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.
It's just 𝕏
elon coming for your copyright infringement!
Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?
It’s gon’ give it to ya!
The claw's gonna gitcha.
wizardry!
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.
Yeah, this post is like "Ghost of Kiev" levels of nonsense.
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.
It's well known that X is the edgiest letter.
W has more edges, therefore I’m claiming W.com as a social media site only for the most reactionary right wing chuds.
Dude doesn't even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he'd pay for fonts or creative work?
He should just skip a few steps and legally change his name to XxX_MuskyBoi420_XxX
It's not that far off from his son's name, X Æ A-12.
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.
Shh, that's for his next venture.
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.
Yes. Yes I do.
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.
Hmm something tells me that Musk isn't very good at forward thinking.
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.
If you haven't noticed, since 2014 a lot of USA science and technology leadership has been heading in the direction of "self-destruction is cool"
Looks like some Lemmy apps confuse this link for /u/1
Whoops.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.
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.
No. You need the company first.
It's literally just a Unicode character.
From elsewhere:
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X."
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.
Man I'm stealing that midas touch line. Haha
Also the guy says "do whatever you want with it", so not technically stealing
...that was after they debuted the design.
Looks like the X.Org server logo
It's LaTeX mathbb{x}
It is 𝕏 (as https://lemmy.world/comment/1668764 said)
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.
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?
For me it’s just the Jagex logo!
/c/accidentalRunescape
That's kinda stretchy
Thought the same
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.
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?
Who gives a fuck.
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.
Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.
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.
Calm down hun.
I would agree with everything you said if I hadn't seen everything Muskyboi has done over the last decade.
I have no issue believing he scrolled through his saves and found it himself, it's really on-brand for him actually.