Below is a list of board-tans belonging to various boards of members of the United Chans.
Rodina
Comrade King on the creation of Rodina -
"Close, her outfit is based on the GETchan Young Pioneers outfit that was given out in 2014 that was a mixture of a seifuku and a pioneer uniform. Her character design is based on my first co-admin Steven and how it was a recurring joke that he was so malnourished that he looked like he was 10 despite being a grown-ass man. he was Swedish, so he had blonde hair and blue eyes. Then of course the concept was turned into a cute anime girl, as the internet does. Her background story, along with everything else, was created by Druže (who's probably dead by now), stating that she's half Yugoslav, half Soviet, and lives in Sarajevo. She was originally conceptualised to be full Yugoslav and use the name "Domovina", but that was ruled out later and she was given the name "Rodina" along with a half-Soviet background to justify the name. I believe the name was changed to have the same number of letters and syllables as Alunya's name, since she has been created on 'leftypol' not long prior and it was already being planned to have crossover art with the two as Alunya had actually appeared beside Cirno before"
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.
Gallery
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Tania
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Tania Banderas | ||||||||||
  The official board-tan of /ref/, replacing the previous unofficial mascot, Moe Lenin. | ||||||||||
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A statement on creation of Tania by PB -
"As far as I remember, one day in old ref someone (Druze I believe), came in asking about designing an original mascot for /ref/, at the time we had cute lenin and somewhat BPGoD but a new fresh -tan was better to include for the new ones that were being created in comrade sites (Alunya and Rodina came to be around that same time) So most ideas that started being shot out about the design revolved round those two. Later on after we came up of the name (the name being what it is because flags lol), it was decided she was gonna be undisclosed latin american sort of backpacker/guerilla with maps and flags and all sorts of stuff in the backpack, and so her final appearance came to be. But before that, old /ref/ had its final BPGoD appearance and this time it never returned. I believe somewhere along the way someone suggested adding the pava (the hat, typical puerto rican hat), but I don't really know the reason why, but it was possibly because I was probably the last OG /ref/ugee (Aside from King who used to visit too). That's about all I can recall."
Gallery
.png "Tania character sheet (hat).png (1.45 MB)")
.png "Tania character sheet (ponytail).png (1.11 MB)")
Alunya
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(Cat) Alunya | ||||||||||
  The official board-tan of /leftypol/ since 2015. | ||||||||||
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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.
Gallery
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Tsuki
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Tsuki | ||||||||
  The official board-tan of /luna/, replacing the previous unofficial mascot, Luna. | ||||||||
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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. Additionally, her creation was meant to try and spark more interest among the users on the board in hopes to generate more traffic to counter the then-ongoing Era of Stagnation. 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 as much as the others. Regardless, she was always depicted as an outgoing girl with a bubbly personality.
Unofficial Mascots
Cirno
The unofficial mascot of /GET/ before the creation of Rodina. Origins come from the Touhou series. Chosen because she is heavily associated with GETs through her iconic use of the number 9. So naturally, /GET/ took her in as their defacto mascot. Also is a baka.
Moe Lenin
The unofficial mascot of /ref/ before the creation of Tania. Origins were from a manga depicting dictators as cute anime characters. Was made their mascot simply to represent them in propaganda pieces, but hardly any use from there. Old user known as Lenin may have played a role, but this is mere speculation
Luna
The unofficial mascot of /luna/ before creation of Tsuki. Origins come from the My Little Pony series. Due to the name of the board being named after the pony, it was only fitting the mascot would be Luna.