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# Does Having an Anime Profile Picture Make You a Better Programmer?

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 4 min read · 127 upvotes · 23 comments

## Summary

The post explores the question of whether having an anime profile picture makes someone a better programmer. It examines the correlation between having an anime profile picture and programming activity on GitHub, but concludes that there is no significant correlation.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://h313.info/github/anime/google-cloud/2020/07/31/does-having-an-anime-profile-picture-make-you-a-better-programmer.html>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mohnish** · 23 upvotes

> Ofc it "concludes that there is no significant correlation", cause we don't want our secret out

**@catalin560** · 9 upvotes

> I remember there was a onion community (aka darkweb) called breach forums or something like that where hackers would sell their database dumps (stolen) and the default profile picture was some anime shit, lmao!

**@akiragost** · 6 upvotes

> Having an anime profile picture doesn't make you a better programmer; it's your skills, experience, and contributions that define your programming abilities. if u need to be better programmer watch one-piece XD.
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**@aiaman** · 5 upvotes

> Of course it **does!**

**@noricode** · 4 upvotes

> depends what franchise

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