That might make sense if they were posting pictures of PS1 era Lara Croft, but they aren’t, they always use the newest examples… They would show a bigger gap in time passed if they used the dragonborn from the initial release of skyrim vs the newest remastered version.
I don’t know how common it is anymore, but it definitely was a few years back. You knew a computer was infected with everything when you saw a stupid cartoon dinosaur or something as the mouse cursor as soon as the pc booted to windows… I think it was more about what was bundled in the download from scummy websites doing the damage though, not the actual cursor files. I still cringe though if I see a non-standard cursor in windows, like PTSD-esque flashbacks…