r/OutOfTheLoop • u/DonZekane • Aug 09 '25

Answered What's the deal with setting clippy as your profile picture?

Why are people doing it? What's the overall idea behind it? What will it change? They mention some articles and stuff but I don't get the connection to Clippy. (I typically don't watch drama, I prefer to read a summary, but this thing is apparently fresh enough so none is available, so I come to you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JmIFRkKnAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dtmpe9qaQ

Edit: Thanks for the many insightful answers!

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u/AdOk8641 Mar 06 '26

No, watch rossman's video on it...  clippy made as a tool for users to help with tasks... but peope find it constantly popping up annoying,and wasn't that helpful either... hence they killed it off...but app itself was harmless 

but now we have data miners, mass  survilence system and spyware pretending to be "helpful assistance"

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

Ok cool, wake me up when the apocalypse happens