@hub @ebassi @wingo Previous version of the logo... was even moreso... https://jimmac.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/Circle/
(I'm going to mark this graphic as 'sensitive', but it's the GNOME Circle logo (on that page). The hands are a bit more suggestive though, so... um...)
@hub @ebassi @wingo FWIW: The current SVGs are @ https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/-/tree/main/assets
Website build script instructions are at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/-/blob/main/scripts/README.md
@wingo someone did and they don't care
@mjgardner @xayah @wingo Would you like to talk more about your "lived experience" of feeling compelled to remind people, unprompted, of a picture of a man stretching his anus for sexual pleasure? Maybe bring that card back. 🤔
As for the "homophobia", I'm not directing it at you. Goatse was shoved in everyone's face because G*AA, a homophobic and explicitly nazi trolling group.
That is the history of that meme.
- We got caught with our pants down. https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112205137939203881 - Luckily this isn't a logo, just an illustration, so the embarrasment isn't that wide. - The new composition is a...
@Zach777 An image known as "goatse" (do not search for this unless you want to risk being exposed to a very unpleasant image) of a man's distended anus being pulled open with his hands.
I'm explaining this as being mysterious about it will just lead to more people seeing it and wishing they'd hadn't.
Trolls would post it, deface websites with it, etc. in the late '90s, early 2000s, IIRC.
@wingo Wow.
Just needs a ring on one finger.
@wingo I asked a gen z coworker if they understood this logo, and they did not. They came back, said they asked their older brother, and he didn’t get it either.
Our culture is dying.