OPEN TO INTERPRETATION: The mascot idea, which some have said implies that the KMT is a parasite, had yesterday gained more than 16,000 likes on Facebook
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 12, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday defended one of the contenders in
A controversial design that has reached the top 10 in the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) mascot selection competition is shown in an undated image.
Photo courtesy of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)
the party’s mascot selection competition, whose design has received wide publicity due to its resemblance to a rubber chicken toy and incorporation of elements perceived to be sarcastic toward the KMT, saying that the designer did not mean to troll the party with her work.
The mascot in question, designed by an 18-year-old named Wu Ching-ping (吳婧萍), looks like a yellow chicken man with what appears to be a blue worm with the face of a baby on its chest and the KMT’s party emblem on its rump.
It was one of 10 designs chosen by two judges, who were on Aug. 3 invited by the KMT Youth Department to evaluate the competition’s 108 valid entries.
The department is to choose the top three designs next month based on the results of Facebook and street polls.
The “chicken” mascot design received attention from the moment the department launched the Facebook poll on Monday. As of press time last night, it had received more than 16,000 likes and been shared 3,200 times, compared with only hundreds of likes and dozens of shares for the other designs.
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