Shorty Awards Art by Yiying Lu Featuring Felicia Day & Shorty Whale

Felicia Day & Yiying Lu with her Felicia Day Shorty Awards Artwork

Last night at the 5th annual The Shorty Awards in New York City, Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu presented Felicia Day with wonderful custom artwork featuring Felicia as the host of this year’s awards ceremony.

Yiying also created a special Shorty Whale for this year’s event, a follow-up to her 2002 design “Lifting A Dreamer” which ended up being used by Twitter as their now famous “Fail Whale”.

Back in 2010 Yiying created a “Pale Whale” to celebrate the premiere of Conan.

photo by Scott Beale

Scott Beale
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Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.