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.
It’s just 𝕏
It’s gon’ give it to ya!
The claw’s gonna gitcha.
I’m sorry, did you say ten?
I already made that joke yesterday
Well keep it going!
elon coming for your copyright infringement!
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Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?
wizardry!
Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.
it’s just
\mathbbsmhWhat does this mean? Is this latex?
Yes, in a LaTeX formula
\mathbb{X}produces exactly that logo.
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
- People who had math in high school and have seen blackboard bold/double struck characters
- Copy/Paste
- It seems like a lot of people are talking about twitter even if mostly negative. I see it in the news and online way more often than before Elon bought it. And we are talking about it now ;)
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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
Hows he acting like a douchebag?
Found the Musk fanboy lmao.
I’m a lady tho.
For me it’s just the Jagex logo!
Thought the same
/c/accidentalRunescape
That’s kinda stretchy
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
No. You need the company first.
No, you have to buy someone else’s billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.
Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.
Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.
They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦♂️
Who gives a fuck.
I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.
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?
Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it’s just an unicode character
cant wait to have that on my keyboard!
actually that’s some nice merch idea
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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.
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.
Also the guy says “do whatever you want with it”, so not technically stealing
…that was after they debuted the design.
Man I’m stealing that midas touch line. Haha
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?
Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement
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.
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.
His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.
He has achieved nothing.
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!
X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.
Is this all because Elon can’t afford to renew Twitter’s domain name?
He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.
Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)
Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.
Calm down hun.
Yes. I can almost guarantee that’s precisely what happened.
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.
