That's exactly what happened when Gritty was launched! I remember that for about 1 day, Philadelphians on social media were like "why did the Flyers launch this weird mascot?" After that day, people outside Philadelphia started making fun of it and Philadelphians started to defend it against foreign enemies. The hometown devotion to the mascot was born.

JJ another video you could make would be the history of Cars in America. From the early days of Detroit ruling American car market to German cars gaining popularity, to the huge rise of Japanese cars in the 80s, to the modern era of Tesla,Rivian and Lucid once again being American companies making it largely in America

I know you focus on American and Canadian culture, but a video on Japanese Mascot culture would be interesting because everything has a mascot there, not just companies and sports teams, even cities have mascots.

Your words about sympathy toward amateurish and imperfect mascots resonated with me and my relationship with indie-games, music and films... I've always thought, that it's because you can easily imagine your buddy showing you something, that he worked hard in his garage over multiple weekends... And you aren't, to say, impressed with the quality of work, but it's endearing to see his efforts, and you are grateful, that he opened up to you with his passion... So many warmth feelings between two of you, looking at that hideous green pepper...

NC State is actually a good pick to show how what started as a school dog turned into a need for a mascot. Because they are the Wolfpack, State got a real wolf for football games thinking it would be a good idea. Well it turns out wolves are anxious creatures and they would try to hide and cry when crowds would cheer. So enter wolf costumes. - Fun fact: State would actually try numerous times to have a live Wolf mascot in the 1900s but wolves always provided problems until they found “Lobo III” In the 70s. A perfect wolf which fans loved because of the amount of times it howled during games. Where did they find such a crowd friendly wolf? Well it turned out Lobo III was actually a coyote. A discovery that fans accepted until they had a losing football season and turned on the “fake wolf” that other teams would make fun of. State wouldn’t have a another live mascot until 2010. 21st dog breeding allowed for dogs that are social like dogs while looking almost exactly like wolves. This has led to a retirement of the “Lobo” line of live animal mascots and the start of the “Tuffy” line of “wolves” which currently entertain state fans at Carter Finley stadium.

My city (Vigo, Spain) has as its unofficial mascot the "Dinoseto", a topiary shaped like a dinosaur. It appeared one day almost by chance in the middle of a roundabout as decoration, but was pulled down the very same day, as it had been placed by mistake, and an uproar took place demanding for it to come back. It was later placed in the middle of one of the city's landmark areas and became an instant hit with visitors and locals alike. Nowadays there's lots of merch with its depiction, a couple of other dino-topiaries have been created and it's now a mascot for some of the city's campaigns.

The Canadian government should make a mascot that represents what’s “Canadian enough” for bill C-11.

There’s always the fun thing where a company has a mascot who’s always losing (like the Trix Rabbit) or a sort of “anti-mascot” that they use to depict their competitor (like John Hodgman’s PC in those Apple ads) who the public end up feeling sympathy for

Actually, mascots are kinda coming back here in Chile. Basically, if your product is healthy enough, or if you state that it’s the “original recipe”, you can add in the mascots.

JJ you should make a video talking about where the most common English sayings (like "He's got some skeletons in his closet") and how their meanings have changed overtime.

I think it's actually rather fascinating how Mascots have gone from this unambiguous stable of advertising to this very niche practice only used by toy companies or fast food chains. Really shows us how constant criticism of the marketing to kids and a move to be seen as more professional have shifted the way we view them. Although I have to say I actually miss the times when everyone had a mascot. Like you said there's a lot of charm in a quickly drawn cartoon mouse on the side of a local cheese shop or an anthropomorphic pig on a butcher shop window.

An old cereal called Quisp had a weird alien-looking guy with a propeller on his head. There are mascots for public service campaigns as well, like Smoky the Bear for forest fire awareness or the old "Give a hoot, don’t pollute" owl. It’s interesting how we went from animals to all sorts of strange mascots. The Spanish word for pet is "mascota"😀✌️

Mexican here. Despite mascots being banned in the packaging of "junk food", we have plenty of them inside and outside of the food industry. Like the supermarket chain Bodega Aurrera having a luchador mom called Mamá Lucha who is "the champion of low prices", or the chain of pharmacies Dr. Simi, who has a old and big doctor as the mascot. You can find someone in a suit of Dr. Simi dancing outside some local, and even in recent years there is a trend to gift plushies of Dr. Simi to touring artists by throwing them into the stage. Back in the food industry, the Bimbo bakery company has the Little Bear Bimbo, a little baker white teddy bear that is quite beloved by the people, and the ice cream chain La Michoacana having a girl in a traditional michoacan dress having an ice cream.

Several years ago there was a controversy in Chicago about a painting called The Last Pancake Breakfast. It was a last supper scene featuring a host of beloved American product mascots with Aunt Jemima presiding. I think it was meant as a commentary on how much we get attached to these icons as real characters.

This might be a bit different than your other mascots, but I love the mascot of Anne of Green Gables for Prince Edward Island. Despite her character not being made to sell anything other than the books about her, the province of P.E.I. has completely adopted her as a mascot. Local brands will put her face on their packaging as a simple way to convey their locality. On top of all the tourist shops that are brimming with dolls and postcards featuring this character. You can even sometimes see someone dressed up as Anne during community events or parades. One of the most interesting thing about this is that it has essentially become a publicly owned mascot. The government does not own her likeness, nor has she ever adorned any official public document. But it is quite clear the role she plays in selling island culture. The fact that her character is a person puts her on a different level than other regional iconography such as the maple leaf or a lighthouse; one that makes her more akin to a mascot than a partiotic symbol.

As a professional mascot costume character performer I’m pretty excited you decided to cover this topic.

Watching the video as a study break and then seeing the building I'm literally sitting in (at 2:09 ) is a huge trip

There's a pizza restaurant in Gainesville called Italian Gator, and that weirdly drawn mascot of a gator with a chefs hat and Italian mustache led me to choose them over the competitors more than I care to admit

Ever since I discovered the idea of Olympic mascots a couple years ago, I found one mascot that I really liked and that is Vučko, the mascot of the Sarajevo'84 Winter Olympics. There is something so simple and graceful about the design of Vučko, he kind of reminds me the classic cartoon characters made by companies like Fleischer & Disney from the 1920s-1940s.

I don’t know if this counts as a mascot but the current county I live in was the longtime home of Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz. This has lead to the his characters being used as pseudo mascots for various local government institutions, nonprofits, and agencies along with the airport (which uses Snoopy in his flying outfit). You will find various statues of the characters all around the county and a museum dedicated to Schulz as well.

The Kellogg soil brand mascot was designed by Walt Disney as a gift after the company advised him on how best to save the plants he had in his jungle cruise ride. Disney had previously used a lot of synthetic fertilizers and soils without organic matter that resulted in poor displays of sick and dying plants and Kellogg advised him to use organic heavy amendments to buffer the plants against heat stress. Apparently it worked so well that Disney cranked out their little mascot as a thank you

I never thought I would hear anyone talk about Beaver Lumber. That store has such a Canadian story and deserves to be remembered more.

The most interesting mascot to me is probably the Duracell bunny. I was in the UK a while back and saw a commercial for Duracell with a pink bunny and I became super confused. Where I live, Energizer uses a pink bunny while Duracell doesn’t have a mascot. Turns out the Duracell bunny came first and then the Energizer Bunny came along to parody it. Due to legal reasons the Energizer bunny is only seen in the United States and Canada while the Pink Duracell bunny is seen elsewhere. In other words if you ask some one “what battery company uses a pink bunny” you can get two completely different answers depending on where they are from. 🐰🥁🇺🇸🇨🇦

You have no idea how much people love the Buck-ee's mascot, Buck-ee the Beaver here in Texas, I see someone wearing a shirt featuring him almost every single day. People who have driven through or visited Texas have told me that it almost feels like worship with how we even have statues of him.

As someone who lives near Philly, I can tell you we LOVE Gritty. He's a huge hit.

I love how JJ can just jump from talking about the intricacies of Canadian politics one video to another video talking about mascots the next while still keeping it entertaining

JJ loves mascots so much he made himself one in his profile pic! ☺

Brutus the Buckeye, although created just for The Ohio State University football team, has since become a really defining character for the state of Ohio as a whole. I dare to say that almost everyone here owns something Brutus related, especially if they've been to OSU. He's about as synonymous with the OSU name as the actual name/"brand" itself, if not moreso. He's loved even among those who don't care about college football or sports in general, such a "beloved" character

The comment you made about the Victorian era and post war era is very interesting. I think within the next decade we will be able to trace back cultural significance to the 90’s and early 2000’s as well. The computer has changed our society indefinitely.

Interestingly, my highschool mascot had fallen out of use by the time I was going through school, so we only had legends of it being a tasmanian devil which you could only find hidden as a logo on old school merchandise.

School mascots have always been so interesting to me, like a physical embodiment of the school's culture itself. My elementary school's mascot was a cardinal named Keslar and we had a whole song and dance dedicated to him. It feels like a good representation of our school spirit! pls share your school mascots id love to hear them :)

Love seeing Mr Wuf in the thumbnail! GO WOLFPACK!

I always love the mascot for a local pancake place. His name was "Chip: The Pancake Prince". He was just a pancake with noodly cartoon limbs and gloves, eyes were connected into one blob akin to Sonic the Hedgehog and had the goofiest grin you can think of. He wore a crown tilted to the side of his head(?) and held a spatula scepter. The commercial for that restaurant played constantly on many kids channels in my area for a few years. So often that the jingle that accompanied it still gets stuck in my head randomly from time to time.

i actually have a habit of getting attached to website mascots in particular. my favorite ones are the newgrounds mascots (the logo guy is named john, pico was on the rating icons until 2016) and the deviantart mascot fella :) my other favorite one is ptt era charles entertainment cheese

jeez man, I dunno how to put it into words, but you have a deep emotional insight into inner-workings of society and have such an awesome characteristic type of charisma. I've never heard someone speak so well put about the pop culture and its impact on our psyche. You not only present so well the dry facts, but also instantly follow that description with how that fact affected the world around us, which makes it so compelling to listen to and also actually makes us learn something both on factual and emotional level. Idk if anything made sense, I'm tripping balls right now. Gotta get some sleep, bye

Seeing all the Vancouver memorabilia while hearing you talk about mascots made me think of the 2010 Winter Olympics and its four mascots roughly based on real animals and with vaguely indigenous names/aesthetics. Comparing them to the very zany and almost sci-fi/corporate-looking mascots of the 2012 Summer Olympics, it makes me wonder what the whole point was, trying to make a memorable icon for a relatively short event that repeats every four years and is already ubiquitous in our culture.

JJ should be the mascot of KZfaq.

Actually in Japan they're really common. Like every single prefecture has its own mascot maybe even more than one. And I remember the video you mentioned something about the charm of it being amateur, which is actually part of the appeal with these local ones because of because each of them are designed usually by competitions of local people celebrating what they love about the places that they live in

‘Big Lug’ from the Lansing Lugnuts (minor league baseball) definitely has a ‘Gritty’ sort of mascot vibe and is one of my favorite mascots of all time

Was not expecting to see Tuffy in a JJ thumbnail but will not complain. Great video and go Wolfpack!

One of my faves is for the British small supermarket chain called Netto. Very nice dog with a shopping basket. Always made me feel like it was a lot more homeley and a smaller business than it was.

I feel like the blockbuster bat that they had in some stores in the late 2000s was super underappreciated even by the corporation. Can't even find a picture of him online today.

One of my grandfathers was a professional illustrator working for an advertising firm back in the mid-20th century. And throughout my entire childhood I remember being told that he had created the character King Ding-Dong for Hostess. It was later clarified to me that he was not the artist who first drew him, but rather he was part of the team that designed him. I don't know how successful of an illustrator he was, but I know that he had been retired for several years by the time I was born in 1990.

Its funny to me how mascots can be seen so loved by some and absolutely hated by others. When you mentioned the flyers mascot Gritty it made me think about other mascots in the league. Mascots like Gritty and the Al the octopus are so loved by most hockey fans. I think it's because both feel authentic to hockey culture. Hockey fans are very traditional and are very protective of the sport and its culture. Al the Octopus is the Detroit Red wings mascot because it is a call back to the old fan tradition of throwing live a live octopus on the ice for good luck (Yeah Hockey fans are weird). I also think this is why Gritty was so accepted an beloved by hockey fans, he was different and weird and his personality at games felt authentic and his appearance went well with philly sports culture( look at the Phillie Phanatic). Just like philly he was loud, brash and entertaining. He also reminded me of Youppi! the Montreal Canadiens Mascot. Youppi! like Gritty is an unexplained monster with fur. But he is loved by fans and has a historic tie to the culture and the city. A Mascot that was received poorly from hockey fans was the Mascot the Seattle Kraken just released. Seattle is a brand new franchise and just introduced there new mascot...Buoy? (no idea how to pronounce that) Buoy is a troll, with blue hair and kind of looks like a life size troll doll toys from the 90s accept it is wearing clothes. Fans absolutely hate this Mascot and find it too creepy, too weird, and too corporate. It has no charm like gritty or connection to the city or the team like Al the octopus, or Youppi have with their teams. It just a weird unrelated mascot. It looks fine. It looks cute enough like a mascot should. Yet people hate it, maybe it's too corporate for the traditional hockey culture. Myself im a New York Rangers fan. The rangers are a very old and traditional team. They never change their Jerseys or colors or logo and have kept a large following of die hard fans. And sticking with that tradition The rangers are the only team in the league without a mascot. No cartoon, no guy in a costume, not even a live animal (except that one puppy that sometimes wears a rangers jersey). We just don't have one. Part of me would like to see a mascot get added, and some people have made efforts to make the rangers a mascot. But the true fan in me likes being the only team without a mascot. Almost as if a mascot would lower the respectability of this nearly 100 year old hockey team. Although maybe it's a New York thing because the Giants, Yankees, Knicks and Jets all have no mascots. I think sports fans in general are an interesting group to look at when talking about American culture as a whole because of how passionately they protect the teams traditions and the sports culture as a whole. For example you can't expect a new mascot to receive the same reaction from sports fans as you might from the general public If anyone actually reads this thanks for reading my rant. And if JJ is reading this, Hi love the content.

Here in New Zealand, I have seen several mascots for all kinds of different things: car mechanics, plumbing, sports equipment, etc. But they're almost always the same creature: a kiwi. I mean it makes sense why we have so many things with a kiwi mascot, they're the national bird and the most famous internationally. But I always felt that it makes a lot of them kinda generic since none of them stand out in a significant way, at least in my eyes. Come to think of it, one bird mascot that stood out to me was when the cereal brand 'Hubbards' introduced a mascot of their own: Kahu the Kea. I still remember that old logo that featured Kahu eating a berry and that there was also a competition for the naming of said mascot, which is why he's named 'Kahu'. I think it was around 2012 when they retired the mascot (don't take my word for it), but they still reference keas on one of their granola blends that features raspberries (love that granola BTW). Miss you, Kahu!

Thanks for making another awesome video, JJ! This is my favorite style of content you put out; analyzing historical and cultural tendencies of western phenomena, and their context in the world at large.

Thank you thank you thank you for making this video! I've been doing my own research about mascots for the past few years and have had trouble tying together the disparate threads of sports mascots, brand mascots, etc. This is a really great historical synthesis.

My school Texas Tech mascot was originally based on the Spanish inspired architecture with a matador as the mascot but changed due to a random newspaper article about the Red uniforms we wore hence becoming the Red Raiders. Though we still use the Matador for everything

When Mexico banned mascots, a lot of people were sad about the Osito Bimbo (Bimbo little bear) no longer appearing on the packaging of Bimbo pastries anymore. Many people grew up with him on TV and I even had a stuffed toy version of him. I also remember other kids having toys of him or patches of him on their clothes. It really shows you the power of mascots over children. Also, it's funny that children in the 40s didn't recognize Santa Claus. I guess it took Coca Cola to make Santa their mascot to get him on children's minds again.

So I'm quite sure I've watched just about all of your videos at this point. No matter how obscurely Canadian they are! However, this video is my absolute FAVORITE! So many legit "lol" quips and jabs. But as usual very informative on the subject. Being a massive sports fan and lover of junk food cereals....so I know me some mascots! Haha Cheers from New Bedford, MA man!

Great video as always J.J., the variety of topics you discuss on your channel never ceases to amaze me!

Fandoms always seem to spark a weird "possessive" instinct in people and I would argue that mascots fall under this umbrella. It'd help explain why more local and niche mascots still work and why more abstract and less defined mascot characters resonate more strongly as you can project more of yourself on to them.

When I was a kid growing up in central Texas there was a regional pest control company called ABC Pest & Lawn, whose mascot was this cute cartoon aardvark that I always liked. They also had a super catchy jingle that still gets stuck in my head from time to time. They've since changed their name to ABC Home & Commercial Services, which doesn't roll of the tongue nearly as well, but they kept the mascot and the jingle (even though its meter no longer fits the name of the company, but that's neither here nor there).

Holy shit that Gritty pratfall on the ice is one of the most naturally accidental looking falls I've ever seen. Dudes a pro!

Who could forget Bert the Turtle from the 1951 PSA film "Duck and Cover", helpfully explaining to children what to do in the event of a nuclear strike.

Great 'tent as always. I had no idea some of these mascots are quite old, specifically the cereal ones. Interesting example how cultural icons are shared among generations of people without people realizing it.

I was wondering why the Michelin Man wasn't covered in the video since he is one of the oldest mascots still in use. So after doing a bit of research, I just found out today that he is French.

Another great exploration into American Material Culture, J.J.! I'll have to remember this video for use in some of my classes. The student's would love it.

I find this topic relatable to graphic design and how we become numb to good graphic design because it's everywhere now. When we see an ad that is purposely made poorly it actually stands out more and gains more attention.

Very interesting video as always JJ, the underdog theory gave me something to think about.

great video as usual! i am from philadelphia a city that has been kinda blessed with some iconic mascots like the phanatic and gritty maybe even swoop we once had hip hop the bunny for the sixers i liked it. as you can imagine the liberty bell is often used as a logo in this area as well as a cartoon version of ben franklin.

Me and my brother were obsessed with MukMuk, the mascot sidekick from the 2010 olympics when him and me were 7 and 11, repectively. He was just so adorable! There was a video of him going to cheer on the other mascots in their olympic events, and makes this weird "oooo!" sound when he watches Miga speed skate. Anyways, we visited Disneyland and my brother was imitating that sound while watching the fireworks and my parents were like, "What the heck are you doing!?" After we explained the backstory it became an inside joke that you make that sound when you see or someone mentions fireworks

as a mascot nerd and a longtime viewer, this video was an awesome surprise!!! theres something fascinating about the crossroad between marketing, art/design, and pop culture osmosis. even small mascots can end up having a lot of influence and recognition, just by design alone i live in the denver area, and one of the things i would consider a local mascot to an extent is I See What You Mean. its a statue of a blue bear peeking into the denver convention center, but its a very noticeable and fun presence in the city!! my only thing is that i dont think ICWYM isnt marketed *enough*. the bear has a lot of special symbolic meaning (its a brown bear and blue, both important traits to the Utes tribe), so i think if it was just like, on more merch or branding or even more of a highlighted art piece around the city (theres surprisingly a lot of art in downtown denver), ICWYM could be much more of a impactful mascot of denver and colorado as a whole, i think

In St. Louis the mascot for the local Jesuit University and it's associated all-boys high school is the "Billiken" a "good luck" creature that appeared in the dream of a teacher/illustrator that I don't know much about personally. But besides being a professional illustrator's creation, it is also a being very close to the original definition of a "mascotte" as well! Also there's a high school in the town I went to college in with a mascot called the "kewpies" which is a reference to some kind of old doll craze? Like a "kewpie doll" used to be a thing iirc? Oh btw it's a huge headed scary baby doll, and the mascot is also often depicted naked lol. Very strange. Columbia-Hickman is the name of this second school, and St. Louis University is the name of the first institution (the high school is called SLU High )

I found Joe Camel super creepy as a child. I really couldn't bear to look at any merchandise that featured him.

JJ - I am a career mascot performer with several Major League teams, and I serve on the executive board of the "Mascot Hall of Fame" in Whiting, Indiana ... I found this piece to be quite informative and entertaining with a fun perspective, too. I will share this with my peers. Excellent job (As always)

When I was a kid my school mascot was Grover from Sesame Street. I'm not even kidding. They stole a popular muppet character and renamed him Ocean Grover, based off my elementary schools name of Ocean Grove. In middle school we had four houses based around crocodiles of all things. There was the Caimans, the Crocs, the Salties, and the Gators. Our school slogan was "crocs rock!" with a generic green crocodile mascot. High school we had a wolf head for the sports team called the Timberwolves, based off the school name of Timberline.

One interesting thing about mascots in America is that some iconic cartoon characters have come to exist _primarily_ as mascots, despite not starting how that way. Most notably Fred and barney flintstone. They started off as iconic cartoon characters in their own right, and to an extent they still are, but they are also closely associated with a brand of cereal which is the primary use of the characters today.

I am kind of surprised by the awkward Japanese mascots but also not because they really seem to like the 'underdog who always works hard' narrative there. That seems to also be the type popular in the Japanese idol industry,cute and bumbling and imperfect idols are much beloved there and fans encourage them as opposed to the Korean idol industry where the idols have to be perfect at everything and every mistake is heavily scrutinized. Interesting to see the different reactions to similar stuff in different cultures.

Great video! I remember when I was a kid, my local gas-station had a massive bird statue, and I loved it

When I was in undergrad my University paid some outside marketing firm millions of dollars to come up with a mascot. The school wound up choosing...none of the above, then tried to market it as "We don't need a mascot." But since all things vintage must make a comeback there's now a push to bring back a Bison mascot the school had in the 60s.

Love to see my NC State Wolfpack getting love

mascots kind of existed before hand as patron saints, be it the saint of a city or of a profession

There is actually a very old mascot for the city of Hagerstown, Maryland named "Little Heiskell" who adorned the city hall weather vane. He is emblematic of a Hessian soldier, and back in the 1920's had a children's book and merchandise in the form of iron doorstops

Vitner’s potato chip company really only distributes around Chicagoland and maybe nearby metro areas in the Midwest, but I love their saxophone playing bag of chips mascot Vinnie - enough that I would wear him on a shirt if they sold one

I had a Dutch girl live with me for a couple months. She was a bit confused about mascots, as there are not as many in Dutch culture at all. School mascots were the most confusing of them all to her, for some reason

It's an interesting story of how a penguin became the mascot for Linux. Linus Tarvolds (creator of Linux) was on vacation in one of the Scandinavian countries and was bit by a penguin. Thus Tux the Linux mascot was born.. )^_-)/

Excellent topic! Love it. Thanks JJ

I just suscribed after watching like 6 of your videos, you are a great mediator between knowledge about cultural and material modernity and mass audicences, including me. Keep the good work!

Me and my friends have this thing called the funky lil guy phenomenon The weirder, dimmer, and more akined to a pothead you make a character, the more people will like it. A good recent example of this is with Jerma

Hey JJ. Speaking of Mascots, would you ever consider doing a series of shorts based on talking about some of the random toys, posters, statues, etc. that you have in the background? A quick what it is and where you got it. There's some stuff back there that I can't quite identify, and i find it distracting not knowing what it is whenever i watch your videos ;)

I always learn so much from your channel, thank you!! Your subject matter is interesting and your perspective comes across as measured and thoughtful ✨👌

This is why I love your stuff. Both an original and interesting idea fill of charm.

My favorite mascot is the "Jreg" mascot on the J.J McCullough channel

Wally the Green Monster, the mascot for the Boston Red Sox, is a great example of a weird, slightly grotesque creature creating a sort of bond with consumers for his weirdness. He's basically the baseball cousin of Gritty.

Japan has a phrase called "kimo-kawaii" that translates to "gross-cute"! Thanks for the informative video! I love mascots as well, so it was so nice to learn the history of them

I cut the roof of my mouth just looking at that box of Captain Crunch. The dog mascot from the dog treats, "Snausages" & "Snausages In a Blanket" was one of the very basic cartoon drawing that we use to make fun of from 1984 because of the very fact it was so well...basic! Nearly 40 years later my friends and I still fondly remember it.

once again JJ making me want to know the answer to something I never thought I needed to know

I may not always align with your political views but watching your videos is worth it for the journey (or dare I say evolution) of your hair style

Absolutely banger video JJ. I mean I love all your stuff but this one is a brilliantly insightful look into the fascinating world of postwar consumerism.

I've always been fascinated by holiday park mascots from the UK. Usually they'd have at least 4-6 mascots that would appear in shows and do meet and greets as part of their nightly entertainment. When I was 6 years old I went to Haven and quickly fell in love with Rory the Tiger, Bradley Bear, Anxious the Elephant and the rest. They've since gotten a massive and quite controversial makeover last month that caused a *huge* uproar.

Cus funny sentient

*Even with the current dip in Nfts I'm still happy with my portfolio of $87,420 built from my weekly NFT minting , I'm having my 4th withdrawal in 10business days.☺️*

Man, I only got recommended this in my feed today. :( Missed it this weekend, thank you JJ!!

My favorite pizza joint while I was growing up in North Louisiana, Johnny's Pizza House, used the owner and founder, Johnny Huntsman, as its mascot, which you actually saw sometimes in more regional or local brands and stuff. The current design of him is actually pretty cool. It's a nice mix of realistic and cartoony that makes his face very memorable and you begin to associate Johnny with good, dependable pepperoni pizza. I don't live there anymore but every time I visit family, I have to order a pie from there.

My favourite mascot is Geoffrey from Toys R Us since the costume they made in real life always makes me laugh.

Great choices on Tile town and Beaver Lumber. I love looking through old yearbooks and seeing strange mascots from the 50s for electrical companies or pizza places. My favourite defunct mascot is Pizza Pieman from Victoria. Still have a coin from them.

The University of Central Florida is formally the Knights, but has a lesser known secondary mascot called the Citronaut which is literally an anthropomorphic orange wearing an astronaut helmet. The mascot was originally introduced in the 1960's and was meant to represent the major industries of Central Florida at the time, namely citrus agriculture and NASA. The university distanced themselves from it for decades but it has recently come back into fashion so heavily that there is a growing sentiment among students and alumni to make the Citronaut the primary mascot and get rid of the Knights.

Love this video!

Philosophy of mascots!!! Lmfoa, this channel is a gem! Don’t change jj