I have no respect for the concept of brands but it remains fucking hilarious to me that the brilliant execs at warner had HBO, a name synonymous with "upper tier programming" since the fucking 80s, and then dropped the HBO name for "Max", a name which ...
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like you complete diphthongs, I can literally still hum the HBO theme/jingle from the 80s. I don't even know what to tell you. You literally can't buy that kind of "brand awareness" you absolute rubberhoses.
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Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@aud There are two (2) tech companies named "X" because someone got internal-politics brain and set their brands on fire, for fuck's sake.
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Asta [AMP]replied to Karyl :godot: :procreate: last edited by
@[email protected] lmao oh my god I love this
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Karyl :godot: :procreate:replied to Karyl :godot: :procreate: last edited by
@aud found it!
(courtesy of George Pearkes on bluesky)
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Asta [AMP]replied to Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@[email protected] the only difference between Musk and the others like Zaslav is they have the slightest amount of self-control
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Asta [AMP]replied to Karyl :godot: :procreate: last edited by
@[email protected] but they have such valuable brands and assets like "max" and "that movie with the non binary person in it who did all those crimes" and "a tax write-off batgirl movie that even had Michael Keaton in it"
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@aud
And still, with Apple’s “Maxer than Max” product nomenclature, it’s only the second dumbest mainstream Max product name. -
@[email protected] Wait, what? I think this one is so ridiculous it's totally missed my radar lmao
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time to sing that well loved max theme song!
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the only thing more hilarious than completely fucking arbitrary systems of value is when the most ardent believers set it ablaze because they think their nepo-baby idea is somehow worth more
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@aud
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@[email protected] Brought to you by the same people that brought you "graphics settings nomenclature", apparently.
And the ol Starbucks size nomenclature...