[Solved] Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why so many people have Clippy as a profile picture? Is this supposed to be a jab at Microsoft?

It's a from of protest against the massive encroachment on consumer rights by many companies. Comparing what was previously thought to be an intrusive undesirable service (Clippy), to the current state of things where almost every service is intrusive in much worse ways than Clippy ever was.

It originates here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ

Thank you!

Louis Rossman did a video a while back basically suggesting it as a form of visible protest against the over reach of the tech industry.

Like “clippy wouldn’t try and harvest all your data or force you to make accounts you don’t want, sure he could be annoying, but you could turn him off.” Like the worst thing tech companies used to do was something like clippy, maybe annoying but trying to be helpful

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- The whole thing seems silly to me since Copilot acts the same as Clippy and is basically Clippy 2.0

What many people misunderstand and rossman intially kind of miscommunicated is that this movement is not about showing big companies to go fuck themselves, they do not care in the slightest. What this does (and you can see by this post it works well) is spreading the movement and the feel of unionship. It makes you feel that you are not only not alone in this fight, but there are actually a fuckton of people who are standing up for the same things you are standing up against.