Your sounding kind of unhinged there 😂 I’d say Elon is a pretty successful guy… odds are X will be very successful too, i’ll Support it!
Unhinged? No, dude, I'm a design and typography teacher and I feel personally insulted for seeing this idiot manbaby peddle a LITERAL UNICODE GLYPH as a “brand”, transitional or otherwise.
Here, look, the glyph itself, for your viewing pleasure and copy-and-paste needs:
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And its entry on the Character Palette:
If any student of mine presented this crap in class for a branding assignment, I'd fail them on the spot for plagiarism/laziness/sheer audacity. Besides what I've mentioned before regarding rebranding strategies in general, this is proof positive that Musk is a scammer, and playing you all simps as fools.
The fact of the matter is, as I've said before, Twitter is either completely broke to the point of not even being able to afford a graphic designer, or this idiot woke up one morning and fired off an edict to his frontend team (if there's even a team to speak of, maybe it's just one guy after all of his purges 😂) asking for an “X” to satisfy his instant gratification needs, and those (that?) poor sod(s) only had time to grab the first cool X-looking alternate glyph they could find, instead of, oh, you know, giving a proper design team a couple of days to come up with something polished and aesthetically decent (albeit completely stupid from a naming and strategic standpoint, but that ship has sailed now; also, a few days would be patently insufficient by any reasonable industry standard, but at least it would've allowed them to
pretend they cared), because
you're not supposed to be changing your logo every month, even if we're not talking about big revamps, for the same psychological reasons I mentioned before. Which, you know, just goes to show that he governs this particular company like a raging lunatic who listens to no one, and I'm pretty sure his brand-spanking-new CEO knows at least this basic branding concept and either tried to tell him, or would've if only she wasn't afraid of upsetting the manbaby and getting the axe, or something.
I'd never buy a vehicle from this man, as he's lazier and shadier than even a used car salesman from a bad place (apologies to honest used car salespeople, of course, but this is obviously a hyperbolic play on stereotypes).
P.S.: If I do sound even this bit close to being unhinged, I'll tell you why: I'm an ADHDer and I tend to rant a lot, including on Twitter, out of which I'm deleting thousands of tweets (still
a thousand to go), and I'm
pissed at this idiot and also at the platform itself. It had some cool quirks and interesting people hanging there, and an important social function, but it was always a veritable time sinkhole, and ended up being more toxic than anyone expected (ikr?). And guess what, Elon came and turned it into MORE of a dumpster fire, and people egged him on, and kept applauding, and applauding, and simping, and keep doing so as this Titan sub of a platform fulfils its inevitable destiny. The circus clown does nothing but fritter away billions of dollars from his Tesla clients, the taxpayers (remember NASA), the advertisers, his paying users (don't forget the whole “blue” thing either), etc., and he still gets not only a pass, but… actual accolades? WTAF?
Think of all the time and money wasted on this stupid venture, including mine now in nuking my footprint from it, because the external APIs that would've allowed me to give it the same one-click treatment as I gave to my Reddit account last month were abolished by El Mosco, and as I'm pretty sure that thing is on its death throes and at the mercy of hackers and other bad actors at any moment, time is of the essence. Heck, they even DDoS'ed themselves the other day due to his inane – and likely debt-induced – policies, so it's not like they need external help in the process of imploding. And all of this because the dude has Kapton foil for skin and couldn't bear being made fun of (even if he did have a hidden, grand master plan to ape WeChat in the US and elsewhere… why did he have to act in this truly unhinged way – sans quotes –, pray tell? Act like an idiot long and consistently enough, and eventually people will become convinced that you really
are an idiot, and Musk seems very intent on establishing just that). 🤦♂️
Also,
following comedian and ADHD-advocate extraordinaire Elyse Myers's lead,
I do not receive your very unfortunate quip that I sound “kind of unhinged”, and the only reason I even bothered to answer you at all is the simple fact that we do in fact share the exact same rank and aren't that far off in join date at MacRumors, which means we likely butted heads and/or agreed before and will keep doing so for a looong time, because if you were a random newbie, you would get a laugh react alone and that would be it. Anyway, I digress; did you even ponder for a moment the actual meaning of that word, “unhinged”? Despite all my neurodivergence and random personal failings, I never burned bridges or personal brand equity (and I do have it; besides being a consistent and successful designer and teacher, I'm a valuable member of my community, namely the Lisbon Mac user one, where I'm widely known on account of having worked for two years on our top design school as the Mac Room monitor and having tended to hundreds of students and many of our teachers) to the scale this idiot has, nor have I been publicly embroiled in über-toxic interpersonal relationships like his.
Whether you realize it or not, what you just did with me was classic
gaslighting (by proxy, because in this case you're not really defending yourself, but your… idol? Boss? Daddy? Dude, it's just a CEO, chill down, I'm not calling your purchase or your views automatically into question; not even during SJ's days did I ever see defensiveness quite like that around these parts), i.e. accusing me of the state of mind behind all the weird crap Musk did so far (seriously, have you looked at the names he and Grimes gave to their kids? 😂 Or the creepy and unfounded accusations he made at that guy during the soccer team cave rescue? Or the Hyperloop scam and Boring company pipe dream?) to try and invalidate my completely logical and sound arguments regarding his business acumen (or rather lack thereof).
I'm but a regular MacRumors forumgoer, just like you and the rest, and me writing a couple of rants here is my problem and my problem alone, as I'm now mainly a PhD student and answer only to myself, my supervisors, my teachers and my financing authority, all of whom only care about well-established deadlines and goals (which aren't incompatible with me taking the occasional break to “scream” at the proverbial cloud, mind you). Musk, on the other hand, has THOUSANDS of employees and MILLIONS of users/clients under his purview, and not only does he treat them abjectly (oh, do you think I forgot how Tesla craps all over Right-to-Repair AND workers' unions in a way that makes Tim Cook look like a saint?), he plays with his personal finances and his latest toy like a complete out-of-control idiot. Also, I'm quite a bit younger than him (14 years, to be exact) and seemingly more emotionally mature. Go figure… 🙄
