Furbooru Mascot Name Voting (Round 2)

Shoot, the best names names I picked out didn’t make the cut. Oh well, voted for Furball since I was sure more people were going to vote for Astra (and I was right, haha)

I thought more people would vote Furball, to be honest.

@FruityPWN  
I think people don’t want a mascot to have a joke name if it’s going to be the face of a site they want to be taken somewhat seriously.

@Anonymous #6DE8  
No idea why I was logged out when I post that.

@Anonymous #6DE8  
Who said that would be a joke name? I think, if not the name, Furball should at least be a nickname or something.

Yes

@Anonymous #6DE8  
Why would furball be a joke name? It’s easy to associate with the site, unlike Astra.

@FruityPWN  
@Gyro  
How is Furball not a joke name?

@Nicelucario  
Oh oh, I can play this too!
 
How is Astra not a joke name?

@Gyro  

 
“Furball” is easily associated with a site, not with this site in particular. It can be also asociated with what one of the furry pet (cat or dog) coughed out. Not something I’d ever want to associate this site with.
 
And for Astra – it’s a name. A proper name that would associate the character with this site specifically. How man people associate the character Fender with anyhing else but Furaffinity?

Astra sounds like the name of an anthro cat creature from a sci-fi universe

In my mind, there is only one Furball.
 

 
Wait a minute, after all these years I just now found out his name’s spelled Furrball.
 
The sentiment still stands.

@Gyro  
Furball is what people call Chewbacca when they feel sassy. Astra is an actual name.

@soccy-draws  
Furball -> Furbooru. both are in fact FurB. It’s a very clear, easy association to make. Astra has literally no relation to the site. Nor does the character look anything spacey other than having a purple coat.
 
The stary coat is not official. Its just fanart.

@Gyro  
Thank you.

@Gyro  
I don’t want the mascot’s nickname to be similar to an annoying toy, as well as it not being a name you’d want to have a sapient avatar to have.
 
I wasn’t even suggesting it being named Astra because of the space theme, but because it’s an actual name.

@Gyro  

 
Quite convincingly, I support it.  
Certainly not because I like Furball more.

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@Gyro  

 
Honestly, it doesn’t matter. The site avatar can have nothing to do with the title of the site, and plenty of sites are fully aware of that. Let me give you a few examples:  
Deviantart -> Fella  
Sheezyart (while it still existed) -> Dante  
Furaffinity -> Fender  
Picarto -> MiMi
 
See? The name of the character and the site name have nothing in common whatsoever. And yet, whenever we see a round robot-like light-green guy, we all know that belongs to Deviantart. Whenever we see en enthusiastic girl with crazy hair color and a light blue sweater, we think “Picarto”.
 
People start connecting mascots with sites because they’re unique, not because one sounds like the other.

@soccy-draws  
Admittedly I couldnt tell you the name of any of those site’s mascots. I only know their look.

@Luna  
boop Cutie :3

I like Furball better, bottom line.

@soccy-draws  
I didn’t even realise FurAffinity’s mascot had a name at all, let alone that they were called Fender. In all honesty, I hear ‘fender’ and I think about the car part.
 
Furball makes me think of a small, cute, fuzzy animal, rather than anything like a hairball or a disparaging name for a Wookiee. Astra just…doesn’t fit. I don’t look at the mascot and think of Astra, and I don’t see the name becoming all that associated with Furbooru.
 
Then again, that probably doesn’t matter all that much, since Astra looks like it’s going to be a pretty convincing win in the end.

Tbh I’ve been holding off on drawing the mascot myself until the result of this survey is in - I might wind up changing how I draw them based on what name gets picked.
 
For instance, if it’s Furball, I might draw them as particularly round and fuzzy, more than I would otherwise. And if it’s Astra, I might make the eye glints kinda star-shaped. That sort of thing.
 
Besides, even if Astra takes it, and even though the mascot’s a fox, I wouldn’t say no to a nickname like “Astra the Furball.” What gender are they? Who cares? They’re a foxy furball!

@Wingbeat  

I kind of like that, to be honest. Seems like the best of both worlds.