Hilarious and pathetic. I hope GIMP realizes that the people pressuring them to change the name are a bunch of terminally online keyboard warriors with zero accomplishments in life, and normal people who use and support their product do not care.

I propose “Zed”

> @GIMP i'd love to be happy about software, but thanks to the name your posts are a jumpscare. it could have just been IMP, but nooo, yous just had to provoke to feel clever

> @GIMP it kills me to get a reply from or mention this account with the name i am not ok rn

It's hard to take someone serious when they are so scared of some particular word. This is not how a normal person acts. Outliers shouldn't have that much impact on a name that was established 30 years ago

Is "gimp" really a slur? I've never really heard it in an offensive context before.

Great. It's just a terrible name for a project that presumably hopes a broad range of people will use.

Even if you buy that the creators didn't know it was an ugly term for disabled people (but why did they think the Gimp character was called that in Pulp Fiction?), naming your potentially mainstream software after a imprisoned, tortured, and eventually murdered sex slave maybe isn't the best idea either?

If you want your project to remain niche and repel some users, then I guess it's a fine choice, however.

It wouldn't change the fact that I don't use it (I almost never work with images) but it would definitely change the fact that I don't recommend it to anyone outside of the FOSS community.

I am not from a region that uses the name as a slur, but even the reference to an unsavory scene in Pulp Fiction and the overall negative connotation make it awkward at best and with the fact that it is a slur I run the risk of being downright offensive for no good reason. I just recommend Krita and explain that it's not an exact photoshop place in and that there are other options out there as well.