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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by egypturnash on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:18PM (#35775999)
The acronym was coined first, with the letter G being added to -IMP as a reference to "the gimp" in the scene from the 1994 Pulp Fiction film.[8]

- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History

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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by chungy on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:27PM (#35776161)
The movie in question doesn't even make the pejorative version of the word clear. The best you could come out of it is some weird fetish thing.
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Re:Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting pro... by egypturnash on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:20PM (#35779332)
I am an artist who is quite happy for part of her living to be "drawing porn" and I find "The GIMP", considered solely as a word for "a weird fetish thing", to be a singularly tacky name.
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