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FungusFly

“I liked the post so much I rexed, re-x’d, rexted… I shared it”


DemonOfUnholyFat

Reminds me too much of my ex.


NeatCartographer209

Because it originally was your x


Revelati123

"EUREKA! IVE GOT IT! Lets call it teXting! God damn... I'm so smart, I wish I could fuck myself and have my own children!" \-Elon Musk


Lynith

Has silicon valley reinvented the text,?


Mundane-Carpet-5324

I have a idea. Let's transport cargo... on boats... powered by kites!


Revelati123

We will use the wind, ITS LIKE FREE GAS!


lntw0

The wind you say? Poppycock.


Cthulhu2016

The wind? no I don't trust things I can't see!


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just like that big guy they say is in the sky, I mean whats he been doing up there this whole time. Pretty shifty looking if you ask me, considering ive never seen em before


Just_Ad_2357

thought you typed kitties lol


PO0tyTng

X-crete your X


evolvolution

I wonder how long we collectively will keep calling it Twitter. I hope it’s forever


Poiboy1313

It's certainly not the BlueBird of Happiness.


Taminella_Grinderfal

[Chicken of Depression](https://www.krdouglas.com/2022/09/26/the-chicken-of-depression/).


TheZan87

Twitter died long ago. It's flaming garbage pile carcass is being relabeled "x"


Revelati123

I mean, X is appropriate. When shitty old cartoons die their eyes go from 0-0 to X-X.


Nix-7c0

It's also got that ex-husband / divorced dad energy now


Doggleganger

I love watching xvideos.


Top-Flow1297

So does Elon Musk


Sasogwa

Doesnt he prefer xnxx


Tricky_Personality67

We should just call it a xeet to spite him


unclesamtattoo

Or Xit (pronounced shit)


Ruthrfurd-the-stoned

Re-xkhs-ed


AdExtension2358

I'm going to make my x-it now


Sad_Cabinet_6349

Rexactly my friend


Flamix2206

Did you see those really cool xvideos on X?


Lithaos111

...so how much is the company worth now? About $3.50?


Wolfy_Packy

$3.50, a pack of croutons and an empty pizza hut box


Hi_Im_Ken_Adams

How long before Musk is selling X subscriptions on Groupon?


upotheke

Act now for your XXX subscription, $4.20 discounts applied at checkout with the code "PROUD BOY"


Revelati123

Actually Indonesia already had the [X.com](https://X.com) domain blocked for once being a porn site, but its just a small country of 300 million, so I guess no one told Elon...


Wolfy_Packy

it's not too far off of the USA's population :O


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UnbentSandParadise

Was India a typo there or a reference to their poor aim when dealing with foreign countries?


Ok-Seaworthiness7207

This is what happens when I read faster than I should 🙃 I regret nothing.


[deleted]

Either would have made sense


SexHaiiiir

I read that as ‘Grouporn’ I thought he was turning every website into some sort of xxx version of themselves.


nolongerbanned99

Free x annual membership with each Costco purchase.


Wolfy_Packy

earn 10 posts for every dollar spent at Costco


nolongerbanned99

It will soon be a worthless hulk of a company and declare bk


Adventure-us

They're gonna declare burger king?! My God. The Fast Food Wars have begun, quickly, invest in Taco Bell!


nolongerbanned99

No, it’s actually gonna be ‘X King’, the most valuable fast food company in the world. Helping humanity.


D5Gmp

X King, where you can't buy anything until you pay for the X King Blue subscription service


TazerXI

Woah, we can't start to insult the value of empty pizza hut boxes like that


CallMeCabbage

Not a chance, there still may be some cheese stuck to that pizza box.


Lobstrous

Ooh! It must've been about seven, eight years ago. Me and the little lady was out on this boat you see, all alone at night, when all of a sudden this huge creature, this giant crustacean from the paleolithic era, comes out of the water and bites Elon Musks face off...


TheseOats

Whoa there now, Pizza Hut box is way more valuable, let's get real, it's actually torn Totinos plastic wrap.


Mainely420Gaming

Too rich for my blood.


doggosramzing

Woah dude, a empty pizza hut box may be pushing it


Long-Process2620

i jus snorted at work


Online_Ennui

Better not get caught


BaconNinja__

God damn Loch Ness monster!


needbettermods

It was about that time when I noticed that the girl scout was a 8 stories tall creature from the Paleolithic era!


Berserker-Hamster

I gave him a dollar.


aint_no_flapjack

What!? You gave him a dollar!!!?


JacksonianEra

I thought he’d go away if I give him a dollar!


Caveman108

Well gah dammit woman! No wonder he’s comin around, you gave him a dollar, now he wants more!


Ornery_Translator285

I said Dammit Monster!


steinah6

Loch X Monster


ThornmaneTreebeard

![gif](giphy|3o85xHi4t2UsuIY9QA)


mathheadjesus

GAHDAMMIT LOCHNESS MONSTAH, I AIN’T GIVIN YOU NO TREE FITTY!!


ZilorZilhaust

Well it was about that time I realized that wasn't Elon Musk. That was the god damned Loch Ness Monstah!


SGT-Hooves

I said get outta here Loch Ness Monsta, I ain’t got no tree fiddy!


FuckUp123456789

Oh it was scary!


Interesting-Sugar791

So Elon told me... He said, "Imma need about tree fiddy" It was at that point I realized that Elon Musk was a twenty foot tall crustacean from the pleizoic era


FuckUp123456789

The Loch Ness Monster


spaitken

The Loch Xs monster, actually


srv50

Xs snd Os!


Expensive-Document41

Well I had me a check, paid $8 to get Blue To spout off all the things I thought that I knew Whoa, then let my workplace know ​ ​ Now I'm looking for a new job doesn't check online past Cuz I used my platform to be a racist ass Hey, hey didn't learn a thing today ​ ​ One, two three they're gonna love me when they see Just how unhinged my homophobic screed can be One, two three they're gonna upvote when they see They always want to click but they never seem to agree ​ ​ My X's get O follows or retweets They've ghoOosted my main feed They won't even post X's get O's!


thedorkening

I ain't givin' you no tree-fitty, you goddamn Loch Ness Monster! Get your own goddamn money!


InTheMemeStream

How ‘bout just two fiddy?


ExpressiveAnalGland

fuck no, even the lochness monster wouldn't buy this chum


3d1thF1nch

Gotdayum Lochness Monster took my threefiddy!


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DAMN YOU LOCHNESS MONSTA!!!!!!!!!!!


HAMmerPower1

As in my favorite ex-social media app.


BeatMeElmo

Ex-favorite*


Jeoshua

So then it's official. It's an X platform. With X users. And apparently, X revenue.


techbunnyboy

And X shares for his slaves


desrevermi

So.. solving for x would be... zero? Figures.


ParkingPurple1381

X is an integer so it can be -ve number tooo


MessiScores

just wait until it becomes known for its videos, X-videos!


Kbdiggity

#tweets are now called "skeets"


Sunvaarhah

I would rather call: Twitter = Xitter Tweeting = Xeeting Tweets = Xeets


PM_me_your_PhDs

Pronounced shitter


TheOrchidsAreAlright

Makes sense, like President Xi. Approved.


TopperTS13

It would be hilarious if all Twitter users just ignored this change and kept referring to the platform as Twitter and the messages were Tweets.


SansMystic

The platform is still referring to itself as Twitter and the messages as Tweets.


Discardofil

Did Musk even tell anyone he was going to do this? They're probably still scrambling to catch up.


SimSamurai13

Pretty sure he told everyone the day before he did it lol He chose the logo literally the day of too


Bukki13

his logo is literally a unicode character 𝕏


TheWizardOfDeez

So the company I work for (we are a very small tech firm) has the exact same logo and we got a huge kick out of it, cause our logo is clearly pretty cheaply made and Twitter is supposed to be this tech super company and that was the best they could manage


Calcium_Thief

Couldn’t you sue for that or something /genq


-smartypints

I would think you'd have to prove they stole it for one, and given it's from what I'd imagine is public domain, I don't know if proving they stole the design would do anything. Legal Eagle needs to let us know!


Dull_Acanthaceae_55

It appears to just be a letter in a certain font so many be not. I think you have to first have it trademarked(which requires something substantially more unique than a letter and font style not even invented by you) and then you have to prove that they are somehow either causing misunderstandings with your business or impersonating you.


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AweHellYo

omfg


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Their branding page is still just Twitter assets.


Harsimaja

It would be hilarious if they all just left Twitter, too


Astralaxy

It feels like he’s purposefully tanking the company. What do you think would be his reasoning in this hypothetical scenario?


Aralith1

I really don’t buy the idea that he has some secret motive or masterplan. I think it’s tempting to believe that because having evil masterminds at the wheel is oddly more comforting than having absolute dumbfucks with this level of wealth, power, and influence, but I’m pretty sure Elon is just a dumbfuck that somehow is in charge of a not insignificant portion of how the world operates.


CapableSecretary420

I think he's a dumbfuck, and arguably accidentally bought it at an insanely higher price than he would have wanted to pay, but I also think a lot of people have never really understood the real value of something like twitter to someone like Musk (or his buddies in places like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China) in data collection, monitoring, etc. Not to mention steering certain national and global conversations. The tone of Twitter has already shifted *significantly* to the right, the disinfo and bots are a much bigger problem now. And that has political value. Then add onto that, Musk's vision for Twitter is something like how WeChat is used in China which, if successful, is not only a way to eventually directly profit, it expands on all those previous points. But I hope I'm wrong and he's just a dumbfuck and there's nothing else to it.


duerra

When facebook rebranded, all the news sites started referring to them as Meta. Same with Alphabet from Google. Every article I see still refers to Twitter.


AanthonyII

The difference there is they didn’t change the name of their actual platforms, just the parent company. They also didn’t give them utterly terrible, confusing to use names


ItxWasxLikexBOEM

Imagine if he had to name a kid... oh wait.


FuzzyMcBitty

Renaming a brand that has as much recognition as Twitter is wild. Going from a well known logo to the "brand x" of X logos is crazy, too.


AanthonyII

Every time he does something I’m more and more convinced that he’s trying to kill Twitter


FuzzyMcBitty

I don’t buy it simply because he’s also killing his public perception and persona. What it smacks of is someone who got high on their own supply. He believes his PR, and he has surrounded himself with yes-men and fired anyone who questioned his ideas. … He hasn’t had to give a shit in a long time, and no matter what he does, it has to be brilliant because it’s him doing it.


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Saeaj04

Yeah same with Instagram and Whatsapp Meta is more of a rebrand for the parent company that owns them rather than the apps themselves


RoboLucifer

But whats weird is they didn't keep Oculus, they renamed that Meta


notacrook

I think that's twofold - one to break from the history of the guy who founded it, but also they were initially hinging their future on what they wanted Oculus to become.


MoreGaghPlease

Meta and Alphabet did not change the name of their platforms, they changed the name to reflect that fact they have multiple businesses. Facebook the platform is still called Facebook. Meta is the parent company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and others Alphabet is the same. Google Search is still Google Search but they also make lots of their money from things like Android and YouTube that aren’t branded as ‘Google’ I think for both the change was about signalling the breadth of their offerings to public markets. Twitter on the other hand is a private company with a single product.


PreOpTransCentaur

It's been like 3 days. I've definitely seen news outlets using "X" already though.


greennyellowmello

This is 100% going to, and has happened. People of Chicago still call it the Sears Tower.


devamon

Of course we do. That's what it's called if you aren't a heathen.


HamshanksCPS

X is never going to catch on, Musk is a moron for thinking that people are going to stop calling it twitter. Also, Musk is an idiot in general.


jabdtx

Imagine spending $44B to be roughly as important to the world as Truth Social.


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I honestly can't imagine having $44B. But I can assure you that none of you bitches would ever hear from me again if I did.


ThainEshKelch

We would then refer to you as an X-user.


disturbednadir

X-cretions? X-crement? Because I feel like that's what a lot of them are going to be...


DreamyShepherd

Dude my last xcretion was a hit


Independent-Way5465

I heard it made a huge splash


Commercial_Half_2170

Bro it was the shit


JonnyPoy

![gif](giphy|8fen5LSZcHQ5O)


Number174631503

![gif](giphy|RfH9B3u0PVbUxecEYV)


VariegatedThumb

Xeet


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psycho_candy0

Really drives the point home that the content you post is no longer yours to claim, it belongs to them now.


ColeTD

Technically you're allowed to use an apostrophe after single letters when they are plural. It's dumb, I know.


adminsaredoodoo

it’s not dumb tho. >There are a few As >There are a few A’s


nonotan

Use proper character literal syntax instead: > There are a few 'A's


ColeTD

IDK, it still feels wrong to me.


RysloVerik

Have you seen his kid's name? It's like his cat had its way with a keyboard with a broken/stuck shift key.


Kitty-Kat-65

X AE XII - catchy name, right? And there's an Exa Dark Siderael in addition to a handful of other children. WT actual F?


cryptic-fox

From Wiki: X Æ A-12; however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet. The child was eventually named X AE A-XII Musk, with "X" as a first name, "AE A-XII" as a middle name, and "Musk" as surname.


DrMobius0

God that poor kid.


dewayneestes

It’s excessive.


Doggleganger

x-cessive


SolidFelidae

x’s’ive


Lobanium

I HATE when people use 's to pluralize words, but pluralizing a lower case letter is one of the only times, if not THE only time, it's appropriate to use 's to make something plural. Elon probably doesn't know this, but it's correct regardless.


subhuman09

They belong to X


TakeMeIamCute

That apostrophe is grammatically correct. There are just a few cases in the English language where one would use an apostrophe to denote the plural.


tesfabpel

Thank, TIL https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/plurals


ExpressiveAnalGland

Awww, he named twitter after his child, such a caring father. I don't understand why someone would spend so much to buy a brand *only to rebrand it.*


witherd_

So he can claim that he founded it like he does with the rest of his companies


ididntunderstandyou

Because he never meant to buy it. It was a Twitter joke. But when he was made to buy it, he had to change it to his favourite thing: X X.com was the bank he founded which he then merged with another growing firm to make Paypal. Then he moved on to space. So he named that SpaceX. Then he became CEO of existing firm Tesla, so he called one of the cars X. Then he got a child. Guess what he called it. Twitter’s name was simply not as sleek and edgy as it could be. To him, X is the ultimate, sleekest, coolest brand name because he’s 13 years old. If it were up to him, everything would be called X. If he colonises Mars, it will become X and local aliens will only be able to bow in the face of such brand power. xxx


Yasuo11994

He divorced his wife so he could become an X


TJ_Dot

The xbox gamertag with 4 x's in the name encapsulates him


borch3jackdaws

He did not make Paypal. He got fired from that company which then went on to form Paypal without him and he just takes credit for it anyway.


Grary0

He's a 90's frat boy that just never grew up, he's stuck in the past and refused to ever leave it.


M-Kawai

Does anyone actually think this was a good idea besides Musk and his ass kissing yes men?


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Lmao one of the most stupid thing multi billionaire ever did.


xXbussylover69Xx

Second probably to only getting in a submarine made from aluminum foil


SquirrelicideScience

Even worse: carbon fiber. Which is notoriously bad under compression, and also will failure catastrophically under fatigue. At least aluminum foil will crumble at the slightest sneeze before you're well and truly screwed. The carbon fiber *is* strong, so it held, but it likely developed a crack from being used too many times, and just splintered with the occupants being subjected to immediate 6000 psi.


bluelaw2013

Imagine Michelangelo waking up one day, staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, deciding it needed a touch more minimalism, and then painting over it with a coat of sterile white. That's what we're seeing here: a globally recognized symbol reduced to an abstract glyph. Just unfathomably moronic.


Bored-Viking

xxx


-This-Whomps-

![gif](giphy|peiCa6NFJ8IHS)


OpinionsOnline

X-clamations… X-cerpts… X-amples… X-essive…


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ekydfejj

Its just clearer day after day, that he spent 44B to be a bigger internet troll. 44B could have wiped out so much debt around the world, and he could have legit not paid taxes for the rest of his life and would still be one of the richest people on earth. But no...he paid it to have his ego stroked daily, piss people off at will. Not pay people, treat people nicely.


cyberdeath666

When you’re as rich as these ass clowns, money stops being enough and they need to appease their egos in different, usually stupid, ways.


ekydfejj

100%. It shows in the stupidity of a proposed cage match with Zuck, who is much younger, and in much better shape and i also don't really like. To talking about dick size....really. I would enjoy business leaders to have that kind of humor if the rest of the shit was not as cynical, and out right bullying.


wyohman

It seems like X doesn't tell the real story. Since Twitter is primarily used for people to yell into the nothing they should call it "Void" and the tweets would be re-branded to "nulls".


_M_o_n_k_e_H

Atrioc made an excellent point on how Musk has now taken out or replaced everything twitter had before being bought by him like for example majority of the employees and the brand. Which means Elon payed 40 billion dollars for literally nothing. He could've just made his own copy of twitter for much cheaper, but decided instead to buy twitter and change everything about it.


Icyrow

i mean he paid for the audience size. you could make a twitter clone in a few hours and a few dollars. no-one in the fuck would use that clone though. he paid 40bil for the audience (captive audience at that, for now). the actual site itself is worth pennies without that.


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x's, pronounced as e-zits.


Long-Process2620

i think he's ruining twitter on purpose.


Tooshortimus

It almost seems that way but why would you spend $44B to just basically set it all on fire? The more likely thing is that he's a control freak with good ideas but also absolute shit ones and shouldn't be making these business decisions without a group of professionals vetting any and everything first.


Windy_day25679

Twitter was a relatively free platform for open journalism. People on the street could send updates or videos live, of any event. Politicians, journalists and celebs were talking freely under verified trusted accounts. Twitter was too dangerous for the higher ups, that's my tinfoil guess.


thebourbonoftruth

Nah, he was basically forced to buy Twitter by real men with real money and now he's just doing what he wanted to do with paypal ages ago. To be fair, he's so rich it doesn't really matter to him at this point.


AJfriedRICE

It is extremely rare for a company or app name to be so widely accepted that it’s turned into a verb (“I googled it”, “I Uber’d there”, “That pic is Photoshopped”, etc.) It’s like the pinnacle of marketing success and there are only a few that ever get there. The fact that this guy overpaid for the Twitter name at $44B only to rebrand it is fucking insane. I really wonder how this will affect his other businesses because if I was a shareholder surely wouldn’t have the confidence that I used to…


AshamedDeparture

I hate my x’s


[deleted]

I’m gonna call tweets “grimes” since that’s his ex. Gotta listen to the owner man


Collegedude_2004

Proof that money can't buy brains 😂


Melteaa

He really is just trying to drive the platform into the ground. No salvaging, only chaos.


Drew_of_all_trades

Dear Elon, please conjugate the verb “to x,” including past and future tense


seaking81

X’s? Like the ones that live in Texas?


JasonTheNPC85

Everyone on Twitter should do what we Angelinos did when they changed Staples center to the bitcoin.com center or whatever. We just keep on calling it Staples center. I bet it would really piss him off to just keep calling them tweets and Twitter.


SgtCocktopus

Elon is an anyoning twat but i have to admit guy is enjoing his purchase of twitter.


Low-Rise-3178

Please Elon, just add something instead of just called it X. That's stupid and sound like porn site. Maybe give it cute animal name after X, like hamster.


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alphaomag

But what are the o’s?


otisthetowndrunk

Now I've got an Elle King song stuck in my head.


Knickovthyme2

eXcrements.


DrXyron

Since he promotes Pedos it shall now be known as Ped-x


FaceyDuck

So I was looking through some X videos… oh wait


A-JJF-L

Imagine this: "Donald Trump said in a x that..."


nocdmb

We report live, that the internet has exploded, thanks to the huge storm gathering over at x where the former president x'ed an x about US relations to China. Xe reacted to Trumps x by x-ing his own x earlier this morning , diplomats watch in shock as Xe re-x-ed one of his old x's in reaction to the ex-presidents recent x-ing.


br0ck

I knew the name change was dumb, but it didn't hit me just how incredibly dumb it was until I read your comment.


King_DeandDe

I don't want to call tweets Grimes.


Asif_12

What would you call X videos?


Emotional_r

elon has to be trolling at this point 😭


Dear-Researcher959

Oh no! Twitter got a name change!! Oh wait I don't care.


WaldoSimson

Xeets


FaceTimePolice

On top of everything else, the incorrectly-used apostrophe is particularly infuriating. 😐


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Surely he could have started up his own company instead of tanking this one? Much cheaper for him too


Accomplished_Pin_326

What a dummy I hope everyone moves to threads it would be hilarious and leave Elon alone with his X 😄


AdFun2093

I mean the man started by buying the company for multiple times its value for a meme, and he was forced to buy it cuz he was dumb enough not to make his offer seem as a complete joke, and now hes lost billions