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https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5111104/no-the-c-mascot-is-not-a-diseased-rat-named-keith
But is it accurate in spirit?
Yes
No, it's a cyborg that has a fully human body with increasingly modern Robots growing out of his head like a AI generated matrioshka doll.
Lower robots have lost some vestigial body parts.
Also no.
Stallman didn't draw it but I would argue in the absence of any other mascot the fact that some people have eaten the onion and believe it sort of does make it the de facto C++ mascot...
Language prescriptivists in shambles
If Brian Lunduke says it's false, it must be true.
Boo
Well OP did ask "is this accurate", so...