New Olympic Mascot A Trainwreck As Always
In a classic case of overthinking something into oblivion, cities obsess over the stupid mascots for years, until they create some sort of awful mutant-by-committee. The WSJ reports that the Beijing mascot is disliked even by the artist who created them.
Throughout the 70s and 80s, mascots were fairly normal: a tiger, an eagle, a bear, a beaver, a gay dachsund.... In 1992 abstraction took over... Pictures of the Olympic mascots from '92 onwards.
Barcelona 1992: "Cobi." WTF.
Atlanta 1996: "Izzy." No.
Sydney 2000: "Syd, Ollie, and Millie." Why?
Athens 2004: "Athena and Phevos." God.
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