@GodsMillions there was a reply about an illiterate whales effecting the legitimacy of the project.

@Flock yeah so I'm saying that we have rich whales with lots of MM but who may not have any branding sense, who could have designed the logo themselves, or who don't like TL's project (at the time there was a lot of disapproval from LionChat etc) and then vote for something weird. So the point was for the whole community, with commentary from people who understand branding, to narrow down the top few designs before doing an actual governance vote so that there were fewer options (more would have split the vote) and so that any of the chosen options would be seen as being accepted by a good majority of the community. Having 10 whales win a vote to keep the current stock logo would be branding-illiteracy - keeping the logo was never an option - so it's not in the governance vote.