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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

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Yeah, I am going to signal boost this rq

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This map has since been updated, as of 26-8-2023 this is the most current version

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My bunny army enjoying some crunchy lettuce!

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theabstruseone

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

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When Statler and Waldorf go after you for your life choices, you seriously need to sit down and have a rethink.

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I have not played Pizza Tower.

#pizza tower #pizzahead #pizza

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Shotgun Leg

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idk I feel like anime fans only feel obligated to recognize Tezuka for his historical significance and are afraid to admit they don't actually find entertainment value in his work on it's own. Which I totally understand, because his style of writing and drawing only appeals to a certain niche nowadays. But every time i read or watch someone's review of his manga or something by a hardcore "anime enthusiast" the tone is always demeaning and belittling and treating every aspect as "outdated". People ofc can have their opinions and a lot of criticism is valid, but I feel like they should also just admit that they don't like cartoons, and this is the reason why Tezuka's work doesn't appeal to a contemporary anime/manga fan. Majority of the reboots make them more dark/serious, and Tezuka Pro has made an effort to erase the cartoonish and comedic aspects to his style (both in design and writing style) to appeal to modern audiences to the point they have almost no similarities with the source material aside from maybe plot. (but even this is abandoned with all the re-imaginings)

idk I kind of just wish there was a reboot or something that retained the humorous and cartoon aspect of his style that doesn't take itself as seriously, and that to me would feel more faithful to his work. Nowadays old 60's anime has found a new type of appeal from relishing at the poor quality of anime dubs and animation quality and finding humor in it, and that to me is a valid way to enjoy his work. They don't need to be updated or "fixed" to appeal to modern audiences, (except some examples of unintentional racist imagery or stereotypes ofc) they should be respectful to the tone of his writing for once.

I'm not saying it should be full-on looney tunes or something, but something that can both be a cartoon and have emotionally resonant stories and plot.

(btw I'm using cartoon as in the style, and not as in "western-made animation")