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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

AOL-Time-Warner.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

Obligatory fuck Twitter

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

A lot of these aren't technically dead-names. They're parent corporations that exist to shuffle around profits and minimize tax and regulatory liabilities. Facebook and Google both continue to exist as properties owned by Meta and Alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 weeks ago

Chiquita Brands International? Nah United Fruit Company? Bingo

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Deadnaming regions (using their indigenous names instead of colonial names)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves

[–] CidVicious 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you're right about though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll call it x once he sells the domain. Sell it you coward.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

He did sell it…to himself. His AI company bought it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Corporations are living like it's 1930.

Just change your name and the past goes away.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is calling it Twitter is deadnaming?

Maybe we should tell this pervert of Mr Musk we call it Twitter as long he is referring to his daughter by her penis.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It will always, always be Monsanto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] wolframhydroxide 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bought by Bayer and quietly dropped

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think we should call it x. Twitter was this pioneering microblogging site. X is an extremist echo chamber that was created in 2023.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny thing is Twitter was cesspool even before Musk got his hands on it. I was actually impressed he managed to make it significantly worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

twitter 2012-2015 was peak. ironically youtube 2012-2015 was peak.

basically dan and phil, grace, hannah, mamrie, and tyler oakley are the reason for the success of youtube and twitter not good and twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It sure was, I'm willing to let that fact get buried so the contrast appears sharper, let time gild twitter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why people call xitter which is comfortably close to shitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Companies didn't rename themselves. Rich CEOs renamed them against their will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

CEO: I am the Senate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That one has quite a few more steps, AT&T had to re-acquire Southern Bell>Bellsouth, Southwestern Bell, MCI, and a bunch of other subordinate companies to resurrect the reality of Ma’Bell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, iirc Cingular was the last nail to be removed from the coffin, and that happened over a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

does this mean you still call the bottle of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring aunt jemima

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You can't take her from me, growing up she was the only person who every looked at me with kindness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Meta? More like "Meta mis juevos en tu boca!"

Edit: Directed towards zucc, of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Republicans? Whigs!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I thought this was about Blackwater, you know, the company that massacred unarmed civilians for shits and giggles