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Help us choose the Golden Icon for 2020!

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EDIT: Forum Icons should be updated. Some of you who have not have been sent an email if I need to confirm further details. If you donated $2 or more this year and your golden icon hasn't turned over and you are not an 18-year donator and have not receive an email from amanda at gamerswithjobs dot com, please PM Amoebic so we can work it out!


Hello everyone! This year, since our donation drive had turned 18 and is now old enough to vote, we'd like to involve the community in voting for this year's golden icon selection and looking to get your suggestions! Once we've gotten a good handful, we'll set up some polls and the icon with the most votes wins!

The current year's Golden icons, numbered, for your reference. If it's too similar to a custom donor icon or previous icon, it may not end up in the final vote.
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We've received a couple of suggestions so far, so thanks to folks for submitting! If I haven't listed it, please repost here! I apologize for missing any. We'll start the list in the OP, and add them as suggestions are posted below.

It has to be relatively small, so simple is best. Icons need to follow the code of conduct. Avoid anything political, religious, or culturally appropriative.

Here's the list so far:
Mars Rover
joycon
Golden Eye
Cat
“modern” controller
Rocket
Globe
Peace sign
Monster truck
Lizard
Frog
More cars!
Banana
Lego block
Sega Genesis controller
Mouse
Pair of 6 sided dice
A ♥♥♥ life meter
Golden Apple of Discord
A Golden Handshake
dumpster fire
AC turnip
Nook logo
chair
Fire Truck
Big cat - lion or tiger (aka tiger king)
Chess piece (Aka Queen’s Gambit)
Grogu
Cthulhu
Voting Ballot
Bed
Eagle
Roll of Toilet Paper
Gas Mask
Whoopie Cushion
Webcam
Headphones
Lotus flower
fairy princess
unicorn
rainbow

Thanks so much, everyone! It's been such a year, and I would love to design something that you've all voted for.

Comments

*Legion* wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Facemask, duh!

That already got suggested ya scrub

Unless you mean football facemask in which case +1

The golden shower threw me off. I meant to quote LZ who mentioned it. So obvious!

garion333 wrote:

The golden shower threw me off.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I can't let that pitch just go over the plate. Yoink.

Amoebic wrote:

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I'm a little traumatized by covid. As spot-on as it may be for 2020, I'm not sure covid-related icons is something I'm comfortable with, especially if anyone who lost someone to covid would have to carry that tag around for a whole year. If any get voted into the final rounds, we will need to have a discussion about it before proceeding.

I was thinking a facemask was an obvious choice, but this is a fair objection. To me, the facemask would represent the people who actually cared and try to help others, but I understand that others may see it differently.

If we want to leave behind 2020 with a positive message, I'd either pick a dove as a symbol of hope, or a phoenix, as a symbol of rising from this hell of a year. I like the dumpster fire suggestion, though.

Peace sign.

A golden bed.

Certis wrote:

A golden bed.

:drink:

I guess you need someplace to put your golden pillow?

... yes.

I looked up ‘gold’ Animals. Golden frog or golden eagle.

A golden roll of toilet paper!

Infyrnos wrote:

A golden roll of toilet paper!

I kinda like this one, as it hints at some of the reactionary nonsense of 2020 without being quite so on-the-nose about COVID itself.

Golden Gas Mask

References both tear gas defense at the protests and medical PPE. Plus I just have a weird gas mask fetish. Not at all in a sexual way. More in a Din the Mandelorian way.

Infyrnos wrote:

A golden roll of toilet paper!

Like this?:

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Whoopee cushion.

Ted wrote:

Whoopee cushion.

I like this very much!

garion333 wrote:
Infyrnos wrote:

A golden roll of toilet paper!

Like this?

No, toilet paper wipes away the poopoo, it isn't the poopoo itself.

I like the banana idea.

Also, I have donated every year except one, but I still have the bee? I did not realize I was missing the newer ones until now. Perhaps because my Patreon email is different than my GWJ email? Although I did PM Certis back in 2015 when Patreon launched so he would link them.

LeapingGnome wrote:

I like the banana idea.

Also, I have donated every year except one, but I still have the bee? I did not realize I was missing the newer ones until now. Perhaps because my Patreon email is different than my GWJ email? Although I did PM Certis back in 2015 when Patreon launched so he would link them.

Gotta do that yearly, it's a manual process.

Pm me the email address you used for patreon, I can see your history from that and get you up to date accordingly <3

Whatever it is, I'd really like it to be the next emblem and not an emblem for 2020. It's primary purpose is to mark the 18th year of a donation not really 2020 and more importantly it'll continue to exist after that. There's a lot of 2020 to remember and to build on but there's also so much pain and not much about that is anything I want as a constant reminder. Glad to see there are other options to choose from.

Thanks Certis and Ameobic, I did not know I needed to do it for each drive. Sent you a PM, meebs!

Agreed on not making it 2020 specific.

Zoom icon

PRG013 wrote:

Zoom icon

Or, more generically, a golden webcam.

How 'bout headphones?

Can symbolize social gaming, Zoom, working from home...

I like the TP idea for 2020 reasons, but in a year or two, there will be people earning this icon and it won't be 2020 anymore and the TP or other pandemic themed ideas won't connect the same.

Tying it to the age (18) with something like the voting booth is also a cool idea, but Certis blew that one by using the car before 16 (hi Shawn!).

I think you stick with one of the generic ideas (cat, controller, etc).

I like the banana, it's funny and whimsical in the GWJ tradition. My suggestion is a Golden Lotus flower.

Spoiler:

The Lotus flower is regarded in many different cultures, especially in eastern religions, as a symbol of purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth. Its characteristics are a perfect analogy for the human condition: even when its roots are in the dirtiest waters, the Lotus produces the most beautiful flower.

I love the Golden Lotus, for the reasons you described! That's a beautiful sentiment.

Does a lotus potentially encroach on the cultural appropriation aspect we're trying to avoid?

Asks the guy with a yingyang + chakra lotus tattoo.

A fairy princess.
A unicorn.
A rainbow.
I may have asked my kids for input.
Also, this is probably not the place, but I THINK I jumped a tier at some point? I think I was a bee and made a comment that I'd hate to lose my little buddy and then got upgraded to the pupper. I have no memory posting under the controller icon, but I also have kids now so *shrug* My brain is two thirds sleep deprivation and two thirds which of you punks put the remote in the fridge?!

A golden OOS for "out of stock".

From toilet paper to new consoles and PC hardware, it was the year of 0 stock.

Rezzy wrote:

A fairy princess.
A unicorn.
A rainbow.
I may have asked my kids for input.
Also, this is probably not the place, but I THINK I jumped a tier at some point? I think I was a bee and made a comment that I'd hate to lose my little buddy and then got upgraded to the pupper. I have no memory posting under the controller icon, but I also have kids now so *shrug* My brain is two thirds sleep deprivation and two thirds which of you punks put the remote in the fridge?!

You're absolutely right. It seems that it may have been an error from last year or the year before, I'll shoot you a PM <3