User blog comment:The Ultimate Dude/Remembering Old Vocaloid Wiki/@comment-5051846-20141112182148/@comment-53539-20141112202326

God, I remember the debate over "mascot" being used and I basically said "we use whatever word best fits". I think it was Xey protesting over the words use, it wasn't official and never has been that we go with "mascot".

His argument "against" the word "mascot" was it reminded him of sports... Yeah... Tell that to Sonic and Mario, as well as any other "mascot" character ever made outside of sports. It was tiring because they wouldn't listen to me when I set "mascot isn't set in stone". We were free to use Avatar, persona, personification, characters, whatever we wanted. His proposal would have meant loosing the ability to use words freely, so why was there an issue? It didn't make any sense at all. >_<