T-RAX (and the Mascot Battle of 2023)
Most Project for Awesome mascots emerge organically from the activities on stream. In 2023, there were a few things that were running themes, but none that had overtaken the heart of the P4A. During Hank's Saturday afternoon shift, he decided enough was enough, we needed a decision. So he let capitalism decide.
Hank ran a poll on Tiltify to decide the mascot for 2023. The options were Lemon Lips, Hummus, or T-RAX. Lemon Lips came from Hank cronching a lemon and his lips swelling. Hummus came from Hank's new Slack alert sound. T-RAX came from excitement about Hank and John going to RAX. Despite valiant efforts on behalf of Hummus, T-RAX was deemed victorious.
During Drawfee's time hosting, Jacob drew Lemon Lips and they created a new life for Lemon Lips.
Nathan drew T-RAX with no additional knowledge of what that meant. At the end, Karina told him T-RAX wears business attire, so Nathan added a tie.
In their misunderstanding of the various mascots, Jacob drew his version of the Crabulo.us perk.
Despite not knowing that Hank almost included Bean Pickle as a mascot choice, Nathan drew Bean Pickle.
Meanwhile, Karina was drawing her own Lemon Lips, including hummus:
There was an effort to combine T-RAX with the idea of hummus, an idea that was explored by the Gregory Brothers the night before as they improvised a variety of P4A songs. Their song included T-RAX becoming a hummus herbivore.
Hank worked with chat to develop more T-RAX lore. It was determined that T-RAX is definitely a RAX-related theropod. T-RAX lives in a lemon grove, drinks Dr. Pepper, and eats Dr. Pepper baked beans. John suggested that T-RAX roars the word "hummus" and shoots hummus at will (like a fire-breathing dragon, but a hummus-breathing dinosaur).
The "T" in T-RAX could stand for many things. Tyranasaurus, Tuberculosis, and TB were all discussed as possibilities.
T-RAX went to the JWST.
During Brit and Thain's time hosting, they had Chat GPT write a song including T-RAX, puppy-sized elephants, and a pickle full of baked beans. In the song, T-RAX at the pickle.
