Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as serious and legit as kernel.org to have this, I do think it’s frankly shocking and unacceptable.

> people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard"

Think you can thank the furries for that.

Every furry I've happened to come across was very pervy in some way, and so that what immediately comes to mind when I see furry-like pictures like the one shown in the article.

YMMV

To be fair, that's the sort of place where I spend most of my free time.

"Anime pfp" stereotype is alive and well.

they've seized the moment to move the anime cat girls off the Arch Linux desktop wallpapers and onto lore.kernel.org.

It's not crazy at all that anyone who has been online for more than a day has that association.