With all due respect to its original designer, Yiying Lu, I saw a suggestion from Steve Rubel today on Friendfeed about the idea of celebrating success rather than failure. He said “Can we please swap out FAIL for SUCCEED?” to which bostondave said "Would that be a Success Whale" - so I decided to make what I thought the Success Whale might look like. Made with the GIMP and Inkscape, and a heck of a lot of fun.
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gerikson 59 months ago | reply
Epic succeed
groonk 59 months ago | reply
that's right! Fight those birds! fly upwards sea faring large mammal!
lisamariemary 59 months ago | reply
Definitely a great way to express Twitter success - especially today through all the earthquake postings!
lemasney 59 months ago | reply
Thanks for all the kind words! Maybe this figure should be named prevail-whale. ;)
Liz Henry 59 months ago | reply
Prevail Whale! Cute!
RobertBasil 59 months ago | reply
Of course Twitter was down for 50 minutes already today according to pingdom. Hold back on the "prevail-whale" for a while longer.
www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/month/?name=twitter....
kmakice 59 months ago | reply
Made my day. The Fail Whale has always been a cuddly sign of bad times, so it is great to see the birds get towed for a change.
xice_bearx 59 months ago | reply
I'd go with WinWhale personally.
Bill Humphries 59 months ago | reply
Yes! I'm tired of the Nelson (Ha, ha!) attitude of the internet these days.
helenekremer 59 months ago | reply
i'm still interested in finding some Fail Whale Pale Ale ;-)
lemasney 59 months ago | reply
@ilovecountrylife94583 Maybe whenever I get around to doing some homebrewing, I'll make a batch of Imperial Prevail-Whale India Pale Ale
Anika Malone 59 months ago | reply
nice!
tlimongello 59 months ago | reply
This made me smile today.
daphned2001 59 months ago | reply
I love that whale!
SeanI.am 59 months ago | reply
Rock On! I will tip my pint of prevail whale pale ale to you tonight at the FAILparty!
PatrickByers [deleted] 59 months ago | reply
How about Sail Whale?
Also like Win Whale, too.
QuirkyVegan 59 months ago | reply
All hail the prevail whale!
steverubel 59 months ago | reply
I like prevail whale!
Blakes Designs 59 months ago | reply
Nice. Gotta love Inkscape.
lemasney 59 months ago | reply
open-source-design-tools++