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It seems like a lot of people are talking about twitter even if mostly negative. I see it in the news and online way more often than before Elon bought it. And we are talking about it now ;)

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nivenkos -16 points 3 years ago

Yeah, this post is like "Ghost of Kiev" levels of nonsense.

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Rottcodd 127 points 3 years ago

Makes sense.

Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he's saved, so while he was still focused on the "X" idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, "Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!"

Thus are decisions made by the world's richest teenage edgelord.

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qrtr 37 points 3 years ago

It's well known that X is the edgiest letter.

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Anticorp 14 points 3 years ago

Pssh, Z is the ultimate ending.

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agitatedpotato 14 points 3 years ago

Im surprised he didnt use two Zs to make his logo.

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PinkPanther 3 points 3 years ago

And the ZZ's will be yellow, so it's easy to spot and be recognisable.

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Anticorp 2 points 3 years ago

Double ultimate! What can get more ultimate than that? Surely nothing.

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Duamerthrax 3 points 3 years ago

I didn't know Slayers X was about Elon Musk.

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WildlyCanadian 6 points 3 years ago

H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔

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5am5ep1ol 8 points 3 years ago

Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!

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philluminati 1 point 3 years ago

E has more

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phx 27 points 3 years ago

Dude doesn't even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he'd pay for fonts or creative work?

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pancakes 17 points 3 years ago

He should just skip a few steps and legally change his name to XxX_MuskyBoi420_XxX

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Gork 5 points 3 years ago

It's not that far off from his son's name, X Æ A-12.

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victron 10 points 3 years ago

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Heastes 11 points 3 years ago

Elon has trauma from being ousted as CEO by the board at x.com (the company that would later become PayPal).

He's living in the past.

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victron 3 points 3 years ago

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sugar_in_your_tea 1 point 3 years ago

Shh, that's for his next venture.

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I_Has_A_Hat -3 points 3 years ago

Let me get this straight; you actually think Elon Musk, himself, combed through images he personally saved, found the X, and personally submitted it as the logo replacement.

Elon Musk. The crazy douche billionaire. You really think he sat at his computer and spent time doing that.

You don't think, maybe, just maybe, a man with more money than God might have gotten someone else to do it? I can see him being out of touch and not caring enough about quality to say "go with that one" without checking where it came from. But I just can't see Musk himself looking through fonts to find an "X" that he likes.

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Rottcodd 2 points 3 years ago

looking through fonts to find an "X" he likes

So... you didn't read the OP.

Yes though - I really do believe that he personally chose it, or more likely already had it in mind.

And then he played some Diablo IV, then jerked off, then played some more Diablo IV.

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Duamerthrax 1 point 3 years ago

Yes. Yes I do.

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spaghettiwestern 116 points 3 years ago

The 𝕏 is also a Unicode character:

http://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/1D54F.html

Somebody was trolling Space Karen when they provided this for a logo. It's not going to be easy to trademark.

Update: Not only is the 𝕏 a Unicode character, a podcast logo, a font character, it also seems to be a Microsoft and/or Meta trademark for online social networking services.

2nd Update: Musk hired a company to remove the Twitter sign from the building in SF but neglected to get a permit. The cops shut the work down.

Space Karen's destroyed the internationally recognized Twitter brand, reduced the value of his $44 billion purchase by at least half, chased advertisers and users away, seriously diminished the value of Telsa and tarnished his own reputation enough that it may never recover. He is now going to either have to back-pedal or be embroiled in years of litigation. Good thing the "genius" doesn't pay his lawyers.

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Gork 16 points 3 years ago

Hmm something tells me that Musk isn't very good at forward thinking.

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SkyNTP 1 point 3 years ago

Looks like some Lemmy apps confuse this link for /u/1

Whoops.

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thepiguy 95 points 3 years ago

Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.

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ThaNook 14 points 3 years ago

yeah it really does. also it makes it funnier how elon has joked with URL "x.com", knowing xorg's website is at x.org

edit: oh, so space Karen really did go forward with the x.com... well this will have funny consequences

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skullgiver 10 points 3 years ago

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ThaNook 8 points 3 years ago

yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!

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deksesuma 5 points 3 years ago

X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.

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Hildegarde 6 points 3 years ago

Is this all because Elon can't afford to renew Twitter's domain name?

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deksesuma 6 points 3 years ago

He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.

Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)

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tuxrandom 70 points 3 years ago

So, if I type a "Y" in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?

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Johem 89 points 3 years ago

Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.

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RoboRay 33 points 3 years ago

You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk's methods.

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SheeEttin 11 points 3 years ago

No, you have to buy someone else's billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.

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everythingsucks 7 points 3 years ago

No. You need the company first.

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RealFknNito 53 points 3 years ago

To be fair, that design is a pretty basic one. Like extremely basic. Sure it's cleaned up and modernized but trying to say it was stolen is a reach. Elon does still have the Midas Touch where everything turns to gold, in which he subsequently murders everything he touches and makes even gold worthless.

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Contend6248 27 points 3 years ago

This is like the discussion about how others were copying Apples corners, they are fucking round corners.

There is only so much you can design about an X, so no matter how they would design it, someone made that. You can find countless issues with Musk, but that's just sad and desperate.

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MrSlicer 8 points 3 years ago

Man I'm stealing that midas touch line. Haha

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FilthyShrooms 5 points 3 years ago

Also the guy says "do whatever you want with it", so not technically stealing

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HughJanus 4 points 3 years ago

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MrPoopyButthole 47 points 3 years ago

As a graphic designer, I knew at a glance that nobody was paid to make that stupid "x".

If a client as big as Twitter asked me for an X logo I'd be so fucking depressed. It would be such a pain to make a proper logo like that without looking exactly like a dozen other ones, because it's hack and has been done to death.

The X everything app is literally some high school composition notebook doodle shit Elon has been clinging to for over 20 years. He's like the dad from the movie Holes that thinks he's a great inventor, but just keeps catching the house on fire and stinking up the place.

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Comment105 0 points 3 years ago

His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.

He has achieved nothing.

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fence_prude 47 points 3 years ago

Looks like the X.Org server logo

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IHeartBadCode 28 points 3 years ago

It's LaTeX mathbb{x}

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oxjox 41 points 3 years ago

I was just thinking about all the websites that have the Facebook logo, the Instagram logo, and the Twitter logo on their pages. That's just supposed to be an X now?

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CYCLR 24 points 3 years ago

Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it's just an unicode character

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ThaNook 4 points 3 years ago

cant wait to have that on my keyboard!

actually that's some nice merch idea

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asexualchangeling 2 points 3 years ago

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Denalduh 6 points 3 years ago

I think you mean 𝕏cape key.

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BrooklynMan 30 points 3 years ago

link to post on mastodon

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li10 29 points 3 years ago

Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.

They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦‍♂️

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HiddenLayer5 28 points 3 years ago

It's in the Unicode set.

𝕏

It's one of the hollow letters used in math.

Basically what I'm saying is math should sue him.

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unagi 27 points 3 years ago

For me it’s just the Jagex logo!

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FlaxPicker 14 points 3 years ago

/c/accidentalRunescape

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victron 1 point 3 years ago

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hemko 0 points 3 years ago

Thought the same

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4am 20 points 3 years ago

Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement

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thejml 7 points 3 years ago

Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.

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Golther 7 points 3 years ago

Isn't x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?

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sharun 2 points 3 years ago

Not really

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src 4 points 3 years ago

It is.

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sugar_in_your_tea 1 point 3 years ago

We have Wayland now, so he can have it. Most major software doesn't even use the cool x.org features anyway.

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Ph0mX 9 points 3 years ago

This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.

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voidhearts 5 points 3 years ago

I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.

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WhoRoger -2 points 3 years ago

Not that I want to defend Elon or anything... But it's an X. The second most simple character in the alphabet. What are you expecting from an X? How much should one pay for one X?

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fugepe -3 points 3 years ago

Who gives a fuck.

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OceanSoap -15 points 3 years ago

Ohhhh, you got him now!! Surely this will make the people turn against him! 🙄

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Tyfud 9 points 3 years ago

I mean, it's less about that and more about just calling out how stupid many of his decisions have been. What's wrong with pointing out stupid shit someone does in full view of the public like this?

Seems pretty fair since Musk is behaving like a douchebag

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xrellx -1 points 3 years ago

Hows he acting like a douchebag?

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klyde 6 points 3 years ago

Found the Musk fanboy lmao.

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OceanSoap -1 points 3 years ago

I'm a lady tho.

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I_Has_A_Hat -23 points 3 years ago

Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.

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onionbaggage 5 points 3 years ago

Yes. I can almost guarantee that's precisely what happened.

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marzipan 2 points 3 years ago

In fact, if there was any rich person I’d label as crazy and obsessive and self centered enough to comb through individual tweets it would be Elon.

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galaxies_collide 4 points 3 years ago

Calm down hun.

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