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In case you didn't already know, X Corp. is Musk's new company, which is now the parent company of Twitter or something.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

It's funny because they're both obsolete.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

X Corp sounds like the name of a company an evil villain would make in a movie

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Using the Enron logo is pretty apt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the top 1% of the 1%

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Musk would take that as a compliment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Musk probably sits around with his eyes slitted, doing the fist-pulling gesture of Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Well, there’s only so many ways you can make an X and keep it recognizable as an X. Elon could never have predicted that. It’s not like Twitter already had a unique, widely recognized, well designed logo or anything.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I figured that he would have gone with .com

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. Hate Musk, deleted Twitter when I heard he was potentially buying it, but there's really no original logos left.

I can't remember the name, but there's a HUGE book of logos, which shows the original date that logo was made, and you can pretty much find every single brand logo in that book. Every single brand is basically an unintentional copy of a logo that has already existed in 1800-1900s.

There is also a clear difference in the logos above. Really, how many different ways can you do an X?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what happens when we prioritize simple designs in order to get quick recognition in any format

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As musk said, they were "blowtorching off all the birds at Twitter HQ." As with every decision he's made, he has chosen to avoid critical thinking and trusting experts, and going with his techbro gut, demonstrating again just how far off the mark he is when it comes to running a multi-billion dollar business.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

@XOrgFoundation what are your thoughts on X corp using the X11 logo?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You think an obsolete open source project has the money to take on a multi billion dollar corporation?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Next they are going to replace the birds with a rip-off of the Apache Tomcat logo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i do and i replaced the pixmaps of xbill last night https://mastodon.social/@zwangseinweisung/110765780763123859

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's not that similar

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