Please remove "Proudly" from credit banner

[TylerTork]

The “Twenty …” themes display a footer that reads “Proudly powered by WordPress.”

People often prefer to hide this footer. I can't speak for everyone, but I want to hide it, and I'd like to discuss why.

When text appears on a website, it’s speaking for the site owner. Just as it would be improper for a theme to display a copyright notice claiming copyright of the site’s contents for the theme developers, I feel it’s inappropriate to claim the website owner is proud to use WordPress.

The developers of WordPress have plenty to be proud about — it’s fine software. But as a WordPress user, I’m not proud to be using it. I just chose the best tool for the job.

I believe fewer people would object to a notice reading simply, “Powered by WordPress” — which is at least accurate — as opposed to one that makes a false claim about how they feel about it.

[fierevere]

Likely, a duplicate for #3931

[Clorith]

I'm not sure this is something that needs changing, in my mind the theme is proud to be powered by WordPress, which makes sense for a default theme created by WordPress to be.

[TylerTork]

Pride and other emotions can only be experienced by sentient beings. Are you suggesting that the 20 something themes have achieved sentience?