lol i went to delete a twitter account for reasons (i ran a satire account of my university’s president) and it wouldn’t let me.

EXCELLENT idea give me a moment

wow i can’t believe that worked

[Image ID: the first image is a screenshot of a tag that says #turn it into a musk parody account and get it banned

The second image is a screenshot of the now-suspended account. /end ID]

for reference: the time between “turn into musk parody account” and “suspended” was 8 minutes

apparently melon husk is actively rolling this out in other countries its actually joever

This cannot be fucking real

What do you mean this is fucking real

i really think everyone should archive everything important and get out while they still can, even moreso than six months ago

funniest possible response to getting my gender marker changed

elon musk should kill himself elon musk needs to kill himself elon musk would make society as a whole better if he killed himself now

LMAO TWITTER IS REALLY TURNING PVP IM LAUGHINGGGG

FREE FOR ALL, ITEMS ON, ANY STAGES

LOL

I think the reason the Twitter 𝕏 feels so bad to me is because it feels like a new flag being unfurled, and it evokes a "are we the baddies?" sort of feel.

Like "hey guys, here's our new uniforms. Don't mind the skulls."

Which feels a BIT unfair. If 𝕏 was for a phone, or a gamer PC, or a car, or any number of other tech things, I wouldn't bat an eye. 𝕏 is not inherently bad. It's potentially cool, even.

For social media, however, AND replacing the blue Twitter bird with a white 𝕏 on a black background ? It feels very out of place, and somehow sinister.

Not helped is the fact that Twitter 𝕏 apparently wants to be a jack of all trades, which sounds like it wants to be some sort of monopoly. That's not helping the super villain vibes.

Everything that Musk does make sense if you internalise the fact that he sees himself as the heroic if misunderstood "Mary Sue"-style self-insert protagonist of a sci-fi novel, specifically the genius visionary who expands the horizons of humanity with his leadership and cool ideas.

Unfortunately, he lucked into enough riches that the world and the people surrounding him confirm this fantasy instead of giving him a much-needed reality check, and as a result everything he does is an attempt to match up to the aesthetics of that image. Any time some aspect of the world does not conform what he would expect from his personal narrative, it frightens him, and so he has to reaffirm his awesomeness by doubling down on some new venture and prove that he was right/capable of doing the cool thing all along.

This happens fairly often, because he's not actually that competent - he's not a total idiot in a knowledge sense like some people make out, but he's not a genius, and as such can't live up to his expectation that he is one; plus the fantasy he is living in overrides much of the common sense he'd otherwise be able to lean on. Hence we so often get these bizarre outbursts and billion-dollar-scale resources being thrown at these weird aesthetic pursuits and the focus of some transient dreamland neurosis. It seems to be becoming more common as he pushes himself further into wonderland.

What would be best for him, and for us, would be for him to crash hard, in some way he really can't ignore, and see if it might not break the spell. Unfortunately there is enough money locked up in his ventures that it's hard for him to fuck up enough to lose it all, especially as his established businesses have adapted to work around his bizarre requests so that they don't compromise the income streams. So unless something changes I'm sure we're going to be getting more weird stuff like this.

X specifically is his long-running concept for his boundary-pushing monopoly everythingcorp that will take over the world (in a good way!!!1!!) by virtue of him being at the helm. It's the sort of thing I played pretend about when I was 15, except it's really stuck with him.

Elon Musk thinks he's Lazarus Long.

never in all of my years would i have expected to characterize a company’s rebrand as “actively hostile” and “potentially endangering lives” yet here we are

for context, that X sign is dangerously bright, directly faces an entire apartment complex, and to top it all off it fucking strobes

[Put snarky Penn Central related comment here]

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what happens when you change your web standards to be only english-speaker inclusive

i cannot emphasize enough how much elon musk is very much not killing twitter on purpose. he is not that smart. you are giving him too much credit. he makes cars that melt. a few weeks ago a billionaire imploded several other billionaires and himself in the ocean because of this same brand of born-rich brainworms. destroying a social media site because of a petty, long held grudge over his paypal co-founders not letting him rename that to "X" is not a stretch.

Please I need to read the article this comes from, I need it

This shit is so ugly you fucking idiot

xXx_elonmusk_xXx

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They’re about to break so many laws it’s not even funny, I can feel it in my bones

It’s about PayPal. This is all about fucking PayPal

He’s still pissed they fired him. He’s still pissed they didn’t like his idea of calling PayPal X

20 years and he has not learned a single thing. He’s still throwing a tantrum about people not liking his bad name suggestion decades ago

ok, now im convinced elon musk is doing this shit on purpose

"twitter" and "tweeting" is like a one in a million shooting star branding miracle, no other social media site has achieved that kinda ubiquity on the level of "google" or "photoshop". he just threw all that in the garbage for a generic name with a logo they can't protect

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How did X get even stupider.

THIS BITCH EMPTY

XEET

This is funnier than I ever could have imagined, out of every possible outcome, they went with XEET, fucking XEET

Just wanted to let everyone who isn’t aware yet know

-The amount of dms you can send on Twitter per day is now limited unless you have Twitter Blue, I can’t tell if it’s a 24hr period or if it resets at midnight but I ran out of “allowed” dms to my friend at 2:30am last night

-Elon has decided to rebrand Twitter to “X” and “get rid of all the birds”, completely removing the massive brand recognition Twitter has

-Tumblr is apparently trending in technology on Twitter right now

Also Japanese Twitter is having a field day because the rebranding would result in Twitter being called “X Japan”, which happens to be the name of a very famous Japanese rock band that’s been around since the 80s

x japan's founder has already posted a thinly veiled legal warning because apparently not only would it be hilariously stupid to make twitter japan "x japan", but the band owns the trademark, so they can't