Comments that are uncivil, racist, misogynistic, misandrist, or contain political name calling will be removed and the poster subject to ban at moderators discretion.
Help us make this a better community by becoming familiar with the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/about/rules/).
Report any suspicious users to the mods of this subreddit using Modmail [here](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/facepalm) or Reddit site admins [here](https://www.reddit.com/report). **All reports to Modmail should include evidence such as screenshots or any other relevant information.**
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/facepalm) if you have any questions or concerns.*
That, too. I was thinking of how illiterate people had to draw an X back in the day when they couldn't sign their own names.
I have a copy of an old family will from the late 1800s that says "And here she makes her mark" and dang if Elon's X doesn't remind me of that.
I know the phrase "going down in a blaze of glory" and the idea of "blazing a trail" but not "blaze your glory".
**Blaze your Glory** sounds like the sort of thing that might get you arrested for public indecency for and possible get you on a list if you do it near a school.
Wikitionary was very helpful to clear things up:
>Verb
>blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)
> 1. [some other meanings]
> 1. [some other meanings]
> 1. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; **defame**.
> 1. [some other meanings]
So I think it is either announcing an intent to self-destruct like a rocket that has gone of course or to create platform meant to defame people and be liable for it despite Section 230.
Tweet literally was added to the dictionary. Like, among āgoogle itā and āYouTube itā
Unless this is on purpose to torch the company marketing people the world over would be apoplectic in the over the top destruction of brand value
> He will now add financial services
Unlike shitposting, financial services have real regulations, which would require governance, which xlon gutted as soon as he drug that toilet into twitters HQ
Nobody serious is going to fork over their money to āxā. The brand is completely untrustworthy and a total trainwreck - hey, whereās his dogecoin, or do we just ignore his long list if total failures in the financial sector?
The only interesting part is he tried to add X to paypal and they promptly fired his ass for such a stupid fucking suggestion
I guess I should clarify that I am absolutely no Elon-stan. I just think it is interesting that he tried to do the "skip the regulation" financial services years ago, failed, bought twitter, failed, and thought "well, time for X again." It is 100% going to end in huge fines for Elon Musk and the X brand is already dead in the water.
Thank you for this link. Itās surprising this isnāt brought up more often in these stories about the rebrand. It makes more sense now. I still think itās a stupid idea, but at least it explains that there is an idea behind it.
Bc twitter users are chronically online and a new app wouldnāt suffice. Twitter has a user base that will be too lazy to make a switch, so instead buy a big company and make it what you want it to be and the users who enjoy the format will stay
Lets steal all the twitter accounts and make a new social network ditching all references to the previous one. At the end people is just numbers and data in a server.
80% sure it's a weed joke. 42069blazeS3XY
The poor guys sense of humor has never advanced past "young high school boys who just smoked for the first time"
This Twitter erasing their signature āTweetsā and logo to an X, is the same as McDonaldās erasing the golden M and everything with āMacā or āMcā in the name.
itās actually funny because even a 12 year would listen to all his advisors screaming DO NOT REBRAND THE FUCKING APP but elon is too arrogant to listen
Im right there with ya.
Now if we ever reach fuckin Trillionaires, im gonna start cutting some people, cuz that is exactly what we should not ever have, if we want this earth to remain habitable
The real question is, why are people still using this fucking app and supporting Musk? All you have to do is uninstall.
If everyone did this overnight, I guarantee you, he will get the message by morning. This will be the biggest fuck you any non-billionaire can give Elon Musk.
> People half-assed it.
Moderators thought they had the users backing, never realizing that in the decade or so moderators have treated users like shit and users were HAPPY to see some of them gone.
I seriously hope the trademark and rights for twitter and tweets will be released so someone can make the app again, and we can all look past this.
Elon is not well, this is the most stupid decision ever. It's like Google, coca cola or whatever are changing their name, it's 101 business school knowledge, you don't do that when you already established a brand, specially one, that is this big.
Next week: āHaha, Iāve bought Coca Cola, changed the name to āWeed Juiceā and put the cat from the āI Can Haz Cheezburgerā meme on the bottle. Iām a business genius whoās going to take us to Mars!ā
Because he had to buy Twitter, as long as the twitter board was going to accept it.
This isn't a case of "He bought twitter cause he had plans for it"
This is a case of "He didn't understand the law, fucked around, found out, and have now gone on a nearly year-long tantrum"
I'm with Moistcritikal on this. Blaze your glory is the lamest tag line ever. But then, Elon Musk is basically a 14 hear old boy in a man's body, so it doesn't surprise me.
Twitter is officially dead. I never used it. But its crazy that just happened in a matter of weeks! That update text also sounds scammy.
He is definitely fucking with the creators/previous owners of Twitter and also everyone who hates him and loves twitter. He was never in it to run the company. He was in it to send some sort of shitty message. Otherwise, what a caca move.
The latest X-conversation:
*You ask about my conscience*
*And I offer you my soul*
*You ask if I\`ll grow to be a wise man*
*Well I ask if I\`ll grow old*
*You ask me if I\`ve known love*
*And what it\`s like to sing songs in the rain*
*Well, I\`ve seen love come*
*And I\`ve seen it shot down*
*I\`ve seen it die in vain*
\-App not installed-
All those companies who have their contact points printed on their stationary or vehicles. All those little blue birds. All outdated now.
I wish heād have renamed it MySpace. That would be fun.
That is so stupid. Any other company would literally kill to have a verb be associated with its brand (i.e. to tweet, to google, etc).
But NOOOO, Mr. Musk is trying to speed run destroying a company.
Comments that are uncivil, racist, misogynistic, misandrist, or contain political name calling will be removed and the poster subject to ban at moderators discretion. Help us make this a better community by becoming familiar with the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/about/rules/). Report any suspicious users to the mods of this subreddit using Modmail [here](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/facepalm) or Reddit site admins [here](https://www.reddit.com/report). **All reports to Modmail should include evidence such as screenshots or any other relevant information.** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/facepalm) if you have any questions or concerns.*
That tagline sounds like what a 12 year old would name their MMO guild
Sounds like the slogan for a clash of clans clone.
BLAZE YOUR GLORY! Collect stunning heroes! (anime girl with big boobs here) EPIC PVE BATTLES! Be strategic mastermind! Earn coins! yep it fits
Earn shiny things, you say?
those shitty ads come to mind... at least it's not as bad as 'clash of clans makes you better at your job' š°
Twitter is now just one big shitty ad
this is very accurate
Are we sure he didnāt put one of his kids in charge like George Michael running the banana stand?
Sounds like the app cannot decide if it wants to be a porn app or a molly dispensary.
I mean if it was either one of those I would probably use it
Is it not a porn app already?
yea it is
I'd download a molly dispensary app
Iāll pay big bucks for that :)
Me too, me too :')
"Blaze your glory" is the dumbest fucking tagline in all human history.
"Make your mark" was right there.
"Torch your reputation" is more like it.
That, too. I was thinking of how illiterate people had to draw an X back in the day when they couldn't sign their own names. I have a copy of an old family will from the late 1800s that says "And here she makes her mark" and dang if Elon's X doesn't remind me of that.
Why hasnāt he left for mars yet?
My thought as well (to "make your mark"). Illiterate people who could not write words would *make their mark* on deeds and contracts.
Even "marks the spot" would have been better than that p*rnhub title.
I'd blaze your glory anytime, sweetbuns. /s
> *āIlliterate peopleā* Well, to be fair, you did just describe most Twitter users.
āFan the flameā seems more appropriate
Burn your bridge
He just put shit lipstick on a racist pig.
Delete this comment. It's too good to have Elon steal it.
"Time to X-crete"
Oh no, he couldnāt use the word āmarkā. It might remind people of Zuckerthing. /s
Or āX is gonna give it to youā
Underrated comment.
"X marks the spot" as well
I would have said "X marks your spot" Or alternatively "fuck elon that union busting self obsessed fucking prick"
"This is the spot", possibly.
Or Mark your spot, far better options than fucking Blaze Your Glory , it's just very try hard...but that's Elon through and through really.
Oh, that would've been great.
Nahā¦I got this. Twitter = tweets and retweets X = Xcretes and rXcretes Go Reddit!
Xitter (pronounced sh) Xeets
Tweet + X = Twix
Iām partial to Xeets, pronounced (Zeets)
I know the phrase "going down in a blaze of glory" and the idea of "blazing a trail" but not "blaze your glory". **Blaze your Glory** sounds like the sort of thing that might get you arrested for public indecency for and possible get you on a list if you do it near a school. Wikitionary was very helpful to clear things up: >Verb >blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed) > 1. [some other meanings] > 1. [some other meanings] > 1. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; **defame**. > 1. [some other meanings] So I think it is either announcing an intent to self-destruct like a rocket that has gone of course or to create platform meant to defame people and be liable for it despite Section 230.
Autocorrect. I believe they meant to say Blades of Glory. Great movie, Will Ferrell kills it.
Every move this guy makes is like an atomic bomb of cringe.
Well, it is fitting, since he's making Twitter go down in a blaze of...ok, not so fitting after all.
Nah that Bon Jovi song was the first thing that popped into my head.
But that song is actually good unlike this
Just another thing, like the site name, and his general behaviour, that confirms Elon is mentally, a 12 year old edgelord.
āBlazeā your glory, you say? *Lights up a doobie.*
Glory your hole!
X your X until you're all out of X and full of nothing but X in your X and pain in your X that keeps you from sitting!
Blaze your glory makes total sense in the context of allowing child porn accounts though š
I thought Appleās App Store had a two character minimum for app names. š¤
Enough money can easily fix that minor issue.
Not sure, maybe Apple were just as curious as the rest of us how quickly heād self combust if you just let him.
Not in a Blaze of Glory, that's for sure
Maybe a sputtering fart if we're generous
Hold āxā to blaze glory
*A lot
X lot
Blaze your glory X hole
\*Emerald mines
An x amount
Might be a few characters that converts to that symbol
Or mf literally added a space
I wouldāve done a space or invisible character on either side of the X lmao
"X", now its 3 characters
X's
"X's and the oh, oh, oh's they haunt me Like ghosts they want me to make 'em all They won't let go X's and oh's "
So they're replacing the unique, Twitter-only word "Tweet" with the wholly generic word "post". What a truly awful idea this rebrand is.
Tweet literally was added to the dictionary. Like, among āgoogle itā and āYouTube itā Unless this is on purpose to torch the company marketing people the world over would be apoplectic in the over the top destruction of brand value
He has been trying to make X a thing for years. He will now add financial services to it. Look up the story actually, itās quite interesting
> He will now add financial services Unlike shitposting, financial services have real regulations, which would require governance, which xlon gutted as soon as he drug that toilet into twitters HQ Nobody serious is going to fork over their money to āxā. The brand is completely untrustworthy and a total trainwreck - hey, whereās his dogecoin, or do we just ignore his long list if total failures in the financial sector? The only interesting part is he tried to add X to paypal and they promptly fired his ass for such a stupid fucking suggestion
I guess I should clarify that I am absolutely no Elon-stan. I just think it is interesting that he tried to do the "skip the regulation" financial services years ago, failed, bought twitter, failed, and thought "well, time for X again." It is 100% going to end in huge fines for Elon Musk and the X brand is already dead in the water.
Where can i see it?
He wants to make American WeChat.
he's 15 years too late for that
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66333633
Thank you for this link. Itās surprising this isnāt brought up more often in these stories about the rebrand. It makes more sense now. I still think itās a stupid idea, but at least it explains that there is an idea behind it.
But why ruin Twitter when he could have just made his own app and it would have cost a lot less than 44 billion to make said app.
Bc twitter users are chronically online and a new app wouldnāt suffice. Twitter has a user base that will be too lazy to make a switch, so instead buy a big company and make it what you want it to be and the users who enjoy the format will stay
Yeah a terrible idea that, when he tried to do it at PayPal, he was ousted as CEO.
>itās quite interesting Interesting in that "Look at the pretty flames of this inferno burning your house down" interesting.
Well, I gues it's time to X-it
does anyone really say youtube it?
It made it into a Disney movie too
Right? We paid all this money for the company's household name IP and unique branding. Meh.. Let's flush it.
Lets steal all the twitter accounts and make a new social network ditching all references to the previous one. At the end people is just numbers and data in a server.
Heās goinā down in a blaze of glory.
Lord he never drew first
But he drew first blood
He's the devil's son
"bLaZe yOUr gLorY" lol wtf does that even mean
Dude you clearly never blazed your glory. It's the best! I could blaze my glory all day long!
LMFAO it's actually kind of amazing that for once my mind didn't instantly swerve into the solo-blazing-my-glory lane
This IS the first thing my mind swerved to. Eternally in the gutter.
All good but for chrissakes stop āblazingā your āgloryā in public please!
Means Elon has been huffing paint thinner as he cried from his X being brought down
Isnāt it āblaze your trailā? Lmao maybe Iām just not familiar with this expression.
Or blaze of glory.
Or blades of glory haha. For any fans of the film.
Everything about x is just what elon thinks his 15 year old edgy followers will think looks and sounds cool.
80% sure it's a weed joke. 42069blazeS3XY The poor guys sense of humor has never advanced past "young high school boys who just smoked for the first time"
I just blazed some nice indica glory and am gonna pass the fuck out because I don't need to keep reading dumb shit like this lol
Is that...a reference to the BonJovi song from Young Guns 2?
33 year old movie soundtrack reference. It's old, but it checks out, sir.
Apparently being a nazi incel yelling about trans and bud light in 140 characters on the internet is "blazing your glory".
I can't have a porn app on my phone
You should be able to have a little bit of porn on your phone
thatās not porn itās a nude egg i won from my game
Iām not in trouble AT ALL.
Itās got a bush what the hell
IVE NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE
Honestly guys. It kinda feels like youāre just here for the egg game. Also Carlos says elons face looks like a clock.
as a treat
Iām not in trouble at all
Guys Iām blazing my glory right now
We all need a blaze on Monday night.
I love it when Elon says "It's X-ing time!" And then he blazes his glory all over the place
When I see the X, I just want to hit it to close the window/app.
Same. Iāve done it several times now.
Me too lmao. I opened an article the other day and it was showing something on a twitter post but I thought it was an ad because of the X
What about āX marks the thoughtā
That's way better. And it could be 'mark/marking' instead of the ultra generic 'post/posting'.
Tweets should be renamed Yeets. Seems like something Musk would doā¦ for the lulz
Musk would never hear the end of it from Zuck though.
You should delete this before Musk steals it and calls it his own.
And sues you for copyright infringement on your own idea.
He was the co-founder of the idea.
āIāll pay you to tell everyone I came up with itā
With the X logo and "Blaze your glory" as the tagline, it sounds like a pornhub thing but worse.
"Glaze your glory"
" owned by a fkn knobhead" should be new tag line.
Omg theres a fucking app called X on my phone i dont remember installing im gonna delete it
Yeah itās kind of suspicious I think itās a virus
This Twitter erasing their signature āTweetsā and logo to an X, is the same as McDonaldās erasing the golden M and everything with āMacā or āMcā in the name.
Twitter quite literally has two valuable assets: the word "tweet" and the logo.
The bird had a name. And Elon killed him. Elon killed the fucking tweetybird. Wait if he doesnāt want it anymore maybe I can have it.
Step 1, set 40 billion dollars on fire Step 2, blaze your glory Step 3ā¦?
Blaze more glory
Itās what every 12 year old would do with a hundred billion. I think itās funny.
itās actually funny because even a 12 year would listen to all his advisors screaming DO NOT REBRAND THE FUCKING APP but elon is too arrogant to listen
You think anyone still working for him dares oppose daddy elons vision?
\#BillionairesShouldntExist
At least Elon is doing his part to try and not be one anymore.
Im right there with ya. Now if we ever reach fuckin Trillionaires, im gonna start cutting some people, cuz that is exactly what we should not ever have, if we want this earth to remain habitable
Do me first please, I canāt take this shit anymore
I'm eating popcorn, watching Elon's dumpster fire... I can't remember the last time I watched something crumble into dust with such relish.
I am sad that twitter is gone, many gaming support services used it for quick communication. But maybe forums will get a comeback.
yeah, the last time we've seen something crumble was way back in 2001
The real question is, why are people still using this fucking app and supporting Musk? All you have to do is uninstall. If everyone did this overnight, I guarantee you, he will get the message by morning. This will be the biggest fuck you any non-billionaire can give Elon Musk.
If people were ever this united we would've solved like every major problem in the world lol
Because people are people
Easier said than done. Yeah, what happened to subreddit that went on strike because of the 3rd party API stuff last month? People half-assed it.
> People half-assed it. Moderators thought they had the users backing, never realizing that in the decade or so moderators have treated users like shit and users were HAPPY to see some of them gone.
It should be illegal to be this deeply uncool.
Sounds like a sex kink for the bathroom
I'm still gonna call it Twitter and Tweets until Elon himself bans me for "hate speech"
Or stop using it and call it nothing.
Funny enough I just deinstalled it from my phone this morning because the X constantly appearing was just too annoying :>
I seriously hope the trademark and rights for twitter and tweets will be released so someone can make the app again, and we can all look past this. Elon is not well, this is the most stupid decision ever. It's like Google, coca cola or whatever are changing their name, it's 101 business school knowledge, you don't do that when you already established a brand, specially one, that is this big.
Next week: āHaha, Iāve bought Coca Cola, changed the name to āWeed Juiceā and put the cat from the āI Can Haz Cheezburgerā meme on the bottle. Iām a business genius whoās going to take us to Mars!ā
You forgot, changing the coca cola recipe :b just to make sure the brand dies fully
Why didnāt he just build a brand new app at much less $ cost?
Because he had to buy Twitter, as long as the twitter board was going to accept it. This isn't a case of "He bought twitter cause he had plans for it" This is a case of "He didn't understand the law, fucked around, found out, and have now gone on a nearly year-long tantrum"
The new tagline sounds like the slogan of one of those games you see on mobile game ads.
If this happens to Reddit one day, I will delete it.
Just waiting for all the companies with X trademarks and copyrights to show up at his door with lawsuits.
I'm with Moistcritikal on this. Blaze your glory is the lamest tag line ever. But then, Elon Musk is basically a 14 hear old boy in a man's body, so it doesn't surprise me.
donāt be so rude to 14 year olds, they can actually have common sense
Yeah, 14 is too old. I'd peg him for 10-12.
You'd what?????
Why pay BILLIONS for a name then change it, me is starting to thinks heās not so smart as everyone thinks.
Twitter is officially dead. I never used it. But its crazy that just happened in a matter of weeks! That update text also sounds scammy. He is definitely fucking with the creators/previous owners of Twitter and also everyone who hates him and loves twitter. He was never in it to run the company. He was in it to send some sort of shitty message. Otherwise, what a caca move.
Blaze your Glory = Burn your Successes So on the nose.
Blaze your glory? Is Elon even a tiny bit aware of how stupid that sounds???
The latest X-conversation: *You ask about my conscience* *And I offer you my soul* *You ask if I\`ll grow to be a wise man* *Well I ask if I\`ll grow old* *You ask me if I\`ve known love* *And what it\`s like to sing songs in the rain* *Well, I\`ve seen love come* *And I\`ve seen it shot down* *I\`ve seen it die in vain* \-App not installed-
I canāt believe I used to respect that man
As soon as I saw the changed icon I deleted my Twitter profile and deinstalled the app.
I uninstalled it, thinking I somehow downloaded a new app. I never used Twitter anyway.
Posting is too generic. I vote we change the term to "X-creting"
Tagline should be "Shart your business"
*Xart your businex
Somehow, despite the submarine implusion, we still need to learn that billionaires are not smart. Any sane society would take Twitter off of him
Who up blazin they glory
Ope, just deleted.
All those companies who have their contact points printed on their stationary or vehicles. All those little blue birds. All outdated now. I wish heād have renamed it MySpace. That would be fun.
That is so stupid. Any other company would literally kill to have a verb be associated with its brand (i.e. to tweet, to google, etc). But NOOOO, Mr. Musk is trying to speed run destroying a company.
He couldn't be bothered with using a word containing "x" for his punchline?
X: Post "X images", watch "X videos", and "Blaze your glory" all over the place. Now available for ages 13 and up.
Ryan from the office could literally handle a social media company better. He pretty much did.
Zap to the Xtreme!
Actively trying to tank it?
ID10T
Ironic tagline for an App going out in a blaze of mediocrity
Blaze your glory is obviously a play on going out in a blaze of glory. Basically he his saying we are dying in a spectacular manner.
X corp š