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RaveFranco
That’s Aladeen.
kaldi
XEET
soulthreat
This “successful businessman” spent several billion of dollars that he didn’t have to buy a company and its branding to just throws it away, im eager to see how this all ends
Cilvaa
HoChiMinge
Xcrement
depressedscientist
Please don’t send me more X’s. I already have too many to deal with…
Rufferstuff
Once you get more than 3 X's things start to get weird.
mrthewhitee
That's the best X I've seen in a while.
TheMightyFloofer
Is he getting paid by zuckerberg to destroy this company or something
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
Twitter will now be know as Twix, tweeting will be known as "breaking a Twix". People will be separated as "left Twix" and "right Twix" for their political preferences. And all that just because Musky didn't want to eat his Snickers without the huge bulging dick vein.
Rpgjgb
....and somehow that feels LESS dumb than reality
drh1138
MrPoopyPantz
JoshuaHarazin
"1.2K people ❤️ your X". That tracks.
Lifesforliving
All he needed to do to add subscribers was re-brand to XXX. They won't be there for long but still.....
HandoB4Javert
ThisOldCPU
bekindtoanimals
Noice!
Vergenbuurg
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I appreciate this mashup image. +1
MurdockTheHawk
What is it a mashup of?
ogeltrey
I think the my pillow guy, and moosk
AjKaramba
Illithidbane
"Did you see my X?" "Yes, she's dating a guy a lot richer and better looking than you. She seems happy."
iamjackscompletelackofcompassion
tweex
MapleSyrupMafia
Right or left, oh wait.
porcubot
Did he buy Twitter for the brand? Because now he's throwing it away. Did he buy it for the user base? Because he's tanking it. Did he buy it for the ad revenue? Because he's tanking that too. Did he buy it for the staff? Because he's fired tons of them. Did he buy it for the site's code? Because 44b seems like a lot for something Meta whipped up in a few months.
grantbaines0
He bought twitter to stop 1 guy telling the world about his 8 minute flights
SJBSavageInk
Wait... he's seriously changing the name of Twitter?
wheresthehill
“….seriously…. ”? Narcissistically, perhaps. Or psychopathically. Or sociopathically.
jrntn
When you fire everyone who tells you your ideas are bad, suddenly all your ideas are great!
nevernotsure
At this point I feel like Zucker is just paying him under the table to tank Twitter.
RalphH
Well, Zuck does own the trademark X for everything computer/communications related. (not even joking!)
Radix865
Not all computer related, Microsoft owns X in regards to gaming at least. But I wonder if Muskie even bothered to check that before going forward with all this...
DocBeeblebrox
A crop for all your "responding to dumb shit" needs
HandoB4Javert
RandAIFlagg
Selfawerewolf
I'm embarrassed by the gap in time between my learning of the feature and my learning how to actually do it.
AncientBreadcrumbs
For others that use the app. Hold pressed and choose add to folder. Create a folder if necessary and you can then use it for replying
AncientBreadcrumbs
It might be necessary to open the image/comment as full screen
simplefishy
MotoCanuck
Sure are a lot of kisses going on at the ol' kiss social
RaySkye
Brilliant move. I had a feeling that Twitter's main problem was BRAND RECOGNITION. Fucking moron!
Legomaniac91
shinagami091
This is coming from the same guy who named his kid *modem noises*. Do we really expect him to be able to name a social media platform?
EmanNiemThcin
No Mr.Bond, I expect him to die.
robocoSmuggler
Surprised it's not MuskHub.
hugemuffin
Even Dumber, it's pronounced "Kyle" X = Chi "kh", Æ = specific "a" sound, A-12 = 12th letter of the alphabet - "Kh Æ L" = or "Kyle"
TheSwedishMoose
yalczero
His kids are absolutely putting him into a nursing home. And definitely not one of the good ones.
hugemuffin
Dude messed up a kid's birth certificate for the lulz. Can't wait until we hear about him less often than Kanye.
Attaroo
But X is owned by Meta, so...
SillySnowFox
You know, I wonder if that isn't the idea. Try and "force" facebook to buy twitter.
lysani
Didn't Facebook/Meta just start their own version of Twitter recently as well?
kjb72
Yes, Threads.
lysani
In regards to social media messaging, Meta owns the trademark for "X" while Microsoft owns it for gaming and gaming-related communications.
Akumaka
Also Microsoft, apparently.
captainpizza
Remember: His only goal is to be talked about. He does stupid shit so we will talk about him. We are talking about him, so this change is already a success to him
captainpizza
See also: Trump
jrntn
Yes, Trump goes away if we don't talk about him, that's how it works. Fox News and OANN base their coverage on whether we talk about Trump.
Noxnarie
And here is a little extra: different languages pronounce "X" differently and for many languages it's a letter that rarely if ever get used. I can tell you all that pronouncing "X" in mid sentence in Finnish sentnce is like hard stop that does not belong there and if you pronounce it how Finns pronounce "X", it sound like you are talking about your ex or having a stroke mid sentence. It is also world wide used letter for "wrong and negative" as many have pointed out.
AxelPale
Finn here, not true, the letter X is pronouced "äx" while your ex is "exä" in the spoken language. While I get your point, don't just make things up.
Noxnarie
And this is where you should realize that not everyone speaks same dialect. I rarely hear anyone say "äx" except when someone pronounces the candy "missä äx". It's been almost always "ex" or "kss" or "exä" for me, also because "e" and "ä" has many similarities in the sound when pronounced it's sometimes quite hard to hear or notice which letter is used. Also as I said earlie "X" is rare in Finnish and mostly used for talking about someones ex partner. Maybe its used more by younger people, dunno
Noxnarie
Also I am pointing out in the comment that it sounds like "ex" or someone having stroge mid sentence. Which is pointing out that I am not saying its only "ex" and saying "äx" as you say it does sound very off what Finnish normally sound. Again maybe you are young or where you live "x" is pronounced differently, I don't know that and my dialect + life has come from the easter Finland + partly old Karelian where "x" is pretty much never used. Dialects are wonderful :)
Lifesforliving
Not as napalm self-burning though as re-branding a failing company with a logo you don't own.
xCommonCentz
You fucking nailed it, lol. Well put.
INeverWaitForIt
*Laughs in Meta* Which is funny, because there was an existing company called Meta, who didn't want to sell, and Meta stole it from them anyway.
AceOfShovels
Wait... I guess it's not surprising but Meta actually stole a trademarked name and logo??
enygma6
Didn’t the same thing happen to “x-box”?
FrogBotherer
So does that mean Twitter videos are going to be X-videos?
TheAlteredWitch
That's exactly what Charlie was saying in his latest video
magus200342
Alls I want for my birthday is for his dumbass to get sued by a porn company for the name infringement.
nevernotsure
Ketheres
Apparently exactly that.
DrSchlepenstein
Most likely, as Musk disabled and removed the X-videos Twitter account.
newsguycraigevans
I want to upvote but it's at 69 and honestly I think it's perfect as is
TheIronPenguin
Yup, and I hear they're going to featurepets tou under the category xhamster
TheIronPenguin
*feature pets too. Me spell good.
PiercedViking
Looked like you had a stroke midway through typing that but you stuck the landing so have an updoot.
aloharamada
I wouldn't be surprised if he insists they're also just called "X" from now on.
ryo3000
That's very Aladeen
donpat
I disagree. It's quite obviously *NOT* Aladeen at all.
orbitn
Just like Linux geeks in the 90s when someone blurted out "X Windows". Which, weirdly, had an icon very much similar to what Elon Rancid Muskgland chose for the hellscape formerly known as Twitter
aloharamada
I am confused, can you explain this to me?
orbitn
The GUI in linux/unix up until very recently was called "X". Linux used a version called XFree86, but the Linux crowd in the 90s was somewhat toxic, smug and superior, so if you called it "X Windows" it was a kind of shibboleth. X.Org is what's being used now, or Weyland.
aloharamada
I see, thank you very much for the detailed explanation