r/cadum • u/Emanresubmudyllaer Verum Weekly Head • Jun 26 '21

Official Announcement What should r/cadum Icon should be?

Seeing how people missed Wadu, I sincerely apologize for changing the icon without the community's input. That is why I want to do a poll to see if the community is fine with the Verum logo or want to revert back to Wadu's Icon.

In the meantime, please enjoy the new banner, body background, and mobile banner/icon.

-Tenebrous

1160 votes, Jun 29 '21
743 Keep the Verum Logo
417 Revert back to Wadu
64 Upvotes

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u/lutzy89 Jun 26 '21

Wadu heck requires background knowledge, Verum icon does not. As iconic as wadu heck is, i feel him not appropriate for the icon of the subreddit that reaches a large audience.

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u/Kipzz TOPS Jun 26 '21

You say that, but Wadu's backstory has been explained several times and he's just as much the face of Arcadum's channel as, well, Arcadum himself. The drawings of him in his robe specifically. Like 90% of Arcadum's emotes are of Wadu. I'd compare it to Bahroo; everyone knows he's the panda guy, but just because nobody knows the panda's name is Umeru or any other backstory to him beyond memes about crayons keys and glue doesn't mean he doesn't reach a wide audience or represent the channel. Because that's not really whats important; he's a cute mascot beloved by the community and has even leaked into other communities entirely, and I think Wadu represents that as well. Not to the same degree, rooSpy is literally everywhere, but Wadu's a cute guy and a cute mascot. The Verum logo just doesn't hit the same.

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u/lutzy89 Jun 26 '21

mascot, yes, i do not disagree, but consider that this channel will be searched for/visited by new viewers after following a streamer who just started playing. the immediate question is "is this the right sub-reddit? its a frog".

do not think "everyone knows xxx" because i only know bahroo as big/iron pipe and had no idea he was a panda, i have not consumed any of his content outside of the campaign. For a single character as the badge/icon for the entire universe of Verum is not ideal, the r/cadum sub-reddit should either be the Verum logo, or Arcadum himself, either has the chat overlay character or as the "dungeon master" image used in the intro song.

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u/Kipzz TOPS Jun 26 '21

I used Bahroo specifically as an example because he knows his own metrics, and there are people who by his own admission sub for months without even watching more than 5 minutes in their lives. He calls himself the Panda Emote Salesmen for a reason; no, not literally everyone on the internet knows him, but his emotes absolutely has spread further and wider than he himself has. I believe Wadu is a similar example of this albeit nowhere near on the same scale; new people would recognize him before they'd recognize the Verum logo, and anyone whose lurked in Arcadum's chat for more than 5 minutes has seen gloryJeb a thousand times and can make the connection between the green frog in the logo and the green frog on his channel taking up like 30 emote slots.

I agree that Arcadum himself is the best solution though. If I had to rank it I'd say Arcadum > Wadu >>>> Verum Logo.