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:

Slazenger Challenge 4-Star

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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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    [–] 105 points 3 months ago

    WhatsApp is a Meta company. They are doing worse than pushing emoji on you

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  • [–] 66 points 3 months ago (55 children)

    Why would anyone use WhatsApp when there’s Signal?

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  • [–] 81 points 3 months ago (18 children)

    Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Because in my country historically the telecom companies are charging 0.30€ per SMS (text) and 2€ per MMS (text with photo).

    So WhatsApp when they launched with their "1€/lifetime" offer on the iPhone 3GS they were the right app at the right time and became the de facto replacement for any kind of messaging. It's insane how basically overnight they replaced msn messenger and Skype because it was so convenient (Microsoft never did a smartphone client for msn messenger, only unofficial ones. It was available on dumbphones but it used SMS from the plan to send/receive, nobody used it because you needed to be a millionaire to afford it)

    SMS now in my country is only for receiving OTP codes, for the rest is WhatsApp, because still in 2026 the telecoms are still charging 2€ for each MMS sent and nobody wants to risk huge bills. This includes iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn't notice, it costs dozens of euro

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    [–] 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ah the joys of still using Meta shit products.

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

    Well there's your problem. You're using messenger and emojis.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    Man, until I read the text, I thought this was about these old 45 record inserts.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

    What is the point of these, and their shape

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (22 children)

    Why are you using meta WhatsApp? The fuck?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I switched off an my parents, grandparents and siblings all switched to signal with me.
    I'm not saying everyone can or will, but it may be easier that we think.

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    [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    You got advertising in my data scraping app!

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    FIFA ball does not look happy

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Dammmmn, that's an ugly ball. Let's call it the Curseball Games insted.

    (Fun thing: The football you usually see in emojis is also based on an official World Cup ball, but at least that one's a classic for a reason. Looks distinctive. Looks cool. Can't say the same for most of the recent ones, it's all a blur to me!)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    As someone that knows nothing about sports what an I even looking at here and why are people upset about it? All I see are balls and ball accessories.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Not to you, to meme OP

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Haha. What a joke.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's about a hunnert billionaires banding together...c'mon we can take 'em all down! Let's Robin Hood all those motherfuckers!

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

    Why is there a lime green baseball?

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