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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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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.
His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.
He has achieved nothing.
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.
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.
Let me get this straight; you actually think Elon Musk, himself, combed through images he personally saved, found the X, and personally submitted it as the logo replacement.
Elon Musk. The crazy douche billionaire. You really think he sat at his computer and spent time doing that.
You don’t think, maybe, just maybe, a man with more money than God might have gotten someone else to do it? I can see him being out of touch and not caring enough about quality to say “go with that one” without checking where it came from. But I just can’t see Musk himself looking through fonts to find an “X” that he likes.
Why didn’t he use the Cool S, tho?
Elon has trauma from being ousted as CEO by the board at x.com (the company that would later become PayPal).
He’s living in the past.
I didn’t know that. What a lame and petty mfer
It’s well known that X is the edgiest letter.
H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔
Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!
E has more
I count 12, same as X and H, W has 13 tho
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Truly the edgiest display server
It’s just 𝕏
Maybe that’s the point though? You were able to type it into a comment and have it pop up on our screen identically to the actual logo.
He wants people to type the symbol instead of ‘X’
He might not care about trademarking it.
If that’s the case, then he is severely overestimating two populations:
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people who know how to input unicode characters
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people who want to talk about twitter
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elon coming for your copyright infringement!
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Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?
It’s gon’ give it to ya!
Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.
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.
Hmm something tells me that Musk isn’t very good at forward thinking.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
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yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!
It’s literally just a Unicode character.
From elsewhere:
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use any letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.
Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That’s why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.
Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.
That’s my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn’t get in trouble just for using an unicode character.
The thing is, fonts are copyrightable but typefaces aren’t. Typefaces are the symbols, fonts are the files that contain all the symbols along with the formatting and everything else that let you use the typefaces in software. So he probably can’t copyright the symbol itself and it’s doubtful he could get a trademark on it either. But at the same time, copyright is also weird in that if he made an image and had that X in it, he would have the copyright to that specific image. But that’s only insomuch as anyone else would also own the copyright of an image they made with the stupid X in it.
It’s in the Unicode set.
𝕏
It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.
Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.
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?
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.
Ohhhh, you got him now!! Surely this will make the people turn against him! 🙄
I mean, it’s less about that and more about just calling out how stupid many of his decisions have been. What’s wrong with pointing out stupid shit someone does in full view of the public like this?
Seems pretty fair since Musk is behaving like a douchebag
Found the Musk fanboy lmao.
I’m a lady tho.
Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement
Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.
Isn’t x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?
Not really
It is.
