See also: the blog, with link to the video pictured, from Jeff Geerling. Tl;dr: it’s about de-censoring text.

✅ I’m in this picture and i don’t like it.

As someone who has cut down dead trees, what was his plan? “This way, it can fall in any direction and it’ll go fine” ?! So much extra work too, and with an axe! I’m not surprised at all it finally fell the way it did.