Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast
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.
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.
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:
people who know how to input unicode characters
people who want to talk about twitter
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.
Dude doesn't even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he'd pay for fonts or creative work?
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.
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.
looking through fonts to find an "X" he likes
So... you didn't read the OP.
Yes though - I really do believe that he personally chose it, or more likely already had it in mind.
And then he played some Diablo IV, then jerked off, then played some more Diablo IV.
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.
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
X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.
He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.
Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)
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.
You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk's methods.
No, you have to buy someone else's billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.
To be fair, that design is a pretty basic one. Like extremely basic. Sure it's cleaned up and modernized but trying to say it was stolen is a reach. Elon does still have the Midas Touch where everything turns to gold, in which he subsequently murders everything he touches and makes even gold worthless.
This is like the discussion about how others were copying Apples corners, they are fucking round corners.
There is only so much you can design about an X, so no matter how they would design it, someone made that. You can find countless issues with Musk, but that's just sad and desperate.
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.
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?
Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.
They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦♂️
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.
We have Wayland now, so he can have it. Most major software doesn't even use the cool x.org features anyway.
This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.
I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.
Not that I want to defend Elon or anything... But it's an X. The second most simple character in the alphabet. What are you expecting from an X? How much should one pay for one X?
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
In fact, if there was any rich person I’d label as crazy and obsessive and self centered enough to comb through individual tweets it would be Elon.