Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas

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[–] 144 points 3 months ago (4 children)

⚽ is also an Adidas World Cup match ball.

The difference is that the design was streamlined and iconic enough to be timeless and become the football design in public mind.

Before the Telstar footballs looked like this:

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  • [–] 42 points 3 months ago

    Wow, I had no idea! I just looked through the list of World Cup balls, and they only used that design, like, twice. But what an impact! I assume they had to get fancy afterwards because every ball started to look like that, so now it looked almost boring. Wild!

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