So after much deliberation, we decided to go for a new, completely different mascot for the site; thus, we have Dylan the Armadillo!

Representing e621's resilience and uniqueness, Dylan's celebrating (in style, of course) this very important milestone in the site's history, with a toga (which of course hides almost nothing) and an awesome party hat.

We're going to use Dylan as the site mascot for a while as an experiment; I know that by the law of averages we should have a twink furry fox as our mascot but I quite like the idea of having a *unique* mascot; something that represents what the site's about.

The first of two images Narse has drawn for us is currently on the front page (complete with CPU-intensive snowing hexagons); in about a week's time we'll swap this over for the second image we have.

You can see the full image of Dylan here: http://e621.net/post/show/109196/armadillo-balls-dylan-e621-e621_mascot-looking_at_

Questions? Comments? Post 'em below!

The balls.. first thing I saw..
Then I saw the balls on the armadillo.

All I can say is wow. Impressive and Strange! Good Job.

I just wish we had a female parts version.

I just wish we had a female parts version.

Oh I'm sure there'll end up being a female Dylan sometime...

Varka said:
You can see the full image of Dylan here: [link]

Questions? Comments? Post 'em below!

Missing link.

HA HA HA! I read this before the link was fixed.

Woo cock on the front page

HORY SHEEEEETTT!!!!

I saw that and cried tears of joy...

Eh, I don't know. I prefer eSix.

But, I suppose an armadillo is fine, too.

Varka said:
Representing e621's resilience and uniqueness, Dylan's celebrating (in style, of course) this very important milestone in the site's history, with a toga (which of course hides almost nothing) and an awesome party hat.

... and a raging boner.

Aside from the... raging boner, great idea.

Unique indeed. I must admit, it's more interesting than Esix or any of the other proposed mascots from way back when.

Other than the fact that it's a 'dillo, which is somewhat unique on it's own, I found the mascot to be absolutely boring. At least Esix, and her incredibly gay cat companion directly reflected the site in their appearance. When you looked at them, you could see the direct parallels to e621, and the planning that had gone into their creation.

Is there any chance of getting a female mascot for Dylan to share his throne with? I'd really liked the idea of having one of each gender.

i like the new mascot, but maybe a clean version on the front page? =p

A good day and a good decision, one that goes for a meaning rather then popularity among people fapping to it.
though I really do dislike that you went for a one sexed character, i mean, female is the highest uploaded material here, so at least make it sexless and cartoony...
:/

That's a very disappointing choice of mascot.

Please tell me I don't have to see that every time I go to the main page, that's going to suck =|

If you're that scared of dicks, just set your bookmark for http://e621.net/post/index instead of the main page.

I will admit the the armadillo is definitely unique, but it's pretty tasteless and not very coordinated with the style of this site. If it was updated to better fit the color palette of the site, it'd be a lot more pleasing to the eye. I personally liked the other mascots a bit more thanks to their catchy designs, especially Hexerade. This one just sticks out like a sore thumb. This mascot is as bland as the Paws.ru bunny.

Funny, I had to re-login to post a comment I already wrote, but got deleted after logging in.

So I'll keep it extra short this time. I don't dig the nude armadillo on the front-page. e621, to me, was an art archive meticulously organized by tags and categories. It's not a porn archive. It's an archive that also has porn on it. If I missed a memo about the site's mission statement, I'll gladly read up on it, but seeing nakedness on the front-page after years of there being no porn on the front-page... I just don't agree with it.

I like porn. I come here for porn. But I also have a semi-functioning blacklist for a reason. It's worth noting that I'd say the same thing if there was a naked female armadillo on the front-page.

So what was the point of previous mascot competition? The users were voting for what they think would be the best mascot and artist were trying to make one, it was a fair contest (well, sort of). And now all that effort was just thrown away?
-Oh hey guys, i've just decided to change the mascot for no reason.
-But, but we already have a mascot that the users chose...
-Pfft, who cares about the users and their opinion anyway, lol.

P.S. You could at least make it genderless.

More like arma-dildo amirite? :P

Yeah, the massive boner right in the middle of the god damn page did come off as a bit vulgar to me.

Imagine a straight guy / homosexual girl's reaction to that?

Clean version for great justice.

Joan-Michele said:
More like arma-dildo amirite? :P

Yep. http://e621.net/post/show/33565/

I like him!

Sizer said:
Yeah, the massive boner right in the middle of the god damn page did come off as a bit vulgar to me.

Imagine a straight guy / homosexual girl's reaction to that?

Clean version for great justice.

Hey, man, it's Narse. It's not vulgar. >it'sbeautiful.jpg

A armadillo is a nice idea, but a female or a female/male picture would be much better. Otherwise e621 look like a gay site on the first view.

reflex said:
A armadillo is a nice idea, but a female or a female/male picture would be much better. Otherwise e621 look like a gay site on the first view.

So it's better of it looks lesbian/straight?

Lolno. If we're going that route, just make it not have a dick, or tits, or vaj.
A armadillo is a nice idea, but a female or a female/male picture would be much better. Otherwise e621 look like a gay site on the first view.

Yeah, this is extremely biased towards those who like males, and despite being banned by mellis on multiple occasions, I still prefer his mascot. (<3 you melly) *spite*

Fozzy said:
So what was the point of previous mascot competition? The users were voting for what they think would be the best mascot and artist were trying to make one, it was a fair contest (well, sort of). And now all that effort was just thrown away?
-Oh hey guys, i've just decided to change the mascot for no reason.
-But, but we already have a mascot that the users chose...
-Pfft, who cares about the users and their opinion anyway, lol.

Everything anyone ever told me or (I presume) Varka was that a vote by the e621 community was held for deciding on the new mascot, and then the idea of users voting on it was abandoned and nullified after it was discovered that some users were voting multiple times. Thus, the administrators ended up deciding on a new mascot.

If that was not the case, it's news to me.

Char said:
Everything anyone ever told me or (I presume) Varka was that a vote by the e621 community was held for deciding on the new mascot, and then the idea of users voting on it was abandoned and nullified after it was discovered that some users were voting multiple times. Thus, the administrators ended up deciding on a new mascot.

If that was not the case, it's news to me.

They actually decided to use the top 5 entries equally. They just never got around to it.

This should do for a clean version:
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7123/e6211920cens.jpg

I badly needed this as a wallpaper.

Needs a female version (or clean version), and not an armadillo (a very unique choice though).

I do like, however, that you tried.

I guess it can't please us all.