▲ 634 ▼ Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com) submitted 3 years ago by airdi@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org 168 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] flumph@programming.dev 30 points 3 years ago (2 children) Yeah, it's just like when Prince changed his name. The media will just keep going "X, formerly known as Twitter" forever. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] liv@beehaw.org 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice. As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince). As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) in that case Prince changed his name to the artist formally known as Prince because of some sort of trademark or copyright dispute. So again the media is just reporting the facts. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] liv@beehaw.org 16 points 3 years ago Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] liv@beehaw.org 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice. As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince). As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 10 points 3 years ago (1 child) in that case Prince changed his name to the artist formally known as Prince because of some sort of trademark or copyright dispute. So again the media is just reporting the facts. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] liv@beehaw.org 16 points 3 years ago Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] liv@beehaw.org 16 points 3 years ago Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable. permalink fedilink source parent