glasses as hipster irony incel shy approachable girls/guy. Intellect is hot … sort of but fuck differing opinions or the real driver late stage capitalism.
It is bullshit and and will seem lame as fuck thirty years from now.
I’m sorry for the rant.
BTW here are the stats of glasses wearing: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/127okj2/map_showing_the_percentage_of_people_with_glasses/
Hmm … industrialized countries that can afford contact lenses and or corrective eye surgery are wearing glasses… now. Just recently. Why because it is fucking hip.
Like I have no problem with people that actually wear or wore glasses because they needed them but there are droves and droves of tech wannabes do it for the fashion. That is the reality.
Glasses are now being associated with intellect like they were with the past but also somehow as innocence and cool. That is the problem I have with it just like how the OP has problems with with infantilization I have problems with the fucking disingenuous of that albeit it appears to be lesser received given the downvotes which makes me worried I offended someone who needs glasses. For that I am sorry!
Just watch movies of yesteryear and now. Perhaps I’m just old and bitter but feel like its blue being associated with boys and pink with girls. It seems wrong but maybe I’m just wrong.
