That’s Anubis. It’s a countermeasure against AI scraper bots. It’s a separate piece of software which can be placed in front of Lemmy (or various other web applications).
i don’t like her
Gatekeeping is toxic
Why do you hate women? /s
I already know her from various privacy-focussed alternative frontends for tumblr and the like, i wouldn’t mind if she pops up here as well.
hopefully never, unless it’s this one
Customizing your Anubis install with different graphics costs money
So while Hexbear has been less 502ish recently, getting a no hentai variant probably isn’t in the cards
But it still might be worthwhile to have her check incoming traffic
Costs money unless you are doing it yourself. It’s open source, what’s Xe gonna do?
They’ve literally made it 100% free to use as-is and have politely asked that you not do exactly that.
… sooo nothing at all
How about a cartoon bear? Either hug shaped Pooh style or anime beargirl, doesn’t matter which. Because we’re the bear site!
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Changing the mascot is a paid feature unless you fork it I guess.
The polite request not to fork it and edit the images without paying should be enough to keep Hexbear on the jackal-gal version if the free route is taken.
If you want to pay the $50/mo for custom branding then you could pick the bears of your dreams.
What’s her deal?
This site is hentai free. Don’t like it? Leave.
I don’t care what hentai she’s from I’m just asking the context of the emoji.
This isn’t actually about hentai, hexbear just has a substantial portion of users opposed to all anime girls because they are misogynists and hate autistic people and anybody that has ever had the tiniest bit of sex in their life.
hexbear just has a substantial portion of users opposed to swastikas because they are bigoted towars hindus and hate autistic people
the reason some people oppose anime is, on the one hand, that it has been used by the reactionary japanese government to polish up its image and divert attention from its historical crimes, and, on the other hand, that some of these media unfortunately contain frankly repugnant amounts of misogynistic content, ranging from “mere” objectification of women to apologia of pedophilia and similar.
while i personaly believe that opposing an entire artform due to certain problematic works in the genre is a little silly indeed, accusing people of ableism and misogyny over what amounts to a very understandable, if imho wrong, position is much worse. especially given how much of this sites community is non-male and neurodivergent itself.
please consider donating to our palestinian comrades instead, it would be a much better use of your time.
Downplaying the pervasive misogyny and ableism on hexbear is not something i will engage in. Stop patronizing me, stop talking down to me like this, stop telling trans women when we have a right to feel discriminated. I have had several instances of men on this site being openly (trans)misogynist and lesbophobic towards me, which unfortunately is something that happens without exception in every public space that men are present in, and yes, that absolutely does include leftist spaces. To think hexbear is magically exempt because there are trans people on this site is not only ridiculous and disingenuous, it betrays your complete lack of understanding of how pervasive patriarchal control mechanisms are in our society. Most transfeminized people on here that i’ve talked to about this agree with my assessment, we constantly have especially autistic comrades complaining about the site’s autism problem as well. Yet you claim to understand our struggle better than we do.
im autistic myself and know about the ableism problem on this site, thank you very much. before accusing others of patronizing and going on to point out the speck in your neighbour’s eye, consider asking yourself if you failed to notice the log in your own eye?
if my comment came across as offensive or condescending, that was not my intention, and i apologize. my intention was to point out that your statement is doing more harm than good! by linking these issues to things that have little or nothing to do with them, you inadvertently end up downplaying or even legitimizing them. nothing good has ever been achieved this way.
Well, that definitely tracks. I should have thought more deeply about the meme.
Yeah, I’ll second this. There are a lot of things you could say about a lot of Anime, though must of them also apply to western cinema too (imperial whitewashing, sexualization of women and girls, etc.), but that’s not really why people oppose it so heavily.
It’s because anime is a medium that, on hexbear anyway, is frequently enjoyed by women, especially trans women.
Plus, looking at a fully clothed cartoon woman and calling her inherently pornographic is… A choice
This site is hentai free. Don’t like it? Leave.
She’s Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon.
I feel like this is a dumb question but what is the context for her specifically being used for a hentai meme?
This kind of image was a pretty common on early anime fansites to indicate that your site didn’t have adult content—don’t think there’s any particular reason she was used (other than the expression, as has already been said), although if it’s authentically from that era, there’s a good chance it was from a Sailor Moon fansite. Here’s the original in context:
and here’s an authentic example I saved from a Team Rocket fansite:
I don’t actually know the origin. I think it’s just an easily meme-able look of disapproval from early in the show.
Chibi avatar of the author of Anubis.
It’s nice that the site is still usable and hasn’t been completely bogged down by bots. Wonder why that is.
I saw some 502s on Hexbear recently, so it seems likely it’s still getting scraped.
bots don’t attack liberal conservative forums
Bots aren’t interested in a site full of liberals, duh! You can find that anywhere! And you guys are all a bunch of libs!
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Our posts are so bad, no bot wants to scrape them
We are not “kawaii” enough.
be the anime girl you want to see in the world
Let’s get anubis in here she’s cute
