Comment by pkal

Can you clarify if you mean that you do no understand the reasons that people dislike these images, or do you find the very idea of disliking it hard to relate to?

I cannot claim that I understand it well, but my best guess is that these are images that represent a kind of culture that I have encountered both in real-life and online that I never felt comfortable around. It doesn't seem unreasonable that this uneasiness around people with identity-constituting interests in anime, Furries, MLP, medieval LARP, etc. transfers back onto their imagery. And to be clear, it is not like I inherently hate anime as a medium or the idea of anthropomorphism in art. There is some kind of social ineptitude around propagating these _kinds_ of interests that bugs me.

I cannot claim that I am satisfies with this explanation. I know that the dislike I feel for this is very similar to that I feel when visiting a hacker space where I don't know anyone. But I hope that I could at least give a feeling for why some people don't like seeing catgirls every time I open a repository and that it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with advocating for a "corporate soulless web".