If you're going to cite something as a source, at least read it
Please excuse my ignorance (everyone). I can only read about half of stackoverflow because they use google javascript, so I don't expand the discussions. It's not usually a problem while seeking wisdom but this time I got bit, and now the downvotes make perfect sense.
"But I was very serious about the camel favicon ☺"
You seemed 'serious' about all the points you made, but none of them are true. You are aware you can't see all the responses to yet make an accusation based upon an incorrect comment from a random internet user? The statement that "it's already broken: redirects "fix" it.", demonstrably incorrect. I see the favicon for search.cpan without issue, tested on several machines, different networks and browsers. Regarding the metacpan favicon, as far as 'What do they mean?', if you look at the metacpan logo this should be apparent.