@Alex Gleason how many of us were able to successfully associate your Key with the Nostr protocol when you initially provided it with no context? That was the honest signal from culture to your inquiry. image View quoted note → The Key symbolism is far from something unique. The current Nostr title and mascot are some of the best marketing ever, IMO. Besides objective criteria, I pay a lot of attention to how many of my personal brand associations arise. Ostrich has been commonly associated with the coward, but we clearly have a redefinition: it's a psychologically transformed ostrich, a fearless superhero cypherpunk nerd, with good taste, which builds new clients very fast, because the protocol is so lightweight and easy to understand. There are lots of associations, including regional-only; I've already talked about it in some detail in my native language before. My main point is that it doesn't matter that these are just my personal/regional associations: others, in practice, also demonstrate their fountain of associations from their unconscious. And all these associations are sound with the project. This gives more weight for such symbolism. You don't have such a fountain of associations with just another Tensor/Vector/Scalar kind of marketing (sorry DM client guys, too many took this name already; a lot of good projects are literally associated with a placeholder now!). And the Key you proposed clearly has this issue. Any marketing guys here? It would be nice if you could share your professional opinion too. Here's what the psychologically transformed fearless ostrich behavior is like, at the end of this ancient cartoon: Except, ours is a nerd; it's not stupid.

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Real signals don’t need context. It’s like meat: you don’t need a recipe card to know what to eat. Your gut knows. Cultural noise tries to override that instinct, but biology always wins.
> n(ostriches) I especially like this one; I haven't heard this particular association yet 🤙 I strongly agree. I find it weird the mascot gets attacked occasionally. Critics either don't propose anything or propose something that can't stand any criticism. They don't get what and why good marketing really is. It's like if they wanted to enshifity things with their lack of creativity. Sorry guys, it's what it seems to me for now. View quoted note →
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