It is one of the few instances were the reddit discussion seems more normal/indepth. See the longer comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1sgtkdf/tailsl...

There are a few glazing comments there too though.

> Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead.

I don't know what he posted, but it is easy to see how a small fan group around Laurie can form?

She is an attractive girl not afraid to be cute (which is done so seldom by women in tech that I found a reddit thread trying to triangulate if she is trans. I am not posting that to raise the question, but she piques peoples interest) plus the impressively high effort put into niche topics PLUS the impressively high production value to present all that.