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The biggest fuck you to Musk π
I particularly enjoy that they repeat it 5 times in their blog post, because they really did not feel like readers would know which "X" they're referring to.
Because Twitter as a brand had a godly status in terms of name recognition.
I mean, yeah, but also "X" has no name recognition at all. As in, you don't even recognize that it is a name.
If the guy would have called it "Musk's Nazi Paradise", then you would have only had to explain once in the text, that it used to be called "Twitter".
"X", on the other hand, could be the figure of speech for an undetermined quantity or just a typo.
And the truly sad part is, after all this time, this is still true.
Nah. The bigger fuck you is still calling it twitter with no acknowledgement of the name change.
An even bigger one would be calling it a centralised Mastodon alternative π
It reminds me of when Prince changed his name to an illegible symbol and everyone said, "Haha, no." and started calling him "The artist formerly known as Prince" because a whole sentence was easier.
He only did that because Warner Bros argued that they owned the Prince trademark, despite it being his actual name, and wouldn't let him use it outside of a contract with them.
Him changing his artist name was basically a big 'fuck you' to them, and TAFKAP being in common usage was an even bigger one.
Wow I didnβt know that.