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What's up with all the "clippy" stuff? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
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On youtube I see tons of avatars and mentions of clippy, the oldscool windows help tool. Are they protesting something?

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[–] [S] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some teenage girl deleted a picture of herself on facebook and facebook marked her to sell beauty products to, because she must be insecure and therefor an easy target. Clippy never did that. Clippy was just there to help and had no ulterior motives. Every big company in the world has ulterior motives now. The clippys are meant to show them it's been enough.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    the big companies have always had 'ulterior motives' driven by their insatiable lust for more profits and higher share prices.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That is not true. The cycle is that someone with passion for the business creates the business and they are a good business. Than they grow and the creator can't handle it anymore, because they are craftsmen, not business men. Than some business men step in and eshittify everything for profit.

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