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While true minimalists do appreciate minimalist look as well (because in their world it's a natural consequence of good design and as a result a sign of minimalism they over time learn to look for and appreciate), pseudominimalists are obsessed with visuals, the casing, the shell and that is their true goal to which they sacrifice the internal beauty, so after a while you learn to spot pseudominimalists just by their attempts at what they call a "clean design" or "user experience" -- a true minimalist uses minimalism so that bullshit doesn't stands in his way, a **pseudominimalist is just a snob** using visuals to pretend he's an intellectual or, as he loves to say, an "artist". Over time you learn to smell the sweat poured into font choice, spacing of paragraphs and choice of color palettes, eventually leaking even to [natural language](human_language.md) he uses to communicate (usually on the detriment of communication) in which he tries to use minimum of words which just makes it hard to understand what he wants to say. A typical example is the [shitty 100r wiki](xxiivv.md). Pseudominimalist thinks calling a link to the main page "main page" is too mainstream, so he calls it just "m" or something like that.
A different example of pseudominimalism is demonstrated by great many "[modern](modern.md)" [CLI](cli.md) programs which [code monkeys](coder.md) use to impress their [YouTube](youtube.md) viewers or to feel like matrix haxors. Some people believe that anything running in the command line has to be minimalist by a law of nature -- this is less and less true as we progress into the [future](future.md). A lot of [capitalist software](capitalist_software.md) add a CLI interface ex post **on top** of an already bloated program (they even invented a term for this: "[headless](headless.md)"), often by simply disabling [GUI](gui.md) (but leaving all its [dependencies](dependency.md) in). An example may be the [gomux](gomux.md) chat client. Similarly many window managers demonstrate pseudominimalism by "looking minimalist", as in having thin 1 pixel borders for windows, flat colors, pixel art fonts etc., while in fact being bloated as hell under the hood. A very cheap trick used to impress retards is [rendering 3D graphics](3d_rendering.md) in terminal with [ASCII graphics](ascii_graphics.md), which is the easiest thing in the world to do, but for some reason people around 110 IQ wet themselves seeing anything rendered with ASCII.
A different example of pseudominimalism is demonstrated by great many "[modern](modern.md)" [CLI](cli.md) programs which [code monkeys](coder.md) use to impress their [YouTube](youtube.md) audience or to feel like matrix haxors. Some people believe that anything running in the command line has to be minimalist by a law of nature -- this is less and less true as we progress into the [future](future.md). A lot of [capitalist software](capitalist_software.md) adds a CLI interface ex post **on top** of an already bloated program (they even invented a term for this: "[headless](headless.md)"), often by simply disabling [GUI](gui.md) (but leaving all its [dependencies](dependency.md) in). An example may be the [gomux](gomux.md) chat client. Similarly many window managers demonstrate pseudominimalism by "looking minimalist", as in having thin 1 pixel borders for windows, flat colors, pixel art fonts etc., while in fact being bloated as hell under the hood. A very cheap trick used to impress retards is [rendering 3D graphics](3d_rendering.md) in terminal with [ASCII graphics](ascii_graphics.md), which is the easiest thing in the world to do, but for some reason people around 110 IQ wet themselves seeing anything rendered with ASCII.
Another form of pseudominimalism is **making a minimalist tool for something that in itself is a non-minimalist [bullshit](bullshit.md)** -- for example minimalist frontend for Facebook, minimalist Steam client, minimalist password manager, minimalist [Bitcoin](bitcoin.md) wallet etc.