Unless you’ve been living under a rock and avoiding the internet entirely (and really who could blame you in an election year) you’ll have seen the controversy about Kiwibank’s new mascot.

The problem isn’t the mascot itself – a cute little sheep named Buck.

And the problem really isn’t even that a lot of people decided, whether seriously or in fun, that they liked Buck just a little too much.

To read the article on the Newsroom website, click here.