Hey yeah in the midst of all the hype and the strikes, can we PLEASE fucking talk about this
I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
- Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
- The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.
- The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.
- The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
- Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
- The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
- Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".
- He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
Edit to add further developments:
- Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.
- Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.
- The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.
- The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.
- The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.
- TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).
- This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".
- This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")
- X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.
- Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.
- The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.
- One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.
- Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.
an important addition
creacher
hey HEY. you aren't aware of this but you are changing right now, every day you're growing up. no matter what age you think you stop growing at, you're going to keep growing and changing. and your art style will change too—gradually, naturally, and without you knowing
relax. everything takes time
Chayanne only doing things when Philza asks him to reminded me of when Phil was in VidCon so Chayanne stopped cooking because he ‘missed his dad too much so he wasn’t in the mood’
It was probably just a different admin coming up with an excuse, but I love the idea of Chayanne secretly being the clingiest egg in the server but he’s so subtle about it his dad still thinks he’s chill & independent. What a papa’s boy.
For all my beloved mutuals who might need it
hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3
ok since i don't think i've seen any semi-comprehensive lists of the tumblr holidays for the reddit refugees, here it is.
IT JUST HAPPENS
- DAY 15 GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15
- Thursday the 20th
- The Fifth of Wednesday
- Sometime in June: That One Halloween Post Starts Circulating
- Sometime in July: Dancing Pumpkin Man Video/Gif
WEEKLY EVENTS
- Every Monday: El Muchacho Monday
- Every Tuesday: Tuesday Again? No Problem...
- Every Wednesday: Wet Beast Wednesday
- Every Thursday: Out of Touch Thursday
- Every Friday: Flat Fuck Friday
- Every Saturday: Don't @ Me, I'm Chilling/Caturday
- Every Sunday: Fingers In His Ass Sunday
YEARLY EVENTS
- January 16: Appreciate a Dragon Day
- January 29: Threshold Day
- All of February: Funguary
- February 14: Aromantic/Asexual Day
- March 9: Miku Day
- March 10: Mario Day
- March 14: Pi Day
- March 15: Ides of March
- March 23: Ever Given Got Stuck Today
- April 1: Mishapocalypse
- April 2: Dashcon Announcement Anniversary
- April 3: Dannypocalypse
- April 8: Rex Manning Day
- ALSO April 8: MARGARET THATCHER IS DEAD
- April 13: Neil Banging Out The Tunes
- ALSO April 13: Homestuck Day
- April 20: haha 420 blaze it
- April 25: The Perfect Date
- April 28: Ed Balls Day
- April 30: It's Gonna Be May
- All of May: Mermay
- May 3: Beginning of Dracula Daily
- May 4: May the 4th Be With You
- May 5: Revenge of the Fifth
- May 25: The Glorious 25th of May
- All of June: Pride Month
- ALSO All of June: IT'S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY
- June 5: Barricade Day
- June 16: Let Papyrus Say Fuck
- July 20: Moon Landing
- September 8: The Queen Is Dead and Sans Undertale Killed Her
- September 21: DO YOU REMEMBER-
- All of October: SKELETON WAR
- ALSO All of October: Inktober
- October 3: Mean Girls Day
- ALSO October 3: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Day
- October 20: Unnecessary Feelings Day
- October 31: HALLOWEEN
- November 5: honestly what didn't happen that day
- November 19: Goncharov
- All of December: Will the Gävle Goat Get Destroyed Again?
- December 10: Please, It's Christmas
- December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS
I can't believe I'm saying this but I need the Destiel meme to explain to me what's going on with reddit and what is 196 in simple words
I dont think this gets said enough. As an english speaker, I wanna say:
THANK YOU SPANISH SPEAKERS, BRAZILIANS / PORTUGUESES SPEAKERS, AND FRENCH SPEAKERS FOR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO FOR THE COMMUNITY
Either its subtitles, translations, summarizing events or even just clearing the air on miscommunications, you guys kick ass.
I wouldnt know anything about the q!spreen and q!roier’s betrayal, q!max planning on making leo into a robot, q!forver and q!cellbits plans for the election, q!cellbit being a double agent, a lot about q!tazercraft and q!felps, and honestly anything about the french speakers (qsmp make the translation mod better for the french) if it wasnt for you guys.
Im so thankful that the qsmp has such a fucking cool community and we are all so ready to help each other. Im so grateful for how cool everyone is
I give all of you a pat on your head and a hug if you want <3
ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on
cub2
FUCK this post and happy birthday sonic
