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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
It’s literally just a Unicode character.
From elsewhere:
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use any letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
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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.
It’s just 𝕏
It’s gon’ give it to ya!
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
