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I was today years old when I learned that Clippy has a canonical gender

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(Image credit: Great Big Story - Kevan Atteberry - Microsoft) It was just another day at PC Gamer towers when a colleague posted a message in Slack bemoaning that they keep getting jump-scared after "accidentally pressing the button in Google Docs that causes an AI woman to start reading articles at me." I simply replied: "Clippy would never" to which they said "Clippy has blood on its hands." And just like that, for the first time in my life, I wondered whether Clippy has a gender. Article continues below "It’s important to me that people remember Clippy because as long as they do, I have cachet,” Atteberry told Motherboard in 2017 . Asked if the pregnant Clippy is the weirdest fan art he's seen, Atteberry clears up the gender question once and for all: "I’ve not seen anything weirder. I’ve seen pregnant Clippys, suicide Clippys, things like that.…

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