As long as they're dressed like a girl cow.

I think I need some context, what is a boykisser meme?

Here, here!

Even with the explanation, I still don’t get it either. I have some questions:

1. What is a boy kisser meme?
2. What is good or bad about being called out in reference to one?
3. Who was doing the calling out or being called? Was OP called out by Krita, Krita by OP, or some third party calling out one or the other? Or maybe a third party was called out by Krita?
4. What does this image have to do with Krita or the other OSS projects in the background?

Feel free to assume that I am old and not hip to what kids are doing these days.

Isn't a boy cow just a bull?

Tooooo many arch using femboys, why not gentoo? Or is that just for cracked eggs? :3

Why not

Once I understood it, I found it funny. I just needed to spend ten minutes crawling the comments to learn about the meme this is a parody of.

Because why is it time to uninstall Krita?
Krita is an excellent open source project.

And when you have to crack a newer version (because the old can't work on your $os) it's all bloated up.

The only thing I don't like about Krita is the color picker but I'm sure you can change that so I'm just lazy.

Whaat, I thought it was swedish where krita = chalk ?

It's been a few years so it may not be the same nowadays, but when I used Manjaro for a bit it was always just a matter of time before an update broke everything. Probably had something to do with chaotic-aur. It was great otherwise, though. I wouldn't let it get to you.

Now I use a Fedora Atomic distro, which is like... the opposite of risky upgrades.

That's a funny coincidence.

I don't think OP means it, to be fair. They are being jocular.

Really? What gave you that vibe?

But they are flower buds...

1. A boykisser meme is a male furry rabbit(?) that kisses boys. It is usually paired with the caption "You like kissing boys don't you?" in a teasing tone, like this:

1. This is a good thing. However, the joke relies on the sarcastic nature of "being caught" liking boys. In an attempt to clear his name, OP claims it's time to uninstall Krita.

2. The "calling out" is done by the boykisser. Instead of liking boys, the meme is modified to say open-source software. Thus, the boykisser "criticises" the reader, and by extension, OP, of liking FOSS software.

3. The boykisser himself doesn't usually look like this (see the first image attached). He was modified in order to resemble Krita's mascot, Kiki. Attached below is Kiki's reference sheet, from the official KDE site for the mascot.

The eyes, the makeup around them, and the ears are pulled from Kiki's design and put onto the boykisser.

If you have any lingering questions, or I misunderstood the joke, please don't hesitate to tell me.

Most things installed from steam run just fine without steam running

i see

i thought that might be the case, but it was not clear at all

thanks

chalk-coloured squirrel then

OP's edit has clarified this now

Ah! Thank you for the detailed explanation so I can properly enjoy this joke.

Is that an ASCII version of the praying hands emoji?!?

Yes: I'm old, so emojis look fake to me..

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