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Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.
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It’s just 𝕏
elon coming for your copyright infringement!
Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?
𝕏𝕏𝕏
It’s gon’ give it to ya!
The claw’s gonna gitcha.
wizardry!
it’s just
\mathbbsmhWhat does this mean? Is this latex?
Yes, in a LaTeX formula
\mathbb{X}produces exactly that logo.
I’m sorry, did you say ten?
I already made that joke yesterday
Well keep it going!
Maybe that’s the point though? You were able to type it into a comment and have it pop up on our screen identically to the actual logo.
He wants people to type the symbol instead of ‘X’
If that’s the case, then he is severely overestimating two populations:
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people who know how to input unicode characters
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people who want to talk about twitter
- People who had math in high school and have seen blackboard bold/double struck characters
- Copy/Paste
- It seems like a lot of people are talking about twitter even if mostly negative. I see it in the news and online way more often than before Elon bought it. And we are talking about it now ;)
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Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.
Makes sense.
Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he’s saved, so while he was still focused on the “X” idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, “Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!”
Thus are decisions made by the world’s richest teenage edgelord.
It’s well known that X is the edgiest letter.
Pssh, Z is the ultimate ending.
Im surprised he didnt use two Zs to make his logo.
Double ultimate! What can get more ultimate than that? Surely nothing.
I didn’t know Slayers X was about Elon Musk.
H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔
Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!
E has more
I count 12, same as X and H, W has 13 tho
Thus proving Wayland is the true successor to X
Truly the edgiest display server
Dude doesn’t even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he’d pay for fonts or creative work?
Why didn’t he use the Cool S, tho?
Elon has trauma from being ousted as CEO by the board at x.com (the company that would later become PayPal).
He’s living in the past.
I didn’t know that. What a lame and petty mfer
Let me get this straight; you actually think Elon Musk, himself, combed through images he personally saved, found the X, and personally submitted it as the logo replacement.
Elon Musk. The crazy douche billionaire. You really think he sat at his computer and spent time doing that.
You don’t think, maybe, just maybe, a man with more money than God might have gotten someone else to do it? I can see him being out of touch and not caring enough about quality to say “go with that one” without checking where it came from. But I just can’t see Musk himself looking through fonts to find an “X” that he likes.
looking through fonts to find an “X” he likes
So… you didn’t read the OP.
Yes though - I really do believe that he personally chose it, or more likely already had it in mind.
And then he played some Diablo IV, then jerked off, then played some more Diablo IV.
Yes. Yes I do.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
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yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!
X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.
Is this all because Elon can’t afford to renew Twitter’s domain name?
He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.
Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)
It’s literally just a Unicode symbol.
From elsewhere:
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.
Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That’s why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.
Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.
The thing is, fonts are copyrightable but typefaces aren’t. Typefaces are the symbols, fonts are the files that contain all the symbols along with the formatting and everything else that let you use the typefaces in software. So he probably can’t copyright the symbol itself and it’s doubtful he could get a trademark on it either. But at the same time, copyright is also weird in that if he made an image and had that X in it, he would have the copyright to that specific image. But that’s only insomuch as anyone else would also own the copyright of an image they made with the stupid X in it.
That’s my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn’t get in trouble just for using an unicode character.
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.
You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk’s methods.
No, you have to buy someone else’s billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.
No. You need the company first.
To be fair, that design is a pretty basic one. Like extremely basic. Sure it’s cleaned up and modernized but trying to say it was stolen is a reach. Elon does still have the Midas Touch where everything turns to gold, in which he subsequently murders everything he touches and makes even gold worthless.
This is like the discussion about how others were copying Apples corners, they are fucking round corners.
There is only so much you can design about an X, so no matter how they would design it, someone made that. You can find countless issues with Musk, but that’s just sad and desperate.
Man I’m stealing that midas touch line. Haha
Also the guy says “do whatever you want with it”, so not technically stealing
…that was after they debuted the design.
Looks like the X.Org server logo
It’s LaTeX
mathbb{x}
As a graphic designer, I knew at a glance that nobody was paid to make that stupid “x”.
If a client as big as Twitter asked me for an X logo I’d be so fucking depressed. It would be such a pain to make a proper logo like that without looking exactly like a dozen other ones, because it’s hack and has been done to death.
The X everything app is literally some high school composition notebook doodle shit Elon has been clinging to for over 20 years. He’s like the dad from the movie Holes that thinks he’s a great inventor, but just keeps catching the house on fire and stinking up the place.
some high school composition notebook doodle shit
Kindergarten shit. “I want everything to be X.”
He would have named the car company teXla if he could.
His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.
He has achieved nothing.
I was just thinking about all the websites that have the Facebook logo, the Instagram logo, and the Twitter logo on their pages. That’s just supposed to be an X now?
Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it’s just an unicode character
cant wait to have that on my keyboard!
actually that’s some nice merch idea
If it wasn’t associated with the muskrat now it might make a nice escape key
I think you mean 𝕏cape key.
For me it’s just the Jagex logo!
/c/accidentalRunescape
That’s kinda stretchy
Thought the same
It’s in the Unicode set.
𝕏
It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.
Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.
Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.
They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦♂️
Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement
Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.
Isn’t x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?
Not really
It is.
This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.
