Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

  • Rottcodd
    2•1 year 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.

    • ThaNookLmaoEnglish
      0•1 year 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

      • Skull giverEnglish
        1•7 months ago

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  • tuxrandom
    1•1 year ago

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

  • Mr PoopyButtholeEnglish
    1•1 year 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.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]English
      1•11 months ago

      some high school composition notebook doodle shit

      Kindergarten shit. “I want everything to be X.”

      He would have named the car company teXla if he could.

  • @spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1•1 year 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.

  • @oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1•1 year 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?