And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw.

Did you know the US consititues about 4% of humans? When we look at adults and age range that likely ever hear of D4vd we are talking probably considerably less that 1%.

The rest of humanity has no negative association with these four letters.

Its a followup to their existing Dav1d decoder (av1, av2)

It's just unfortunate. Like there was a pharmaceutical company named "Isis" that changed their name due to the association with the terrorist group. That said, while people will notice for the next couple of months, I don't think it warrants changing a name for.

By this logic nobody should ever name their child Ted or Theodore because Ted Bundy existed.