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Edit: As @bdonvr@thelemmy.club points out below

  1. This is just a mascot and is not a new logo
  2. The blog referencing Mozilla’s statement on the mascots gender says, (he/she/they/them/it), use whatever pronoun you prefer.
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[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

Are telling me they fired the previous mascot to hire a gender minority? Smh

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

The old one was also non-binary. Prove me wrong.

(Honestly, I just don't care. Load the web page and render some JavaScript already)

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

If you've found a non-binary one then I'd love to see what you're running it on.

[-] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

does this mean nonbinary ~~people~~ foxes/red pandas have fire bending?

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

Clearly it must be made from ascii art and just zoomed way back.

[-] kshade@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

It's a fox. I like the fox.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 hours ago

Waterfox needs to catch up with a gender-fluid fox

[-] anugeshtu@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

Wait, there is a Waterfox? Is there also an Earth and Air fox? Then we could have an AvatarFox!

[-] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 3 hours ago

Librewolf also needs to come up with something.

[-] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'll switch to whatever browser that has a postgender mascot

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Gender-free wolf

@green_copper @ShinkanTrain @cannedtuna Librewolf needs to cut to the chase and adopt a furry mascot.

VLUU L100, M100 / Samsung L100, M100

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 hours ago

What if.... hear me out.... what if we remove the focus on gender altogether? What if we stop engendering things that don't have genders? Like logos... and behavioral attributes...

[-] axx@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

It's a mascot, not a logo. So it having a gender isn't strange.

Also, since its pronouns are (quoting the announcement blog post) "he/him, they/them, she/her, and it" that is very open and not rather post-gender, in my opinion. The focus in the announcement is not on thee mascot's gender in fact.

[-] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

Since Mozilla actually didn’t and the post is based on a lie, I’ll say congratulations, your reaction is almost certainly what they were hoping for

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You don't think people childishly over-anthropomorphize a lot these days? Cause I do, and that's what my comment was about.

[-] ksh@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Any and all other identities as well. It’s a never ending ad nauseam non evidence based, non measurable and inconclusive debate.

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Like we're in The Beasts' castle. Sometimes a candleholder is just a candleholder.

[-] bdonvr 56 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

By the way this is NOT a new Firefox logo. It's just the fox mascot drawing that may be used in other parts of the UI like the welcome screen after a new install, or on social media.

The actual logo remains unchanged.

On top of that nowhere in the announcement are the supposed pronouns mentioned: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/

Actually the whole thing may be bullshit. Literally the only Mozilla reference I can find to Kit's pronouns is a statement given to like one or two blogs, and it says that any pronoun is acceptable.

Kit (he/she/they/them/it) is the user’s constant companion. Wherever they choose to roam, Kit will accompany and guide them with clever, playful encouragement and support — giving the user the confidence to run free.

That's attributed to Mozilla here: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-has-killed-its-old-mascot-heres-what-the-new-cute-one-looks-like/

All other references seem to be chuds on X claiming that it's explicitly they/them and acting like Mozilla is making a big deal about that. As if it matters either way.

If you had some kind of reaction to this post you've fallen for culture war bullshit propaganda, congratulations.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

Solid sleuthing there. Edited the post to include your context.

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[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 148 points 9 hours ago

The gender orientation of the firefox logo is something I haven't thought about ever.

What's the point of this?

[-] bdonvr 30 points 7 hours ago

The point is that you've fallen for some idiots on X making up culture war bullshit.

Kit's supposed pronouns aren't mentioned by Mozilla anywhere in any Mozilla announcements.

One news site attributes this quote to Mozilla

Kit (he/she/they/them/it) is the user’s constant companion. Wherever they choose to roam, Kit will accompany and guide them with clever, playful encouragement and support — giving the user the confidence to run free.

That's the one and only place that even remotely mentions it as far as I can tell. And it's not even a statement that it's NB or they/them... More like it's a fictional mascot call it what you want.

[-] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I just read the screenshot lol

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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

It's a distraction from the real important issue, which is...

...what does the fox say? /j

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago
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[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

A nuclear bomb just hir the furry community

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 6 hours ago

Because it was what before? Why do we care about the gender identity of the fox mascot of a web browser?

Don’t answer, please

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

The joke is that computers use binary.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

This story is made up by right-wing trolls.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Iso-linear.

[-] normonator@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 hours ago

That's stupid, it was genderless before until they brought it up.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Mozilla didn't bring it up. The story is made up by right-wing trolls.

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