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HiddenLayer5 ,

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.

MrPoopyButthole ,

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.

Comment105 ,

His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.

He has achieved nothing.

infuziSporg ,
@infuziSporg@hexbear.net avatar

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.

OceanSoap ,

Ohhhh, you got him now!! Surely this will make the people turn against him! 🙄

Tyfud ,

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

xrellx ,

Hows he acting like a douchebag?

klyde ,
@klyde@lemmy.world avatar

Found the Musk fanboy lmao.

OceanSoap ,

I’m a lady tho.

WhoRoger ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

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?

spaghettiwestern , (edited )

The 𝕏 is also a Unicode character:

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.

SkyNTP ,

Looks like some Lemmy apps confuse this link for /u/1

Whoops.

Gork ,

Hmm something tells me that Musk isn’t very good at forward thinking.

oxjox ,
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

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?

CYCLR ,

Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it’s just an unicode character

ThaNook ,

cant wait to have that on my keyboard!

actually that’s some nice merch idea

asexualchangeling ,

If it wasn’t associated with the muskrat now it might make a nice escape key

Denalduh ,

I think you mean 𝕏cape key.

RealFknNito ,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

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.

FilthyShrooms ,

Also the guy says “do whatever you want with it”, so not technically stealing

HughJanus ,

…that was after they debuted the design.

Contend6248 ,

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.

MrSlicer ,

Man I’m stealing that midas touch line. Haha

fugepe ,

Who gives a fuck.

EvilColeslaw , (edited )
@EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org avatar

It’s literally just a Unicode character.

From elsewhere:

𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”

DimberDamber ,

So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?

desconectado ,

That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.

probably ,

Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That’s why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.

Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.

EvilColeslaw ,
@EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org avatar

The thing is, fonts are copyrightable but typefaces aren’t. Typefaces are the symbols, fonts are the files that contain all the symbols along with the formatting and everything else that let you use the typefaces in software. So he probably can’t copyright the symbol itself and it’s doubtful he could get a trademark on it either. But at the same time, copyright is also weird in that if he made an image and had that X in it, he would have the copyright to that specific image. But that’s only insomuch as anyone else would also own the copyright of an image they made with the stupid X in it.

desconectado ,

That’s my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn’t get in trouble just for using an unicode character.

thepiguy ,

Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.

ThaNook ,

yeah it really does. also it makes it funnier how elon has joked with URL “x.com”, knowing xorg’s website is at x.org

edit: oh, so space Karen really did go forward with the x.com… well this will have funny consequences

deksesuma ,

X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.

Hildegarde ,

Is this all because Elon can’t afford to renew Twitter’s domain name?

deksesuma ,

He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.

Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)

skullgiver , (edited )
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    ThaNook ,

    yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!

    4am ,
    @4am@lemmy.world avatar

    Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement

    thejml ,

    Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    We have Wayland now, so he can have it. Most major software doesn’t even use the cool x.org features anyway.

    Golther ,

    Isn’t x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?

    sharun ,
    @sharun@lemmy.world avatar

    Not really

    src ,

    It is.

    I_Has_A_Hat , (edited )

    Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.

    onionbaggage ,

    Yes. I can almost guarantee that’s precisely what happened.

    marzipan ,
    @marzipan@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    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.

    galaxies_collide ,

    Calm down hun.

    Ph0mX ,
    @Ph0mX@kbin.social avatar

    This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.

    voidhearts ,

    I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.

    Rottcodd ,
    @Rottcodd@kbin.social avatar

    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.

    qrtr ,

    It’s well known that X is the edgiest letter.

    WildlyCanadian ,
    @WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

    H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔

    5am5ep1ol ,

    Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!

    philluminati ,

    E has more

    WildlyCanadian ,
    @WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

    I count 12, same as X and H, W has 13 tho

    asexualchangeling ,

    Thus proving Wayland is the true successor to X

    WildlyCanadian ,
    @WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca avatar

    Truly the edgiest display server

    DJDarren ,

    W has more edges, therefore I’m claiming W.com as a social media site only for the most reactionary right wing chuds.

    Anticorp ,

    Pssh, Z is the ultimate ending.

    agitatedpotato ,

    Im surprised he didnt use two Zs to make his logo.

    Anticorp ,

    Double ultimate! What can get more ultimate than that? Surely nothing.

    PinkPanther ,

    And the ZZ’s will be yellow, so it’s easy to spot and be recognisable.

    Sheltac ,

    Could even flip them horizontally for extra spiciness.

    Duamerthrax ,

    I didn’t know Slayers X was about Elon Musk.

    victron ,
    @victron@lemmy.world avatar

    Why didn’t he use the Cool S, tho?

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Shh, that’s for his next venture.

    Heastes ,

    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.

    victron ,
    @victron@lemmy.world avatar

    I didn’t know that. What a lame and petty mfer

    I_Has_A_Hat ,

    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.

    Duamerthrax ,

    Yes. Yes I do.

    Rottcodd ,
    @Rottcodd@kbin.social avatar

    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.

    phx ,

    Dude doesn’t even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he’d pay for fonts or creative work?

    pancakes ,
    @pancakes@sh.itjust.works avatar

    He should just skip a few steps and legally change his name to XxX_MuskyBoi420_XxX

    Gork ,

    It’s not that far off from his son’s name, X Æ A-12.

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