> It's not the username in these examples that's the problem.

It totally is. Make a profile with a Western-sounding, preferably female name, and submit a similar typo-fix PR. I can guarantee you that it will be accepted, or at the very least, not featured on a Twitter account called "Shitoberfest".

Minor typo fixes and such have been an established way to make a first bite-sized contribution to OSS projects. What changed this year that people are suddenly yelling at the top of their voices about the 30 (yes, thirty!) emails that they got this week?

Have you not seen the PR spam examples people are reacting to in TFA? You can't pick an {avatar, username, nationality, gender} combo that's going to get this diff accepted into React:

    - # React
    + # React an amazing project

These aren't minor "typo fixes".

That’s not what’s happening here. Have you actually looked at the examples of the PRs linked? They’re not fixing minor typos, they’re introducing nonsensical copy pasted changes. These are not low effort commits that you could argue don’t hurt the project — these are quite literally spam.

Take a look at these: https://github.com/grails/grails-static-website/pulls?q=is%3...

If you want to know how maintainers feel then read all of them.

>> It totally is. Make a profile with a Western-sounding, preferably female name, and submit a similar typo-fix PR. I can guarantee you that it will be accepted, or at the very least, not featured on a Twitter account called "Shitoberfest".

I have made a genuine typo fixing PR and it was accepted by the repo. And yes, I don't belong to the group you refer to in your comment. I don't know what's happened with you or why you feel that way. It would be better to support your point with an example or an incident.

>...not featured on a Twitter account called "Shitoberfest".

Do it 20k+ times and it very well may be. You appear uninformed about what is actually happening.

These aren't typo-fix PRs. Thousands of them simply added "an amazing project" to the title of the readme, as was suggested in the video.