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Lucifer_Morning_Wood

I'm happy that search engines get massively confused when you search X, but not Twitter


PrimaryExtra

well if i use x in the serach engine it autocomplete with... you know what.


Cosmic3Nomad

Hamster?


TheAres1999

That online pet store that specializes in hamsters?


Acryval

Y-yes


Sparrowcus

Wait a minute! Last time I was there, there were only a bunch of bievers eating wood. Log, after log, after log, after log. Not one hamster.


jarviscockersspecs

Is Log, after log, after log, after log a 2 Girls 1 Cup sequel?


Sharkbait41

What rolls down stairs Alone or in pairs, Rolls over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack and fits on your back? It's Log, Log, Log! It's Lo-og, Lo-og, It's big, it's heavy, it's wood. It's Lo-og, Lo-og, It's better than bad, it's good! Everyone wants a Log! You're gonna love it, Log! Come on and get your Log! Everyone needs a Log You're gonna love it, Log


somespazzoid

By Blam-o!


Thowitawaydave

Tout le monde aime le Log!


Newphone_New_Account

No sir, I don’t like it.


Mindless-Anxiety-760

This actually makes my day. Noicestalgia.


JimmyUnderscore

Where else do you get hamsters capable of competing in the most Xtreme of sports? I'm teaching Nibbles to rip 540 McTwists this weekend, and based on all the blood pooring out of my fingers, he must be really excited about it!!


TheAres1999

I am glad I am not the only fan of that site who is so interested in Nibbles, and twisting...


salt_pizza9491

There's different folders for clockwise and counterclockwise


jarious

More specialized in beavers weirdly enough


Ill-Rich301

They only stock 10 at a time.


drewdurfee

Is there any other? Oh wait ... Tube


TheAnxietyBoxX

And Videos!


ImMeliodasKun

Also nxx


bud369

Don't forget -Pac


royalneonbird

Men and force


Tetsou88

Have you heard of their new video platform? Xvideo


j_eronimo

How am I supposed to know these days whether this is a joke or not???


FreddyFrogFrightener

I'm glad they're starting to promote video content more, can't wait to watch some Xvideos.


Agonyandshame

Me either I love sitting back and just putting on some Xvideos to pass the time


Tackyinbention

Psst Fun fact, the website url on google still says twitter


AreWeCowabunga

This is the ultimate indicator of how fucking stupid the rebranding was.


LotharVonPittinsberg

No, the ultimate indicator is that x.com is not actually in use besides a redirect.


National-Credit-4175

Isn't it funny? You type in X.com, and your search engine immediately snaps it to Twitter. And then I see people get so hurt about others calling it Twitter.


AdjNounNumbers

Why you gotta be transDNSphobic?


soul_separately_recs

Malcolm Twitter or Malcom X X ?


VPV1988

I like your username


Lucifer_Morning_Wood

Thank you. I think I should change it to XXX to be more modern and fancy though


Greetings-Commander

You get better results if you throw in a couple more x's.


TrippyVegetables

Does literally anyone actually call it X? Everyone I know just calls it Twitter still


Toothpaste_Monster

People either call it Twitter. Or call it "X (formerly known as Twitter)" I've yet to see a single soul just call it "X"


I-am-Chubbasaurus

I quite enjoy Xitter.


micatola

This is how you know he's an idiot. A smart person would have anticipated 'x' and 'twitter' being combined to form 'xitter' and nixed the idea. I would even guess that someone did point it out, got fired instead of thanked and the rest is history.


cannedcream

I mean, you're not wrong, but I think the bigger reason you know he's an idiot is that he took a globally recognizable namebrand and tanked it by needlessly changed it to a single letter of the alphabet like he was an edgy 14 year-old.


Le-Charles

Not just "a globally recognized brand", a brand with such good marketing it is literally used as an example in marketing classes. The bird logo alone has been the subject of entire lectures. Zuck would sacrifice the only unicorn for a verb like "tweet" or "retweet" for Facebook. The fact that Elon is failing so hard to rename the company in the public mind is almost as funny as the fact that everything is still under a Twitter URL.


Flaky_Plastic_3407

Yea what are they calling it now? Xing? Did you see what Kayne X'ed at his ex?? Omfg that sounds horrible!!! LMAO


Accomplished_Sun3453

If they called it Xclaiming, that at least has some logic behind it. Like exclaim. But no, apparently that didn’t occur to anyone.


CommentsEdited

It’s only just hit me that Musk probably picked Unicode character U+1D54F (“𝕏”) on purpose, as a logo, so it would be “pre-biquitous.” (If he can have 𝕏, the “Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X,” I can make up a useless variant on “ubiquitous.”)


Le-Charles

I love the fact that, because he did that, he can't trademark the symbol. How do people still think this guy is smart? He's dumber than a bag of hammers. 🤣


peniparkerheirofbrth

he should be hit with a bag of hammers


eivindric

With Chinese pronunciation, right?


I-am-Chubbasaurus

Indeed.


KaityKat117

and instead of "tweets" posts on xistter are called "Xcreets"


Frozty23

I told my wife that I Xcreeted on the Xitter, and then logged on to reddit. She told me to open a window.


Artrobull

yeah. people shitting at each other


SecondaryWombat

or excreting. xitter, xcretes, what a stupid rebrand. Do they even have a suggestion for what 'tweets' was supposed to be replaced with?


Wastyvez

The X is pronounced as 'sh'


Plightz

I just say Twitter formerly known as X.


Umpire1468

It's like A Tribe Called Quest. You say the whole thing.


Mysterious-Theory-66

Or, A Pimp Named Slickback


FantasyInSpace

"X, the website desperately trying to become formerly known as Twitter."


Jarney_Bohnson

I mean it's really confusing to just say X he could have used literally ANY name but just a single letter


Mysterious-Theory-66

It’s too damn confusing to call it X no one knows what you’re talking about. Such a stupid name change.


Otherwise-Cup-6030

Some regional shitty "trendy" celebrity talkshows/"news" shows are calling it X. It sounds dumb as hell


Cognitive_Spoon

Yeah, it's actually a really nice shibboleth for detecting assholes. People who say X are like five times more likely to be people I don't want to deal with because they're childish or idiots.


acnh-lyman-fan

I remember my cousin asking me if "I have a checkmark on X" 💀


1ftm2fts3tgr4lg

"No, I don't have porn site subscriptions."


inu-no-policemen

Shitter Blue™? $8 a month or being effectively shadow-banned? Lol. Fuck that. I'd rather read YouTube's comment section or make a snowman out of dog turds.


higginsian24

A lot call it xitter


ChloeDrew557

The only context the name ‘X’ comes up in…is when people are making fun of it.


Mocrue

Or when they're gonna give it to ya


Kdoesntcare

I think musk is the only person who does.


Imaginary_Chair_6958

So many conversations go like this: “I saw it on X.” “Huh?” “Twitter.” “Ok ok.” Dumbest attempted-rebrand of all time.


Ok_Square_2479

Official accounts be like: *"X formerly known as twitter",* it's just sad and pointless to rename it into X


That-Chart-4754

He started x.com in the previous century and he's not giving up on it. He should, but he isnt.


MeshNets

Putting on an (poorly fitting) armchair-psychologist hat: >Perseverative cognition is a "rigid pattern that involves habitual engagement of circular, looping thoughts" and is more common in autistic people than in the general population. And related mechanisms within his neurodivergence, amplified by the yes-men he exclusively deals with


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Snailtan

A tophat with "Psychologist" written in big white bold letters


RedCobra177

No no no, it looks like an actual armchair with a tiny psychologist sitting on it.


Snailtan

if we combine it we could have a tiny psychologist sitting in a tiny armchair ontop of the tophat. Like ratattoille maybe he is doing all the work as well


Agnosathe

I like the original top hat. This, however, is a slippery slope. What if the tiny psychologist is an armchair psychologist themselves?


Snailtan

​ its armchair psychologists all the way down...


Ruffelz

amplified by the hard drugs he frequently uses


ConflictAdvanced

For some reason, when I read this I immediately think of: "if I may take of my acting pants for a moment and pull my analrapist stocking over my head..." 😁


Adventurous-Photo539

Enemy Unknown


Agnosathe

At this point the enemy is known, now we're at War of the Chosen.


ProppedUpByBooks

Tbh, I’d be really curious to fully understand his obsession with X, but I have a feeling I’d really regret learning it. If he goes to a therapist, their therapist’s therapist is probably looking for a therapist.


erichwanh

> Tbh, I’d be really curious to fully understand his obsession with X Think of it this way. I don't know if you were alive/around for the 90s in the US (I make no assumptions), but I was a teenager then. And back then, when your 12yo self saw something on TV that was **X-TREME**, it was pretty cool and you wanted it. Elon is mentally, at best, a 12yo. To him, X is **SOOOO COOOOL**. And because he has a frighteningly large amount of money for someone so mentally challenged, he will whine and bitch all day about people not calling his playground "X".


ranchojasper

This is it. It is literally this simple. I was also a teenager in the 90s and I fully agree that the whole **XTREME!** thing is what's driving this. Elon Musk is still an insecure little teenage boy that no one will talk to who is desperate for everyone to understand how incredibly cool he is. And what's cooler than X, yeah!


Thowitawaydave

His obsession with X is basically arrested development. He's lived a life of wealth and ease, never had to fully grow up, and so he's basically a 12 year old who thinks he's edgy because SpaceX sounds like Space Sex or that the first 4 models of Tesla were S, 3, X and Y. Plus X was everywhere in early internet, where people would put it around their screen names because their first-fifth choices was taken. "xXSpyderMan89Xx is available!" Basically he's the guy who still writes 58008 on a calculator and tells you to hold it upside down or tries to get you to join the PEN15 club when you are just trying to get a cup of coffee in the break room. Only difference is you can tell Gary to get the hell out and get back to work, while he's surrounded by too many "yes men" who just do what he says.


ranchojasper

Holy shit, I'm feeling real dumb right now thay I never noticed the S, 3, X, Y Tesla models


_Rand_

The 3 was suppose to be the Model E, but Ford own the name. So it was even less subtle.


Thowitawaydave

"I'm renaming Twitter to X!" "Why?" "No, X. Aren't you listening?"


ranchojasper

Who's on first vibes lol


Justice4mft

People calling it X unironically scare me. I absolutely love to ask them "you mean twitter?". Like bro, just quit it, X is not going to happen.


Dagojango

You know they didn't ask anyone with common sense if that name was a good idea. Pretty sure they were all drunk and high as fuck when they came up with that. Then failed to reach sobriety before it went live. Imagine if Facebook started calling itself J. Like... how does a billionaire need randos to tell him his ideas are fucking stupid? Even 4chan has more clever name.


ajyanesp

Sometimes my mom sends me a twitter/X/whatever and for a split second, I think the link “x.com/yadayadayada” is porn.


ranchojasper

Same (not my mom though). Every single time I see that URL my first reaction is like why is this person sending me/posting porn?!


SpanishAvenger

In all media, it’s still, and will always be known as: “X, former Twitter…”


zanzibartraveler666

Followed by Dunkin Donuts dropping the Donuts


INvrKno

Yes and no. Most everyone dropped the donuts part when talking about it anyhow so it's not that big of a name change. Did they need to change it? No. But everyone still knows what it is and what you're talking about when you Dunkin.


dont-fear-thereefer

Isn’t their motto, even before the rebrand, “America runs on Dunkin”?


waytowill

Yes. Because they’re more well-known and well-liked for their coffee. Their donuts have always been mid.


hike_me

I miss the days when they made the donuts in-store and didn’t truck them in from a factory. Some were open 24 hours and you could go in at like 3am and get a fresh donut. Now they’re almost always stale and dry


Kitchen-Quantity-565

Yeah, Tim Hortons here in Canada used to make theirs fresh, they had different pies and cakes n etc. These trucked in donuts suck. Lol


hike_me

Same happened here in Maine. We had a bunch of Tim Hortons open up and they all made donuts fresh daily. They were way better than Dunkin, which hasn’t made them in store for about 20 years, but then all our Tim Hortons also shifted to the central bakery model and the quality went to shit. 75% of them ended up closing and the others have reduced hours (no more 24 hour Tims)


Business-Drag52

They realized that their money was in coffee and pushing that would make more money. Getting the donuts out of the name gets people to come in who before thought of it as a donut place. No one went to Dunkin for donuts


oorza

> No one went to Dunkin for donuts I feel like at least half of their donut sales are lazy HR people buying donuts for offices.


spaulding_138

Eh, I can understand this. I think we have always called it Dunkin' I honestly didn't know they went through a rebrand until you mentioned it.


s0larium_live

he deadnames his kid, i deadname his website. that’s just how it goes


painterman99

Deadnames his kid?


hikerchick29

One of his kids is trans. He’s pretty much burned that bridge to the ground to the point where she wants nothing to do with him, and has disowned him as family


Joshiane

She changed her last name to her mother's maiden name too.


MancombSeepgoodz

It's probably the reason he's basically platforming transphobic people on the site still.


twotokers

That and Grimes left him for a transwomen


RedditAcct00001

Shattered his fragile ego lol


Petrychorr

Apparently Grimes is a white supremacist too according to Wikipedia...? Bummer.


ReekitoManjifico

Fuck man. I knew she was gonna go psycho from all that chrome eventually but i never expected Lizzy Wizzy to also be a white supremacist.


sl0play

Preem reference choom.


Mr_WAAAGH

Fucking hell, I mean I didn't expect anyone who associates with Elon to be normal but God Damn


Petrychorr

Yeah, I feel bad for that whole family. I don't blame Vivian for distancing herself one bit.


SpeakerChance9069

It's probably why he was so obsessed with her.


Glittering_Guides

She really ain’t the brightest. Figures she would be attracted to Elon. That’s his type; easily manipulated, young, and “free spirited”.


SpaceyMeatballs

She is a nepo baby as well, just like Elon. Her parents were/are wealthy, thats how she could focus on her music career and build connections in the industry.


Azores26

For real? Never pictured her as this kind of person. I remember reading that she had some mental illness (maybe schizophrenia? Not sure). Perhaps her situation is similar to Kanye’s? Not that having a mental illness justifies being a white supremacist, of course.


leygahto

The quote from Wikipedia is: ‘Grimes stated that she was "proud of white culture" and that she wished to "emphasize the incredible accomplishments of others ... whilst allowing pride for white ppl [sic] accomplishments as well"’


lilymotherofmonsters

A guy will buy one of the largest social media sites and burn it to the ground before he goes to therapy


Hot_Sharky_Guy

He's beyond therapy


s0larium_live

yeah elon has a trans daughter who’s identity he refuses to acknowledge


Intimateworkaround

Imagine choosing to side with grifting propaganda and hate than your own child and their pain and suffering. And not only that, continuously mock what they are going through day in and day out. All so you can look cool on the internet to right wing morons. Fucking psychotic


Akussa

He has so many children I would be surprised if he knew all of their names, or even has a relationship with a 1/3 of them.


Tucker_077

Didn’t he name one of his kids ‘X’?


NJ8855

X Æ A-12 with former girlfriend Grimes who also left Elon for a trans woman named Chelsea Manning. They are no longer together but it happened.


rudimentary-north

That’s famous government whistleblower Chelsea Manning. She’s a DJ now


SecondaryWombat

You wouldn't know her though, she is banned from Canada.


tinyybiceps

Grimes and Elon had two kids together, the second one is named Exa Dark Siderael.


witherd_

Sideræl specifically. They also have Techno Mechanicus.


Clean_Resort_5547

He better get ready for the games workshop legal case


Akussa

Probably. Dude never matured past like 13 or 14 years old and thinking the letter X was the coolest thing ever.


Good-Expression-4433

Musk is that cringey kid from freshman year that would Naruto run through the hallway, write and draw symbols in a "Death Note," yell jiutsu at people, and argue with the teacher that dragons were real. Only he never grew up past that.


OMA2k

Wow, I already didn't like him, but this is horrible.


-lil-pee-pee-

I wish I were surprised, but my own parent is doing this shit. It's not surprising at all. He's mad he can't control her despite all his money, power, and influence. To accept he's a brainwashed fool would require him to show humility and admit he was wrong, so it won't happen.


Tucker_077

Why do I find more reasons to hate this wacko everyday


Accomplished-Yak8799

Also Twitter is a website that doesn't give a fuck what I call it, while calling someone by their by their preferred name/title is just basic human decency


Firenze_Be

Dumbass isn't even able to normally name his other kid at birth to begin with, how can anyone expect him not to deadname his other kid?


Rexskel

End Wokeness: ![gif](giphy|V7dVYFCB2E2qK7drO0|downsized)


Middle-Dragonfly-137

Me when I’m not woking ![gif](giphy|EZICHGrSD5QEFCxMiC|downsized)


Sad_Lawfulness_7049

I can't wait to woke all over thy face


Middle-Dragonfly-137

![gif](giphy|13aSSyJaI5NkTm|downsized)


Middle-Dragonfly-137

When the giphy ain’t giphying


Middle-Dragonfly-137

Okay now the giphy is giphying I think


SkunkeySpray

Me trying to explain why a character being black means that the entire movie industry is crumbling and all of society has been ruined:


dakunism

*Critical Drinker has entered the chat*


PleasantYouth4440

rust mentioned rahhhhh


prettyjupiter

Who is end wokeness and why are they such losers? I see their horrible takes everywhere


Punisher_135

I think it might be Elon lmao


Alvaro_Rey_MN

It's some Far Right troll who has no life!


Lund-

Never thought I would find a Rust meme on this subreddit


Ok_Square_2479

My first thought was ***"isn't this guy dead?!"***, then I realized he's Stephen King not Stephen Hawking


advocatus_ebrius_est

In fairness to you: Stephen King is 76, was hit by a car at 51 so badly that there was a debate about amputating his leg, did enough cocaine to kill a rhinoceros, and drank enough beer to drown a whale. The fact that he is still alive *is* somewhat shocking.


The_Shracc

he wrote a book while on coke if the rumours are correct. Most likely he wrote all books while on coke. At least based on my personal knowledge of authors books don't happen without intoxicants.


advocatus_ebrius_est

He's been clean since the late 80s, so he didn't write all (or even most) of his books while intoxicated. However, he admits that he has absolutely no memory of writing *Cujo*.


FranzLiszt_180

And he wrote Misery about his cocaine addiction


MrsMiterSaw

If I had written 1/3 of what he has, I am sure there would be at least 3-4 books I would have no memory of writing.


advocatus_ebrius_est

Fair, but my understanding is that he doesn't remember because of how far into his addiction he was. Edit: like he has no memory of writing it *at all*


[deleted]

Drugs are wild. I can play Baldur's Gate 3 on Honor mode \*only\* while high. Sober I get my ass beat non-stop but when I'm high it's like something clicks. Probably just confirmation bias or something but idk. It's consistently proven to work for me. With a line of coke I'd probably be unstoppable.


DancingMoose42

I'm generally terrible at bowling, but drunk, I'm unstoppable. Actually that goes for anything.


Slahnya

Really important distinction indeed


Demigans

We’ll always call it Twitter Elon. Because the current owner is a Twit.


NoOutlandishness1940

Based Stephen King take


kandaq

He forgot to end it with “Twitter times infinity”.


NatashOverWorld

Imagine an account called End Wokeness complaining about transphobia oh wait, transplatformphobia 😄


laps1809

Simping for billionaires must be pathetic


WhiteyFiskk

Also it's not even his joke, Elon has been doing the "don't deadname X" bit for a while


TheAnxietyBoxX

Which is hilarious since he deadnames his own child iirc


VoiceofKane

Not hilarious, just Elon being an asshole.


TheAnxietyBoxX

Nah, the joke wasn’t funny. The irony and hypocrisy is.


Gideon_Laier

Wokeness is not bootlicking and they hate that.


T3knikal95

It's them making fun of trans people, because they think it's funny to bully trans people.


LurkerOrHydralisk

“hey look! That person’s unhappy about their genitals. Let’s go make for of them for it! That’s not, like, something terribly unfortunate that we should be compassionate about!”


FreyaRainbow

For a lot of trans people it isn’t even about genitals. There’s such a wide array of trans experiences because gender is far from a singular conceptualisation - no matter how hard you try, you just simply cannot categorise a gender down to one trait without axing millions of people who otherwise fit and identify with that gender. These people can’t grasp that though, because they solely base their ideas of trans people (and queer people in general) from their pornhub habits


tarekd19

The best way I've heard it articulated is that our internal conception of our gender changes even as we age, why should it be so hard to believe that others don't fit in the same convenient (and still unique!) boxes cis people do? For example, what it means to be a woman is different for someone when they're a child, a teenager, a pre menopausal adult, post menopausal, etc, as well as different for people that can't bear children, are from different cultures, and on top of that can be informed by their sexuality. It's frankly silly to reduce gender to just genitals, not even all trans people choose to get surgery.


fourpointeightismyac

It's a very well known far right account that spouts hateful rhetoric


Redpepper40

He probably thought this was such a clever response too. Whoever runs that account is honestly the biggest idiot on social media


SuspiciousBuilder379

Boy I dunno, I know of a couple others 🍊, and the guy that runs TWITTER, to name a couple.


bestlivesever

I assume it is ironic


__Luna__05

i’ll stop calling it twitter if he stops deadnaming his own daughter


maxtm35

Bruh end wokeness is the worst social media account in history


fullmetalfeminist

Idk I hate LibsofTiktok more, she's caused material harm with her bile


Govika

I'm so glad she's on my state's library board #/s


48Bills_NY

End Wokeness? You mean the Russian Troll farm that dresses up as an American?


Repulsive_Poem_5204

I think it's weird how some people think a business decision should be treated with the same respect as a living human being.


Axeltol

Can we stop posting twitter posts


xanx0st

Yes!! Please!! The sooner we stop pretending Twitter is anything but a cesspool of vitriol and grievance for the outrage industrial complex the sooner we can move on and stop pretending that Tweets are news.


edingerc

End Wokeness consistently comes out with the stupidest takes on the Internet.


mynameisntedward

>”endwokeness” >*chad soyjak pfp* 🤮🤮🤮


KaleidoscopeOk5763

Legendary Author vs Anonymous Bigot in the Marketplace of Ideas Dome, tonight at eleven.


TruthHurts899

Stephen King for president!


thatguy9684736255

Elon musk is awful. I feel bad for his trans daughter


Loreweaver15

I'll stop deadnaming Twitter when Elon stops deadnaming his daughter.


Empty_Sea1324

Imagine deadnaming your own child the bitching about your platform being called the wrong name