X logo looks like a Unicode symbol and the lower-case x from a Monotype font.
  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    11 months ago

    At this point I’m starting to think that Musk has some weird kink where he gets off on people thinking he’s a complete idiot. I can’t imagine how somebody can make so many bad decisions in a row. I just imagine him locked in his office just getting his jollies from the collective internet making fun of him.

    • bloopernova@infosec.pubEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      He’s just lived so long surrounded by fawning yes-men that he thinks his own shit don’t stink.

    • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Rebranding isn’t a bad idea tbf, but rebranding to x? Man call it xXgiga420socialmediaXx if you really want to be edgy and annoying. A more fair rebrand without jabs would probably be Bell or something since his other company Tesla is named after obviously the scientist

        • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          Well that’s the thing, he doesn’t want to be Twitter, he doesn’t want anything to even do with that brand name. So him rebranding is exactly a thing someone that got forced into buying it would probably do just to put distance between him and that original fiasco

          • TimoBRL@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            11 months ago

            I’ve heard this before, but I don’t know where this comes from. Why was he forced to buy Twitter?

            • Holomew@lemmy.worldEnglish
              9·
              11 months ago

              The TLDR is that he got pissy at Twitter, made some threats to buy it out, accidentally made some legally binding business decisions (making an offer to buy a majority stake of Twitter), and got sued when he tried to back out. So he had the choice of going through with his offer (which was about 45 billion) or get fined several billions and walking away. That’s the way I remember it all going down.

            • BeanGoblin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              11 months ago

              He just did to fuck with the stock price like he is known to do but he went too far with the stunt and when he tried to back out he legally wasn’t allowed to; he was contractually obligated to buy it at the inflated price he claimed it was worth.

            • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              51·
              11 months ago

              So I’m not the best to ask, but I’ll put down how I understood it. Basically musk put a “joke” offer on Twitter that he wanted to purchase it for x amount of money. The “joke” offer was for much more than Twitter was valued at and because musk had the means and funds to carry through with the deal it was considered a genuine offer. The board of investor meet and say “yes I want money” and take musk to court over his statements. He loses in court and they find him accountable for his tweet “joke” offer. And the rest is history. If I’m wrong please correct me

              • TheAndrewBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
                7·
                11 months ago

                That’s not exactly true. He’s talked about buying it for a little bit and was trying to buy enough shares to be on the board. The board essentially made that impossible so that’s when he put out the joke offer to buy it outright. But then he entered legitimate legal proceedings making that offer official and agreed to pay a certain amount in damages if he withdrew the offer. Then he tried to withdraw the offer saying it was a joke. Then they said “ok, pay us the damages you agreed to” and he tried to pretend that wasn’t real. Then eventually agreed to buy to get out of paying damages (and getting nothing out of it) because he knew his excuse would never hold up in court.

                So he wasn’t forced to buy it, he was forced to meet one of the two stipulations he agreed to in a contract, one of which was buying it.

                • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  Used 45 billion so he wouldn’t lose 1 billion.

                  The man is a genius of a level only seen giving mortgages in 2007.

        • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Well I was trying to make a rebrand suggestion without jabs lmao but you are right

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        Rebranding Twitter is a terrible idea. The whole branding is so embedded in culture as both a thing and a verb that the whole company’s value is the brand.

        Some rebranding is a good idea, but this one is terrible.

        This is coming from someone who always disliked Twitter, but can acknowledge it was successful for what it intended to be.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    21·
    11 months ago

    They did what at him? I think the headline meant to say, “Musk rushes out new X logo–it’s just an X that someone Xed at him.”

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    It’s just a blackboard bold letter from mathematical typography. Variables written in blackboard bold are often used to stand for sets, spaces, etc. — e.g. ℤ for the set of integers or ℚ for the set of rational numbers.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    141·
    11 months ago

    In addition to it just being a unicode char, as others have said, it’s also close enough the X.org logo that I’m guessing lawyers are already racking up billable hours.

    • Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      You’re joking right?

      An entirely volunteer run, open-source project scraping by on donations is going to have billable lawyers ready to go up against Twitter for this?

  • YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    Musk probably saved $500k by getting some sucker on the internet to give him a logo for free.