I had a survey from them where I answered that dropping HBO from their branding was the second stupidest fucking decision they've made since Zaslav became CEO. Second only to removing legacy content and canning complete movies for tax purposes. That was maybe a month and change ago.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Inb4 it turns just to HBO and then a nameless entity. It has no name. It just exists. Like death.
The streaming service formerly known as...
A streaming service has no name.
smack
That's the Disney Channel (death of a career)
The original change dropping HBO was one of the stupidest branding changes I've ever seen (and there's a lot of competition). To be honest, they'd be better off dropping the Max part instead.
Logo designers without much talent not originality must make a living, too.
Don't forget... people got paid huge amounts to make these decisions 🙄
And paid huge amounts to pay for the marketing materials for the change. All when most people still called it HBO
Yep!
It's not about the destination, it's about all the managers who got bonuses along the way!
subscribed to Max
found zero Max Verstappen race wins
cancelled
Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand 'HBO Max' here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called 'Omroep MAX', which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.
HBO Sometimes Max
Your detransition is very valid nyah
Probably because "Max" sounds more like streaming service for cinemax than HBO. Just bad branding and arguably opens them up to copyright suit.
Are they also renaming their plans? Can't wait to sign up to HBO Max Max
somehow
I mean, it's pretty straightforward...
Why the fuck do they keep changing the name? What happened to HBO Go?
HBO max go.
No, HBO go go.
subbed a long time ago on a cable deal. play a few movies to death on rotation. no thanks. i could rent what i wanted to see for less
I was wondering why the HBO Dwight Schrute meme was making the rounds again. I swear this is the corporate equivalent of changing your pronouns every month.
That's like apple putting out a new same sized phone with no new options, but a different model number.
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