What is with this guy and his hardon for adding “X” to everything? He’s like a teenager that thinks that adding flame decals to anything makes them “cooler”.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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It's halfway to a swastika.
The x stands for xtremely shitty.
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I’m so glad we got this instead of solving global warming
Well Elon can hardly masturbate to being on global warming all day, can he?! /s
It is entirely possible that he just wrecks companies for fun.
This is just what billionaires do nowadays.
What other companies has he wrecked?
Or on purpose, in this case.
Rebranding at this level sounds very much like purposeful destruction of an existing resource and company, rather than an attempt to make the company any better, successful, or more profitable.
I'm starting to wonder if the Saudis have told him they'll reimburse any of his personal losses from his stock buy, in return for sinking and destroying the company.
It just seems like the Musk buy, once it happened, has been too effective a means of destroying a platform that was previously used extensively by protestors and activists to organise mass group activity against governments and authorities.
It would certainly be my answer now to those regular Reddit questions like "what's the one conspiracy theory you actually believe is true?"
Pay $44 billion for a well known and popular company, ditch the name and the logo for something totally new and unknown.
So smart.
It’s beyond our thinking. Minimum above 300 IQ needed to understand this.
Getting rid of the last remaining identifiable part of the company. Genius move.
Actually if he uses a color besides blue/purple it'll make Twitter stand out from the crowd.
I mean... it's not going to go well with Elon at the helm, but it's too early to hate on a rebrand just yet.
it’s too early to hate on a rebrand just yet
There was no reason to rebrand when he bought Twitter. Why the hell would someone rebrand an internationally recognized logo? Especially one that was pretty well regarded just a year ago (at least for a social media site).
I've been using a moniker containing two Xs for over two decades. Speaking on behalf of my early-20s self, how fucking edgy do you believe yourself to be as one of the world's richest persons embracing a single letter as the epitome of logos to represent your umbrella corporation? Hire a branding team, you pathetically dull gen-x neckbeard edgelord manchild.
Seriously, the '90s called a they want their X back.
He doesn't need a branding team, he's too smart for that. That's why he is also sourcing a logo from the Twitter community. Because ~~billionaires~~ geniuses don't pay for anything.
That man's got no god damn sense.
A ditch would make a much better logo, indeed.
watching the flames reach new heights on this continually evolving dumpster fire keeps me warm at night
I choose to believe he's just doing this for memes at this point. I can't accept humans are capable of these depths through inadvertent action, it's just too dumb.
He is completely insane
I think we are in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of mental illness, and even the wealthiest and most powerful are not immune.
I’m here for it…
Do we need to stop calling them tweets then?
The new word will be 'twats', after it's owner
Call it a twix?
How do I ‘get lucky’ too with becoming a billionaire like Elon randomly did??????????????????????????????????????????????
Thing is, he didn't just randomly get lucky. He put in a huge amount of work and actually had a lot of good ideas. People love to hate Elon Musk, and when you hate someone you're loathe to admit to any positives about him, but he actually is smart in certain fields. It's not sheer coincidence that most of the companies he bought or started before this Twitter debacle grew immensely and made great advances. You can say that's because he "hired the right people," but that itself is a skill - knowing who to hire and what resources and projects to give them.
Unfortunately, I think Musk has been so successful for so long that he's become convinced he's good at everything. And as we're seeing now, he seems to have found something he's really not good at. He's new at running a social media company and this is the first time he's bought a really big pre-established company with a different culture than he's used to and there's clearly some trouble there. But I guess time will tell just what happens to Twitter in the long run.
I respect your opinion, but I just don’t think he’s that smart..
I'm fairly certain anyone with enough startup capital, heck even just a safety net, can make it big. The issue is most people don't have either.
Millionaires are actually pretty common.
Might be better for technology. But I see it's already posted there 🤷
It’s almost like he’s intentionally trying to tank this company. What would be the benefit for him? A massive tax write-off?
Duck Dodgers should sue.
So, umm, ex-birdsite
This.. Is an ex.... Parrot.
This will make the last people go away that had stayed. Total waste of money now.