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is clippy a dogwhistle?
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louis rossman started it as an anti-data harvesting protest and encouraged people to put clippy as their pfp. in his words: "clippy just tried to help"
the cross section between people who are conscious about data harvesting and chuds is not insignificant - look at "big players" in the popular scene like mental outlaw >.>