I wonder if the design was influenced by Elon Musk? That guy is a Gen Xer manbaby who is mentally stuck in the 1990s, especially after renaming Twitter as X.
That’s what confuses me. I’m a Gen Xer (whether or not I’m a manbaby is debateable) and that design just looks old to me. Not retro, not nostalgia inducing, just dated.
I’m pretty sure he renamed the company X just so he could make the logo on those Twitter post embeds look like they are the button to close the post preview. It looks like a modal close button, especially since they put it on the top right, but if you click it, it takes you to twitter, where you are immediately bombarded with pop-ups, login prompts, and just all-around general ass-hattery. Plus now you can’t refer to anything generic as X without people wondering if you’re talking about Xitter or not. It’s dumb, and annoying.
I wonder if the design was influenced by Elon Musk? That guy is a Gen Xer manbaby who is mentally stuck in the 1990s, especially after renaming Twitter as X.
of course it was. it screams stunted growth.
That’s what confuses me. I’m a Gen Xer (whether or not I’m a manbaby is debateable) and that design just looks old to me. Not retro, not nostalgia inducing, just dated.
I’m pretty sure he renamed the company X just so he could make the logo on those Twitter post embeds look like they are the button to close the post preview. It looks like a modal close button, especially since they put it on the top right, but if you click it, it takes you to twitter, where you are immediately bombarded with pop-ups, login prompts, and just all-around general ass-hattery. Plus now you can’t refer to anything generic as X without people wondering if you’re talking about Xitter or not. It’s dumb, and annoying.