Fuck me, I had never even been aware of it. Thanks for making me look into it and what it means. Reminded me of 1984's Newspeak and its aim at simplifying expression to simplify the range of thought and thus maximize obedience.

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Yes, on the new standard everyone becomes a ridiculous, genderless, amorphous, misshapen pastel colored cartoon.

Certainly nothing like this going on in real life society already…

One of the things that cracked me up the most when reading about it is the justification that people (?) should feel more "represented" and "included" by the figures because they often have unnatural skin colors like blue or fucsia.