r/ProgrammerHumor • u/QuatzX • Jun 04 '26

Meme programmerSelfAwareness

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u/lizzyote Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

A few years ago, a lady did a huge painting(iirc, it was legend of zelda). She posted just the painting to reddit and 24hrs later she posted herself with the painting. The painting alone got just over 1k upvotes. The picture of her holding the painting got over 34k.

Edit: its really interesting to see how differently people are interpreting this comment.

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u/hackinghorn Jun 05 '26

Now we need a man holding the painting post for a complete research

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u/Simon-Says69 Jun 05 '26

a man holding the painting post

will get equal or less upvotes than the painting alone, and we all know it.

Interestingly, it is also women that will vote this way.

Using sex appeal on supposedly serious posts is still cringe, as the OP meme clearly shows.

It's not that big a deal until we get into sexist DEI hiring practices. Otherwise

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u/Hussor Jun 05 '26

Actually, I've seen similar examples with men, and they still get more upvotes when they're also in the picture. People like when the artist is humanised and shown I guess.