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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.

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[–] ThaNook@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] ThaNook@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] deksesuma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] deksesuma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)