THAT'S AMAZING HAHA. I was in illustration too when i was in school but it's years after he graduated so i never get to hear stuff like this.

Lmao yeah spelling is my weakness

Proudly graduated this summer. Fresh out of the school with stories from the past 4 years.

Yeah, “Scotie” is the mascot of the Supreme Court (coincidentally, it’s also a ballsack)

Fun second-hand story about the airbnb guy, from someone I know who was in classes with him as an illustration major at RISD. Apparently he was really into body building, and was basically the only student at RISD who used the school’s weight gym. He would bring his protein shaker thing to every class, and regardless of the assignment, would turn in photorealistic drawings of bodybuilder dudes, to the professors’ confusion. Don’t know if it’s true, but I hope it is.

Who proofreads these days

I’d check your writing on being able to spell Scrotie’s name correctly if you care so much about his existence.

>RISD have often been ranked as top fine art programs in the nation, but not everyone is into institutional elitism and many of us just wanna be a dick.

OP, are you a current student?

That's just wholesome

The guy that designed the first Scrotie costume is the most chill, wholesome person to ever graduate RISD. He does children's puppet shows now. Very funny.

"Prestigious"

Ah here we go again. RISD's "prestige" is extremely limited to specific ideological ideas. The world is much bigger than western fine art history and philosophies. The school was built by textile factory owners and their wives to produce more patterns and designs for textiles. RISD was prestige in the way that it was an early adaptor of bauhaus teaching model, and good riddance that was a century ago. These days RISD is often sheltered and unaware of the discourse in the contemporary fine art world. The school is running on the sweats of forward thinking staff, students, and reputation of creatively successful alumni to stay relevant.

Support Scrotie and help him stick it out longer!!

RISD is a prestigious school. Why would they listen to the students who support a mascot like this? It reflects poorly on the school.

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I read the email announcement and thought it was straight satire at first

The point is school doesn't listen or acknowledge student opinions very well. If they can't even let us keep the dick and balls do you think they ever listened to us about bigger issues? Lol

Yea having a dick for a mascot is going to solve wealth inequality!

Can never go wrong with Sin

YEA

Go Nads!

Of course I can't speak for everybody. It's the same as how ID majors and wealthy international students who have no regards to the nearby communities are fully representative of the school. You can nitpick however you want, but different student bodies have their own opinions and pro-Scrotie fellas are more vocal right now.

>the current students and alumni are not happy about it.

Are you speaking for all of them?

Personally, I'm with RISD on this. It's not creative and it's vulgar.

yeah, sure. why not? a nice walk, pretty.

Cum to Scrotie’s rescue 💀💀💀

It's not much about getting something new. The most important part is that nobody was asked about getting a new mascot, and the current students and alumni are not happy about it. Students interests and representation are usually neglected even though we're their cash cows. My school is just ashamed and unsupported of their students, unless they became the ceo of airbnb or is working at Google. Subtle shitshow I tell you.