From Wikipedia:
The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for “VideoLAN Chad” when VLC was a chad from the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a chad, that initialism no longer applies.
Touhou character Or Vinny Vinesauce
Twitter is also turning into the same thing.
In Spanish these are called “camionetas”, something like “truckettes”.
It’s centralized and controlled by Canonical, it enforces updates and you can’t disable it, sometimes when you uninstall snapd it cames back when you apt update and most importantly, it is painfully slow.
Arch Wiki has saved my ass so many times.
It needs some sound effects too:
https://youtu.be/n3427q_w4Gg