Comment by wlesieutre
3 years ago
Oh, about the main developer being a vtuber? I can imagine people being shitty about that, but I always read through the Asahi posts when I see them and I've yet to see it come up here.
3 years ago
Oh, about the main developer being a vtuber? I can imagine people being shitty about that, but I always read through the Asahi posts when I see them and I've yet to see it come up here.
Not just being a vtuber, but outing them as an alter ego of marcan. Not exactly the nicest thing to do on HN's part (and I'm probably complicit by posting this comment), but also the information is already "out there" and blocking HN to keep it under wraps isn't a great strategy.
If that is actually him and he doesn't want to be associated with that persona then making this video [0] was a weird choice... But in any case it seems natural that people are curious about this, after all it's a popular project and listing virtual avatars as members is strange.
At this point he should probably just own it if it is indeed him.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=effHrj0qmwk
Someone sensitive to this kind of thing may already perceive this comment as offensive (because it contains an arguably overreaching suggestion and a hint of disgust), which seems like a good explanation for the strong response.
Because I'm not directly emotionally involved I can make the following response:
> he should probably just own it if it is indeed him
Well, maybe, but consider that he may just not want to. That should be respected.
> listing virtual avatars as members is strange
Not at all, really. Publishing under a pseudonym is the norm rather than the exception online, so is having multiple of them. Multiple on the same project may be unusual, but so what. They can do whatever the hell they want.
I agree on your other points and believe that a clear "we will leave this question open and would like you to stop wondering about it" would go further towards the goal than what's currently happening.
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Well that's not at all what I expected when I saw "harassment" accusations thrown around. Bummer for them if somebody caught on to their alter ego, but also a dick move to take it out on an entire community who happen to use the same website.
One way or the other I'm going to continue not caring who Asahi Lina is.
Wait, so this is about a virtual avatar identity project leader possibly being the alter ego of one of the other project leads?
I just naturally assumed that to be the case after doing a search on "Asahi Linux" as I knew nothing about that project.