List of board-tans

Below is a list of board-tans belonging to various boards of members of the United Chans.

Rodina

Rodina GETović

The official board-tan of /GET/, replacing the previous unofficial mascot, Cirno.

Board /GET/ Creator Druže Created 20 May 2015 Age 10 Ancestry Half Yugoslav, half Soviet Ideology None (official) Titoism (unofficial)

Lorem Ipsum је једноставно модел текста који се користи у штампарској и словослагачкој индустрији. Lorem ipsum је био стандард за модел текста још од 1500. године, када је непознати штампар узео кутију са словима и сложио их како би направио узорак књиге. Не само што је овај модел опстао пет векова, него је чак почео да се користи и у електронским медијима, непроменивши се. Популаризован је шездесетих година двадесетог века заједно са листовима летерсета који су садржали Lorem Ipsum пасусе, а данас са софтверским пакетом за прелом као што је Aldus PageMaker који је садржао Lorem Ipsum верзије.

Domovina Controversy

The controversy surrounding Rodina's name stems from the creation of the Political Ideology Cat Girls (PICG) comic by Catgirl Drawgirl. PICG reimagines various political ideologies as catgirls (such as lenincat, anprimcat, etc.) and both Alunya and Rodina were included with redesigns as well. Alunya was mostly kept the same, with only minor deviations from her design, but Rodina was much more dramatically changed. She was aged up significantly, turned into a catgirl, her outfit was almost completely changed, and her personality was shifted drastically.

Seeing Rodina's design changed so drastically without asking the original board or even creator for permission to do so created quite a bit of tension. Tensions only increased when readers of the comic began to try to pressure /GET/ to change the name of the original Rodina to "Domovina", one of her working names before "Rodina" was decided on. The community refused to do so, and when rumours started going around that Rodina's creator, Druže, had sanctioned the name change, he stepped in to tell them to piss off. The redesigned Rodina eventually fell out of use after PICG ended and the original design remains the far more popular one, especially on /GET/, to this day.

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Tania

Tania Banderas

The official board-tan of /ref/, replacing the previous unofficial mascot, Moe Lenin.

Board /ref/ Creator Comrade King Created 24 May 2015 Ancestry "Somewhere in Latin America" Ideology None (official) Foco Theory (unofficial) Marxism-Leninism (unofficial)

Tania es simplemente el texto de relleno de las imprentas y archivos de texto. Lorem Ipsum ha sido el texto de relleno estándar de las industrias desde el año 1500, cuando un impresor (N. del T. persona que se dedica a la imprenta) desconocido usó una galería de textos y los mezcló de tal manera que logró hacer un libro de textos especimen. No sólo sobrevivió 500 años, sino que tambien ingresó como texto de relleno en documentos electrónicos, quedando esencialmente igual al original. Fue popularizado en los 60s con la creación de las hojas "Letraset", las cuales contenian pasajes de Lorem Ipsum, y más recientemente con software de autoedición, como por ejemplo Aldus PageMaker, el cual incluye versiones de Lorem Ipsum.

Alunya

(Cat) Alunya

The official board-tan of /leftypol/ since 2015.

Board /leftypol/ Creator Comrade King Created 9 May 2015 Ancestry None (official) Catalan (unofficial) American (unofficial) Ideology None (official) Anarcho-communist (unofficial) Marxist (unofficial)

Alunya was created on the 9th of May in 2015, when creating assets for the board. Someone suggested creating a board-tan as they were at the peak of their popularity at the time, and a catgirl design was decided upon as a reference to the sabo-cat, a symbol of the Industrial Workers of the World union. The name "Alunya" was chosen to reference the Catalan spelling of Catalonia, Catalunya, to play off of the pun of her being a cat. In reference to the name, she was also dressed in a Spanish Republican uniform in the early drafts of her creation. Eventually her black and red outfit was decided upon as her first official design, with a redesign later introducing a hat and changes to her clothing. Both designs remain in common use. The original drawings of Alunya were drawn by Comrade King, admin/co-founder of GETchan, backed up by mod testimony. Some also argue that the thread was possibly started by him, however no proof had been presented as of yet.

Ideology

A big contention in the community is the ideology Alunya represents, or for some, lack thereof. Some anarchists claim that she represents anarcho-communism, as she's named after Catalonia, which was the main site of the Anarchist revolution in the Spanish Civil War, and also point out that her colour scheme of red and black and her bisected red-black bandanna are shared by ancoms. However, most others agree she represents general leftism/socialism to represent the entirety of the board, which doesn't have an official ideology besides being generally left-wing. In this interpretation, the black is supposed to represent anarchism and the red is supposed to represent Marxism, commonly portrayed as the "unity of black and red".

Additionally, the red-black colour scheme and even bisected bandanna are used by many Marxist movements as well, especially those outside of Western countries. Latin American and African guerrillas like the 26th of July Movement, Sandinistas, and MPLA have been known to use them often. Others also note that not everything relating to Catalonia must be anarchist, and that Alunya is frequently depicted with the hammer and sickle, a symbol mainly associated with Marxists, and was originally drawn doing the pose of Lenin on the Rostrum and Enver Hoxha's raised fist. Comrade King also claims that he didn't have an ideology in mind when creating Alunya, and that he simply followed the suggestions of the userbase to try and create a non-sectarian board-tan.

Tsuki

Tsuki

The official board-tan of /luna/, replacing the previous unofficial mascot, Luna.

Board /luna/ Creator Comrade King Created 5 July 2017 Ancestry Lunarian

Tsuki was created in 2017 by Comrade King with the input of /luna/'s users to serve as the board's new board-tan and replace Luna, a character who had been used as an unofficial mascot of the chan for six years at that point. Unlike other board-tans, Tsuki's character was never fleshed out much due to the stagnation on /luna/ at the time and its eventual shutdown a year later. As such, very little art of Tsuki exists and her character was never built upon much.