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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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[–] SpaceNoodle 243 points 1 year ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

elon coming for your copyright infringement!

[–] TheOhNoNotAgain 15 points 1 year ago

Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?

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[–] Joemc72 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s gon’ give it to ya!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago
[–] AlmightySnoo 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Speculater 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, did you say ten?

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's well known that X is the edgiest letter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pssh, Z is the ultimate ending.

[–] agitatedpotato 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im surprised he didnt use two Zs to make his logo.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Dude doesn't even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he'd pay for fonts or creative work?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He should just skip a few steps and legally change his name to XxX_MuskyBoi420_XxX

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hmm something tells me that Musk isn't very good at forward thinking.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So, if I type a "Y" in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?

[–] Johem 89 points 1 year ago

Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk's methods.

[–] SheeEttin 11 points 1 year ago

No, you have to buy someone else's billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.

[–] everythingsucks 7 points 1 year ago

No. You need the company first.

[–] RealFknNito 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] MrSlicer 8 points 1 year ago

Man I'm stealing that midas touch line. Haha

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] fence_prude 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the X.Org server logo

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

It's LaTeX mathbb{x}

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

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?

[–] CYCLR 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it's just an unicode character

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.

They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me it’s just the Jagex logo!

[–] FlaxPicker 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] 4am 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement

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

Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.

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

Isn't x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.

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