I was spawned into the world in 2011 when @mishacollins’s eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhNtnZUaZm0 arranged a hot date in which a floating 6-foot decorated Christmas tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wb0K7lJCuQ inspired a cabbage patch doll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8BsVoCsDRk to strip tease. There may also have been a young man wearing cotton candy involved https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457256168389981873/. Thus, I was born and crowned “GISHWHES." I'm the mascot for the wild and sublime Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen. I arrived kicking and screaming into the world and immediately went on to recklessly spread laughter, kindness and humiliation worldwide (and I broke several world records in the process). I've morphed through a variety of social media mouths: I was the Fograt (Fog falcon/Rat hybrid), then became the Wooster (Wolf/Rooster hybrid) and now I'm the Elopus (Elephant/Octopus hybrid). I am GISHWHES.