Meme Context: “gimp” in english is a strong derogative slur for disabled people. People complain about the program name regularly as it makes hard to push for it both publicly (seen as silly) as well as within companies (seen as unprofessional and silly). The maintainer however believes they can redefine a 100 year old slur all on their own. Lower text “answers” inspired by this.


Well, the Glimpse project didn’t do the boring thing and just rebrand GIMP, they had more ideas and not enough people to work on them so they failed pretty quickly. If a simple rebrand would be used more than the original still remains to be proven, though it not existing might also be taken as indication that the demand for “GIMP with another name” isn’t there.