Siren, They/Them. CR stuff along with many other fandoms occasionally, but ALL fandoms/topics are tagged! my Persona 5 stuff in on Astralseasiren.tumblr.com
I slept in and just woke up, so here’s what I’ve been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
The official branding is that a tweet is now called “an X”, for which there are too many jokes to make.
The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn’t reclaim the username first.
The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name “X” in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for “X” in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term “X Japan” is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
Elon had workers taking down the “Twitter” name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says “er”.
He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as “Xvideo”. Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
Edit to add further developments:
Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.
Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.
The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.
The act of sending a tweet is now known as “Xeet”. They even added a guide for how to Xeet.
The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words “tweet” and “Twitter” are still all over the place on the site.
TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it’s because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).
This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to “X-Paypal” and eventually just to “X”.
This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to “pay online” (as in “I’ll paypal you the money”)
X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I’m not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he’s hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn’t be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.
Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.
The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.
One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won’t be enough to pay the debt (since it’s worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.
Sesame Street’s official accounts mocked the rebranding.
i like the term “gallows humor” because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like “i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution”
i like the term “gallows humor” because it always makes me think of someone getting sentenced to death and being like “i have GOT to be the funniest person at my public execution”
Make resurrection less reliable by making it an all or nothing thing.
That is, you either bring back no dead people or every dead person. No inbetween.
Forgive me, but i was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more. Do you mean everyone who died in that particular battle, that war, everyone whose death the caster has personally witnessed, everyone the caster has ever killed, everyone whose death the caster witnessed (or alternatively everyone they killed) in the past x amount of time (and/or within x distance of the caster), everyone who has ever died in the history of time, like…..
Additionally, what would the implications be if you used this NerfedRes spell on a species besides a humanoid race? In fact, would it affect humans if the caster’s primary target was an elf (or any similar situation with two or more humanoid races present)?
The possibilities are, like, A Lot, and that might’ve been the point n I jus missed it 😅
No, no, I mean every dead person.
All or nothing. Either you bring back every sapient being to have ever died or you bring back no-one.
A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️
this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day
Just started tears of the kingdom and all I can think of is link when he wakes up in a mysterious cave, butt naked and without any weapons with a disembodied voice guiding him:
Transcript: The dude playing Portal 2 stops in front of a conversion gel pipe and says “Hey, can someone follow real quick? *snrk* Can someone who isn’t following me just follow real quick? You can unfollow right after, I don’t even care.”
Deep voice clip: “COME.”
Dude: *starts laughing* “Thanks-”
DVC: “COME.”
Dude: *laughs harder*
DVC: “COME. COME.”
Dude: *laughs even harder* “Only one of you had to do it for it, for it-!”
DVC: “COME.”
Dude: *squeak-laughs* “Thanks, ‘preciate it.” *chuckles a bit more*
A soundbyte of Kirby’s victory dance plays in response to the superchat.
Dude: “Hoo, fuck.”
The superchat is read in a feminine text-to-speech voice: “Come.”
Dude: *starts cackling uncontrollably, is cut off by the end of the video*
So I think the best strat here is for the users who did get the new layout to just stop using the desktop version of the site for a while, like a week or a month or however long their ‘experiment’ is supposed to last, while the users who didn’t get the new layout should keep using the desktop version like normal or, perhaps, use it even more than usual.
My guess is that they’re doing basic A/B testing on the new layout to see if it would boost engagement: the userbase is split roughly 50/50 between the 2 versions and they are going to be comparing the engagement data between the 2 groups of users to see if it’s worth it switching everyone to the new layout or not.
Basically,if you got the new layout and don’t like it - don’t use it. If engagement metrics of group B (new layout) are lower than those of group A (no change), the experiment will be considered a failure and they will have to reverse the change.
If your tumblr suddenly looks like twitter - it’s a sign to log off and go touch some grass! (or just use the mobile app since that engagement data isn’t relevant to this particular experiment)
Don’t just not use it, send feedback too!
There’s a “contact us” option to send feedback about features being launched. GIVE FEEDBACK IN THE APPROPRIATE SPACE!
Not to “As a professional UX researcher” on this thread, but yeah, as a professional UX researcher, now is the exact time to provide clear (but kind!! the poor UX team is usually not responsible for these decisions) feedback on what your thoughts are in regards to this change.
In my job, if I were doing an AB test on a site layout and every person I interviewed said “I hate it, it looks like knockoff twitter, please put the old one back” then I would be very excited to include a nice little bullet point in my report that says “[x] number of participants disliked the new layout :)”
They want feedback? Give it to them.
Don’t be cruel. But tell the truth.
My take (for those who care): Make this particular change optional. New users can adopt it if they like. Me? I seriously dislike the way it’s abusing the screen real estate I prefer after years of use.
Making the new dash arrangement mandatory (if I’m any indication) is going to seriously annoy many longtime users.
just because someone is your favorite character doesnt mean theyd have the same moral alignment as you. wheatley from portal wouldnt say “my pronouns are he/him, thank you for asking!” hed say “what uhh. what does that mean. um. you mean the nouns im most "pro” at is that what youre saying? i like to think im pretty pro,, at all nouns really. umm lets see… apple, kazoo, bubble, happy, door, umm… cake. not too fond of cake really i think its alright but. not my Favorite. if it were up to me though id eat a whole cake in one sitting. if i were a human. not a human, clearly. also not sure if id, know what cake even tastes like. if i tried it. no tastebuds. no Mouth… no. hole. anywhere on my body. haha um,, well anyways id. id say im pretty Pro Nouns. dont see why anyone wouldnt be… what? you mean what i Go By? what do you. ohhhh. ummm. the male ones. the male pronouns. if i can remember what they are… definitely the ones for guys. manly men. like me. pretty sure im a man,,,“ and you need to accept this
Need a new word for old blorbos that aren’t really your blorbos anymore but you still feel fondness or them. The series ended or you fell out of the fandom, but your mutuals still put them on your dash sometimes and you go aw. he’s still out there making it in the big city.
Blorbeens is the funniest response so far thank you. They been my blorbos
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