Comment by redwall_hp

Whole countries of comparable size to the US happily put similar mascots all over their products, and pay other companies big money to use their characters. They're all over busses and billboards. The Korean ramen brand I buy has Kpop Demon Hunters on it now. (And Buldak usually has their little chicken dude.) Casio and Fender have expensive products with Hatsune Miku on them...which has been used in ad campaigns by petroleum and rail companies in Japan.

American corporate culture is dehumanizing and dystopian, not a standard for professionalism.