I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn't everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.
When advertising, you don't just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.
If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.
I think my favorite example was a wedding contractor one of my siblings hired. They used to have a genericly professional "wedding hair" type of name, but then they switched to an innuendo name instead. Before the switch, they got every bridezilla out there. After the switch all of their customers were a shitload more chill about things, with the bonus of usually having very similar styles of humor as the contractor did. She was a lot of fun to be around when everybody was getting ready, and all it took was changing her company name to something "unprofessional" to filter out most all of the bad customers.
If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.
Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.
Thinking something is unprofessional and less likely to be reliable because it uses memes and shit has nothing to do with hating those things, though.
You can enjoy those things and still not trust your website/business security to software that uses it as it’s public face.
THAT is what’s being missed in this thread.
Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out “we don’t take this seriously” vibes and that translates to “you shouldn’t take us seriously either”, which doesn’t mech well with a serious software function.
It’s a tone mismatch. What Might be fine for a shopping list/fitness tracker/rss feed aggregator might not for a finance app or cyber security
Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out "we don't take this seriously" vibes and that translates to "you shouldn't take us seriously either", which doesn't mech well with a serious software function.
Yes. Currently my office uses a tool called "keep ass" as the primary password database management tool.
If a company can't look past a cartoon mascot, it is best, for the developer of the tool, that company never actually uses the tool in the first place.
You can stop a lot of assholes at the door by putting a rainbow by the door handle. This is the same, and it's working as intended.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Not if the stakeholders don’t take it seriously enough to even consider it an option let alone agreeing to pay for it …
I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn't everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.
When advertising, you don't just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.
If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.
I think my favorite example was a wedding contractor one of my siblings hired. They used to have a genericly professional "wedding hair" type of name, but then they switched to an innuendo name instead. Before the switch, they got every bridezilla out there. After the switch all of their customers were a shitload more chill about things, with the bonus of usually having very similar styles of humor as the contractor did. She was a lot of fun to be around when everybody was getting ready, and all it took was changing her company name to something "unprofessional" to filter out most all of the bad customers.
If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.
Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 13 hours ago
Thinking something is unprofessional and less likely to be reliable because it uses memes and shit has nothing to do with hating those things, though.
You can enjoy those things and still not trust your website/business security to software that uses it as it’s public face.
THAT is what’s being missed in this thread.
Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out “we don’t take this seriously” vibes and that translates to “you shouldn’t take us seriously either”, which doesn’t mech well with a serious software function.
It’s a tone mismatch. What Might be fine for a shopping list/fitness tracker/rss feed aggregator might not for a finance app or cyber security
Yes. Currently my office uses a tool called "keep ass" as the primary password database management tool.
If a company can't look past a cartoon mascot, it is best, for the developer of the tool, that company never actually uses the tool in the first place.
You can stop a lot of assholes at the door by putting a rainbow by the door handle. This is the same, and it's working as intended.