A lot of these aren't technically dead-names. They're parent corporations that exist to shuffle around profits and minimize tax and regulatory liabilities. Facebook and Google both continue to exist as properties owned by Meta and Alphabet.
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AJMaxwell - 7mon
Chiquita Brands International? Nah
United Fruit Company? Bingo
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FundMECFS - 7mon
Deadnaming regions (using their indigenous names instead of colonial names)
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Lyra_Lycan - 7mon
The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves
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Cid Vicious - 7mon
The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you're right about though.
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ApollosArrow @lemmy.world - 7mon
They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.
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Hildegarde - 7mon
I'll call it x once he sells the domain. Sell it you coward.
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user_name - 7mon
He did sell it…to himself. His AI company bought it.
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BeMoreCareful @lemmy.world - 7mon
Corporations are living like it's 1930.
Just change your name and the past goes away.
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sebsch @discuss.tchncs.de - 7mon
Is calling it Twitter is deadnaming?
Maybe we should tell this pervert of Mr Musk we call it Twitter as long he is referring to his daughter by her penis.
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pezhore @infosec.pub - 7mon
It will always, always be Monsanto.
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SCmSTR - 7mon
Did they change it?
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wolframhydroxide @sh.itjust.works - 7mon
Bought by Bayer and quietly dropped
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BlackPenguins @lemmy.world - 7mon
Companies didn't rename themselves. Rich CEOs renamed them against their will.
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Hupf @feddit.org - 7mon
CEO: I am the Senate
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Jourei @lemm.ee - 7mon
I think we should call it x. Twitter was this pioneering microblogging site. X is an extremist echo chamber that was created in 2023.
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Klear @lemmy.world - 7mon
Funny thing is Twitter was cesspool even before Musk got his hands on it. I was actually impressed he managed to make it significantly worse.
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katy ✨ - 7mon
twitter 2012-2015 was peak. ironically youtube 2012-2015 was peak.
basically dan and phil, grace, hannah, mamrie, and tyler oakley are the reason for the success of youtube and twitter not good and twitter.
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Jourei @lemm.ee - 7mon
It sure was, I'm willing to let that fact get buried so the contrast appears sharper, let time gild twitter.
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Ziglin (it/they) - 7mon
That's why people call xitter which is comfortably close to shitter.
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SCmSTR - 7mon
Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.
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purplemoosen @lemm.ee - 7mon
Xfinity? Comcast!
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Cort @lemmy.world - 7mon
At&t? Ma' Bell!
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cmbabul @lemmy.world - 7mon
That one has quite a few more steps, AT&T had to re-acquire Southern Bell>Bellsouth, Southwestern Bell, MCI, and a bunch of other subordinate companies to resurrect the reality of Ma’Bell
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Cort @lemmy.world - 7mon
Yep, iirc Cingular was the last nail to be removed from the coffin, and that happened over a decade ago.
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ragebutt @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 7mon
does this mean you still call the bottle of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring aunt jemima
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ShinkanTrain @lemmy.ml - 7mon
You can't take her from me, growing up she was the only person who every looked at me with kindness
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UnhingedFridge - 7mon
Meta? More like "Meta mis juevos en tu boca!"
Edit: Directed towards zucc, of course.
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skisnow @lemmy.ca - 7mon
I thought this was about Blackwater, you know, the company that massacred unarmed civilians for shits and giggles
NickwithaC in lgbtq_plus
Meta? Facebook! X? Twitter! Alphabet? Google!
Gotta hate Time-Warner.
AOL-Time-Warner.
Obligatory fuck Twitter
A lot of these aren't technically dead-names. They're parent corporations that exist to shuffle around profits and minimize tax and regulatory liabilities. Facebook and Google both continue to exist as properties owned by Meta and Alphabet.
Chiquita Brands International? Nah United Fruit Company? Bingo
Deadnaming regions (using their indigenous names instead of colonial names)
The only difference being Meta and Alphabet are the names of parent companies that Facebook and Google created to own themselves
The Meta rebrand was definitely about escaping baggage associated with the name Facebook. Alphabet you're right about though.
They also wanted to own VR and rebrand it as meta. I don’t think that moved worked out for them.
I'll call it x once he sells the domain. Sell it you coward.
He did sell it…to himself. His AI company bought it.
Corporations are living like it's 1930.
Just change your name and the past goes away.
Is calling it Twitter is deadnaming?
Maybe we should tell this pervert of Mr Musk we call it Twitter as long he is referring to his daughter by her penis.
It will always, always be Monsanto.
Did they change it?
Bought by Bayer and quietly dropped
Companies didn't rename themselves. Rich CEOs renamed them against their will.
CEO: I am the Senate
I think we should call it x. Twitter was this pioneering microblogging site. X is an extremist echo chamber that was created in 2023.
Funny thing is Twitter was cesspool even before Musk got his hands on it. I was actually impressed he managed to make it significantly worse.
twitter 2012-2015 was peak. ironically youtube 2012-2015 was peak.
basically dan and phil, grace, hannah, mamrie, and tyler oakley are the reason for the success of youtube and twitter not good and twitter.
It sure was, I'm willing to let that fact get buried so the contrast appears sharper, let time gild twitter.
That's why people call xitter which is comfortably close to shitter.
Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.
Xfinity? Comcast!
At&t? Ma' Bell!
That one has quite a few more steps, AT&T had to re-acquire Southern Bell>Bellsouth, Southwestern Bell, MCI, and a bunch of other subordinate companies to resurrect the reality of Ma’Bell
Yep, iirc Cingular was the last nail to be removed from the coffin, and that happened over a decade ago.
does this mean you still call the bottle of high fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring aunt jemima
You can't take her from me, growing up she was the only person who every looked at me with kindness
Meta? More like "Meta mis juevos en tu boca!"
Edit: Directed towards zucc, of course.
I thought this was about Blackwater, you know, the company that massacred unarmed civilians for shits and giggles
Republicans? Whigs!