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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.

If you search for "brandname twitter", you're probably going to get what you want. "brandname x" will be a SEO catastrophe.

Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract... Here's my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:

Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations -- or all of these)
Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Firefox still has the fox:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that’s my bad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It kooks like children were forced to design corporate logos in ms paint.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X

Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, that reminds me of IAMX

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don't want to hire real designers. I don't think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You must have missed this…

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/if-other-media-companies-thought-about-brand-equity-the-way-elon-musk-thinks-about-twitters-er-xs/

X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I'll be changing my username to 's' as soon as I finish typing this. /s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

A brand that limits users on how many content they can see wouldn't want them to use their search engine when there is a free one that does it better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~my bad, replied to wrong comment~~