Yes, I'm serious. I have no power to make any submissions the Official Fursona or anything; I just think Manifold having a fursona would be really funny. (I say this as a furry.)
Here's how this works:
Create a fursona to represent Manifold. There needs to be some type of visual depiction; it can be via hand-drawn art, pixel art, a Picrew, or so on. The quality of the art does not matter as long as the basic features of the fursona are clear; another artist should be able to replicate them. Note that the art must be created by you - no stealing art from Google, having an AI generate a fursona, or anything like that. Joke submissions are allowed; the design does not have to be serious.
Post the fursona in the comments - name and image are required, description is optional. Doing this guarantees a 50 mana bounty! Note that only one submission per person is allowed.
If I deem your design/description/etc. high quality, I'll award a 100 mana bounty instead.
In the (unlikely?) event that a representative of Manifold chooses a submission - or makes their own - and deems it Manifold's Official Fursona, the creator of that fursona will receive an additional 250 mana bounty.
In the event that a fursona is created by multiple people via collaboration, the bounty will be split evenly (or as evenly as possible) among them.
The bounty is set to 250 to start, because I don't expect many submissions. I will increase it later if I need to.
This is Manny the Crane. He is a purple crane, as the logo of Manifold is a purple origami crane. To represent Manifold's nature as a betting market, he has a crippling gambling addiction. He is poorly drawn to signify the poor life choices that have led to me drawing and submitting this fursona. I hope you like him.
Meet Phoebe!
"Phoebe" means "bright" 🌟
They're named after the Titan from Greek myth, who is associated with the oracle at Delphi 🔮
They love purrediction markets 📈
They wish they could use mana to buy a stuffed Meownifold crane toy to bat around 🐦
They appear only on napkins and similar environs, in keeping with Meownifold's scrappy startup nature 📄
They would be shy about admitting it here because they know you're so over this meme, but they describe themselves as a rationalussy (meaning a pussycat pursuing rational decision-making) 🐱