MTV's token space cadet just scored an identity revamp — and gender didn't make the cut. In a recent interview with the New York Times, MTV President Chris McCarthy said the network's iconic Moonman trophy has been discontinued. From now on, the metallic figurine — whose impenetrably opaque helmet has become the unofficial "face" of MTV's Video Music Awards — will go by "Moon Person" instead. The network eliminated gender-specific categories at its MTV Movie & TV Awards earlier this year, where all nominees were placed in neutral categories (i.e. McCarthy also announced a new MTV reality series — still in development —called "We Are They" about a group of gender-nonconforming young adults coming of age.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 31, 2017 18:35 UTC