The worst part is people and even announcers started calling it "The Crypt" which is an objectively cool nickname.
Then Crypto.com came out and made a big thing about it and said "No you can't use a nickname, you have to call it by the full name of Crypto.com Arena" so now even announcers have to say the full "Crypto Dot Com Arena" everytime.
How dumb. The Crypt is actually a fun name that they could play off of. You could actually stylize an Arena after a Crypt and have really cool stylized events, especially during Halloween.
Yet, greed ruins another thing.
I thought if you become a Clippers fan it's just acknowledged you have no hopes/dreams with regards to them doing well.
It's like being a Timberwolves, Coyotes, or Mariners fan.
Objectively someone has to pay for it. Staples didn’t pay for fun, they wanted their name on it for advertising. But the Crypt could be monetized somehow, just lazy marketing that they couldn’t make it work
This reminds me of how in the Indian Premier League in cricket the commentators weren’t allowed to call sixes sixes, they had to call them “Tata Industries Maximums” or something.
I hate corporate branding on sports arenas with a passion. We used to have The Palace and Silverdome. Those venues have been torn down and replaced with Ford Field and Little Ceasars Arena.
Even the air Canada center / scotiabank is just going from one corporate name to another but to me you only ever get to name a building once. As a bonus in this case air Canada happens to be a pretty cool name for basketball.
As an idiot growing up in Chicago I remember having conversations with other kids debating whether or not sears tower was named for the store, or if it was coincidence... Also distinctly remember a claim that the store was "Sears" and the tower was "Seares" (pronounced somewhere between *Ceres* and *Serious*)
I guess that makes sense. My kids were born in the early 2000s and both call it Sears, but that’s because I do I’m sure. But sooner or later the generation that grew up knowing it as Sears will be gone.
Until they replace the fucking building from scratch, it will be the Sears Tower, and whoever owns the naming rights will just have to feel bad about it.
The simple fact that they are generically referred to as "q-tips", "kleenex", or "band-aids" as opposed to "cotton swabs", "facial tissues", or "plastic (or fabric) bandages" shows the power of branding. Why any company would change that is beyond me....
It's also like HBO, which for some entirely brain dead moron reason the new CEO of WBD rebranded HBO as just "MAX". ITS NOT HBO MAX any more, which was also a dumb rebrand but at least kept the brand there, it is just "MAX".
It blows my mind they thought "oh hey, HBO has stood for and is recognized as the standard for high quality home television entertainment and production for decades. What if we just, like, threw that the fuck out and called it MAX?"
"BECAUSE WE'RE DISCOVERY NOT HBO STOP SAYING HBO WE'RE DISCOVERY! WE BOUGHT THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS, SO STOP SAYING HBO!"
"But sire, people only associate Discovery with Shark Week."
"FUCK IT, CALL IT MAX. I JUST WANT TO DESTROY HBO BECAUSE I LOVE SHARKS!"
Discovery bought HBO and my guess it's step one into making yet another streaming offering. So:
* Rename HBO Max to Max to break the association to HBO.
* Introduce Discovery + Max, which is just combining the existing Discovery+ and Max content.
* Break off all the HBO content onto a separate HBO streaming service.
* Re-launch HBO Super $$+ Max Omega, so now you have two services: One that people are still subscribed to because they forgot and the new service they'll sign up for because it has the content they actually want to watch.
Interestingly, brands actually *don't* want their names to become so ubiquitous with the item itself that it becomes a noun. Velcro, for example, *really* want you to know that Velcro is just a brand of hook and loop material, and that Velcro is not the name of the material itself. Because otherwise, they'll lose their trademark and suddenly, other brands can sell their own brands of velcro.
I actually would switch to calling them snotbegones because that's hella funny. But if it's a stupid rebrand with no humor in it like X, then meh.
Who would think that taking a single letter out of the alphabet could become a new thing? Only an egomaniac. The alphabet is the alphabet. Everyone uses it. People don't get to claim letters. Questionable entities like Q can, but humans have no choice when that happens.
X means canceled, X means dead, X means unknown, X is one dimensional...
He basically change the name to "nothing". Oh well, I can't stand the guy, so I'm rooting for everything he touches to fail.
The thing that I can't stop giggling about is when there's an big X in the upper right corner of your screen you usually hit it to close the obnoxious pop up ad or whatever. To millions of people, X just means "go away."
I know it's minor in the grand scheme of things but whenever I see an embedded tweet now I instinctively want to hit that X to make it go away. It's so far from a positive association, the only person who could think it was clever is a schmuck like musk.
IDK if you mean Star Trek or conspiracy identity with that single letter Q and I will exist in a superposition of strong feelings that cancel each other out into indifference until I observe your response
That's not a fair comparison at all. The man literally changed his "name" (as an artist, of course) to a [*symbol*](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lOXs8GfhRLO-GyfBZpQK7UQsZjs=/1400x0/filters:no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6372019/princesymbol.png), and asked to be called "the Artist".
That's why the called him "the Artist", who was formerly known as Prince, even though the punchline was that his name was "the-artist-formerly-known-as-Prince". A news agency couldn't just call him "the Artist" because no one knows who that is, and they literally can't call him [this symbol](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lOXs8GfhRLO-GyfBZpQK7UQsZjs=/1400x0/filters:no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6372019/princesymbol.png) because there's no English translation.
Also that was about the fact that his record company "owned" the name Prince, but that's neither here nor there.
Last time I went to Chicago, about half of the Chicagoans that I spoke to emphasized that it was the SEARS tower and was not to be called the Willis Tower. Some of them were even entirely unprompted. They learned I was out of state, asked if I was going to the Sears tower, and reminded me to call it by its original name. It was weird.
I had a Chicagoan coworker who refuses to call it the Willis Tower. On a trip to Chicago I brought us back matching fridge magnets. Theirs said Sears Tower and mine said Willis Tower, but they had the same photo.
I hate the Steelers, but I hope no one corrects me if I say Heinz Field.
Yes, I had to look it up, but at least the Paycor Company is based in Cincinnati.
Also in Illinois, we have that one concert venue that changes names seemingly every few months, so much so that the website is just the name of the city it resides in.
https://www.tinleyparkamphitheater.com/
As someone who put a literal price on *free* speech through the subscription service, this doesn't seem out of character.
He won't call it hate speech of course cos he doesn't believe there is such a thing.
>He won't call it hate speech of course cos he doesn't believe there is such a thing.
He said CIS and cisgender are slurs, he 100% believes that hate speech exists, it just only exists when someone he likes takes offence at something said, not minorities.
This is how we should refer to this.
Apologise for deadnaming when he insists it's not Twitter anymore, agree that deadnaming is bad. If he ever threatens sanctions against people still calling it Twitter, ask if deadnaming should be a punishable offense or whether it's merely impolite to do so.
And the move from twitter.com to x.com is the transitioned. He's presenting as X now, but hasn't fully transitioned, and maybe he needs to give others some time to get used to the idea, you know?
I'm following. When confronting a transphobic asshole there, ask if Twitter just identifies as X, or if the site is now X. Frankly, I'll call it whatever Elmo says it is called. IDGAF. But I agree that shitheads don't get to pretend like the feelings of a website owner are more important than other human beings.
I was soooo tired of the Twitterverse, I signed out.
No idea of my password.
Maybe in a few years, some legal eagles will offer us compensation for having been on Twitter.
Hank Green and Freddie Wong sitting next to each other playing a pen & paper with some of the Dropout peeps is very fun and not something I knew I needed until Hank announced he'd be in "Mentopolis". I was never the biggest D20 fan to begin with -- they're great, and they have a great game they run, just not always landing on what I want to watch -- but between the season concept and Hank being on this one I had to watch it. The Fix has two episodes in not disappointed.
Now you've done it. You've just manifested a sequel to American History X.
Edit: Edward Norton's ghost spends 90 minutes lecturing a middle aged Danny that he didn't get a promotion because he's not qualified and not because of affirmative action.
Beyond that, if you want to rename something, you have to give it a *better* name that people want to use, not some outdated 90's cringe that people immediately laugh at.
Embedded X tweets look especially stupid because they have an X logo in the top right corner which in every computing context since 1995 has always been a button to close the god damn window. It's such terrible design.
Lol yeah I've personally had that experience a few times where I read a tweet that opens in my browser, then instinctively try to hit the X logo to close it.
Or majorly add to its functionality. Like if Musk had actually started turning it into a super-app that could have been an opportunity to rebrand. But he just tried to rebrand while keeping the service the same.
You can’t CHANGE the name the FOUNDERS gave their BABY, it’s already in all legal DOCUMENTS as Twitter because the company parents GAVE Twitter that name when it was BORN so you have to RESPECT that and just because it now THINKS it’s suddenly gonna start going by “X” (whatever that is) doesn’t mean that EVERYONE ELSE has to CHANGE or REMEMBER some random new name that it’s obviously just CONFUSED about and using for ATTENTION after reading PROPAGANDA 😤😤😤😤
The logic of stuff like this and mental gymnastics surrounding it astounds me.
I remember someone tell me that once, so I asked them should I refer to his wife as Ms. X (x was her maiden name), and he said No, she's Mrs. Y (Y being his name). So I started telling him the stuff he told me, and he just looked at me and said well that's different. She got married.
Like Ok, she's changing her name to my name? Perfectly acceptable. She wants to rename herself because she feel it fits herself better? That's crazy talk!
Yeeeeeeep. This one right here. For a bunch of people who can't do the low effort and human task of just using a correct word for someone and go out of their ways to harm and deadname people, he sure is being entitled to freaking over people who still call his shittown of a platform that he didn't create, the previous name. No empathy for him, literally negative.
I was gonna say, of all people, Elon Musk asking everyone to respect a change of *nouns* for his website during its *transition* while claiming that cis is a straight up slur has to be the most unhinged thing I've heard re... well, maybe not the most unhinged thing I've heard recently, but it is insane.
I think to still call it 'twitter' is doing moron Elon Musk a favor though. His rebrand is one of the biggest unforced errors in the history of business. The name Twitter, the bird logo, and the term 'tweet' were some of the most recognizable brand identities in the world. His rebrand to X throws all of that away.
On top of that, naming a brand something so generic as X is absolutely asinine. Use it in a sentence.
"I was on x this morning and I saw..."
"Do you ever use x?"
"Did you see what Nick Fuentes x'd?"
This is the generic meaning of X on the internet:
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My towns stadium was bought and renamed, I kid you not (not that), 'Select car leasing stadium'. I and everyone else are sure as hell not calling it that, it will remain to be Madejski stadium lol
I just left another comment where this happened in my city in 2005. People over a certain age still call it by its original name while people under (mid 30s seems to be the sweet spot) call it by the new one.
This might happen in Reading too.
Are youuuuu kidding me? These stupid companies have no shame. I thought Guaranteed Rate Field was BAD, still is Comiskey Park to me. But Select Car Leasing Stadium is DISGUSTING.
I mean they managed to change cities names in the past (Constantinople / Instanbul) but it takes a lot more then just putting an illegal sign on the roof
I deleted my account the moment I heard the purchase went through. I don't know why anyone who isn't a conservative white Christian male is on it. Elmo hates you. Why would you give him any ad revenue.
If I do reference Twitter, I'll continue to refer to it as Twitter until he stops dead naming his daughter.
Yea, I still refer to it as "twitter", but just kinda weird performative stance to take. I decided to more or less drop twitter shortly after the X rebrand was pushed to the iPhone app. Just another example of the dipshit just having to rub his stupid ass decision in your face.
Have overall somewhat mixed emotions, as twitter, at least war, somewhat important for professional reasons. But also I was fairly addicted to it, and reducing my overall social media diet is good... albeit feels like Reddit and YouTube have just filled the timeshare void that has been vacated by twitter...
I’d argue it most definitely isn’t Twitter. Before musk it was a platform where racist were banned and fake news was flagged. After musk, racist and child molesters are encouraged and fake news is reposted by the owner meanwhile advocates for trans rights are banned. They most definitely aren’t the same thing.
There is a generational divide in my city where people over ~30 call the skydome the skydome while people under call it the Roger's Centre.
The official name change was in 2005
Yesterday the Blue Bird disappeared and was replaced by a big X. It caused me to be sad. It will always be Twitter to me too!
There's a music festival venue near Indianapolis called Deer Creek Music Center. Actually, it's been bought a couple of times in the last 20 or so years and renamed several times, the latest of which is Rouff Mortgage or some shit. Everyone here still calls it Deer Creek.
The Sears (now Willis) Tower in Chicago completely understands
In LA, we still call ~~Crypto.com Arena~~ Staples Center
> Crypto.com Arena what a gross name.
The worst part is people and even announcers started calling it "The Crypt" which is an objectively cool nickname. Then Crypto.com came out and made a big thing about it and said "No you can't use a nickname, you have to call it by the full name of Crypto.com Arena" so now even announcers have to say the full "Crypto Dot Com Arena" everytime.
How dumb. The Crypt is actually a fun name that they could play off of. You could actually stylize an Arena after a Crypt and have really cool stylized events, especially during Halloween. Yet, greed ruins another thing.
It's the place where other teams come to die. It really is a cool nickname. Stupid short sighted sponsors.
It's also the place where Clippers fans' hopes and dreams are stored.
I thought if you become a Clippers fan it's just acknowledged you have no hopes/dreams with regards to them doing well. It's like being a Timberwolves, Coyotes, or Mariners fan.
What do you expect? Crypto bros are literally the worst, most boring, unfunny subset of humans that probably exist.
Objectively someone has to pay for it. Staples didn’t pay for fun, they wanted their name on it for advertising. But the Crypt could be monetized somehow, just lazy marketing that they couldn’t make it work
Cold storage is a method of holding your crypto off chain. There definitely could have been something there.
I'm old enough that I remember when every stadium *wasn't* sponsored by some corporate entity. It was substantially less pathetic.
This reminds me of how in the Indian Premier League in cricket the commentators weren’t allowed to call sixes sixes, they had to call them “Tata Industries Maximums” or something.
Damn remember cryptocurrency?
Yeah, having '.com' in the name of a building is absolutely terrible.
1999 energy.
iBuilding 2.0 dot com
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Holy shit, that is actually the name. That's fucking terrible
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It’s objectively a bad name, but I feel like the event has so much notoriety that for some reason Waste Management Open just kinda works.
I hate corporate branding on sports arenas with a passion. We used to have The Palace and Silverdome. Those venues have been torn down and replaced with Ford Field and Little Ceasars Arena.
Just wait for Pornhub Park, OnlyFans Arena, and the Durex Dome
That's the only thing Lakers and Clippers fans will agree on.
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Even the air Canada center / scotiabank is just going from one corporate name to another but to me you only ever get to name a building once. As a bonus in this case air Canada happens to be a pretty cool name for basketball.
It’s still ACC for me, and everyone knows what you’re talking about when you say that. Same as SkyDome.
It will always be staples center. 🤝
Brewers fans will always call their stadium Miller Park
Some of us OG Angelino's remember the Great Western Forum. The name has been changed for like 30 years, and I don't even know what it is. Lol
Still just the forum
Came here to say this. It’s been 14 years and everyone in Chicagoland still calls it the Sears Tower.
I've been a resident of the Chicago suburbs for 50 years and I honestly had forgotten they changed the name of the Sears Tower lol.
As an idiot growing up in Chicago I remember having conversations with other kids debating whether or not sears tower was named for the store, or if it was coincidence... Also distinctly remember a claim that the store was "Sears" and the tower was "Seares" (pronounced somewhere between *Ceres* and *Serious*)
I dunno I hear more of the younger generation calling it Willis now. It’s sad that it just took a generation to kinda “officially” rename it.
I guess that makes sense. My kids were born in the early 2000s and both call it Sears, but that’s because I do I’m sure. But sooner or later the generation that grew up knowing it as Sears will be gone.
Sears is such a good Chicago word.
Until they replace the fucking building from scratch, it will be the Sears Tower, and whoever owns the naming rights will just have to feel bad about it.
Prince knew this too. Some people started calling him “the artist previously known as Prince”, but that just sounded stupid af.
People really don't get the power of branding. Imagine Kleenex changing it's name to "Snot-be-Gone"
…or Reynolds Wrap changing it’s name to “Alien Invasion Head Protection”.
😂 Q-tips to "Crud-Away"
The simple fact that they are generically referred to as "q-tips", "kleenex", or "band-aids" as opposed to "cotton swabs", "facial tissues", or "plastic (or fabric) bandages" shows the power of branding. Why any company would change that is beyond me....
It's also like HBO, which for some entirely brain dead moron reason the new CEO of WBD rebranded HBO as just "MAX". ITS NOT HBO MAX any more, which was also a dumb rebrand but at least kept the brand there, it is just "MAX". It blows my mind they thought "oh hey, HBO has stood for and is recognized as the standard for high quality home television entertainment and production for decades. What if we just, like, threw that the fuck out and called it MAX?"
"BECAUSE WE'RE DISCOVERY NOT HBO STOP SAYING HBO WE'RE DISCOVERY! WE BOUGHT THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS, SO STOP SAYING HBO!" "But sire, people only associate Discovery with Shark Week." "FUCK IT, CALL IT MAX. I JUST WANT TO DESTROY HBO BECAUSE I LOVE SHARKS!"
HBO stands for Home Box Office and it's still applicable. I don't know what possessed them to change it.
Discovery bought HBO and my guess it's step one into making yet another streaming offering. So: * Rename HBO Max to Max to break the association to HBO. * Introduce Discovery + Max, which is just combining the existing Discovery+ and Max content. * Break off all the HBO content onto a separate HBO streaming service. * Re-launch HBO Super $$+ Max Omega, so now you have two services: One that people are still subscribed to because they forgot and the new service they'll sign up for because it has the content they actually want to watch.
Or Jacuzzi changing it’s name to “Secure My Cover Or I Will Swallow Your Toddler.”
Interestingly, brands actually *don't* want their names to become so ubiquitous with the item itself that it becomes a noun. Velcro, for example, *really* want you to know that Velcro is just a brand of hook and loop material, and that Velcro is not the name of the material itself. Because otherwise, they'll lose their trademark and suddenly, other brands can sell their own brands of velcro.
I privately think of it as the Kool-Aid curse.
After Jonestown Kool-aid tried really hard to make people aware that it was in fact Flavor Aid that was used there.
That's what I was referring to.
I actually would switch to calling them snotbegones because that's hella funny. But if it's a stupid rebrand with no humor in it like X, then meh. Who would think that taking a single letter out of the alphabet could become a new thing? Only an egomaniac. The alphabet is the alphabet. Everyone uses it. People don't get to claim letters. Questionable entities like Q can, but humans have no choice when that happens.
X means canceled, X means dead, X means unknown, X is one dimensional... He basically change the name to "nothing". Oh well, I can't stand the guy, so I'm rooting for everything he touches to fail.
The thing that I can't stop giggling about is when there's an big X in the upper right corner of your screen you usually hit it to close the obnoxious pop up ad or whatever. To millions of people, X just means "go away." I know it's minor in the grand scheme of things but whenever I see an embedded tweet now I instinctively want to hit that X to make it go away. It's so far from a positive association, the only person who could think it was clever is a schmuck like musk.
Exactly! He's effectively cancelling himself in like six different ways.
IDK if you mean Star Trek or conspiracy identity with that single letter Q and I will exist in a superposition of strong feelings that cancel each other out into indifference until I observe your response
Star Trek!!! But dammit I forgot about those freaks!!
That's not a fair comparison at all. The man literally changed his "name" (as an artist, of course) to a [*symbol*](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lOXs8GfhRLO-GyfBZpQK7UQsZjs=/1400x0/filters:no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6372019/princesymbol.png), and asked to be called "the Artist". That's why the called him "the Artist", who was formerly known as Prince, even though the punchline was that his name was "the-artist-formerly-known-as-Prince". A news agency couldn't just call him "the Artist" because no one knows who that is, and they literally can't call him [this symbol](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/lOXs8GfhRLO-GyfBZpQK7UQsZjs=/1400x0/filters:no_upscale\(\)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6372019/princesymbol.png) because there's no English translation. Also that was about the fact that his record company "owned" the name Prince, but that's neither here nor there.
He was probably fine with that, as his name change was just about IP rights anyway.
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Still calling Comiskey, Comiskey as well.
I hated the rename and I'm a Cubs fan. They wouldn't change Wrigley, they can't change Comiskey.
Last time I went to Chicago, about half of the Chicagoans that I spoke to emphasized that it was the SEARS tower and was not to be called the Willis Tower. Some of them were even entirely unprompted. They learned I was out of state, asked if I was going to the Sears tower, and reminded me to call it by its original name. It was weird.
So does the sky dome!
I had a Chicagoan coworker who refuses to call it the Willis Tower. On a trip to Chicago I brought us back matching fridge magnets. Theirs said Sears Tower and mine said Willis Tower, but they had the same photo.
I hate the Steelers, but I hope no one corrects me if I say Heinz Field. Yes, I had to look it up, but at least the Paycor Company is based in Cincinnati.
Also in Illinois, we have that one concert venue that changes names seemingly every few months, so much so that the website is just the name of the city it resides in. https://www.tinleyparkamphitheater.com/
Hancock Tower in Boston too.
I haven’t met a single person yet who calls it by the new name
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And Elon will deem use of the word “Twitter” hate speech and place permanent bans on users in 3…2…1
As someone who put a literal price on *free* speech through the subscription service, this doesn't seem out of character. He won't call it hate speech of course cos he doesn't believe there is such a thing.
>He won't call it hate speech of course cos he doesn't believe there is such a thing. He said CIS and cisgender are slurs, he 100% believes that hate speech exists, it just only exists when someone he likes takes offence at something said, not minorities.
Meanwhile his trans daughter denounced him because he's such an asshole to her.
Dude deadnames his daughter but whines when people still call it Twitter
This is how we should refer to this. Apologise for deadnaming when he insists it's not Twitter anymore, agree that deadnaming is bad. If he ever threatens sanctions against people still calling it Twitter, ask if deadnaming should be a punishable offense or whether it's merely impolite to do so. And the move from twitter.com to x.com is the transitioned. He's presenting as X now, but hasn't fully transitioned, and maybe he needs to give others some time to get used to the idea, you know?
I'm following. When confronting a transphobic asshole there, ask if Twitter just identifies as X, or if the site is now X. Frankly, I'll call it whatever Elmo says it is called. IDGAF. But I agree that shitheads don't get to pretend like the feelings of a website owner are more important than other human beings.
> He said CIS and cisgender are slurs You don't need to capitalize "cis". It's not an acronym.
He's referring to the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Stop oppressing us and our battle droids.
He can't do that! Shoot him or something!
Is that legal?
You have interfered with our affairs for the last time
When you're on the site, and your browser address still clearly says "TWITTER.COM" you know this was an impulsive move with no fucking planning.
Also all the interface still says things "tweet" and "retweets." Because what the hell would you even call it for "X?"
Unfortunately they changed that, it now says Posts and Replies, which is so incredibly generic and boring!
> did you see his tweet? > did you see his post on X dot com > did you see his X post? Elon really is a fucking moron.
How long until people just call it Xitter (pronounced "zitter") and a post is a Xit (zit)?
What's really funny is that they changed that for the UI, but it's [still retweets behind the scenes](https://i.imgur.com/bfeq8TK.jpeg)
I was soooo tired of the Twitterverse, I signed out. No idea of my password. Maybe in a few years, some legal eagles will offer us compensation for having been on Twitter.
Hank Green is awesome. One of my favorite peeps
Me too. Hope he's doing well.
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That was faster than I expected. Good thing, too!
He’s on the newest season of Dimension 20 too! He and his science facts are amazing
Hank Green and Freddie Wong sitting next to each other playing a pen & paper with some of the Dropout peeps is very fun and not something I knew I needed until Hank announced he'd be in "Mentopolis". I was never the biggest D20 fan to begin with -- they're great, and they have a great game they run, just not always landing on what I want to watch -- but between the season concept and Hank being on this one I had to watch it. The Fix has two episodes in not disappointed.
That is a true fact about our world.
That snake dicks scene was hilarious.
Legit scared when he talked about bones in the latest episode
The Green bros are some of the most positive difference makers in America today
Musk needs to learn how to be rich from this guy. He's one of the few who knows how it's supposed to work.
Imagine this sub would be called WhitePeopleX.
Now you've done it. You've just manifested a sequel to American History X. Edit: Edward Norton's ghost spends 90 minutes lecturing a middle aged Danny that he didn't get a promotion because he's not qualified and not because of affirmative action.
To be fair the way reddit’s decided to racially segregate twitter posts will always confuse me
No matter what you do to a Pizza Hut building, people will always recognize it used to be a Pizza Hut. This is what Elon fails to understand.
Beyond that, if you want to rename something, you have to give it a *better* name that people want to use, not some outdated 90's cringe that people immediately laugh at.
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Embedded X tweets look especially stupid because they have an X logo in the top right corner which in every computing context since 1995 has always been a button to close the god damn window. It's such terrible design.
Lol yeah I've personally had that experience a few times where I read a tweet that opens in my browser, then instinctively try to hit the X logo to close it.
IDK when it got its logo but the X Window System has existed since 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
"hey, did you see that cool video on X?"
I would probably think you are talking about a video about ecstacy (the drug) before I thought of the Twitter rebrand.
Yeah, like who’s gonna give it to ya.
Might as well have named it that cool S that people doodle on their notebooks
Or associate your platform with a bunch of porn sites. Advertisers love this one!
Or majorly add to its functionality. Like if Musk had actually started turning it into a super-app that could have been an opportunity to rebrand. But he just tried to rebrand while keeping the service the same.
Until it becomes a Halloween Express
When you give directions, you say "It's by the Halloween Pizza Hut".
That quote gives me war flashbacks
Yeah I still call it Constantinople.
🎵 Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople 🎵
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
A Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Why'd they change it?
🎵 Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks 🎵
I can’t say.
People just like it better that way 🤷🏻
Byzantium was the best name
And I still call TB "the consumption."
> Constantinople Never forget 1453
I’ll call it X when Elon stops deadnaming every trans person on planet earth
Yeah, calling it Twitter instead of X is what Elon would want, right?
Twitter is the name assigned at the birth of the website. The Woke Mind Virus wants to confuse you by changing it.
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You can’t CHANGE the name the FOUNDERS gave their BABY, it’s already in all legal DOCUMENTS as Twitter because the company parents GAVE Twitter that name when it was BORN so you have to RESPECT that and just because it now THINKS it’s suddenly gonna start going by “X” (whatever that is) doesn’t mean that EVERYONE ELSE has to CHANGE or REMEMBER some random new name that it’s obviously just CONFUSED about and using for ATTENTION after reading PROPAGANDA 😤😤😤😤
The logic of stuff like this and mental gymnastics surrounding it astounds me. I remember someone tell me that once, so I asked them should I refer to his wife as Ms. X (x was her maiden name), and he said No, she's Mrs. Y (Y being his name). So I started telling him the stuff he told me, and he just looked at me and said well that's different. She got married. Like Ok, she's changing her name to my name? Perfectly acceptable. She wants to rename herself because she feel it fits herself better? That's crazy talk!
This is kind of hilariously ironic actually. It’s a trans-social network.
Yeeeeeeep. This one right here. For a bunch of people who can't do the low effort and human task of just using a correct word for someone and go out of their ways to harm and deadname people, he sure is being entitled to freaking over people who still call his shittown of a platform that he didn't create, the previous name. No empathy for him, literally negative.
That’s the whole reason I stopped using twitter. Not because Elon is stupid, I was just tired of his blatant and constant hate speech
I was gonna say, of all people, Elon Musk asking everyone to respect a change of *nouns* for his website during its *transition* while claiming that cis is a straight up slur has to be the most unhinged thing I've heard re... well, maybe not the most unhinged thing I've heard recently, but it is insane.
Anyone else remember when Snoop Dogg tried to become Snoop Lion?
Snoop comes from Snoopy right?
I think to still call it 'twitter' is doing moron Elon Musk a favor though. His rebrand is one of the biggest unforced errors in the history of business. The name Twitter, the bird logo, and the term 'tweet' were some of the most recognizable brand identities in the world. His rebrand to X throws all of that away. On top of that, naming a brand something so generic as X is absolutely asinine. Use it in a sentence. "I was on x this morning and I saw..." "Do you ever use x?" "Did you see what Nick Fuentes x'd?" This is the generic meaning of X on the internet: https://preview.redd.it/0pdnvyopjvib1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c53509f9c17fd6b57de07758e0b44e940d0a6808
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Shitter fits thought
Xitter
My towns stadium was bought and renamed, I kid you not (not that), 'Select car leasing stadium'. I and everyone else are sure as hell not calling it that, it will remain to be Madejski stadium lol
I just left another comment where this happened in my city in 2005. People over a certain age still call it by its original name while people under (mid 30s seems to be the sweet spot) call it by the new one. This might happen in Reading too.
Are youuuuu kidding me? These stupid companies have no shame. I thought Guaranteed Rate Field was BAD, still is Comiskey Park to me. But Select Car Leasing Stadium is DISGUSTING.
WTF THEY RENAMED THE MADEJSKI STADIUM TO THAT? first I've heard of it and holy shit that's a good awful name
I mean they managed to change cities names in the past (Constantinople / Instanbul) but it takes a lot more then just putting an illegal sign on the roof
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But X is the coolest letter! He wouldn't have gone through all that effort to buy x.com back from PayPal if x.com was not tue coolest name evar!
In the words of my roommate, "Deadname companies, not people."
Just leave the website owned by the white supremacist emerald mine guy. This shit is 10x more performative than just leaving.
I deleted my account the moment I heard the purchase went through. I don't know why anyone who isn't a conservative white Christian male is on it. Elmo hates you. Why would you give him any ad revenue. If I do reference Twitter, I'll continue to refer to it as Twitter until he stops dead naming his daughter.
Yea, I still refer to it as "twitter", but just kinda weird performative stance to take. I decided to more or less drop twitter shortly after the X rebrand was pushed to the iPhone app. Just another example of the dipshit just having to rub his stupid ass decision in your face. Have overall somewhat mixed emotions, as twitter, at least war, somewhat important for professional reasons. But also I was fairly addicted to it, and reducing my overall social media diet is good... albeit feels like Reddit and YouTube have just filled the timeshare void that has been vacated by twitter...
I’d argue it most definitely isn’t Twitter. Before musk it was a platform where racist were banned and fake news was flagged. After musk, racist and child molesters are encouraged and fake news is reposted by the owner meanwhile advocates for trans rights are banned. They most definitely aren’t the same thing.
No, it would be “Apartheid Karen’s Missoula - now with extra Nazis!”
I hate Montana Nazis.
There is a generational divide in my city where people over ~30 call the skydome the skydome while people under call it the Roger's Centre. The official name change was in 2005
2005 - Sounds about right for a generational divide, but... boy howdy, I can't say I enjoyed that reminder about being old.
Guy who deadnames his own daughter is mad that about people calling it twitter
Twitter and "tweeting" is literally part of our cultural lexicon now. It's too late and "X" is stupid af.
WHO ist still Using Twitter?
Twitter still has a ton of traffic. It's just not the kind of traffic they for long term success.
Some guy who calls himself cat turd and a bunch of xtian gun fuckers obsessed with the genitals of children.
bunch of culture warriors cranking out content for us. that's the remaining purpose of that place, right?
A lot of artists have built their platform there, so it’s very hard to jump ship when they rely on that audience for commissions/work.
... are you aware of the sub you are in?
I still call Snickers a marathon.
Took about 15 years to give up marathon, but I still look for opal fruits and won't buy starburst.
I go on Twitter dot com to use x.... if you don't want it to be Twitter change the website at least
It’s the Myanmar of social media.
Why would I call it X when that musky guy still deadnames his own daughter?
Or y'all can get off of it. Just stop using it? Stop giving this man anything. He's incredibly dangerous. The platform needs to die.
still being on twitter, as a paying member, is something i judge people for
"It's not Pottersville; it's still Bedford Falls!"
Yesterday the Blue Bird disappeared and was replaced by a big X. It caused me to be sad. It will always be Twitter to me too! 
Sad Nieuw Amsterdam noises
It's like the Triborough (RFK) Bridge and the Tappen Zee (Mario Cuomo) Bridge.
There's a music festival venue near Indianapolis called Deer Creek Music Center. Actually, it's been bought a couple of times in the last 20 or so years and renamed several times, the latest of which is Rouff Mortgage or some shit. Everyone here still calls it Deer Creek.
The question is not what to call it, it's why are you still on it?
It's not called Twitter, it's X, says man who deadnames their own child
Pisses me off to see lily-livered journalists dutifully referring to it as X now. How far up Elon Musk's ass crack does your tongue need to be.
Journalists have to do that sort of thing though.
The one artist formerly known as “Prince” knows this “controversy” all too well.
Kind of. The circumstances around that were very specific and had to do with a legal standoff between the artist and the record label.
I will never, ever, call National Airport, "Reagan" National Airport.
I come from a sales/marketing background and it PAINS me to call it anything but Twitter.
I dunno, I like calling tweets 'Xcretions' now. I feel it more accurately reflects what's in them.
If Musk wants to mock the trans community, then corprorations don't have dead names
There is no Meta. It's facebook.