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In an alternate reality they might have just called skunks "stink badgers." (kbin.social)
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I'm a little envious of that reality, as stink badger is a solid go to insult that I don't think could ever catch on here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay here are my ideas.

  1. Create a community about stink badgers. Post pictures, facts, memes, and videos everyday until it catches on.
  2. Get someone with a lovely British accent to narrate a video about the wonders of the stink badger. Made the video extremely entertaining so it goes viral. I'm thinking something like the famous honey badger video, but a totally different vibe.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck yes this is happening. ok, brass tacks,
-Do you want to create the magazine or should I?
-Do we pluralize or singular badger?
-Mag title formats (StinkBadger, Stinkbadger, Stink Badger) space/no space, middle caps or no?
-We co-moderate and friendship always comes before the stink badger agenda

Thoughts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can create it and we co-moderate.
I'm thinking plural, one word, and either all lowercase or just the first letter capital. stinkbadgers or Stinkbadgers
Friendship always comes before the stink badger agenda.

I will begin collecting and producing stink badger content immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did neither of us or anyone in the thread wiki this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stink_badger

I also found out American skunks are also known as polecats.

Whats our next move? I mean we still have to popularize it, but now is it a campaign to discredit the american skunk or to say that the Javan varieties are fake news badger imposters? Should we just ditch that and do a "badger is best" campaign?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
"Mephitidae is a family of mammals comprising the skunks and stink badgers. " I propose our goal is broadening the name stink badgers to include the entire family Mephitidae and we can still proceed as planned.