Lmao
Wait holy shit they locked the ORIGINAL ICON behind a paywall?
I. I just don’t understand why they’re even doing this… they’re shooting themselves in the foot over and over, except they’re on a boat and every time it makes extra holes and the ship sinks faster. Everyone else is jumping ship and the ones staying either don’t know they’re sinking or don’t know where to go, or they’re bots.
What blows my mind is I think they would have been moderately successful if they just said you need to have Premium to be able to use third party apps. I used Reddit for HOURS a day. Honestly it was bad. I wouldn’t have liked it but I probably could have justified to myself paying a small fee per month to be able to continue using Apollo if they had played their cards right. Instead I haven’t been back since before the blackout. 🤷🏻♀️ I should thank spez for cutting my addiction cold turkey.
Louis Rossmann had a perspective that I’m starting to come around to.
Spez is just pissed. That’s it. He’s mad that he got shown up, and is actively punishing people for it. There’s no logic or business behind it.
Actually, I subscribe to the theory that Spez & Musk don’t care about losing money, because they are being paid under the table more than they’re losing by far right dark money to destroy Twitter & Reddit. Both sites were pretty left leaning before the crap hit the fan, and the right are trying purge all liberals from them. I know it seems pretty “tin foil hat”-ish, but it also makes perfect sense when you look at how they’ve done everything they can to run the sites into the ground.
A doge themed icon? That idiot really is slurping up Musk sauce and emulating everything he did with Twitter.
A decade old meme is perfect for this
Like when Twitter replaced their logo for their April fool’s (which was a couple days late because probably the genius in charge had the idea at the last minute and the remaining h1-b hostages couldn’t push it in time)
Along with everything else wrong with this: your icon is literally your brand, and you want your branding to be flawless + everywhere.
This would be like Nike putting an ugly pixelated version of their logo on cheaper sneakers to encourage you to buy more expensive ones; whatever pocket change they made from upgraders would be dwarfed by the damage it would do to their trademark.
