@beardalaxy @vee I mean... Looney-tunes types of mascots are all over open source, why are anime girl mascots treated so weirdly?

A story was going around the chudiverse couple years back that the reason such people hated anime girl mascots is they had "cute aggression," or a complete inability to deal with kawaii stimuli. I think the cartoon ones (some of which you could call "cute" as well) are just ugly enough they can comfortably identify with them, but the over-the-top cuteness of anime is uncomfortable for their limbic system. They see it as a threat.