Hi, I'm the maintainer of the project, I'm actually taking into account the feedback. The reason we created this mascot was mostly to have different sets of stickers in the project.
I'm personally paying artists to create original Creative Common content and then have exclusive stickers for each Movim releases, if you have a look at the previous versions we already added a little racoon and a marmot (to also support the project ZeMarmot http://film.zemarmot.net/en/ and by extension the funding of The GIMP project). It's also to support content with free license and push forward artists within the project :)
For this set, the idea was also to submit those stickers on other services like Viber or LINE (that is actually the N°1 messaging network in Japan) to actually fund the project and bring people from other countries to it.
I'm really sorry if this is shocking some people and I'll see what I can do. Also, as an admin, you can easily remove (or add) new sets of stickers on your own Movim instance if you want.
I'm personally paying artists to create original Creative Common content and then have exclusive stickers for each Movim releases, if you have a look at the previous versions we already added a little racoon and a marmot (to also support the project ZeMarmot http://film.zemarmot.net/en/ and by extension the funding of The GIMP project). It's also to support content with free license and push forward artists within the project :)
For this set, the idea was also to submit those stickers on other services like Viber or LINE (that is actually the N°1 messaging network in Japan) to actually fund the project and bring people from other countries to it.
I'm really sorry if this is shocking some people and I'll see what I can do. Also, as an admin, you can easily remove (or add) new sets of stickers on your own Movim instance if you want.