Also, ‘Twitter’ makes sense as a name. It’s a social media site for small, brief blurbs. Akin to the phrase ‘a little birdie told me’. The branding worked for what it was.
@@zachcollins4442 most fucking tweets are like, sentences. there is literally an entire site (twitlonger) dedicated for longer messages. The name still fit, and the fact they're changing the one thing the made the platform stand out into something generic as hell is one of the decisions of all time.
Microsoft already has from what I’ve heard. Edit. They haven’t sued yet. They can sue because they own the copyright for Xbox and several other X platforms.
Here in South Africa, radio djs have been dunking on the brand change since Elon is originally from SA. In two commonly spoken languages here Xhosa and Zulu, the letter "X" represents a click consonant that you make with your tongue against the roof of your mouth, so people have been joking that the new name is **click**
@@SomeUA-camTravelerI don’t know about you but I fuck with them uggs. There isn’t a better fur boot or shoe to have for the cold hard wood floors in the winter than uggs.
@@Kill0trocity Oh I'm sure they're fantastic when it's actually cold out. But any high schooler in the late 00's can attest that most girls you saw wearing them had them on year round. :-P
As bad as twitter is. It's terminology and its mascot are iconic at this point and changing it to something so generic and easily mistaken for pron is nothing but insanity.
Elon is a genius. Destroying Twitter by first making a rate limit for how many posts you can see a day so people lose interest in the app, and then straight up removing the name. Truly brilliant
@@RyzToZactionI recommend looking into a video called something along the lines of "truth of elon musk." I dont remember the exact title, but it exposes a bunch of pretty batshit crazy censorship that he's tried (and continues) to try to wipe other people exposing him from the internet. He's very hypocritical.
@@skittlescopes4832 well nobody will use it since other platforms already replace the purpose of an "everything platform" also i don't want an app on my phone whose logo looks like it's gonna be porn
personally i love x names (and xerxes imo is the perfect x name) but .. the letter alone? really, elon? rebranding twitter to "x" is such a stupid idea
The situation is so funny, cause his other "son" already expressed herself to be a transgender woman and doesn't even want to be associated with Elon anymore, and this man renames his perfectly ok site and keeps deadnaming his own daughter. So, people keep saying that if he dead names his daughter, we can deadname his platform.
The thing is none of this is his decision, it's the U.S government's decision. They are just using Elon and a puppet public figure to trick us into thinking it's a good thing. This is how China and Russia trick their people into agreeing with their control.
Nah. He's just so full of himself. That's why he does this shit. I highly believe he only does this shit to stay in the media. Cuz whenever he isn't he starts doing stupid shit like this
@@stuffbenlikesOh yeah? How long has his company existed? How come he hasn't "changed" the world yet? You're sniffing his farts for so long that you forgot that you're simping for a billionaire. Dude literally bought Twitter for NO REASON. It's still Twitter and it's still garbage.
I have Asperger syndrome as well and I used to have an obsession with the letter V. Thankfully I let that fade away so I won't name my children after Cyberpunk 2077 characters.
@@Umbra_Magna777 good to know, really says a lot about the type of Autism we have. I wonder if Matt Stone and Trey Parker will pick up on this and have Stan from South Park have a faze where he is obsessed with a letter since he has Asperger Syndrome as well. It probably would be S or M due to his name😆.
Trying to turn twitter into an “everything app” is like when you walk into a restaurant that serves Mexican, Chinese, and Italian with a 4 page menu.. no matter what you know whatever you get will be shitty
There's a reason basically every industry ever prefers to hire "specialists" instead of generalists that are passable at everything, but great at nothing.
I only use Twitter to see people's amazing art, also for updates on shows I like. So I don't really have many bad experiences with it. But I have seen horrible things while others use it.
I hate "modernized" branding now. I was hoping the future where everything looks the same was just some movie stuff, but now it's becoming more real every day. From Target to McDonalds to Burger King and other brands that I can't think of right now... each company is removing the one thing that makes their identity unique and recognizable. Because that is the one thing about Twitter that is actually smart: the branding with the bird. The posts called "tweets" and, like the bird sound, also coincides with the concept of the website: short and fast messaging. Yeah the website is a dumpster fire and I think the short posts is kinda... not super functional in the long run. But that twitter bird is a simple and bold design that neatly summarizes the entire concept of the website just by the visual alone.
Tbh, Elon putting the letter X in everything is cheesy af. I'm pretty sure brands started doing it back in the early 90's grunge era to seem cool and edgy. That sh!t needs to stay in the 90's.
Elon has managed to make X the least cool letter in the Alphabet with his shenanigans. He's the kind of person who could make the word cool become uncool.
I kid you not, X Corp was literally a name for an evil AI corporation I wrote as an antagonist in my crapshoot of a sci-fi novel. It's surreal that this is now reality Edit: the novel was written (in Polish) many, many years ago in middle school lmao. Never finished it. Also YT doesn't allow links soooo good luck finding it.
The blue bird was so iconic, literally one of the main icons of social media and think about how many different medias the bird has been referenced in, idk why they thought this was a good idea
@@Fredman5551t of all things an X... How would you even say tweet or retweet, X or reX and what about multiple tweets or tweet*s*? Xes (pronounced Exes which is also a word for multiple past girlfriends) and what about twitter videos, X videos? That's a explicit site that you wouldn't want your mom walking into while you are looking. Elon already screwed the site enough by limiting the amounts of posts you can view behind a subscription that can go on onwards to 100s of dollars and the community in twitter is already disgusting enough to ward away a LOT of potential users of twitter but naming it X and making even the naming system for the things you do on twitter (I.e tweets and twitter videos) extremely awkward and even inappropriate all for the sake of a LETTER in the ALPHABET? Elon is 100% out of touch if the choices he makes are of this magnitude of horrifying P.s I actually liked Elon Musk at one point, I used to see him as a guy with a relatable past and seeing someone who pushed through the bullying and difficulties of life to become a important figure in the entire scale of the world was insanely inspiring but seeing him do weird things like this and attempting to look cool rather than being himself and listening to professional advice is like watching a friend go down a spiraling path downwards to a addiction and drug induced life off of a lost marriage.
Y'know, Ive known that Elon was not super connected to reality for a while now, but even I could not have anticipated his hard turn into being a Kingdom Hearts villian.
What surprises me most is that anyone's surprised by this. The man straight up said he was going to do this when he bought Twitter. He laid out his entire plan already. His plan is to create an all-encompassing "everything" app. He wants one app, one site, that wants to dub an "everything app" which he wants to act as a: 1) social media (like twitter) 2) payment processor (like paypal) 3) content creation platform (like youtube) 4) streaming site (like twitch) 5) whatever the hell we qualify Instagram as 6) short-form video platform (like TikTok) 7) Damn near whatever else he can think of, probably even search engine soon enough Now, do I think it's a good idea? No Do I think X is a good name for an all encompassing app? Also no Dude's shooting too high and to change too much. It's not gonna take off.
Xcorp sounds like a company made by an evil super villain who uses it to build his super weapons to take over the world, and after hes been in the spotlight so much I wouldn't be surprised if thats his plan
Fun fact: the antagonist from the awful Foodfight! animated movie wanted to replace all brands with a brand litterally named Brand X. This is litterally this all over again.
If he renames it; could the old twitter programmers just drop a letter and spin up a replica Twiter instead of Twitter now and just take back their platform asymetrically?
People would just name knockoff platforms Y or Z. It’s really not that hard to jump a letter, hell they might just even name knockoff websites after Greek letters which in my opinion at least are way cooler than the letter X
This is actually a genius play to help those with a p**n addiction. when they go to type x videos and get sent to X they will feel so disgusted with what’s on the platform that they won’t be feeling it anymore and will continue their lives
For like a _decade_ corporations have been trying to find the limits of aggressive, homogenized minimalism. Trying to strip out every bit of character, every splash of color, every un-rounded edge... I think we may have just found the endgame.
I feel like if you want to run a successful large business you straight up have to hire "no" men where it's literally they're job to make fun of your ideas as hard as they can.
@@brianruff8268 get out of the basement and get some air you've literally replied to every comment that's criticizing Musk's shithousery Get off his nuts
This situation is like one of those movies where a kid invests his whole allowance in penny stocks, falls into a coma, and wakes up 40 years later as a billionaire because his stocks exploded, and just has a child's brain trying to figure out how to be a billionaire
Not only is erasing the Twitter brand a horrible idea, the new brand "X" is gonna be unoriginal because Threads is already using a very similar brand style with the minimalist logo and black and white color palette
Elon's obsession with the letter X makes me feel like he's about to start posting my chemical romance lyrics, dye his hair purple, go buy a flat iron, get his ears gauged and spend three hundred dollars on skinny jeans and eye liner tbh.
2:09 X is the Greek letter Kai, pronounced like the latin letter K. Æ is meant to be pronounced like the letter I, and A-12 refers to the 12th letter of the alphabet, L. Elon Musk decided to choose the most extra way imaginable to spell “Kyle”.
imagine turning one of the most well established, well known social media sites, with some of the most recognizable branding on earth, into a single letter.
Ya, I don't think it's as dramatic as you're making it seem. It's a stupid website, and now it has a stupid letter. Personally I'd be more likely to go back and use it now to be completely honest, getting rid of the fluffy bird which just screams 2010 and re branding into something basic is more utilitarian. It takes the whole image of "social" out of social media. There's nothing social about any of this online crap, were just typing words into a phone and other people are processing the information, it's information dumping. The whole idea that anywhere on the internet we should act accordingly to some kind of "social" code of conduct and etiquette is absurd and its one part of the reason we have a society of neurotic people.
Don't forget that the "X" windowing system has been a thing since 1984 and has been the primary compositor for most Unix and Linux machines, only slowly being replaced NOW after 40 years of it being in use. The current version is called X11 developed by Xorg (pronounced "X-org"). So yeah, not only is just "X" a stupid name it is already in use by a lot of things out there.
If he actively wanted to kill it, he could've just flipped a switch. This is just a monumentally bad short term decision that's been in the works since he bought it out. Not that I care, I haven't used Twitter in any notable manner since I got my blue check something like eight uears ago. Let it die, my life doesn't change one way or the other.
Nah, if he is tanking it on purpose, it's because he thinks he can sue his own company for his money back, saying it was their fault for letting someone so incompetent run their company.
Something I found weird is that Google already owns a company called X that has quite nearly the same logo, I'm surprised nobody is talking about this.
@@jakewulgarit’s even worse- it’s a variable, an elvish letter (iirc), and _the precursor_ to his favorite plane. Not the actual plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, *the precursor*
This feels like that episode of Futurama where Hermes kept getting cyborg upgrades until he was pure robot, but then they salvaged his human body parts and were able to put his brain back in it.
@@MyBlogsTV Yeah there are examples of different companies being called the same thing in Japan like a guitar company and a coffee company both being called BOSS, so I don't think it'll be a big deal.
also, whenever I hear "X" I actually immediately think of the 4chan paranormal board, so yeah, I'm going to be really confused now whenever people talk about things they saw on "x", and will probably wonder why so many people are suddenly into cryptids, alien conspiracy theories, and bad skinwalker creepypastas
I knew that Elon changed Twitter to X because of Space X but I didn't know that Tesla has a model named X, or the fact that he literally named his kid X.
It's like modern corporations are putting on Halloween costumes and trying to roleplay as the character they're wearing. We're still going to call them by their original name, no matter what they're pretending to be now. "James, I'm not calling you Thor. Just drop the mallet and put down the alcohol. Take a breather and try to realize how stupid you're making yourself look."
Elon is literally just speedrunning making a dystopian sci-fi megacorp. The X Corporation has that exact ring to it, sounds like it's from some videogame or 90's space movie.
I mean, "The X Corporation" sounds funny, but we already have a lot of actual dystopian corporations that aren't even remotely comparable to what Elon does
Besides youtube (because people consider youtube social media) I don't have any socials, outside of discord for messaging friends. So yeah, that checks out.
The only value I found from the name change is that it got xvideos trending on Twitter, which was honestly pretty funny. But yeah literally any other name for Twitter could've worked. He could've called it TwitterX, which still is not good and is kind of dumb, but it's FAR less stupid and far less potentially destructive to the Twitter brand. Sadly since it's Elon, I wouldn't be surprised if X stays. I'm sure some of us thought Twitter Blue was gonna be temporary, but just look at it now.
dude took a letter and made it his entire personality
That's exactly what he did lmfao 💀 🤣
Why are these the people that are powerful
Shit, he really is a Gen-Xer
@@YourLocalNobody420
Because Daddy’s money
@@warlordofbritanniaR you trolling ?
Also, ‘Twitter’ makes sense as a name. It’s a social media site for small, brief blurbs. Akin to the phrase ‘a little birdie told me’. The branding worked for what it was.
There's no longer a "small, brief" rule. You can have like 25000 characters now. You can post novels. Frankly I thought Twitter was a stupid name.
I think the problem is that Elon wants Twitter to become something entirely new, hence the change, however X is fucking stupid.
@@zachcollins4442 most fucking tweets are like, sentences. there is literally an entire site (twitlonger) dedicated for longer messages.
The name still fit, and the fact they're changing the one thing the made the platform stand out into something generic as hell is one
of the decisions of all time.
The name twitter and the birdie mascot was fxcking great
@@sabsain2399Elon Musk?! How do you find a way to fit x into any word Elon???
He is actually a genius. He can not destroy Twitter if it doesnt exist.
best take
but its fun if he destroys it, hope twitter just disappears and takes all the toxic people with it
@@TheKillerMB1nfortunately they won’t disappear they will just migrate into other platforms 😭💀💀
@@TheKillerMB1 but where will they all go?
What’s a twitter?
the line "Elon Musk has been more obsessed with the letter X than a pirate looking at a treasure map" IS SO FUNNY
Legitimately, Charlie is a goldsmith of words.
hahaha. lol. lmfao. cracking up so hard😐
@@69aids420 What are you so bitter about? 🙂
@@69aids420 Elon musketeer detected
I think being called Penguin0 is way more embarassing than calling Twitter X
I'm no marketing expert, but erasing one of the most well-established, recognizable brand names for a letter in the alphabet is absolutely insane.
especialy the porn letter
It’s a letter. Who cares really
brand suicide.
Its a part of the great reset, if you know you know.
@@FreezeLeviathanwhat? 😂
I'm gonna still call it twitter
But it's not! It's 𝕏.
X
@@xDakem*L
im gonna call it /x/
facebook and twitter sound so much nicer than meta and X, they sound so robotic
I'm fairly certain that one adult website is prepping a lawsuit as we speak
Or they'll laugh their way to the bank with all the accidental redirected traffic
Imagine it's part of his plans and he buy that one site as well
Imagine them just embracing it but then they get sued after years of using it
Microsoft already has from what I’ve heard. Edit. They haven’t sued yet. They can sue because they own the copyright for Xbox and several other X platforms.
xhamster, xnxx, or xvideos?
Here in South Africa, radio djs have been dunking on the brand change since Elon is originally from SA. In two commonly spoken languages here Xhosa and Zulu, the letter "X" represents a click consonant that you make with your tongue against the roof of your mouth, so people have been joking that the new name is **click**
That's funny
Funny nugget of information
Thank you for the fun fact! That was very interesting!
Could that be the intention?
That’s probably why it’s called x..?
We're really getting to a point in time where music, shows and movies that merely mention Twitter are gonna sound dated
I doubt it, just like when Facebook rebranded to "meta", nobody gave a shit and still called it Facebook
Crazy
tbh any media that mentions smartphones or social media at all instantly dates itself just bad foresight
Like MySpace
@obscure.reference lol thats true. RIP to all the media that has referenced BBM, MySpace, and Kik
It's honestly Really nice of Elon to Make the Website name the same as what button you should click when it's open
It's like Ugg boots, named after the sound you make when you see them
Ya but it's always been that bad
@@SomeUA-camTravelerwhy the hate for ugg boots
@@SomeUA-camTravelerI don’t know about you but I fuck with them uggs. There isn’t a better fur boot or shoe to have for the cold hard wood floors in the winter than uggs.
@@Kill0trocity Oh I'm sure they're fantastic when it's actually cold out. But any high schooler in the late 00's can attest that most girls you saw wearing them had them on year round. :-P
My heart goes out to the poor hamster owners on this website
Or People just trying to watch cute rodent videos on they’re favorite platform
I hate that i know what your talking about
😂
@@Pyler...No he didn't and nobody need to check to know that poser
I dont get the joke. can someone explain to me please. i dont give a crap its dark lol
There’s a reason why almost all companies never decided to name themselves a single letter
As bad as twitter is. It's terminology and its mascot are iconic at this point and changing it to something so generic and easily mistaken for pron is nothing but insanity.
@@bestrappermcnutt no one asked
@@bestrappermcnutt No it's not.
Bro summarized the video
@@bestrappermcnutt ur good
@@bestrappermcnutt certified bot moment
As someone put it hilariously: “Even the bird wanted to leave Twitter” 💀
lol
okay this is a pretty great way to put it lol
The people crying about Twitter never left, They came crawling back
"the new logo is the bird's grave with a diagonal cross on it"
Exactly! If you would be a parrot, and a dude named Elon Musk would adopt you, would you stay there? Ofc not.
This was his stupidest decision since naming his child a jumble of letters and numbers.
No that would be actually buying Twitter in the first place
I’m here before blow up like 911
That's funny I would love to be named c3po
Pretty sure his wife did it
I agree roach dogg jr
Elon is like one of those kids who drew that styleized "S" all over their notebooks 📓, also everything else
THIS
The huge difference is that the "S" was actually kinda cool, and this isn't.
I did that, and even I think X is a joke 😂
thank you for the notebook emoji, i did not know what they were until you told me with the picture
how generous@@MoonLmao
Now I'm convinced he's trying to delete Twitter in a very elaborate way. Renaming it "X" is just marking it for deletion
Guys my parents said if I get 20k followers They'd get Me a better camera for recording.. begging u guys, literally begging
@@MbitaChiziNo they didnt💀
'X marks the spot' ... He's literally trying to bury it!
so he just threw 44 billion USD into a toilet and flushed it...
Good, let him. Good riddance.
The fact that he has wanted to name something X for 20 years is just so funny
It really is so funny
He could have bought xvideos all along lol.
Hes mad that x was a dumb name and they changed it to PayPal
Space-X, X Æ A-12, and now X
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754Model X
Elon is a genius. Destroying Twitter by first making a rate limit for how many posts you can see a day so people lose interest in the app, and then straight up removing the name.
Truly brilliant
X is meant to become the everything platform. Twitter would make no sense as a name. He needed twitter for attention. Now he builds his platform…
maybe hes doing us a favor and breaking a platform controlled & curated to make for more independent free speech platforms
@@RyzToZactionI recommend looking into a video called something along the lines of "truth of elon musk." I dont remember the exact title, but it exposes a bunch of pretty batshit crazy censorship that he's tried (and continues) to try to wipe other people exposing him from the internet. He's very hypocritical.
@@skittlescopes4832what in gods name are u talking about
@@skittlescopes4832 well nobody will use it since other platforms already replace the purpose of an "everything platform"
also i don't want an app on my phone whose logo looks like it's gonna be porn
I mean, I was really obsessed with the letter X as a young teenager. It's why I named myself Xerxes once I got on the internet
Yeah but at least that name is cool!
Same, I use the letter x in most of my usernames on social media
yeah but you were a young teenager and elon is like 60 years old
personally i love x names (and xerxes imo is the perfect x name) but .. the letter alone? really, elon?
rebranding twitter to "x" is such a stupid idea
Reminds me of the Pokémon Xerneas
If he can name his son that, all his decision makings are beyond my mere mortal comprehension already.
The situation is so funny, cause his other "son" already expressed herself to be a transgender woman and doesn't even want to be associated with Elon anymore, and this man renames his perfectly ok site and keeps deadnaming his own daughter. So, people keep saying that if he dead names his daughter, we can deadname his platform.
The thing is none of this is his decision, it's the U.S government's decision. They are just using Elon and a puppet public figure to trick us into thinking it's a good thing.
This is how China and Russia trick their people into agreeing with their control.
Well… he is rich after all.
@@RottingRemain Huh. That's sad...ly funny.
Nah. He's just so full of himself. That's why he does this shit.
I highly believe he only does this shit to stay in the media. Cuz whenever he isn't he starts doing stupid shit like this
Now, if a Twitter employee quits, they're technically ex-X employees.
Also, stories about Elon's "x" could be a goldmine for copypastas.
If someone were to break up with that former employee… they'd be the ex-X employee's ex.
@@U_S_America At one point, it's just a tongue twister
@@U_S_Americathe ex-X employee's excellent ex
X-wife app.
"Grimes has to come back now, she's not my ex anymore, Twitter is. Mua ha ha ha ha. COME BACK GRIMES!" - X-genius
"The documentary of X, now on Netflix"
It's crazy how Elon went from people calling him the real life Tony Stark to being a laughing stock on his own website.
And yet the technologies his companies develop are still going to change the world.
I have the most beautiful brown eyes in the world. They are orange-brown, shaped like almonds, and have long lashes. All of you are jealous!
@@stuffbenlikesOh yeah? How long has his company existed? How come he hasn't "changed" the world yet? You're sniffing his farts for so long that you forgot that you're simping for a billionaire. Dude literally bought Twitter for NO REASON. It's still Twitter and it's still garbage.
@@stuffbenlikes cope
@@stuffbenlikeslol for the better though? nah
Elon should've considered naming it "Y" since that would be everybody's reaction to this change.
🙃👍
Lol
Clever girl
silly joke
Or “Y” should I care about Elon?
I have Asperger syndrome as well and I used to have an obsession with the letter V. Thankfully I let that fade away so I won't name my children after Cyberpunk 2077 characters.
I'm thankful you were able to move past that, choom
I have Asperger's too, except my letter of choice was W. I still love it, but I wouldn't say I'm obsessed.
@@BeezleOG I know right. People would have thought I loved that TV movie series V solely for the letter. I do like the series but not for that reason.
@@Umbra_Magna777 good to know, really says a lot about the type of Autism we have. I wonder if Matt Stone and Trey Parker will pick up on this and have Stan from South Park have a faze where he is obsessed with a letter since he has Asperger Syndrome as well. It probably would be S or M due to his name😆.
hello! i am autistic and also obsessed with the letter V!!
At this point, it'd be smarter if he actually turned twitter into a porn site
I'd still watch Orange UA-cam anyway.
Twitter already is a porn site.
It already is
First it was Twitter videos, now it's Xvideos 😂
already was pretty much💀
Great “X”ample of ‘if something isn’t broken, don’t fix it’
“More obsessed with the letter x than a pirate looking at a treasure map” WHO IS MOIST’S GHOST WRITER
Lol he's a witty chap 😅
Ghosts always wear white…. the real ghost is him
@@romanslav827Chat gbt
That joke slaughtered my entire family.
charlie's quips always go triple platinum w no feats, my guy
Can Twitter employees call themselves X-Men now?
W comment
@@DrTicklefart1no.. X comment
@@HAYDENGRIZ-nn9wu lmao...
the one good thing
What employees?
He legit could’ve just called it TwitterX and no one would be laughing at him as hard.
@@bestrappermcnutt you *gotta* stop botting bro, it's embarrassing at this point
Wtf that is so smart
That sounds better ngl
This dude has more common sense then elon musk himself.
@@Sillyrat1029 It's a pretty low bar tbh
Imagine telling someone about your X account. "My X" sounds like you're talking about someone you used to date.
I will never understand the obsession Musky boy has with just that one single letter of the alphabet
I loved the letter S before too, but then i turned 11
Because it's the kind of letter an insecure edgelord would love, which is perfectly in character for Elon.
It's the only one he can spell.
He has autism
I will never understand the obsession Charlie has with that white t-shirt.
Trying to turn twitter into an “everything app” is like when you walk into a restaurant that serves Mexican, Chinese, and Italian with a 4 page menu.. no matter what you know whatever you get will be shitty
Lolll yes
Cheesecake Factory
in Austin, Tx there was once a mexican/chinese buffet I went to. Never been so sick in all my life.
@@johnnysins9054exactly. Cheesecake factories menu is huge and great.
There's a reason basically every industry ever prefers to hire "specialists" instead of generalists that are passable at everything, but great at nothing.
Worst part is,Twitter-X doesn't sound bad. He could've had his cake and eaten it too.
It doesn't sound good either, let's be honest.
I agree, however, if it's an absolute necessity that he uses the letter x, this is a much better alternative
If at all anything, he could have named twitter blue as twitter x
It sounds like an extended version of Twitter, Aka it makes you assume twitter basic still exist which it doesn’t
Twitter x videos
I only use Twitter to see people's amazing art, also for updates on shows I like. So I don't really have many bad experiences with it. But I have seen horrible things while others use it.
I hope the kid grows up and realizes what a funny guy his father was.
The poor kid will be called gta code during his whole childhood
@@rignakly5598 bruh
i’m so sure the kid legally changes their name the second they turn 18
@@trist__ or the kid grows up to be as delusional and self important as their father
Beat clown in the circus
I hate "modernized" branding now. I was hoping the future where everything looks the same was just some movie stuff, but now it's becoming more real every day.
From Target to McDonalds to Burger King and other brands that I can't think of right now... each company is removing the one thing that makes their identity unique and recognizable.
Because that is the one thing about Twitter that is actually smart: the branding with the bird. The posts called "tweets" and, like the bird sound, also coincides with the concept of the website: short and fast messaging.
Yeah the website is a dumpster fire and I think the short posts is kinda... not super functional in the long run. But that twitter bird is a simple and bold design that neatly summarizes the entire concept of the website just by the visual alone.
Tbh, Elon putting the letter X in everything is cheesy af. I'm pretty sure brands started doing it back in the early 90's grunge era to seem cool and edgy. That sh!t needs to stay in the 90's.
@@EcchiGamingYTxXgamer_cool6969Xx
@@EcchiGamingYTit's really cringe when you remember Elon is in his 50s. His whole life exudes "Hello fellow kids" vibes.
Brand X, brand X
It's simple and plain
Brand X, brand X
It's different but all the same
Brands are dumb af and forget that being original and unique is how to actually stay afloat.
I also think he’s validating Threads as a competitor. Now people feel like they are choosing between two new platforms, rather than new vs established
yeaahh i agree
Elon has managed to make X the least cool letter in the Alphabet with his shenanigans.
He's the kind of person who could make the word cool become uncool.
When pirates said "X marks the spot" this is not what they meant
My eyes are honestly super beautiful. They are orange-brown, shaped like almonds, and have long lashes.
That is an absolutely abysmal joke
Welcome to UA-cam comment section
They would be so disappointed in this type of treasure lol
Might wanna burn this treasure map
Nigga
I kid you not, X Corp was literally a name for an evil AI corporation I wrote as an antagonist in my crapshoot of a sci-fi novel. It's surreal that this is now reality
Edit: the novel was written (in Polish) many, many years ago in middle school lmao. Never finished it. Also YT doesn't allow links soooo good luck finding it.
You are the main character
omg, i wanna read your novel!!!
main character
where can we read your novel man
It's similar to E Corp / EvilCorp from Mr Robot
The blue bird was so iconic, literally one of the main icons of social media and think about how many different medias the bird has been referenced in, idk why they thought this was a good idea
I can’t wait until 40 years from now when a history student is going to be tasked with writing a serious essay about Elon Musk and Twitter
He is going to say: why the heck did people get so outraged over a name? Elon musk bought twitter with his own money. Nobody should have been mad.
Fun fact, when DMX said "X gon give it to ya", he was referring to this situation and what it was gonna give to us was the giggles
The man was a visionary
😂😂😂…. You know what? This was too cute. You win. Have a good day, man 😂😂
this is the first comment that genuinely made me laugh today from it being legitimately funny. well done.
Your take… I like it :)
“F@ck naming Twitter on ya own, X gon deliver to ya!” 😂
Elon is really setting a great example of how out of touch billionaires are.
By renaming his company? Not sure how that has anything to do with being "in touch" but go off queen.
@@Fredman5551t of all things an X... How would you even say tweet or retweet, X or reX and what about multiple tweets or tweet*s*? Xes (pronounced Exes which is also a word for multiple past girlfriends) and what about twitter videos, X videos? That's a explicit site that you wouldn't want your mom walking into while you are looking.
Elon already screwed the site enough by limiting the amounts of posts you can view behind a subscription that can go on onwards to 100s of dollars and the community in twitter is already disgusting enough to ward away a LOT of potential users of twitter but naming it X and making even the naming system for the things you do on twitter (I.e tweets and twitter videos) extremely awkward and even inappropriate all for the sake of a LETTER in the ALPHABET? Elon is 100% out of touch if the choices he makes are of this magnitude of horrifying
P.s I actually liked Elon Musk at one point, I used to see him as a guy with a relatable past and seeing someone who pushed through the bullying and difficulties of life to become a important figure in the entire scale of the world was insanely inspiring but seeing him do weird things like this and attempting to look cool rather than being himself and listening to professional advice is like watching a friend go down a spiraling path downwards to a addiction and drug induced life off of a lost marriage.
That's WHY they have so many companies. "In touch" means you are average and normal. You have to be eccentric to invest everything in new ideas.
@@TechNextLetsGo which in the long run made elon make many stupid decisions
@@Fredman5551 you're doing tricks on it
The story is that Elon was traumatized by math when he was told to “find x”. He could never find it, and so he wanted it to make his own X
haha
This is an underrated comment lmao
no it's that everyone hates 'x' because you constantly have to find it and twitter reminded him a lot of 'x' so he renamed it to that
@GamingatFullpowerSomeone didn’t get the joke
@GamingatFullpower but he might have suffered chronically in the past with high school math and hence the name
he is schizophrenic...
Holy shit imagine having Elon Musk as a father
infinite money glitch but you get the worst name in existence 😂
@@rayzersharppyep! 😅🤣
and being named like freakin alien code or whatever! Æ 3 X
Ellon is like a kid that discovered something new and use that for everything, just like him with the letter X
Ellon degenerated
He learned a new word lol
Elon is like a goofy villain from a kids show, and we’re in the episode where the villain manages somehow to take over the world
He's tryna take man to Mars and social media to hell lmao
An apartheid profiteer villain…
@@arnoldtsoka9900do you even know the definition of a profiteer? I guess capitalism is just profiteering now?
touch grass if your whole world is twitter
a villian? i dunno i think joe biden and his entire administration aswell as xi jing ping and putin are probably more comically evil.
Y'know, Ive known that Elon was not super connected to reality for a while now, but even I could not have anticipated his hard turn into being a Kingdom Hearts villian.
😂I'm choking💀
Elon has been replaced by his Nobody, Nexol Kums!!!
@@Pyler...k
@@Andrew_TSholy shit 🤣
Elon is smarter
What surprises me most is that anyone's surprised by this. The man straight up said he was going to do this when he bought Twitter. He laid out his entire plan already. His plan is to create an all-encompassing "everything" app. He wants one app, one site, that wants to dub an "everything app" which he wants to act as a:
1) social media (like twitter)
2) payment processor (like paypal)
3) content creation platform (like youtube)
4) streaming site (like twitch)
5) whatever the hell we qualify Instagram as
6) short-form video platform (like TikTok)
7) Damn near whatever else he can think of, probably even search engine soon enough
Now, do I think it's a good idea? No
Do I think X is a good name for an all encompassing app? Also no
Dude's shooting too high and to change too much. It's not gonna take off.
Renaming Twitter to DogeFeed would have been less goddamn embarrassing than just using ‘X’ for everything 😂
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Petition to rebrand it DogeFeed.
i just doged, they redoged!
@@Grunerwaldsway better than X
You sir, are a marketing genius.
This name would attract more people. More goofballs that like to follow Elon and his Doge escapade lol
Xcorp sounds like a company made by an evil super villain who uses it to build his super weapons to take over the world, and after hes been in the spotlight so much I wouldn't be surprised if thats his plan
Fr it kinda reminds of Lord Business from Lego movie. But even then a Lego redeemed himself best
Xcorp is from Monty Python right?
I swear there's a tv show where the main headquarters of the villain is called xcorp but i cant find it
sounds suspiciously similar to LexCorp too. someone get superman on this
I mean one of the main "evil corporations" in the DC comics universe is "LexCorp", so not that far off.
Fun fact: the antagonist from the awful Foodfight! animated movie wanted to replace all brands with a brand litterally named Brand X. This is litterally this all over again.
Shiit we're all gonna be better without twitter but this is horrid
OH SHIT. Haven't seen that monstrosity of a movie I forgot about that fact! ...We are almost living in the land of Food fight!
literally learn how to spell literally
im terribly sorry charlie it's been very close to a year now and it is still x ;;
If he renames it; could the old twitter programmers just drop a letter and spin up a replica Twiter instead of Twitter now and just take back their platform asymetrically?
I would laugh so hard, but I don't think it is possible. He still owns the name
People would just name knockoff platforms Y or Z. It’s really not that hard to jump a letter, hell they might just even name knockoff websites after Greek letters which in my opinion at least are way cooler than the letter X
Or Tweeter
@@xandroy1273 not for long, an illegal way will solve all of this issue
@@therealspeedwagon1451 I sure love Gamma Lambda.
Even as someone who likes the Letter X, elon's obsession with it makes me laugh to an uncontrollable degree
True, also Charlie's obsession with his white t-shirt makes me laugh to an uncontrollable degree
Ikr, his son too bro 💀
@@戦場ヶ原ひたぎ-r8wtleast he doesnt plaster his white shirt on everything he has like elon with the x
@@vive335dude actually calls his son "it" and "offspring"
@@nataneryyyyyyou have got to be joking
This is actually a genius play to help those with a p**n addiction. when they go to type x videos and get sent to X they will feel so disgusted with what’s on the platform that they won’t be feeling it anymore and will continue their lives
Derp
Lol they are the same thing anyway , good name
But if they are trying to find p**n they will find it anyway bc twitter(X) is a haven for R34 artist. How do i know? I guess we all know the answer.😏
Both sites aren’t really good to be on 💀
Either that or they'll develop a fetish considering all the weird stuff on Twitter.
4:50 why couldn't he just name it Twitter X?
Because that would only make sense. Which he clearly doesn't want to do
Why do you care he bought it with his own money let him do what he wants.
Even if Twitter is a bad site that corrupts innocent people like Rob Paulsen, changing their recognizable logo to a generic letter is just insulting!
They should change it to L.
Guys my parents said if I get 20k followers They'd get Me a better camera for recording.. begging u guys, literally begging
Should change it to L
For like a _decade_ corporations have been trying to find the limits of aggressive, homogenized minimalism. Trying to strip out every bit of character, every splash of color, every un-rounded edge... I think we may have just found the endgame.
@@MbitaChizi take a picture of these nutts, oh wait you can't! 😈
I feel like if you want to run a successful large business you straight up have to hire "no" men where it's literally they're job to make fun of your ideas as hard as they can.
hows your billion dollar business goin?
At first I was conflicted, then I realized you mean "no men" as an opposite to "yes men"
Lack of sleep shows...
He's killing twitter so that people will actually go outside and touch grass. Legend
Disney would also benefit a lot from this concept
@@manen.1350 My man.
This honestly doesn't feel real anymore. This feels like a dream.
X gon’ give it t’yuh!
@@brianruff8268😂
@@brianruff8268 get out of the basement and get some air you've literally replied to every comment that's criticizing Musk's shithousery
Get off his nuts
@@brianruff8268 People love to be hyperbolic for those sweet likes. Internet is nothing but over exaggerations now.
@@brianruff8268or is it? 🧐
imagine elderly people mistyping and adding more x's in the search bar
This situation is like one of those movies where a kid invests his whole allowance in penny stocks, falls into a coma, and wakes up 40 years later as a billionaire because his stocks exploded, and just has a child's brain trying to figure out how to be a billionaire
If that's a real movie please lmk
i dont think thats a movie, you could just say you came up with the analogy man
That's, like, 99% of rich people... They got rich because mommy and daddy were rich, and never really earned it.
“One of those movies” you say that like this is a common trope. I don’t even know of one movie where this happens.
a movie like that doesn't exist
Not only is erasing the Twitter brand a horrible idea, the new brand "X" is gonna be unoriginal because Threads is already using a very similar brand style with the minimalist logo and black and white color palette
True but Threads is trash and no one uses it (anymore)
Brand X its simple and plain, brand X its different but all the same.
@@fast-toast Brand X sounds like a virus
Wait....Is Elon trying to copy threads?
@@fast-toastbrand x literally sounds like a porn site
Elon's obsession with the letter X makes me feel like he's about to start posting my chemical romance lyrics, dye his hair purple, go buy a flat iron, get his ears gauged and spend three hundred dollars on skinny jeans and eye liner tbh.
Hey, be real. Most people who are/were like that would legit nutshot the elongated muskrat if they had the chance
bro’s gonna change his username on every website to “Xx_insert_edgy_name_here_xX” i can’t 😭😭
@@moojuice9614 xXx_ElonHusk_xXx
2:09 X is the Greek letter Kai, pronounced like the latin letter K. Æ is meant to be pronounced like the letter I, and A-12 refers to the 12th letter of the alphabet, L.
Elon Musk decided to choose the most extra way imaginable to spell “Kyle”.
A-12 is a plane model
@@erikasakura7721 no shit sherlock
imagine turning one of the most well established, well known social media sites, with some of the most recognizable branding on earth, into a single letter.
Good. It's one step closer to that filth hole dying
Twitter's always been a shitshow, Musk is just speeding up the process of its demise
@Jacob-pl1mk you tell me
Where is your multi-billion dollar website?
Ya, I don't think it's as dramatic as you're making it seem. It's a stupid website, and now it has a stupid letter. Personally I'd be more likely to go back and use it now to be completely honest, getting rid of the fluffy bird which just screams 2010 and re branding into something basic is more utilitarian. It takes the whole image of "social" out of social media. There's nothing social about any of this online crap, were just typing words into a phone and other people are processing the information, it's information dumping. The whole idea that anywhere on the internet we should act accordingly to some kind of "social" code of conduct and etiquette is absurd and its one part of the reason we have a society of neurotic people.
Don't forget that the "X" windowing system has been a thing since 1984 and has been the primary compositor for most Unix and Linux machines, only slowly being replaced NOW after 40 years of it being in use. The current version is called X11 developed by Xorg (pronounced "X-org"). So yeah, not only is just "X" a stupid name it is already in use by a lot of things out there.
Microsoft owns the copyright
yeah. Linux/UNIX systems beat Elon to it.
i was going to comment this but you saved me the time, happy someone else here know about history of linux/unix
Lucky for Elon, X11 is a dying project. Most of the developers who worked on it are now working on Wayland.
the logo is extremely similar too
Every day that passes by, the conspiracy theory that he blew all this money on Twitter to kill it really gains more and more traction in my brain.
Reminds me of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
He bought it so he could dismantle it.
That doesn’t make sense since it would just be replaced potentially by treads or smth else
If he actively wanted to kill it, he could've just flipped a switch.
This is just a monumentally bad short term decision that's been in the works since he bought it out.
Not that I care, I haven't used Twitter in any notable manner since I got my blue check something like eight uears ago. Let it die, my life doesn't change one way or the other.
@@supapotato3453 Well if you downgrade the biggest name you lower the bar for cheaper competitors to just go "hey, at least we're not xitter!"
Nah, if he is tanking it on purpose, it's because he thinks he can sue his own company for his money back, saying it was their fault for letting someone so incompetent run their company.
can’t wait for the ‘he’s actually done it’ video
Something I found weird is that Google already owns a company called X that has quite nearly the same logo, I'm surprised nobody is talking about this.
Majority shareholders maybe ? What can I search for more info
Yea it's a "semi-secret" (according to Wikipedia) company that tries to tackle the hardest problems for Google, like their self-driving car
Google owns the whole Alphabet 😜
@@Pyler...No
For me the rebranding fits perfectly because the only reason i still have twitter is to find some adult content
based
Honestly I respect you for having the balls to say it
@@Alan_Marin fr fr
the fact that he’s naming his new son after what i imagine is a planet i simply can’t read his moves anymore
He's just a born-rich dude nearing 60 years old, there's no mystery to him. He's lame in a way people don't usually see because he's really visible.
He named his son after a jet aircraft
@@jakewulgarit’s even worse- it’s a variable, an elvish letter (iirc), and _the precursor_ to his favorite plane. Not the actual plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, *the precursor*
@@nedcurfman3486 jesus elon’s more autistic than i thought.
It's like he's stuck in 1895, in the moment when Roentgen discovered X-rays and was wondering what to name them.
Same feel as Meta. Trying to make your company sound cool will just make people laugh at you.
It's funny. I thought that Meta was the stupidest name on the internet. X definitely wins. Great job Elon.
And literally nobody calls Facebook “meta”. It will always be Facebook, even if they changed the logo on the website tomorrow.
Wait, Twitters a meme?
Always has been
At least Meta is still a word, wtf does X mean?
@@becca53444Facebook was never meant to change its name, the mother company changed its name, like Google's mother company.
Naming the company after his son. What a good father
Glad he gave a special mention to his wives too
His son's name is "x" ? 😮
@@QueenAlonaaa It is. I'm sure you've heard of the unpronouncable name "X AE A-XII" … ?
X Æ A-12 is very lucky to have a father like that.
"X Musk" sounds like a fragrance
This feels like that episode of Futurama where Hermes kept getting cyborg upgrades until he was pure robot, but then they salvaged his human body parts and were able to put his brain back in it.
I have the most beautiful brown eyes in the world. They are orange-brown, shaped like almonds, and have long lashes. All of you are jealous!
@@The_trollge_acc5 Nope! Blue-Grey with hints of green tint in the center and dark blue around the edges. Looks cool 😎
@@grimmseti my eyes are definitely better
The fact it’s been a year and a half and 99% of people still call it twitter
calling tweeting “X-ing” is almost as bad as when Microsoft called the sharing feature on their Zune units “squirting”
lol I forgot they actually used that
e❌crement
@@q47tx Wtf indeed
the new support site refers it to xeeting, literally only replaced tw in tweeting with x
Doesn't the term "x-ing" mean killing someone?
Are we not gonna talk about how Twitter is basically already a porn site lol
I mean Elon wanted an EVERYTHING app.
@@HaroldMarina2010Now he will have a nothing app as it burns away
it's the only thing I visit it for
I’ve seen furries on VrChat doing the dirty to each other a few times, so that’s accurate
@@ProfoundKrabjust get a real girl or guy
The ironic thing is they can't call Twitter X in Japan, because the old Japanese band X Japan already has that trademarked 🤣
they probably can as legally speaking twitter isn't competing in the same market as that band, so they can both actually hold a trademark for it
@@MyBlogsTV Yeah there are examples of different companies being called the same thing in Japan like a guitar company and a coffee company both being called BOSS, so I don't think it'll be a big deal.
@@bestrappermcnuttion know if you a bot or you just copy pasting but give up bro 75 comments and two subscribers😭
Poor X/1999.
To quote Joseph Joestar, ‘I’ll never forgive the Japanese’
Bro, X Corp sounds like a DC villain
I am shocked that for the first time I think Charlie isn't exaggerating this time with his poetic intro.
Instead of buying twitter for 44 billion; he could have just created a new app.😂
Nah. He wanted all the people already there
And make all the buttons x's that work lime 33% of the time and crashes whem a video is playing and ur scrolling
@@CIN_NNER all the people there...sooo republicans?
Lol whaat there’s no way it was worth that much
@@CIN_NNER he wanted to backup from the deal but Twitter legally forced him to buy
also, whenever I hear "X" I actually immediately think of the 4chan paranormal board, so yeah, I'm going to be really confused now whenever people talk about things they saw on "x", and will probably wonder why so many people are suddenly into cryptids, alien conspiracy theories, and bad skinwalker creepypastas
As an SCP fan, I think the same
Samee
Same
100% people will still refer to it as twitter. Maybe the new generation ?
That X logo literally looks like the Jagex launcher for runescape.
almost everything musk does could be considered april fools
Every day is April Fools' when you're april enough to fool.
World’s longest mid life crisis
What if on April Fools next year he actually manages to make a good decision, then immediately backpedals the day after?
I knew that Elon changed Twitter to X because of Space X but I didn't know that Tesla has a model named X, or the fact that he literally named his kid X.
xxXAvengedElonxXx has had a hard on for the letter X since the 90s, he didn't change it because of SpaceX lol
The Tesla one is even more immature. Their cars are the S, 3, X, Y. Elon is just a cringe internet troll stuck with the mentality of a frat boy.
He also has a x
Ive seen this comment on another video bot
He also wanted to rename PayPal X before they sacked him
It's like modern corporations are putting on Halloween costumes and trying to roleplay as the character they're wearing. We're still going to call them by their original name, no matter what they're pretending to be now.
"James, I'm not calling you Thor. Just drop the mallet and put down the alcohol. Take a breather and try to realize how stupid you're making yourself look."
You say that, but rebranding works, everyone says they'll keep calling it by the old name but they eventually stop
X sounds like the hip, new, fake social media website you'd hear disney channel sitcom kids raving about.
1:08 "I swear to god, Elon Musk has been more obsessed with the letter X than a pirate looking at a treasure map" 😂😂
Lmao 😂
Charlie’s a genius
Elon should really just make his own X-men at this point since he’s so obsessed with the letter.
Don't worry, that's next on his list
The trans movement is already doing that...
@@justinlast2lastharder749 lmao never thought of it like that. Don't think movement's the correct word though.
That’s what the employees have to each other as
Elon is literally just speedrunning making a dystopian sci-fi megacorp. The X Corporation has that exact ring to it, sounds like it's from some videogame or 90's space movie.
The problem is dystopian megacorps are actually competent
Guys my parents said if I get 20k followers They'd get Me a better camera for recording.. begging u guys, literally begging
@@MbitaChizi Shut up little Timmy.
X corp sounds like a generic cartoon villain team
I mean, "The X Corporation" sounds funny, but we already have a lot of actual dystopian corporations that aren't even remotely comparable to what Elon does
I really want to understand why he is so obsessed with the letter x. He is naming everything he can using the letter x
He bought twitter with his OWN money. Tf do you care about it.
@@colorfulconch7745just because he can, doesn’t mean he should.
Why should he not? xD
@@colorfulconch7745 just not creative
Then don’t worry about it alright! Don’t try to come up with lame excuses just not creative.
HBO Max: *Has the worst rebranded name ever*
Elon Musk: Hold my beer
Elon Musk: Hold my X
I think you mean "hold my X"
Wait, what’s wrong with Max? (I’m not in the loop, just curious.)
Why does HBO max have the worst? Doesn’t really seem to have anything wrong w it.
@@On1Indigothey renamed the app to “max”
X Corp sounds like one of those generic evil corperations in a post-apocalyptic story.
You could delete all social media and still keep up with the news just by watching Charlies videos
literally
Story of my life
Guys my parents said if I get 20k followers They'd get Me a better camera for recording.. begging u guys, literally begging
That's pretty much what's happening for me now lol I deleted a lot of my socials and mainly use UA-cam.
Besides youtube (because people consider youtube social media) I don't have any socials, outside of discord for messaging friends. So yeah, that checks out.
I always assumed the X in SpaceX was a juvenile move to get people to say “sex”.
I think he admitted he's Tesla models are named like S E X
The only value I found from the name change is that it got xvideos trending on Twitter, which was honestly pretty funny. But yeah literally any other name for Twitter could've worked. He could've called it TwitterX, which still is not good and is kind of dumb, but it's FAR less stupid and far less potentially destructive to the Twitter brand. Sadly since it's Elon, I wouldn't be surprised if X stays. I'm sure some of us thought Twitter Blue was gonna be temporary, but just look at it now.
But what is Twitter blue going to be now? X blue? Is he going to keep the blue? Or is it just gonna be black and white
Just don’t call it “X-Twitter” because that’s a whole different birdhole
@@Anonymous-73cloaca moment
@@JackycakesV2X+ maybe
@@Anonymous-73 I guess the name would be fitting with the amount of pron on that app. Which Elon seems to ignore