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Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy's majority ain't American?
Clippy is becoming a shared symbol. The idea it represents is that: we are not happy with the way companies lock us out of our own devices. We want to be allowed to do whatever we want with the hardware we bought. We want to be able to repair it. We want privacy when using it... Etc...
What motivated the choice of Clippy as a symbol? Meme value?
Kinda, but also that Clippy (real name Clippit, as it happens) was included as a feature that was genuinely intended to be helpful. Like, that's not to say it was successful, or appreciated, but that it came from a time when you could buy a product in the expectation that you'd own it, you could keep it and it'd work for you, not for someone else.