So, we’ve been joking for ages about putting ‘branded’ hackergotchi icons up
on Planet GNOME, for a day’s irony-riddled prank value. However, I get the
impression that this new I am “campaign” was borne more of a sugary
sweetness-like-corn-syrup
than gonzo-style sweetness-and-light…

The above link has a very U.S. oriented analysis of corn syrup, by
the way. The rest of the world mostly uses real sugar. The corn subsidies
are a huge problem for the U.S., another corporate-interest travesty.