I’ll start: while looking at app theming I came across WallRizz, renamed from WallWiz. I haven’t tried it, and looking at it documentation it seems well made, but I cringe at the name and the AI-generated penguin logo. It shares the art style of all the other AI slop, its basically italian brainrot but 2D. WallWiz sounds way better, rizz sounds like it was specially designed for gen alpha (little kids). If there are apps of even similar quality, why would I use this one?
“wallwiz” is also pretty closely related to the topic. As OP states it also sounds less juvenile.
using a penguin as a mascot in foss is hardly unique.
we’re on lemmy so there’s almost certainly going to be a couple other replies that hammer on this specific point. But for my part: use of AI, to me, communicates a lack of effort. If they had commissioned someone who could be more familiar with the actual project to do the branding, that would tell me it’s a project they gave a shit about.
I don’t consider “ai art” to actually be art. This is a whole debate we could have but I’ll leave it at that.
Unless you’re talking about the functionality of the program, but that’s separate from the branding issue OP is complaining about.
Yeah that’s just what the program does. OP has no issues there.
The branding is ai generated, which is to say: it looks like any other github repo with a filled out README.md
What do you mean by this? Feels like a random adjective to throw out there.