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[โ€“] [email protected] 141 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Brilliant move by Musk. 'X' has long been identified as the universal symbol for closing out of an application. Hopefully with this move even more people will permanently close out of Twitter and move on so I don't have to read so many dumb news stories where the lazy journalist uses a few random tweets as their "source" for the headline.

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let's also not forget it's adult connotations, things are rated "X" for a reason ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't wait till Premium X membership is known as "XXX Members".

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Then Elon's handle changes to "Professor"

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, if anybody here has seen Foodfight!, maybe I'm not the only one who thinks of Brand X

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brand X has been associated with generic off-brand for a long long time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, but I'm talking about a very specific Brand X.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's hilarious. And hopefully!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's funny you should say that because I just deactivated my Twitter account. I never used it, and now I never will use it. Lemmy > Everything.